[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah that was my read of the game from my first exposure to it. "You have to buy cards sight-unseen hoping to get good ones? That's a scam."

It's like they looked at Dungeons and Dragons product churn and thought "No, that's not shitty enough"

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 25 points 7 months ago

Mr Burns (seated) and Smithers.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

So who is going to be first to set up a grifty EA think tank where the thinking is admittedly all done by LLMs, and why shouldn't it be us.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Frankly I'd be more impressed if they had a lab of non-thermodynamic devices.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 14 points 9 months ago

Basically he's like the dudes who left Twitter for Gab or Truth Social and found it boring because there weren't any libs to own.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I suspect there are people who have complicated theories about the relative whiteness rankings, and thus superiority, of natives of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.

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The authors said on Twitter that they aren't EA's, but they surveyed people at valley AI companies to write the report, so it's probably quite influenced by EAs.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 17 points 9 months ago

The sign of a great CEO is that sense of urgency.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 18 points 10 months ago

The real “techbros” are all business people in an actual position of power, not the introverted QA tester just trying to get through the day.

If the QA tester goes home and checks his Raspberry Pi dogecoin mining rig, and is saving up for a Cybertruck, he's probably a tech bro, if only a larval one.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 13 points 10 months ago

There's probably some blurring of what "AI doom" means for people. People might be left thinking that "there could be negative effects due to widespread job loss etc" without necessarily buying into the weird maximalist AI doom ideas or "torturing simulated you forever" nonsense.

And the weirdo cultists probably use that blurring to build support for their cause without revealing the weird shit they actually believe.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 15 points 10 months ago

Or he now has the lung capacity of a 15% smaller 18 year old.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 27 points 11 months ago

Why the hell would anyone think about Cyrus the Great every day, let alone fondly.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 14 points 1 year ago

Shit like this is exactly why I'm skeptical of FTX boy's Adderall prescription.

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