YourNetworkIsHaunted @ YourNetworkIsHaunted @awful.systems Posts 0Comments 616Joined 11 mo. ago
...I feel like there's a story here.
Godspeed, Bonnie. I'm gonna call this a good omen for the week.
I think it's pretty telling that as aggressively Ratpilled as this writer seems to be (in that they still seem to be accepting rationalist framing uncritically, including a high level of discomfort in calling a spade a racist, as it were.) their toned-down critique here still cuts against the heart of who Scott tries to present himself as. Even if you interpret the subjective parts of this analysis as favorably as possible for Scott, the picture that emerges is still of a right-wing idealogue who is either hiding it or is in denial about the limitations of the worldview they've built for themselves.
Heroclix is so last month. Heroscape on the other hand, has some legs.
I think the problem is that it portrays them as weird exceptions, possibly even echoes from some kind of ghost in the machine. Instead of being a statistical inevitability when you're asking for the next predicted token instead of meaningfully examining a model of reality.
"Hallucination" applies only to the times when the output is obviously bad, and hides the fact that it's doing exactly the same thing when it incidentally produces a true statement.
It would be easier to list things that the CIA didn't use in a failed Castro assassination.
Man, I remember being 14 and thinking I was having radical new takes on ethics. Then I grew up and realized that killing people* is* probably just bad.
I didn't say anything about voting, I'm just trying to be realistic about who else is looking forward to the collapse of the current system. If you want to roll the dice on that then you should at least be honest about who else is sitting at the table.
So the neocons of the 2000s are the C'tan, providing neoliberals with unending life by running against fascists and also necrosteel bodies but at the cost of their souls. One day we will overthrow the gods and place their shards into our doomsday weapons.
Hey now, let's be fair. It's not just ashes, it's also going to be blood. And between 2 and 3 of the 4 cats are literal Nazis.
This is goin' in tha book.
On one hand, big "let them fight" energy. On the other hand this is a bit more Alien v Predator than Godzilla v Kong. No matter who wins, we lose.
I don't think there's a hell of a lot there that we don't already know and discuss at length, but it's cool to see Abby Thorne's new video at Philosophy Tube get into surveillance capitalism, neo-reaction/tech fascism, and how much of the discussion historically on and around social media misses the point.
It might be a decent overview reference for anyone in your life who isn't in as deep as we are, since you could do much worse in ~40 minutes.
Is it possible to learn this power?
I think the usual output from the AI Overview (or at least the goal) is to give a long and ostensibly Fair and Balanced summary. So in this case it would be expected to throw out "some say that people from Australia are extra dumb because of these studies, but others contend that those studies were badly performed" or whatever. Asking the question on more words to represent both sides so that it can pretend not to be partisan.
It does feel like this was textbook rot economy BS, right? Destroying an (I assume) profitable product in search of increased growth, no matter how unsustainable? I only ever picked it up properly through Arena, which definitely colors my experiences with it. The whole engine seems set up to only support 1v1 play rather than any of the fun play-with-your-friends formats that are really the lifeblood of most players. This is also the reason why StarCraft 2 never fully eclipsed Brood War, even among hardcore professional competitive types. But so many of the set design issues, mechanic failures, and balance issues have also impacted their preferred format (and the Arena main focus), Standard. Like, the Companion mechanic was the last attempt to try and convert Commander players into standard players, and then they gave up. There's a half-baked 1v1 commander in Arena now (Brawl) which has never been fully supported the way Standard is even though they ostensibly use the same card pool.
While they've been fighting their most popular format for control of the game, their other big changes have been similarly half-baked attempts to bring in new outside players. I can't speak to how well they actually worked, but I don't know how much of the audience that was brought in by a 40k or Fallout tie-in are going to picking up the game and starting to actually play (or more importantly from WotC's perspective, buy). I don't imagine it's a very large fraction, and it has diluted the MtG brand beyond recognition.
Joined 22 days ago and racked up 250+ comments that at first glance all appear to be either Russian apologia or (more often) telling left-leaning people to not vote. I try not to throw the "Russian troll" accusation around glibly because there's no way to conclusively say you're not just a stupid asshole, but my dude you are doing one hell of a Russian troll impression.
I'm about to say, drow are pretty strictly matriarchal from what I remember. He's at best a dork elf, and only in one of the recent "actually elves suck" worlds as opposed to the directly tolkein-inspired.
Yeah, though in his (incredibly lukewarm) defense he seemed more interested in the batshit crazy aliens-control-the-government theories than the more pedestrian conservative stuff, although the line between the two has greatly narrowed over the years.
This tool solely exists so that you can ask it questions and get assistance, but also we disavow any responsibility for the answers to the questions we just told you to ask it. Has this kind of clause been held up in court anywhere? Like, I'm sure it has but it seems like the same logic would be ridiculous in any other context. Like, consider the fraught legal history of the anarchist cookbook.