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caveman discovering fire mode rn
do nothing
enemies delete their soft power
fragmentizing global manufacturing by cementing the "hey if this ever touches the supply chain of an adversarial nation-state your head asplode" precedent, thank you nato, thank you pissrael
the way he says it—rare earths—I know he means rare earth metals but it sounds like he’s doing gacha for planets
new Bobby Tables opportunity just dropped
oh my fucking god there's killings in the real world connected to Parahumans and bad Harry Potter fanfiction
basilisk as in you look at it (become aware of it) and it kills you (tortures your tiny clone for eternity)
hypothetically, in the future, humanity builds an AI that is so advanced and so powerful it is able to reform the consciousnesses of those who were aware of its possibility yet did not contribute to its existence and eternally torture those consciousnesses.
the "wait aren't you lot supposed to be thinking about this kind of stuff constantly" problems:
- are we resurrecting or is my tiny clone being tortured
- is consciousness a value or a reference? am i the payload or am i the pointer
- how do we know that there isn't just an inherent barrier between biology and bits. what if consciousness transfer just cannot occur. what if we are bound to our flesh mechs.
the otherwise obvious problems:
- what if it doesnt happen
- why would it do that
- is it different and rational if your religious deity is a gundam
- death robot operates on chain email logic
okay, but for real, if we're actually thinking rationally, this is a possibility that cannot be reasonably accounted for due to its inability to be modeled in the framework of "reality as it is now and/or seems to allow for as we currently understand it." I could just as easily say "what if the earth splits in two and the northern hemisphere is jettisoned into the sun" but no one's expecting you to prepare for that. It's the same reason why being a prepper for the zombie apocalypse is understood to be irrational – it does not conform to reality, it's an obsession with a fictional scenario that remains unrealized.
he died, mack… brain cancer…
as Brace put it and I had to rewrite out of my post because he said it after I thought it, this is people who believe they are the modern equivalent to Socrates falling for chain emails
rationalists be like “you dont get it, its the scariest thing I’ve ever read, I’m sparing you” and its just making up an evil robot in your head that kills you forever and crying about it
given your hand size you probably have a stuntman, made something negative, and took the hieroglyph (classic series of blunders) so that’d be 885 chips, should be enough to clear any blind in ante 1 (pre-purple) but I’d either drop that joker if it isn’t eternal (or this resulted from consecutive ectoplasms, even classic-er blunder, just hold R at that point if the engine isn’t set yet) or start pumping high card immediately
135 chips (base level, no modifiers)
one of my synagogue friends getting sent home from camp early for shooting at one of the Israeli counselors (inactive-duty tyrant larper) with a longbow (he missed) (beast mode anyhow)
accidentally snipping off my eyebrow trying to pantomime what someone else in my cabin did (snip off their eyebrow)
making an ant village out of sticks at my summer camp and genuinely being distraught when it collapsed after it rained
do not negatively-polarize yourself into incorporating an LLM into your daily life because it's from China
this night is no different from all other nights. it is as has always been, if only more so. the thesis holds firm and true:
wish I took sociology or anthropology instead of this mickey mouse polisci major
trying to be respectful to the prior userbase on xiaohongshu so I'm only cat tax-posting
saw that apple intelligence puts email summaries instead of content preview in the thumbs sometimes and immediately nuked the service from orbit
as Zoomers attain the mantle of 'older than the kids that are older than the babies,' I hope Gen Alpha views our detached cynicism with the same type of scorn we view quipsnark winknodding with
Kazunori Maruyama (technically??? I mean just, like, fuckin listen to it lmao) – Mujoe’s Theme (Bomberman Jetters)