They were the first hype men of tech – didn’t actually do very much themselves but gave other people ideas.

This is a bit unfair, i think nick land also sold drugs. Not sure however.

The plot? Im more and more worried this is going to turn out to be real. Reality tends to outpace his fiction at times after all. ;)

Then the middle eastern god will blow up the indian utopia because he is bored and the british fungus space god will rule over the remains.

They’re talking about an AI we build, the term “alien” in “alien intelligence” refers to it not having human thought patterns, not to extraterrestrial origin

Ah right i thought they meant it was secretly produced by people in the third world, the illegal alien way. ;)

Second option they dont believe in the robotgod themselves but just think this is the way to attract more investors

6,6 billion? Joseph Weizenbaum realizes he made a big mistake in his reaction to ELIZA. Could have been rich and infamous, instead of just famous.

I recently discovered the joe rogan remixed as a 40k trooper yt vids and it is great. (Yes i know im a year late to the party). But yes he sucks, think it was amusing he talked like he was stoned as fuck and alex jones talked like he had just snorted all the cocaine in Volendam.

That is a good username. Also very scummy business practices. I have a quite big dislike for people who pull that kind of shit.

Im reminded of the "Rationalism is systematized winning". Post for some reason. This post and the recent musk chess post just makes me wonder about "what does winning" even mean. But in the spirit of wargames, i have not thought about it much more than that.

I also now wonder how illegal this could be in various jurisdictions. I know that aiming security cams at public roads is a bit frowned upon here in .nl for example

The horror. Replacing the joy of looking into something and making your findings available in your own style to others replaced by autogenerated slop. And soon this will be all over the place, we will look back on the past period of low effort clickbait with nostalgia.

Comparing it to Tesla certainly is a choice. I'm amazed at how many ways the cybertruck has found to die on people for example. More varied ways to crash and burn than nethack.

(why are all podcast ads just ads for other podcasts? It’s like podcast incest)

Because they think you live in a real country, not the USA.

old internet

I wonder for how many people this is a reactionary impulse, wanting back to the 'old internet' they didn't actually participate in. At least in modern days the flamewar posts are quite limited in length, in the old days they could reach novel sizes. Anyway sure we should go back to the old internet, where suddenly your whole university had no internet because there was a dos attack on the network to force a netsplit on an a random irc channel.

Waste of a perfectly good fire.

I didn't take it as such, I just was again a bit confused by the actions cloudflare takes. Assume it is some weird technolibertarian thing.

I'm a little bit in the camp of 'it might be legal, but that doesn't mean it is ok'. So I get why people are annoyed. Also copying a whole project and then slamming a different license on it and going 'jobs done' very much fits the promptfondler vibe, so im not mad, more of a 'lol, of course they did' thing. But that is me.

There are the weirdest people who make 'content' out there. For example, I saw a 'how to start the game' joke guide on steam, so I went to their page to block them (to see if this also blocks the guides from popping up, doesn't seem so) and they had made hundreds of these guides, all just copy pasted shit. And there were more people doing the exact same thing. Bizarre shit. (Prob related to the thing where you can give people stickers, gamification was a mistake).

Don't worry, you can, and it is even in song!

Cloudflare is such a weird company in various ways. Saying loudly that they can't judge groups when people ask them not to support the neo-nazis, harassers and worse (they have moved on this under pressure, but it takes a lot of pressure). But then they do this.