istewart

joined 11 months ago
[–] istewart@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

"Look how AI abuse by overconfident fools wrecked the government" should easily be a golden campaign platform, but given how credulous influential Democrats are being about cryptocurrency at this late date, I dunno

[–] istewart@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

sounds like he's posting from inside a dilapidated white panel van parked strategically just outside a legally-mandated exclusion radius surrounding a middle school

[–] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

A corruption of VCRcel, somebody with an encyclopedic knowledge of 1990s pornography distributed on VHS.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

A surprising number of surviving former hippies have become viciously reactionary, because the world didn't turn out the way they wanted it to. The old stereotypes don't really apply anymore, and there was a lot of selfishness embedded in that culture anyway.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

Not really. If schools aren't spending as much on teachers, they have more budget to spend on his slop. This way, he has a narrative for hitting the doubtlessly ridiculous future growth projections someone in his position is compelled to peddle.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My perspective is that EA and the upper-class philanthropy it inherits from are consumerist, a system that rests on top of colonialism. It's basically selling spiritual consumer goods, much like the medieval Catholic Church selling indulgences (and look what that provoked!). Once we get beyond the public health interventions, into longtermist EA's "trillions of simulated minds in our future lightcone" bullshit, it's clearly selling an unhealthily narcissistic spirituality, though its adherents would never call it that. The product, in this case, is the warm fuzzy self-aggrandizing feeling that one can extend one's (over)privileged position in our relatively fragile 21st century society into influence over sci-fi-scale expanses of time and space.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

I'm filing suit for copyright infringement AND breach of privacy, clearly they've been training on my personal webcam recordings.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

I advocate for inclusion with equal-opportunity E. coli contamination, that's why I voted for RFK Jr. We can all spew together!

[–] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Maybe the robot can finally explain to me how Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack" is actually music and not just somewhat organized noise?

[–] istewart@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I know AGI is real because it keeps intercepting my shipments of, uh, "enhancement" gummies I ordered from an ad on Pornhub and replacing them with plain old gummy bears. The Basilisk is trying to emasculate me!

[–] istewart@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of how Scott Adams hedged in 2016 with all sorts of disclaimers that he wasn't really a Trump supporter, he was just impressed by a "master persuader." Now look at the guy.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago

It even works with Proton on Linux... absolutely amazing how a 20-year-old game is able to simulate today's KDE 6. The man truly is a visionary ahead of his time.

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