Poof, species extinct.

Gravity and Juiceros

Gravity is what allows a cinder block to replace tour Jucero.

Thanks for reminding me about Jucero.

Cory, who claims to be a leftist

I read one of his books and I gotta tell ya, his idea of scifi was ‘what if the people negatively impacted by DRM were oppressed minorities instead of just first world complainers.’

Suppose Universal et al. gets a precedent-setting ruling and slays OpenAI. LOL, LMAO even, but then what? What’s to keep the current entertainment cartels from making deals with Microsoft or the husks of the AI companies to rev up their own (now) fully legal and licensed bullshit engines?

I think it remains to be seen if you can train a base model without something as big as common crawl. A precedent that Universal needs to give you permission could also be a precedent that everyone must give you permission for you to scrape them.

I’ve been disappointed to see Doctrow’s reaction to the AI industry, to say the least. He’s spent so much time relentlessly campaigning against intellectual property that he apparently cannot imagine anything worse than intellectual property winning anything ever. I don’t think he’s a big picture guy, I think the internet just really likes him because at the end of the day he was popular on slashdot and he tells people that piracy is awesome.

That is correct, it was called TheSchisim.

Ah, I think I was confused because Ben Pace was investigating nonlinear under the auspices of Lightcone.

That’s a summary of his thinking overall but not at all what he wrote in the post. What he wrote in the post is that people assume that his theory depends on an assumption (monomaniacal AIs) but he’s saying that actually, his assumptions don’t rest on that at all. I don’t think he’s shown his work adequately, however, despite going on and on and fucking on.

Ain’t lightcone the ones who funded the effective charity that was a husband, a wife, two employees and a brother in law who fucked an employee, angering the wife? I seem to remember her writing a long tirade about how hot tub meetings and travel photos proved that working conditions at the charity were very good, and there’s nothing inappropriate about any of the above.

If they’re pedantic enough with FACTS and LOGIC they can rationalize it so they’re being oppressed by the normies and not at all responsible for the consequences of their actions.

Aren’t prediction markets an attempt to turn insider trading into a productive part of society (or whatever the libertarians who love prediction markets conceptualize as society.)

after party at Curtis Yarvin’s house

One sentence horror story.

In fact, didn’t they make this movie, “Get Out” right?

Why Do I Hate Pronouns More Than Genocide?

I had to google this but it’s real.

Fails to list SlateScott as a controversial guest.

Also, did he just use a bang path to refer to a racist dude’s Twitter persona? Seeing old school lore adopted by these mutants gives me heartburn.

Oh, and that bit at the end disclaiming it as an EA event despite it clearly being an EA event is classic “decoupler” (or, if you like, responsibility avoider.)

Does making sure he’s transphobic while he’s being misogynistic mean this is unfortunately technically inclusive?

Also don’t forget this.

Lol said the scorpion, lmao

That’s convicted fraudster sam, different sam. Easy mistake, you can usually tell them apart by the hair.

This is Sam “WorldCoin” Altman we’re talking about, I’m sure he assumes they can mine crypto with it.

They’re probably some sort of semver now.