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I extremely do not need a human to be driving my burrito taxi.

i really really REALLY don’t think you should respond to someone getting death threats by saying “this sucks, but it makes sense because the person telling you to KYS has material and mental conditions that are making them lash out” STOP MAKING EXCUSES FOR DEATH THREAT ENJOYERS

I see people putting AI in the same bucket as NFTs (speculative technology that will go away when the bubble pops), but I think the internet is the better comp. Sure there's some early bubble-y activity, but the underlying technology is real it's going to dramatically change things.

Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines: www.frogandtoad.ai

new rule: You can't say "AI doesn't think" until you post 1) a measurable, falsifiable definition of thinking 2) that includes humans by those measurements 3) and excludes AI by those measurements Bonus points for a definition that isn't ableist or dehumanizing to ND humans.

I realized yesterday: the two major sides of the AI debate aren’t “it’s good” versus “it’s bad.” They are “this is strange and uncertain” versus “there’s nothing to see here, you dolts.” Antis often get mad at the suggestion it’s very bad, because embedded within that is the claim it is novel.

people really just don't like the idea that prices serve a valuable function

what do we think chat? are piles of trash on the sidewalk going to become a luxury amenity overnight? like for yes, RT for no

This is, and I am not even joking, going to fuck up so many hyperlexic kids. I got accused of plagiarism because I used the word “porous” in a sixth grade paper and that shit sticks with you, if not on the permanent record, then in the childhood.

i dont understand why people try to defend themselves with the phrase "a hit dog hollers" why are you as an adult hitting dogs? youre not supposed to hit them.

reinforcement learning have fun

Remembered this bit of silliness.

it's simultaneously true that the average peasant's life had a surprising amount more room for leisure and fun than the stereotype allows for, and that it'd be a life of horrible crushing poverty and toil by any modern country's standard

Zhalfirin Cothasion

Deenso Twister Submission by CocoaMix

NEVER!!! - dashare.zone ADMIN

A long review of Nectome, a brain preservation startup. www.lesswrong.com/posts/3i5GMh...

Nepal has 16 categories of taxpayer awards. Shoutout to Nepal Telecommunications Authority for paying the most taxes in the public institutions category 🫡

We should update our labeling laws to require manufacturers to use the amount a consumer could reasonably extract. Maybe manufacturers would shift to more efficient packaging, or maybe consumers would accept higher unit cost for more convenience. The important thing is aligning incentives.

my shader export compression is mightily broken and the effect is eerily reminiscent of trying to make out details in a night sky obscured by light pollution, except the sky now has intermittent complex transforms darting across its surface

[update] Investigating: AO3 is now fully down. After performing a software upgrade a few days ago, we've been unable to keep our server cluster healthy due to what we believe is a bug or issue with the new release of our database server software. We're working with our ve...

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

I have been cursed by a witch Here’s what happened: I ignored an old beggar woman and she turned out to be a mighty enchantress Her spell forces me to always talk like I’m on LinkedIn Here are my main takeaways about being hexed:

Cwescena, Druid of Ryne Submission by CocoaMix

That is evil genius right there

Trouble Submission by Yerushalmi

happy new year

my section was all about uterine tissues creating happy little "benign" tumors that make your life hell but since they are not cancerous it takes forever to diagnose and find a treatment that works for YOU! #SciArt #endometriosis #fibroids #adenomyosis

The Uncurated feed is back! If you like AI cards, we'll be sporadically posting some over there as well. A bit less curated, but just as strange.

Putting all the responsibility for the game on a (hopefully AAA-class) GM while minimising players' mechanical authority does not make for a newbie-friendly game.

I am bored of self-proclaimed "RPGs suitable for players new to the hobby", and annoyed with most of their designs and assumptions. I want to see RPGs made for people who have never GMed before.

Starfleet captain is accused of crime by the Klingons and just immediately goes "I demand trial by combat" because he's the one Starfleet captain who is an insane HEMA head and immediately starts beating the klingon to death with a pommel

social networking app that checks your blood sugar and if you're hungry (or hyperglycemic i guess) you're not allowed to post

israel-palestine discourse is like. author of offensive essay "the IDF should reliably discipline soldiers who commit rape" sentenced to 10 years in prison for hate speech. meanwhile, protesters gather outside a holocaust survivor's home in response to him saying "israeli salad".