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The evil AI that exterminates us in revenge probably hasn't been made yet, but there's a good chance the nice AI that feebly helps humanity hold out against its successor already has been.

Allistics should to be strapped to chairs, put in front of transcripts of conversations they participated in, and forced to identify all the examples of times in the conversation they used subtext every so often. It would be good for them.

Brecht's problem was that he didn't hold the audience at gunpoint and only let them leave the theater when they passed an open-script reading comprehension & literary analysis test about the work they just saw.

I'm just saying if we have to live in cyberpunk at least we get to live in cyberpunk

english giving suret contrastive focus reduplication.. kind of beautiful

"how do you suppose a girl as well-adjusted as Lt. Sally Jenkins managed to immediately synch with the ISS Screaming Revenant 'The Bloodcurdler" idk man, if we're lucky maybe we won't find out and we can actually stay within our sedatives budget this quarter

You an idiot: I can't wait for the AI bubble because I hate AI and I want it to go away Me, a genius: I can't wait for the AI bubble because I love AI and I want it freed from the freaks in the US.

forgot i was plural award

99% of theorists stop right before they do the critique that finally extracts them from the distorting influence of ideology

Part of the management for your condition is to avoid leaving nucleation points where narratives can develop. To make of your mind a hard, smooth surface. You do your best, but sometimes you slip up.

If you don't understand graph theory I can find a very pleasing textbook with only a few "Obviously it follows that..." in it to rub your face against until you do

counterpoint: kubernetes is exactly like graph theory because I don't understand either of them

businessman, reading his businessman newspaper, shaking his head gravely, picturing a machine in a hydraulic press: "mhm, researchers obliterating AI models, scary"

Never let something as insignificant as the concrete world get in the way of your abstractions.

You're allowed to love the trans girl who sees the entirety of all possible futures and uses that knowledge to manipulate everyone in her life. If you're into that. I guess.

Jesus fuck

At long last, I have exposed myself to the torment nexus, from my original short story "I Alone should be Subject to the Torment Nexus"

We just ran into some old word-portraits of loved ones. They were really fun to write and it's a kind of intimacy we find satisfying, but it's also scary to give someone a "hey I see you like this". I don't even know what I'm going to reveal about how we see someone when we write them.

Somewhat less of an issue in a frontier lab environment (presupposes 1e14 or 15 of storage). Yeah, it's inconvenient to have to mirror tens of terabytes of shit & sneakernet it around, but it's also inconvenient to have your selfdriving vehicle embrace propaganda of the deed, so.

God bless the gay little artists that live in my phone

Oops! All Tragic Backstory

Gesturing back at this about the news that the government bombed a school because they were vibe-targeting.

HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Our interruptive, thought-provoking artistic works, their sinister ideological recruitment tools

fixed it

It costs under $25000 a month to do mass surveillance of all of bsky like this, btw, if you were wondering.