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The Future of Humanity versus Company Bottom Line in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[–] Shitgenstein1@awful.systems 24 points 7 months ago (4 children)

s'alright, tho. It was always a cynical marketing strat to convert hyper-online nerd anxiety into investor hype. may want to check on Big Yud. Idk if anyone has heard from him since his Time Mag article coming onto a year old now, not that I tried.

Some of the risks the team worked on included "misuse, economic disruption, disinformation, bias and discrimination, addiction, and overreliance."

Conspicuous lack of grey goo or hyper-persuasive brainhacking. Still really good at being confidently wrong about basic shit!

I can only say: spot on, but not at all in the way you were thinking in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[–] Shitgenstein1@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Find your favourite sequence post, LW Post, etc

2, Take the more beautiful or poetic lines and dump them into a note

This in the style of Taylor Swift:

So I broke up with Alice over a long conversation that included an hour-long primer on evolutionary psychology in which I explained how natural selection had built me to be attracted to certain features that she lacked. I thought she would appreciate this because she had previously expressed admiration for detailed honesty. Now I realize that there's hardly a more damaging way to break up with someone. She asked that I kindly never speak to her again, and I can't blame her.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/x8Fp9NMgDWbuMpizA/rationality-lessons-learned-from-irrational-adventures-in

AI chat bot just makes up hospitals when asked in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[–] Shitgenstein1@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago

The 'coolest' thing about AI is that you can slash your customer support overhead and impress the tech-illiterate investment boomers.

meme stock of the moment: Trump Social. suckers: guess in c/buttcoin@awful.systems

[–] Shitgenstein1@awful.systems 6 points 8 months ago

“This isn’t just another stock to me. … I feel like it was God Almighty that put it in my lap,” he said. “I’ve just got to hold on and let them do their job. If you go on emotion, you’ll get out of this thing the first time it goes down.”