Tesla Semi went up in flames on I-880 in the Bay Area: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/tesla-semi-fire-i880-hayward-traffic/4165797/
Between this and the carload of freshly manufactured Teslas that burned to the ground on the Grapevine on I-5 last year, that seems like only one (1) freeway-closing big-rig related explosion per year. That’s not so bad, right?
Also - is the coivd lab leak conspiracy nonsense STILL a shibboleth among this bunch? Just because it underscores their ideas about Researchers Have To Be Careful?
I feel like it plays to their aesthetic, which is partly built on their insecurities. Oh, humans aren’t smart enough to handle all this advanced research (read: very few of these people were committed enough to get bio or chem degrees, let alone follow through with research careers), but the superintelligent AI surely will be able to! If we submit to the AI god now, it will make up for the gaping voids of meaning and skill inside ourselves.
Too bad our old friend Kirk Johnson couldn’t make it in
Mountain View is part of the Bay Area.
one of the most damning sentences in the whole post, really
The ease and comfort of Liquid Ass
Some of these people have so thoroughly blended their brains into a post-ironic slurry that I can’t be sure they even really know what they believe anymore. roon seems like a good example of this, every time he comes up lately.
I haven’t checked in on Naval Ravikant in a couple years, has he just handed his feed over to a chatbot at this point?
Oh so it’s just more bad fanfiction then
Welcome to the project, my friend. The dream is within reach
what too much evopsych on the TL does to an mf
I saw Ultron once in the theater, and promptly regretted it as a poor-quality movie that wasted the talents of most of its cast. Yud (and ghostwriter) seem like they may have watched it multiple times, with notepad in hand. We are not the same
I genuinely wonder what the successor enterprise to Tesla will be like, i.e., the equivalent to the outfit down in Houston that owns all the leftover OEM spare parts for DeLoreans.
Someone in the comments of this review also said that AI is on track to master…metabolism. somehow
LLM-intermediated poster experiencing model collapse due to overtraining on “One Weird Trick To Shed Belly Fat” ads
Was Changpeng Zhao trying to send us a message all along
Consider for a moment where this fellow’s breathing tube and/or proboscis looks to be routed.
The thesis is that the putative type III civilization is harvesting all energy output of its galaxy. I haven’t often seen respiration of methane and/or miscellaneous volatile products of digestion on transhumanist bingo cards, but evidently it’s indicated in the original material.
“Oh bother, I’ve fallen onto another one of these fart-propelled flight platforms and I can’t get up”
Sounds like a marketing tagline for a failed “As Seen on TV” sort of gadget, tbh
This was about where I gave up on Attack on Titan
going thru it myself, can report that non-graded “suggested exercises,” with exams being the only graded material, is not any better
who in the hell would want programmable matter anymore, after they’ve seen what happened to plain ol’ computer programming as already practiced
Yeah, I’ve read a few stories in the past year or two that updated suspiciously rapidly and weren’t terribly well written. But overall the culture there is against AI generation.