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I admit that I considered it likely to happen even last decade when I figured that the everyday common man would still "do things" even a century from now, but I'm referring to a specific period of time when literally EVERYONE is still "doing things." By " doing things, &qu...

Yeah maybe don't use AI for things like that, at least not anything pre-AGI

This is beginning to scare me... In a discussion with ChatGPT Your lambda-point idea may be the best conceptual model here The public expects AGI to appear as a product announcement: one model, one date, one unmistakable mind. The more plausible phase change may occur at the level of the whole soci...

https://bsky.app/profile/rbreich.bsky.social/post/3ms7acgbsck2t There's a reason why ol' Meki/Marie Aurore seems to be waifu'd more and more https://i.ibb.co/TD1jPPm2/ultralefty-aurore.jpg Should probably stress there's a difference between this and democratic socialism Aurore isn't a demsoc, she's...

Took a photo of an iridescent pileus cloud the other day https://i.ibb.co/tPCxJRfz/IMG-8619.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pileus_(meteorology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_iridescence Very opal-colored IRL, I couldn’t get a good line of sight of it besides this one You can just barely mak...

As someone from the hot and bothered American south, that absolutely sounds like heat-related material distortion.

A good problem to have to be honest

My child self is just perpetually amazed and beguiled that the stupid unrealistic 1950s space age sci-fi B-movie/cartoon method of upright landing rockets is just how it's actually done now

firestar464 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2026 1:17 pm

There's a reason why ol' Meki/Marie Aurore seems to be waifu'd more and more

firestar464 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 16, 2026 11:32 pm Of note is how hated various tech and AI CEOs are.

When you look at the names, you quickly realize why

Israel’s Ben Gvir advocates killing ’30 to 40' people in Gaza nightly while speaking to ex-hostage https://apnews.com/article/ben-gvir-israel-gaza-hamas-netanyahu-53f98e92686746f3c9bccd7cf59f26ad It's crazy how we're not filling the Fascist thread with Israeli news, especially Ben Gvir and Smotrich...

https://bsky.app/profile/paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social/post/3mrxbkzas722a https://bsky.app/profile/eliothiggins.bsky.social/post/3mrwewxfihc2o https://bsky.app/profile/eliothiggins.bsky.social/post/3mrwf6e6hds2o It's amazing how out of touch the techbro elite are that they apparently didn't think ...

I've been saying for a couple years now that Hassabis never felt like he really believed in LLMs as the path to AGI and probably thought that pivoting so hard to them was a mistake. The literal only reason why Gemini exists is because of ChatGPT. Remember Bard? When Bard first released, people were ...