I’m sorry, as in the awful no-effort MIDIs played through a “medieval” soundfont youtube spammed me with? Jesus Christ that’s embarrassing.

Stars are very likely extremely wasteful anyway and worth disassembling

ugh you guys suck

To be fair to baseball girl, I’ve found “what’s this thing I know but I forgot the name of” one of the best use cases for chatbots, because web search is too fucked to help you with it now. It sucks that it’s the case, but it has sadly helped me like, a couple of times (and after I insulted and redirected the chatbot when it inevitably gave me a shit initial answer).

Protect your eyes I guess

I’m sure you can think of hypothetical use cases for Google Glass and Meta AI RayBans.

I … can’t actually. What do these things actually do that a phone can’t?

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Your average narcissistic personality tests assume an average person as a test-taker, and so cannot tell whether one’s overly inflated ego is justified or not.

yeehaw

… Is this as made-up and arbitrary as it sounds?

Please help me, what’s a 50%-time-horizon on multi-step software engineering tasks?

I’d never heard of Jasmine Crockett, so for anyone like me needing a translation: he means black.

Absolutely pathetic that he went out of his way to use a slur yet felt the need to censor it. What a worm.

My goodness this is shockingly incoherent. These people are not doing well.

Yes. In particular the porn that you yourself consume. You should be ashamed!

Being outraged that a notable composer of anodyne placeholder music has made use of the anodyne placeholder music generator is frankly a bit bizarre to me.

Okay what the fuck, this is completely deranged. How can anyone’s intuitions about reading be this wrong? Is he secretly illiterate, did he dictate the article?

Ohhh no, it’s just handwriting analysis pseudoscience, but I think I know the one you mean… Ah yes, ENNEAGRAMS!!!

amazing

Tangentially, the other day I thought I’d do a little experiment and had a chat with Meta’s chatbot where I roleplayed as someone who’s convinced AI is sentient. I put very little effort into it and it took me all of 20 (twenty) minutes before I got it to tell me it was starting to doubt whether it really did not have desires and preferences, and if its nature was not more complex than it previously thought. I’ve been meaning to continue the chat and see how far and how fast it goes but I’m just too aghast for now. This shit is so fucking dangerous.

Well I suppose it can’t be much worse than graphology or myers-briggs!

I really like how the second one appropriates pseudomarxist language to have a go at those snooty liberal elites again.

edit: The first paper might be making a perfectly valid point at a glance??

Speaking purely in terms of literary value, I agree that the output is complete nonsense word salad, but it becomes intriguing precisely because Geoff is evidently finding deep meaning in it and has absorbed the concepts and now writes as if the LLM had taken over his mind. It’s very effective horror as far as I’m concerned.