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We regret to inform you that Ray Kurzweil is back on his bullshit
  • partially due to impossible bandwidth and compression requirements

    It still amazes me they publicly posted a request for help with these compression req which are physically impossible to achieve. Nobody with a CS degree is anybody near the leadership of neuralink. In other words, you are downplaying how impossible the requirements were.

  • We regret to inform you that Ray Kurzweil is back on his bullshit
  • I predict you are going to have a bad time here. And that is far before 2045.

    (Edit: I hear you think, but predicting after a thing has already happened and keeps happening, that isn't really predicting now is it. And Varyk was enlightened).

  • We regret to inform you that Ray Kurzweil is back on his bullshit
  • The social safety net here is so poor that even the amount you get for unemployment is the same as it was decades ago, which doesn’t pace with inflation and can’t even cover rent anymore.

    In .nl our far right gov has seen this and decided to uncouple unemployment and wages/inflation as well. So yeah lol.

  • Why I'm leaving EA
  • “my good bitch have you met rationalists”

    It can be pretty hard to admit you have been conned, so I figure this is their defense mechanism, pretending that this all is new and not that it has been there from the start. (The hbomberguy skull guy was one of the early LW people for example (9 years, has it been 9 years already?))

  • what if, right, what *if* our super-duper-autocomplete was just *tricking* us so it could TAKE OVER ZEE VORLD AHAHAHAHAHAHA! that'd be wild, hey
  • Yes we could just shoot the severs, but what if the AI develops an anti-bullet shield, and then we shoot it with anti-bullet shield bullets, and then it creates an anti-bullet shield bullet bullet shield, and then, ... and then ...

    Anyway, those kinds of kids reality free, imagination games of move and counter move were pretty cool when you were 8 years old.

    Sorry got distracted a bit and just wanted to share, not related to the topic at hand.

  • It can't be that the bullshit machine doesn't know 2023 from 2024, you must be organizing your data wrong (wsj)
  • I wonder why no business types/economists (*) types don't just stand up and go 'this is all a scam'. It started with just needing a website (with some added idea that it might reduce advertisement costs, replace some secretaries who used to handle information requests). Fine, you can buy those and maintenance and running costs is cheap. And then you need an ecommerce site, so you need a team of devs, admins, security people, but it brings in some revenue. But then every five years there is something else, and then you are running a huge team of STEM people who all are working on the pivot to Apps/AI/Quantum resistant whatever/NFTs/Cryptocurrencies/GDPR/continuous development/checking if none of the daily updates of all your huge dependencies break something/microservices/huge cloud bills/training of these tech people/moderation of your sites for pedophiles, racists, other extremists, and random satanic scare style worries. Bottom line somebody must have discovered something like 'wait why are we spending this much money on all this crap? We sell pet food for fucks sake, Ecommerce didn't reduce our costs as now we need to hire an maintain delivery people and cars.

    *: I know why, because their jobs are also in on the scam.

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  • Kathryn Tewson

    Iirc, She is not just an expert, but she is so good at law that while she didn't practice law, but just commented about her interpretations of the law (as ANAL) people hired her and paid for her law degree. She has both talent and expertise.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 30 June 2024
  • Lasik? Rip those eyes out and put cybereyes in! For one hole glorious year I could see in infrared. (Sadly the company went bankrupt and they repo'ed my eye, so that is why there is a hole now, at least I didn't splurge for both eyes).

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