About the only good stuff LW does is remind me of other, much better SF. In this case Ian McDonald’s Necroville (Terminal Café in the US), about a future where nanotech enables the resurrection of the dead. Said neo-living are of course discriminated against, have no human rights, and are used as cheap disposable labor by the corporation that uses the technology.
D’oh! I missed that connection, although the little infographic amoebas should have tipped me off
AI researchers continue to daub soot on the walls of Plato’s cave, scaring themselves witless:
https://www.emergent-values.ai/
At least I’ve IDd the transmission vector from LW to lobste.rs
Look I have nothing against fanfic myself but if there’s one powerful corrective it lacks, it is commercial content editorial feedback.
Credit where credit is due, this is a decent comeback
They didn’t care much for marine life when they abandoned a tugboat, leavnig it to leak fuel and crap into the sea:
they recently got a profile in fucking WaPo
Rats have reached the “put up stickers to proselytize” stage of their weird religion
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SvtKronRNrw9AxXwa/clement-l-s-shortform?commentId=ZifQXkhxo5dJvrL3Q
I bet that jacket is some super-nerdy thing that William Gibson once mentioned in a book
Anyone matched the list of names of the dinguses currently wrecking US agencies from the inside with known LW or HN posters?
balancing parentheses is why I draft all my comments in emacs
wow the sanewashing of trump in those threads is insane
FWIW here’s LW with discussion
I wonder how much % of the freakout over Deepseek is AI doomers realizing the coming AI god might be … ChiCom!
yellowstone caldera erupting during Trump II would be fitting somehow
What? You don’t have a spare $6,000 to run nonsense generators at home? Peasant…
https://xcancel.com/carrigmat/status/1884244369907278106?mx=2
white always wins
this is the method Elon prefers
this was mentioned in last week’s thread
what I don’t get is why the admins chose to both backdate the entries and re-use poster’s handles. If they’d just tried to “close” open questions using GenAI with the current date and a robot user it would still be shit but not quite as deceptive
This is a good article, thanks for posting.
Yeah that’s “Lena” by the SCP guy. Great story.
https://qntm.org/mmacevedo