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Futility is resistant

  • Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter

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  • What’s a few billion to a TRILLION company? That’s peanuts. Everything is fine fellow citizen.

  • Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot

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  • If they accepted the job, absolutely yes. ignorantia juris non excusat.

  • If a Great Depression happened again, would people still stand together like they did during the penny auctions?

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  • The real question is: would they be allowed to do the same these days?

    Spoiler: they won’t.

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  • Pain and pleasure are the greatest survival teachers, I’d expect them to be the basest feelings a living thing can have.

    Saying some creatures don’t feel pain just because their physiology is different is like how we were taught that animals couldn’t think back in the 20th century.

  • Alphabet just hit record highs and is eyeing a $3 trillion valuation, is this the peak of the AI bubble?

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  • Fuck it, just valuate tech companies with quadrillions, or even quintillions. Why not? We’re already in the realm of fantasy.

  • What is the most controversial TV finale?

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  • Don’t speak that way of The Orville

  • Fictional

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  • One light year is 9.4607379e+15 meters, so there’s a power of 10 that could give us a unit of length close to 94 cm. That would not be as arbitrary.

    But fuck me if we discover the speed of light in a vacuum has not been constant along the history of the universe, the c would be an awful base for cosmic distance, or very long term science.

    But don’t worry, humanity doesn’t look like it will exist long enough to do very long term science.

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  • Holy cow, it’s a 70s franchise, but I misremembered, even though I watched dubs in the 80s! Technically it’s a 60s franchise because it was born in 1969.

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  • I don’t know. Seeing how modern shows like Foundation, The Witcher, or Star Trek Discovery, to name a few, have gratuitously walked over their own canon, I can understand how the producers thought Velma was a good idea for a new Scooby Doo show.

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  • It was never about Scooby Doo. IIRC, this was supposed to be an original show, but latching it to a successful 90s franchise must have looked like a sure money maker.

    Edit: did some fact checking, this was a theory. The show actually was an unfortunate reimagining of Scooby Doo since its inception.

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  • You ignoramus. This is what allows us artistic geniuses to freely unleash our gifts to the world, what we call “creative liberty”.

    An insignificant thing like being wrong should not stop our creative juices from flowing unabashed.

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  • The next question I’d expect from a little kid would be “why is your hair long?”.

    And another why, and another, and another…

  • Fear their power

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  • If my species had 20K sexes, sex wouldn’t be an essential part of my identity. It would be like my fingerprints being part of my personality.

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  • Isn’t the pineapple sweet enough that sugar could be omitted?

  • Fear their power

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  • That was my thought as well. That many sexes, if they can be called sexes, basically means everyone would have a single indeterminate sex. Imagine filling a form and selecting your sex among a 20K list of names.

  • Being boiled by your bed. This is fine.

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  • Definitely. This is just clickbait hyperbole.

    They weren’t bricked, they were unresponsive for most of the day), and they could be unplugged if needed. An internet-connected bed is stupid, but this clickbait is even more so.

  • Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity? - Slashdot

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  • If you’re using AI as a more powerful search engine, more power to you, that’s IMO how it should be used.

    The problem is too many people use it to avoid learning and critical thinking, because it’s much easier.

  • One day, you wake up finding out that a person you cared about seemingly vanished, and there are no traces of them; Would you trust your memories, or would you think you are hallucinating?

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  • I’d start looking for what filled their place: who graduated in their place? What person is filling their job position? Their brothers/sisters are the same? Wife/husband and kids? Etc.

    If there is evidence of a filled void, I’d trust my memory; if not, I’d think I’ve gone crazy.

  • One of the good ol' classics

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  • If he loves the sunshine that much, he should get an outside job instead of a home office job. All the sunshine he can handle, and quite a bit more.