it’s amusing to me that these nerds thought they could in any way affect policy even with a sane administration, not to mention this bugshit crazy one

like I’ve said before, I’d be perversely happy if we managed to off ourselves by building the robot god. beats drowning in our own filth or blowing ourselves up

this is confusing, how many licenses that are “NonCommercial” are mainstream Free/Open source? From what I’ve seen they’re deffo a minority anyway.

Thought inspired by some git on the red site, basically their premise was that birthrates are declining because we no longer have a society with a 2-parent nuclear family with one “breadwinner”.

Here’s my counterproposal to the implied idea we need to implement The Handmaid’s Tale:

Ban contraception and abortion but if you get pregnant, there is no stigma to giving birth out of wedlock. The delivery is safe and paid for, and should you wish, the child will be reared in state-funded orphanages. These institutions will be receive more than adequate funding. Their charges will be given preferred entry to the best schools and universities, as well as preferential treatment when it comes to future employment. It will be illegal to discriminate against anyone so raised.

Surely this will raise the birthrate, right?

How often is section 28g of the civil code of Switzerland invoked?

It’s still a SLAPP suit. Palantir has massively more PR resources, and if they wished to actually respond to the content of the Republik piece, they could do so.

What they are doing is trying to send a message to future reporters - report negatively on us, and we will make it very very expensive for you to respond to legal challenges.

OTOH is a huge self-own. Reporters live to get attacked by giant faceless corporations. No-one outside a small section of the Swiss reading public would have even heard of this story before Palantir decided to go nuclear.

Just a thought…

Imagine if China and North Korea bombed the White House, killed the president and most of the cabinet, and shot missiles at primary schools. Would you go out on the street and demonstrate in favor of the Chinese Communist Party and Kim Jong-Un, and expect to be heard and taken seriously?

Somehow brown people in other lands are supposed to be avid readers of wingnut welfare papers and have their worldview 100% aligned with Lindsey Graham and Bibi Netanyahu…

fuck yeah! congrats!

Marcus is just critihyping like mad. He actually believes LLMs in DoD will lead to Skynet, instead of a bunch of probably avoidable targetting mistakes

That’s such a weird comment… like “worried about hurricanes” - the first idea is to pour literal oil on the water??? in what world does that scale??? then it concludes with “maybe don’t build fragile buildings in hurricane areas” - lead with that you pillock

I feel I’m stepping into some long-forgotten debate on LW on alignment or something because there’s so much that doesn’t make sense in context

couldn’t happen to nicer guys

edit I don’t really care one way or another, this current administration is off the rails, but it will be amusing seeing the Rat crowd run around in a panic

it’s funny b/c management consultants live for applying the same cookie-cutter methods for different businesses - in a way they’re the OG LLMs

but the real business is sales - you need to get your expensive consultants embedded into an org so they can start invoicing. And for sales focussing on “AI” is perfect, b/c the companies big enough to be able to pay are also the ones run by the same sort of MBAs who are pushing “AI” everywhere else

ah, “acculturation” on lobste.rs where a 2-month old account feels free to mouth off on a mod for not doing their job (possibly because the mod uses a feminine-coded handle?) and praise HN as an alternative

https://lobste.rs/c/ltffae

I’ve noticed that the reference to “garden party” is the tone-policing term of choice for lobsters fash to shut down uncomfortable discussions

“enjoy” this comment from a lobster which almost perfectly encapsulates every pro-clanker viewpoint in one handy place

https://lobste.rs/c/0ug3so

The best thing an unpopular regime can ask for is the enemy they have been bigging up as literally The Great Satan starts dropping bombs and missiles on the populace that hates it.

“If we bomb people and show their government can’t protect them, they will turn against the government and we will win” has been tried by the Germans on Londoners, the Allies on Germany and Japan, and the US on Serbia, and it didn’t work.

desperately trying to latch themselves onto the coattails of whatever passes for cool among nerds these days

Not one, but two utterly out of touch LWs trying to interact with culture.

Earlier today, woke Proust get slammed by some young 'un direct from college: https://awful.systems/post/7140871/10327823 (note that they can take time off to read Recherche, even going to the length of spending time in France, which tells me they don’t really have to worry about getting a job or anything)

And now, someone tries to “explain” the perfectly spherical explosion at the end of the Akira movie with the fact that atom bombs in Japan really looked like that because humidity, utterly forgetting that the explosion in question was psychic/telekinetic and therefore probably follows its own damn rules on visual appearance

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pbChvM8xZnKmxaKAa/jackson-wagner-s-shortform?commentId=xjX85Kah6AQNsnHPg

I swear to fucking god both LW and HN have the worst takes on culture in general and SF/F in particular.

I happen to know there are multiple translations of the novel into English, and I’m confused as to why the reviewer refers to

My copy was the 2016 Moncrieff/Schiff English translation

which doesn’t really mesh with anything here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time#English-language_translations

Not that it matters much in the end.

Enjoy sneering at this LWer tackling Proust

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/j3ZtsYBYBcTTFXH5S/in-search-of-lost-time-a-review

Huh, I just realized yesterday that my car (also a late-model VAG model) does have a touchscreen that reacts to gloved fingers. This was the base infotainment system, not Carplay.

Unfortunately the steering wheel controls are touch, not physical. A big downgrade.

Good luck. There’s a lack of trained electricians here in Sweden, which amazes me, it sounds like a decent job for someone with a technical bent and some handiness. Better than plumbing (no disrespect to plumbers, love them, but not the work I want to do)

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