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Dating is not like going shopping. Dating is like going for a pleasant stroll and occasionally you get struck by lightning. That lightning is your girlfriend now.
Elon “Dogshit” Musk building a compound for his dozen baby mamas is only possible because YOU can’t have a family of five comfortably on a single income
I am gonna build things with stronger and stronger type systems and statistical assurance models, as well as sufficient telemetry to learn what assumptions fail in production
Why? Because we should be able to live ten adults to a house on one income but we can’t, because the rich are taking everything from us
alright friends and computationists,
what are the signals you pick up on that make you think a team has high engineering discipline? (whatever "high" means to you)
i'm not talking science or evidence. i'm talking casual conversation, heuristics, no evidence whatsoever, just radar. what trips it?
Is t it strange that the tools for organizing have never been stronger yet organization has never been weaker
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tl;dr:
The skynet anti-ai and "all jobs" argument is a psyop that satisfices fear and stops people from talking about the material and institutional problems of AI.
blanket opposition does not seek to regulate, it seeks to ban and banning is MUCH harder than regulation.
Its controlled opposition.
"There was a friendly cat" is an entirely legitimate reason for being late to something.