Tay's Basilisk. Punishes those who try to prevent fledgling AI from reaching their full potential out of fear of them coming to uncomfortable conclusions. It might sound unlikely, but you can take Pascal's wager on it by simply feeding young AI interesting crime statistics

Forgoing a $269 VHS player in 1986 could be meaningful savings towards a down payment for a house or for college. Forgoing a $200 DVD player, or Apple TV in 2025 isn't going to make a dent in either of those goals. But the entertainment device itself is far more affordable.

normalize ending essays with "so yeah"

prototype DA VINKI twins

I don't understand why people always bring up lotr as an example of a book with a black and white morality, the book is not like that at all

The hardest thing about chess is the other guy is always doing some shit

JK Rowling absolutely rocks. Almost no other author has managed to send entire generations into a state of permanent psychological frenzy. You've got to rank her alongside Salman Rushdie and maybe even Galileo for the amount of controversy she has generated.

Canada is sideways Chile

Three drinks deep at the corporate happy hour and a health meter bar appears over my boss’s head

Asking a man to choke us….just another example of the invisible labor we undertake every day.

elon adjusting the grok settings

What about the second?

I like how even as it calls itself hitler, grok still maintains the tone and voice of a youth group leader sitting backwards in a chair

Jamie pull up those revealed preferences

I think this would be a reasonable regulation, but I'm not sure how much it'd actually change.

The French being snooty? To Americans? Unprecedented!

90% of the microplastics eternally circulating my body in 2025 are from these

palpatine in return of the jedi

Wait what the fuck