"Oh, young man, if you explore the abandoned temple, legend says you will find an ancient scroll with the secrets of cultivation..." *1 horrific adventure later* Congratulations, you get +5% to all farm production

Just heard on NPR, while trying to explain the debt: "The US might be entering its Homer Simpson period."

I know people are worried that the new grok companion thing is going to one-shot people, but don't worry. Apparently they're only making it for iPhone, not for Android, so no one who is a productive member of society will be lost

People going "you should submit your ID to reddit before you access NSFW content" when that same system is used to link your ID to your political opinions and automatically send you to jail five years from now:

You know, I was just trying to solve world hunger when I wished on that magical genie for an endless supply of shrimp, I didn't expect it to cause all this discourse

How many shrimp Must a man swallow down Before you can call him A killer And how many things Are 10 to the 100th power Why is that such a big number And how many times Can twitter overreact To an interesting Thought experiment The answer, my friends, is 10^100

"And for your crimes" the eternal judge said, "we sentence you to read 10^100 twitter posts about shrimp. When you have finished, you will remember everything."

Ok, but what if you took 10^100 shrimp and wired them together to make a giant computer, and then ran an emulation of a human mind on that shrimputer,

Creating a new dating app where I match women who's identity was leaked after gossiping about people on the Tea app with men who's identity was leaked after signing up for Ashley Madison

We really need to make it illegal for credit card processors to use their near-monopoly power over online payments to just broadly force censorship of whatever moral hobbyhorse they're obsessed with this week onto the entire world. It's becoming absolutely absurd.

My parents were offered a great deal on a car if they agreed to financing instead of paying cash. They said "we can pay it back early with no penalty, right?" "Of course!" They got the car, brought it home, and paid the loan off the next day.

This but unironically

"Huge company offers one engineer 1.5 billion dollars to work on AI for them, he turns them down" has got to be a "singularity is near" indicator if literally any of these people are remotely rational, doesn't it?

Me: If X, then Y Many people: Look at this idiot, he thinks X is true I think I'm going to add "basic logic" to the list of things that many people don't really understand

We're fairly close to being able to very effectively treat cancer with mRNA, and this will be a huge setback To be blunt: people you care about will die of cancer because of this decision

I mean, yes. The best time to abolish DHS was 20 years ago, the second best time is now.

Prediction: There is going to end up being a whole porn genre of "seducing someone who's only ever had AI boyfriends/girlfriends before but has never dated a flesh-and-blood person"

The sheer number and variety of ways in which people are just becoming increasingly victims of propaganda and have incredibly bizarre beliefs without actually knowing any facts that touch base reality is just tragic at this point. Right wing and left wing victims both.

Friend of mine designed an agent that can run on top of any llm, gpt-4 or Llama or whatever. The central idea is all it's thoughts are visible and in English, you can see the entire thought process. GPT-5 keeps changing the code to hide the internal thoughts. It's pretty creepy.

I disagree