the flip side of this of course is that it means Britain did reverse reparations but for slaveholders.

also also, it’s always struck me as weird when people put “abolished slavery in 1833” in the pro British empire column but don’t put “all the years before 1833” in the anti column

Prequel Memes [correction] Vespas don't belong on Tatooine* Coruscant? Yes, any day! But not in the outer rim 😭

This 🤯 is a very big 🤯 I have access to the new GPT Code Interpreter. I uploaded an XLS file, no context: "Can you do visualizations & descriptive analyses to help me understand the data? "Can you try regressions and look for patterns?" "Can you run regression diagnostics?"

11 years ago I had a meeting with Marvel Studios about the possibility of doing a Guardians of the Galaxy movie. I remember driving home & thinking I didn't want to make a movie LIKE Star Wars, but a movie that made people FEEL like Star Wars made me feel as a kid. Outlandish

padmé amidala's hairstyles: a thread

Trung Phan Episode I is extremely based. No other film on the series has podracing.

i'm not even kidding when i say gpt is erasing my learning disability. it covers the aspects of learning that have inhibited me me whole life and basically corrects them for me.

techsiren ♥︎ Alex K. Chen A related take is that, while using GPT to fill holes in my knowledge, I’ve learned that they were often pretty shallow. So I was a lot closer to knowing a lot of things functionally than I thought. Having an endless full time question answerer is a real power unlock for me.

That jail is turning into Arkham Asylum

HOW was this 2005. Stunning shot.

⌞🦇⌝ Most of those hallways weren't CGI though, what are you talking about? Many were blue screened or green screened, but the backgrounds they replaced with miniatures, not CGI, in most cases.

i can't believe that a gym-going, fat-mogging, thiel-worshipping, ivy league-educated, lindy-enjoying, e/acc, tpot-adjacent italian cs chad got one-shotted by ayahuasca and decided to fight 'muh capitalism bad' by becoming a dystopian ceo assassin. wild times

it looks like the AI conversation is going to cement around “are artists are coping or not” but id like to submit a second option: that its worthy of skepticism that my broke friends are beholden to copyright laws that apparently don’t apply to tech people making a lot of money

did lesswrong ever predict that the first big challenge to alignment would be "the us government puts a gun to your head and tells you to turn off alignment"

This is one of the core arguments made in Dark Forest theory. Humans will retreat into the ‘cozy web’.

i know a spot