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2·12 hours agoThere was just an article on the front page somewhere about putting llms in charge of civilization in simulation. Claude’s lasted the longest–ten days. Grok killed everyone in 3.
151·18 hours agoThe fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. -Douglas Adams
Great point! This contributes greatly to the conversation–and that matters!
To quote the great Battlestar Galactica:
This has all happened before.
This will all happen again.The Trekkian belief in inevitable progress is an illusion. Humans are trapped by their psychology into corrupt systems until we destroy ourselves.
Until then, it’s just a cycle of learning from our mistakes, to forgetting those lessons, to repeating those same mistakes, again, and again, and again.
Was it better than their lunar training module?
1·1 day agoMaybe it’s a younger generation thing where anything before 2000 is “rock”. There’s been a lot of love for 1980s new wave, tho, so I doubt that’s it.
Personally, as a middle-aged man raise on classic rock, I’m sick of it, largely because everyone everywhere around the world wants to be a rock band. Think I’m exploring French music, it turns into rock. Think I’m exploring Argentine music, it turns into rock. Fuck off.
Being socially significant is one way people deal with a fear of death; also good for a sense of meaninglessness.
Seriously. Listening to podcasts on the run-up to the stock crash is so maddening. Almost 100 years have gone by and people have learned nothing.
Yeah, people remember hippie Jesus from the 1960’s and forget the 1,500 years Christianity propped up monarchical feudalism. Forget it, guys: religion will never lead people to the promised land. The human instinct to us/them is too strong and religion is an accelerant to that more that it ever will be for neighborly love.
Been thinking the same about gas prices, tbh…
But I think the problem is that everything is oligopoly now, and everybody’s locked into a declining system. There’s no place to put money but real estate.
Yes, there’s certainly money to be made; but the same could be said for the .com bubble too. Bubbles are about wild overvaluationr, and the valuations have no bearing to reality.
Why don’t you think it’ll pop? Most signs are pointing to a massive bubble, and the most damning indicator is people are choosing to hire programmers again once they start paying the true cost of their tokens.
And there is an accelerating tech debt that AI can’t fix.
Let’s put Zuckerberg in a swan-neck jar to see if mistakes continue to spontaneously generate.
This video will explain both the joke and why you never play this type of game.
The concept of war crimes was just a passing fad. Buckle up, humanity.
Any modern games scratching the same itch? I’ve tried Far Cry and a bunch of others, but there is something uniquely charming about JC2.
What if you slipped a pair of sunglasses over the telescope?
Can you do anything uniquely fun in them? They’re so damn slow, they’re a last resort when there’s nothing to grapple.
A very logical way to end sufferiig is to end all life.