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Ah yes, the famous resistance that doesnāt destroy anything. Famously effective, the passive non-destructive inaction resistance
slop code in rsync timeline
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I mean, those sound like rookie numbers to me. I regularly spend like, less than five minutes between eye-contact-and-smile and wild hardcore sex, and most of the five minutes is the time to walk them down to the dungeon and negotiate limits. The only special trick is simply going to a space where everyone else also wants to have sex, itās called a sex club.
Leaving aside all considerations of ethics, I cannot comprehend why the supposed bastions of rationality would waste time with baroque theories of psychological manipulation to try to coax randos during non-sexual situations into having sex, when if all you want is sex you can simply go have sex with the people who want sex. Or just pay for sex, or use grindr or whatever. You know, like, if I wanted to play boardgames I would go to boardgame night, if I wanted people to listen to me sing I would go to karaoke. I would not approach strangers in a bus stop and go, āhey wanna hear me sing?ā The idea of doing that for sex of all things is bizarre to me.
(This is a rhetorical sneer, the pickup-artistry phenomenon is easily comprehendable; itās because these men are not really trying to have sex, theyāre trying to fulfil a gaping hole of unexamined, endless need for validation.)
Something seems to be lost on my peers today: itās still easy to not use AI. The food we eat, clothes we wear, and every electronic device we touch may embody innumerable injuries to the world, and all this is inescapable. Eschewing AI is one thing that we can actually do to live out ethics that affirm values of human and environmental rights. Itās almost a gift! Just use a computer the same way you did three years ago!
Rhythms of the body are showcased in the scores of dances performed daily across the continent [inaudible] in Uganda, Kpanlogo in Ghana, Nganda in Gambia, [inaudible] in Cameroun, Sindimba [phonetics] in Tanzania, [inaudible] in Nigeria and so on.
Imagine if this was about European music and naming various cultures inside Europe, if all of them would be the [inaudible] people.
āThere are some good uses for āAIā like making transcriptionsā, they tell me. āNo need to pay people to do transcriptions, this is good for accessibility, nope, no issues whatsoever with using āAIā transcriptions everywhereā /s
Generally conspiracy theorists arenāt interested in actual things that cause real problems, I think. Air polution and global warming being deliberate decisions by elites who donāt care about killing millions, for example. It has to be some wild take like PokĆ©mon child sacrifice or something, so you get to feel like you spotted the secret truth.
But if you want to see some actual apocalyptic conspiracy against āAIā, as in it is literally the manifestation of the body of the Beast and the voice of demons etc., check out Paul Kingsnorthās substack. This is a burned-out environmental activist who radicalised anti-immigration with Brexit, started pushing a narrative of hobbit pastoralism as a justification for racism, and converted to Christianity with that fervour you only find in converts.
Seizing āthe res novƦ of our timeā [derogatory] from this
itās hard to explain how wrong this is thing is if you donāt already know the books (which is a demonstration of the same principle, it looks too plausible, itās signal-shaped noise). but Iāll try.
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Plot errors
Or, ādoes this thing even work?ā (the answer is no).
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A bitter 10-year winter: The winter is 1) famously not arrived yet, weāre waiting for it to this day, itās not even autumn yet as of book #2; and 2) not 10 years but an unpredictable amount of years, the unpredictability being the worst part of it.
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The Queenās sons and Robertās brothers battle for control of the realm: The Queen has 2 sons, only one of them is battling and thatās debatable as heās a puppet of the Lannisters and their alliances. Robertās brothers are battling, yes, but also, famously, Nedās son the King in the North, and the Reaver-King of the Seastone Chair. Itās famously called the War of the Five Kings, not the War Of The Previous Kingās Brothers And His Sons.
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Robertās young daughter, Princess Arya Stark: Arya is famously the daughter of Ned Stark and distinctly not a princess.
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The exiled last heir of the former ruling family tends to his dragons: The bot force-transed Daenerys Targaryen š
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The guardians of the realmās Wall dwindle in numbers as menacing barbarians gather their forces: The guardians have already dwindled in numbers, literally millennia ago, and the actual menace isnāt the people beyond the Wall but what theyāre running away fromāviz. winter, a supernatural death force that is, famously, coming. Getting people to focus on the actual menace is the entire point of this sub-setting.
Synopsis errors
These are subtler than the funny plot errors but worse, because they defeat the purpose of a synopsis: informing the reader about whether this is their cup of tea, whether it it something they want to commit to right now.
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āGood and evil content for powerā: ASoIaF is famously a series whose whole point is to deconstruct simple binaries of good and evil in fantasy, to present multiple perspectives simultaneously, all of them flawed to various degrees but still having valid points.
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āMenacing barbarians gather their forcesā: As pointed above, the entire point of the story is that other peoples like the Free Folk arenāt actually barbarians, or if they are theyāre still well justified in the menacing, or sometimes they are truly fucked up but then not any more fucked up than the more State-based societies, etc. Characterising them in this way sets up the reader to expect the wrong kind of novel. A proper synopsis would be to the note of: āMeanwhile, Ned Starkās bastard son Jon Snow struggles to convince the Watchers on the Wall to put aside their prejudices and focus on the common threat, for winter is comingā¦ā
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āSet in a glittering fantasy worldā: This one is less wrong than it sounds as, unlike the TV producers, George R R Martin does understand that fantasy is made of glitter and dazzle, azure and carmine, and thereās plenty of colour,sparkle and glittering things in here. However, that phrasing doesnāt distinguish or characterise the books in contrast to any other conventional fantasy series, to the point of severe mischaracterisation. The distinguishing point of ASoIaF is precisely mixing that glitter and velvet with starving masses and diarrhea epidemics, to juxtapose genuine magic and awe with oppression and horror. āA glittering fantasy worldā is like calling Dubai a āglittering urban cityā or North Korea a āglittering green farmscapeā and leaving it at that.
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āDeftly realised magicā: The series does the āreturn of magicā trope so thereās little magic or supernatural in the first two books, and what there is is very deliberately not ārealisedāāitās left suggested, ambiguous and incipient, a thing of the shadows, where you donāt know if a prophecy is real or not, if a god is a god or a delusion. If youāre looking for a detailed and fully realised magic system, youāre reading the wrong type of fantasy.
Silly errors
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Queen Cerisi: How does a computer misspell Cerseiās name? How did capitalists burned billions to invent worse computers that are crappier?
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George Martin pursues the embattled Seven Kingdoms through a bitter 10-year winter: All by himself, then? Did he bring a cook at least? No wonder the final books are taking so long, the guy is waging a one-man war at his age.
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enriched by 8000 years of history: 8000 years. Why 8000 years. [untitled goose chasing meme] why 8000 years?!? the Dawn Age was over 12000 years ago, the Age of Heroes >10000, Aegonās Conquest was about 300 years ago and the fall of the Targaryens 16; the relevance and richness of history increases logarithmically with recency, the remote eras are barely sketched, and thereās no special relevance to the 8000 mark. Maybe the first Long Night, but its dating is dubious, and thereās no reason why you would consider that sketch of lore as particularly āenrichingā for the story but disregard the invasion of the First Men and the Pact which likely caused the Long Night in the first place.
what am I doing with my life why did I set out to do this. I miss wasting precious free time late night because somebody was wrong on the Internet, emphasis on somebody
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back when LLMs started to get widespread and it became clear that they always make errors and you can only spot the errors if youāre an expert who already knows the answers, because the errors are disguised with plausibility, people would tell me, āoh but theyāre useful for some things, like making summariesā.
four years and billions of dollars and devastation to āimproveā them later, and I see from this Spotify screenshot that āAI summariesā are going well:
Saying a lot of rationalists endorse eugenics is a bit like saying a lot of Nazis endorse white supremacy.
Rationalism (the online subculture, not the older philosophical meaning of the term) is a subculture predicated on a notion of āgeneral intelligenceā which is reified ableism and therefore, necessarily, entails eugenics.
They do. Not the booing itself but being an edgy contrarian. Saying āprovocativeā anti-human hot takes is how you one-up one another inside the cult and prove youāre the edgiest, most disruptive, fastest moving breaker of things in the industry.
We are going to harvest the entire Sun!! And then eat up the stars themselves!! For profit! Humanity shall be an ever-expanding Empire, grinding resources of the whole universe into shareholder value!!!
even their conmanship story is a depressing dystopia. have these people ever considering just chilling. get a girlfriend who plays drums, hang out with her jamming with a bass. watch a movie together, then go out for a walk. play boardgames with children. take up embroidery
See, itās a good practice under the principle of charity to read as much fascist propaganda as you can and incorporate it into your worldview. It doesnāt matter who said things, but rather whether theyāre true, and since youāre a rational agent you can surely evaluate each claim with perfect objecitivity. Digging a 19th-century eugenics study is expanding your objectivity score.
Reading polemics from leftists too? lol no what are you talking about, theyāre all irrational and biased
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I rarely find that reading fiction makes me upset [ā¦] fiction can be quite bad, but rarely do I find it personally offensiveā¦
Rat reading a book that makes fun of AI doom in passing: Me, a trans woman immigrant: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mel-gibson-talking-to-bloody-jesus
Critical support for comrade Yudkowsky for getting some nerds to finally engage in direct action and blow up some goddamn datacenters
Major rats jumping out of the ship before the bubble pops. Dang I mixed the metaphors. You get the idea
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/26/coca-cola-james-quincey-walmart-doug-mcmillon-artificial-intelligence-step-down.html
Hey, itās not just that, thatās unfair to the chatbots. Theyāre also used out of contempt for oneās employees
āAI is here to stayā the AI:
A detailed look at what kind of slop code is being added to rsync and how exactly slop codes does, allegedly, ātestsā. Somehow itās just what I expected and worse than I thought.
https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116667218484408879