It is always wrong to seek or take pleasure in the pain of others. It is corrosive to the soul.
Jonathan Brebner
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Partner @ South Park Commons / Public lands fan
In principle, there's nothing that humans do that AI won't be able to do better, eventually, and in many cases soon. There's no reason to think some ineffable quality protects human ingenuity and capabilities from automation.
I hate it when someone says “that’s a great question” before a scripted answer because by definition that wasn’t a great question
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It's not super encouraging that whenever I post something more pessimistic sounding about humanity's chances with AGI, the people who consistently like the posts are from OpenAI and Anthropic.
To understand millennial men you must understand how formative just hanging around for hours playing Goldeneye and Halo was for shaping our idea of good quality time together
Imagining the Helldivers 2 writers reading this and thinking "freedom seeds, goddamit that's good."
Trump's crypto stuff is pure graft but this framing, where our inability to build infrastructure is just a matter of funding, is a disaster for the left & America. The reason we don't have HSR in CA 15+ years after voting for it isn't because of tech investment.
Dave Weigel@daveweigel.bsky.social · last yr.Taking a super nice train in Italy for $45 and thinking of how cool it is that our taxpayer money back home will buy Ethereum to bail out David Sacks.
The crypto stuff in Trump 2.0 is just pure graft. More corrupt in dollar terms than all other presidencies combined. If you’ve ever complained about corruption in politics, you should be more angry about this than you’ve ever been before.
Final Fantasy games always have a main villain character who does most of the villain stuff and then at the end you discover they’re not the main villain which is instead something like Death personified Anyway American politics is like that except the real big bad is NIMBYism
My most closely held moral conviction is this: it is always wrong to take pleasure in the suffering of others. That is the surest path to hell.
I'm not avoiding microplastics. I'm doubling down. Chewing the wrapper. Cooking everything in 12 year old tupperware. Contrarian and right. This is how I win.
Cancelling and banning research grants based on forbidden words is an insanely embarrassing move from the “free speech” crowd
Celebrating merit doesn't require you to denigrate anyone else, and the fact those two often go together in Silicon Valley ("NPC") is one of its worst cultural ticks
Getting rid of free e-file for taxes because you don't like Elizabeth Warren is a pretty clear sign you're being reflexively partisan and not thinking critically
Hate to break it to everyone but liberals abandoning Twitter is a strategic mistake that cedes the public commons to the right You can try to build something new here but public conversation is still downstream of Twitter, not Bluesky
Authoritarian recklessly going for autarky, that’s never failed right
The biggest writing miss in TV history was when Game of Thrones had Arya just run up to the Night King and stab him— Instead of having her steal the face of the top lieutenant the show had prominently featured since the very beginning so she could get close enough to stab him
~50 year old dude next to me in the airport lounge is about 30 min into video titled “How to Defeat the Fire Giant in Elden Ring” and he’s studying it like he’s got to perform surgery tomorrow Godspeed sir
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The most obnoxious and useless rhetorical redoubt is “I think this person is wrong, therefore they must also be stupid.” That is, ironically, one of the clearest signs of lazy thinking.
The most obnoxious and useless rhetorical redoubt is “I think this person is wrong, therefore they must also be stupid.” That is, ironically, one of the clearest signs of lazy thinking.
In general, the weirder the scientific study sounds, the more likely it’s worth funding
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Applying to @southparkcommons.bsky.social in the next few days would be a good idea for....reasons