Lay off sailors and overpay Sodexo for MREs.

DOGE won. The media cycle this shutdown feels like there is almost no impetus to restart public services.

No way he lives right? I’m surprised a death hasn’t been announced yet

I really wonder what goes through the heads of people designing these awful experiences when they do so and how nihilistic you have be be in experiment review just view the world in pure metrics and sign off.

These people are never accountable in DNC lore. They are just failed by the people around them (that they appointed).

Where did the anti fluoride panic come from? This feels like it came out of nowhere compared to watching antivax which was gaining momentum even pre-covid.

Imo it’s whites who are afraid the computer will do to them what they do to everyone else. I’ve written this comment elsewhere about these “safe AI” and “AI extinction risk” freaks.

Given the mostly white, bourgeois preoccupation with “x-AI risk” (existential/extinction) I think the real “risk” is that the self-legitimating myths of capitalism will fall on muted microphones. Even 10 years ago when AI was still called machine learning and it was much less impressive (its outputs were exclusively categorization of inputs) and it required decades of breakthroughs and to be hooked up to every input in society and multiplexed with every output to do anything “harmful” the x-AI risk people were running around crying (this holds true today of LLMs and other statistically likely to exist content emitters).

The pitch is always that the AI will decide the needs of the many outweigh the needs (private property rights) of the few. This is only scary if you are among that few. Even property rights obsessed liberals don’t think themselves among the few who will be exproprAIted but are outraged by the expropriation itself. It’s a boogyman spewed by the people who are the problem and we’re asked to share their fear. Ridiculous.

Unlike other private property and artifacts of capital accumulation which are inert (the workers may organize against you but the steel mill itself won’t), the AI their capital gives birth to might in several decades time maybe organize against you (but not really).

Holy fuck the crypto freaks got the fiatoid government to pump their bags and of course they don’t see the irony.

This reminds me of the Call of Duty Black Ops edition Jeep on the road the other day. Felt completely surreal.

It’s part of a 10b5-1. Was it premeditated months in advance? Do they just need a quarterly hit of cash to make payments on their yachts? Who is to say?

“There were certainly things we could’ve done to test it and actually fire it. They would’ve been very time-consuming and very costly,” Mike Hansen, the company’s head of navigation systems, told Reuters in an interview on Saturday. “So that was a risk as a company that we acknowledged and took that risk.”

What insane copium to post hoc justify not verifying your multimillion dollar machine works before crashing it.

This is just a gamer (who btw farms montages in low rated btb games) ranting about Trueskill2 based on an out of context paragraph that in context with the rest of the model of skill they are trying to approximate, your teammates’ skill doesn’t really affect your change to win/predicted stats in a given match.

If you want, they have talked about the actual algorithm that then attempts to match players based on their rating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FoG4Jtpebs

It biases towards matches it thinks will be a fair fight between both teams with bounds on the max skill diff between the best and worst players between both teams. And they adjust these bounds with player population throughout the day so you can get into matches quickly. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/truematch/

My thoughts exactly. Society will have radically changed before these AIs radically change society.

This sounds orders of magnitude more productive than being called misogynist by Neera Tanden at 3am for suggesting she is trying to pull the ladder up behind her.

The core of these bureaucratic machines have intellectually disintegrated. All the incumbents climbed the ranks during “the end of history”, the apex of Amerikkkan power. When it could say whatever and bomb whomever without repercussion. Now these cretins have to deal with the opposite. A world with opposition.

There’s such vitriol in media, which trails White House opinion, for the realist perspective. As foul as those people are, acknowledging the security interest and rationality of other nations is anathema to this generation of leaders.

The Republican party, the more overtly reactionary of the duopoly, after feeding and nurturing a base of football hooligans has become infested with those same people and now openly litigates whether antebellum slavery was a good for the slaves or not.

They already do this through their army and navy esports division.

The number of people who saw squid game and then thought it would be a good idea irl for content is too high.

Your children yearn for the mines. Mine yearn for “uncoerced” contractual work obligations in the mines. We are not the same.

What exactly have demokkkrats done to protect you exactly? They had 2/3 branches of govt which is all that’s required to coup the 3rd. And they did what pray tell? While whining about Roe also sponsored some “pro-life” candidates in elections. Their opposition is dinner theater.