Soyweiser

joined 2 years ago
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Bestsellers? There used to be torrents of basically all releases. My provider blocks torrent sites and I dont use a vpn so im not sure if people still do this, but downloading basically all books (in english) at once released in a certain period was possible

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 21 points 5 months ago

Hey mate, did you get your PhD or a fucking Nobel in linguistics by any chance?

Early onset Nobel disease.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago

Im not going to look but i assume there is research proving that tiktok style content is making people feel more lonely.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago

Supergods by warren ellis i think.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 16 points 5 months ago

They were the first hype men of tech – didn’t actually do very much themselves but gave other people ideas.

This is a bit unfair, i think nick land also sold drugs. Not sure however.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago

The plot? Im more and more worried this is going to turn out to be real. Reality tends to outpace his fiction at times after all. ;)

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Then the middle eastern god will blow up the indian utopia because he is bored and the british fungus space god will rule over the remains.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago

They’re talking about an AI we build, the term “alien” in “alien intelligence” refers to it not having human thought patterns, not to extraterrestrial origin

Ah right i thought they meant it was secretly produced by people in the third world, the illegal alien way. ;)

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago

Second option they dont believe in the robotgod themselves but just think this is the way to attract more investors

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago

6,6 billion? Joseph Weizenbaum realizes he made a big mistake in his reaction to ELIZA. Could have been rich and infamous, instead of just famous.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago

I recently discovered the joe rogan remixed as a 40k trooper yt vids and it is great. (Yes i know im a year late to the party). But yes he sucks, think it was amusing he talked like he was stoned as fuck and alex jones talked like he had just snorted all the cocaine in Volendam.

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