Not everything that Yud writes feels like it should be read in the voice of Augustus St. Cloud, but a lot of it sure does.
"I have Lawfulness concerns" is just another way of saying "I deserve to be shoved into a locker".
"When the 8-year-old and I have an argument, it actually works really well to mutually agree on an account of events... and then take cocaine together."
sex weirdo (derogatory)
Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
I should never have to open the settings in Notepad. Reason being: it's Notepad. God fuckin damn I hate the computer.
https://bsky.app/profile/iainnd.bsky.social/post/3lxdvmkua4227
"I love the Power Glove, it’s just so deeply and seamlessly integrated into Excel!"
Thought 1: This is the kind of incident that makes politicians vote for a law named after a dead kid. It behooves us to think of what kind of legislation could actually address the problem without becoming a clusterfuck that worsens everyone's life, including children's. cough #OnlineSafetyAct cough
Thought 2: Hey, all you guys using LLMs to replace opinion surveys or do "research" on social interactions because it's cheaper than gathering real data... How many human beings talk like the suicide-encouragement bot here?
Thought 3: Oh, remember when OpenAI paid $10 million to buy off the American Federation of Teachers? Because Pepperidge Farm still has that browser tab open. Every school administrator who breathes a word about bringing "AI" into the classroom deserves to get lit up by parents asking why they are embracing suicide tech.
That story mentions Carl Sagan but omits the detail that Peter the dolphin propositioned him. (It's in the William Poundstone biography, IIRC.)
Imagr description: Steven Pinker, Lawrence Krauss and Jeffrey Epstein, posted as per tradition when either of the latter two are mentioned
From elsewhere in the replies:
---TracingWoodgrains, who apparently feels that he is qualified to judge any other human being, ever, in spite of evidence to the contrary