jonhendry

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[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The Vatican, now using shipping containers as diplomatic pouches.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

Assuming the common use of third world to mean "poor countries", then I suppose a "fourth world" country would be one that is poor and *also *not really a functional state, perhaps with some armed conflict going on.

But to describe NYC as that? Nonsense.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

Why even involve ChatGPT? The "against" side should have been allowed to bring a speak 'n spell.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

I hope Sailer is happy he finally got the "African 'big man' presidency" he was sure Obama would be, from Trump.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder if anyone's going to show up naked because they assumed it was an orgy.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

National ID wouldn't change that unless voter local registration and change-of-address updates were all rigidly and securely integrated.

So long as voter registration is a locally-managed list of names and addresses it's possible to go in and arbitrarily declare some of the registrations void.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

I'm starting to think maybe it was a mistake to let nerd media take over the world.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

I suspect Google wouldn't publish this.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Eugenics? A guy going bald that early?

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Has he never heard of a humidifier? Good lord.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

will automate millions of jobs if it works, might kneecap the economy

will kneecap the economy if it works, too. Because companies certainly aren't going to keep people employed in those millions of jobs.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 1 points 1 month ago

Rice and beans, not eggs.

 

The authors said on Twitter that they aren't EA's, but they surveyed people at valley AI companies to write the report, so it's probably quite influenced by EAs.

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