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Protip: If you give a hackernews 25 candies, it evolves into a programmingdotdev.

The riff-raff have brought us a graft grift.

Maybe I'm being too cynical. It wouldn't be the first time this week that someone drew a spooky picture, would it?

Oh no, are you mad at me? (j/k!!)

CRITIHYPE, thank you! I couldn't find the word!

If I had to guess a motive, it would be to bring mirror biology out of the obscurity of pure research (who funds that anymore?) and to instead plant it firmly into the popular zeitgeist as a "scary thing" that needs to be defended against. This can lead to it becoming a trendy topic, and therefore fundable by grant-awarding agencies.

The basement in Caanan House if God were Cajun.

Us ADHD people really have to get our rejection sensitivity under control, I tell ya what.

Casting Harlan Ellison as the Acausal Robot God is just the best.

I read the headline yesterday and thought, "This is 100% fundraising bullshit."

This strikes me as being exact same class of thing OpenAI does when they pronounce that their product will murder us all.

What do we call this? Marketerrorism?

If Marc Andressen gets in some sort of public trouble, could we call it the TPOT-Dome Scandal?

as someone who grew up in an "old timey" baptist church, I am 100% comfortable with someone yelling things at me that I agree with, but ymmv.

"Decepticons" is right there!