Got curious and wanted to see if I could beat the Atari 2600. Found an online emulator here.
"Easiest" difficulty appears to be 8, followed by 1, then increasing in difficulty up to 7. I can beat 8, and the controls and visuals are too painful for me to try anything more than this.
AI doomers in MI:FR
So in FR, there’s a “rogue AI” that starts taking over cyberspace, and quickly gains control of the nuclear arsenals of some countries. This prompts some people to believe that the AI will bring about a humanity evolution event through doomsday, so they decide to go full Basilisk and begin infiltrating different organisations in order to help the AI take over the world.
Compare & contrast to LW doomers, who nominally want to prevent AI from going rogue or killing everyone, but are also nominally supposed to infiltrate various organisations to stop AI development, up to and including nuclear strikes on data centres (lol)
Anyway, best moment for me was when the MC fights an AI doomers and tells him he spends too much time on tje internet.
Just watched MI: Final Reckoning. Spoiler free comments: I didn’t know that this and the previous film featured an AI based plot. AI doomers feature in a funny way, seemingly inspired by LW doomers, tho definitely not.
They’ll be paid in unlimited gold dust specks a million years from now
Ah, I guess it just really do be like that sometimes!
No shade: was this post intentionally cross/reposted here? Original thread.
E: ah, this is from mastodon. I don’t know how federation etc. works.
Perhaps more of a stinker than a shocker.
Time for my infrequent missive about the intersection of sneerspace and comedy podcasts. The current episode of one of my favourite comedy podcasts, Doughboys, jumpscared me today when one of the hosts, Mitch, came back from a toilet break and independently came up with the fundamentals of Roko's Basilisk (the torture in cyberspace part). Anyway here it is, or if you want, you can start with the context of the toilet break. What's important to note is that these guys do not try to present themselves as intelligent, and usually present themselves as stupid.
Ah yes show me a senior engineer that writes tests for their intern’s code. So productive. Much ROI
If you want to hang out, you've gotta take her out, tech brain
If you want to get down, down on the ground, tech brain
AGI, say goodbye, ROI, tech brain
-Eric “Slophand” Slopton