Only Bayes Can Judge Me
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.
SRD suspects a Palantir psyop
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
Fractal sneer!!! I’m spinning out reading this. Every fucking pixel of this is cursed
tbh I’ve always read OFC as just “OF Course”. Dunno why I never thought there’d be fucking in there.
as has been said since time immemorial, lurk moar
Cars looks better than any AI slop, tho that’s a low bar.
Studio executives, the people who seek to monetise every aspect of creativity, as if they cannot appreciate or see the intangible value of art that is uncorrupted by commerce? Hard to say if they have aphantasia. No way to tell
Also: if it were possible to create a shot for much cheaper, what is the point of a studio?
My understanding is that you never make a movie with your own money because A. it’s expensive and B. you will probably make a loss, so you go to studios to try sell the film. They also understand A. and B., but they can use that as leverage against you for owning various rights of your production, in case it goes well, and otherwise to tie you down with contracts so they can force you to do their bidding. Making film production cheaper weakens the power of studios- the only card they’ll have to play is distribution, which is dying anyway thanks to the streaming ghouls.
stop it, get some help.pdf
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