bitofhope

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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What does it tell about a scientist that they see a wide world of mysteries to dive into and the research topic they pick is "are we maybe missing out on a way we could justify discriminating against people for their innate characteristics?"

"For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" fuck off no one is this naive.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just a heads-up, I tried reading up on Iocaine and the project website is giving me the madlibs nonsense version on my phone's browser, so I hope the version you're planning to enable here isn't quite as aggressive (the making.awful link is currently working for me).

Between this and Cloudflare's geolocation provider no longer saying my IPv6 address block is in Russia, I'm hopeful that my browsing experience might ever so slightly improve for a bit.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"What if we figure out DNA well enough that we could edit a babby to grow NAND gate cells and put a calculator inside their body so they can do instant arithmetic like a computer?"

I assume he's talking about that kind of stuff, but being vague so you can't call him out if he gets details wrong.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Pretty sure this brand of cyborg fantasizing is quite popular in mainstream rationalism, unless you're reading something more creative in this than superbabies, brain uploading and HDMI to visual nerve for undetectable on-demand pornography.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (9 children)

SoftBank Cashes Out Nvidia Stock (Archive)

I'm too jaded to get my hopes up, but wouldn't it be so nice if this were the beginning of the end for the AI bubble?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago

You know the old saw that half the money spent on marketing is wasted, just nobody knows which half? Thanks to AI we now know it's the half that's spent on AI.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago

What I like about this definition is that the lint in my navel is about 15% closer to AGI than OpenAI, having produced zero dollars of profit for them.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah, it's another Urbit isn't it?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 4 weeks ago

The xn-- URLs are punycode encoding, which is how non-ASCII domain names work under the hood.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 4 weeks ago

I've used rolling distros professionally on my one-man workstation and they've been fine. I wouldn't want it on a server without a regular update schedule, rigorously followed.

"Polished" is not what I'd call the bits of Omarchy I've come across.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 2 points 4 weeks ago

Nothing. You should only look out for things when you notice a need that is not fulfilled by what you're currently running.

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