swlabr

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 4 days ago

Man. Using Sonnet 18 here is just utterly brilliant. There’s a lot that could be said but my angle is: you can’t directly compare someone to a summer’s day; it has to be done through poetry and metaphor. Shit, cat. Shaka when the walls fell.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 4 days ago

ah, I see. Ok. Well, based on all that, you haven’t actually engaged with anything from the post, nor have you said anything non-trivial. Was hoping that you’d at least say something wrong instead.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago (4 children)

How do you define consciousness?

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 4 days ago
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 5 days ago

He’s saying the loud part out quiet

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 6 days ago

What’s kinda fun is that Yud prefaces this with basically “i have not personally read up on the zizian texts”, and then follows it up with this stuff. Now, did he make this stuff up himself in a weird ego play, or did he hear it from someone else and decided to hold onto it, also as an ego play?

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

in the shipped club. straight up 'glomarizing it'. and by 'it', haha, well. let's justr say. My peanits.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Saying that a 30-year-old cannot have sex with a 17-year-old (in CA) or a 16-year-old (in NY) is not a crazy law; it is the sort of "I would like to live in a civilization" law that I prefer to obey.

age of consent quoting aside, why would you make it sound like you only follow this law because you want to live in a society

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 6 days ago

He knows that his flunkies will happily parrot his new toy words with no hesitation. To that I say, to all of Yud’s ideas and writing, I bartleby-the-scrivenerize them.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

the implication here is that you think that all reasonable response generators are indistinguishable, e.g. you think your sister is a clanker.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tangent: I looked through that sequence. The premise is that once a month, Habryka writes a mini-essay that repackages some bland corporate insight (e.g. Pareto principle, "fail fast", etc.) as an internal document of Lightcone's core principles. Lightcone is a company of 7 people.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

great job, but there is still so much more to be done

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