🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦

@lurker I don’t know that I’d call them skeptics universally, they are experts in the AI field who are EXTREMELY skeptical of the TESCREAL complex and of the *hype* of the current fad LLM and image generation tools.

Whatever you call them, it’s *positive* that a documentary includes conflicting viewpoints, from the people who see them. The plausible range of near-term AI developments is smaller than the range of widely-held expectations. A documentary has to address the crazies & the skeptics

@Architeuthis Best to specify, as there are so many…

He’s the guy who wrote the WORST Harry Potter fanfic.

@YourNetworkIsHaunted I suspect that you are too young. They made a LOT of news…

@blakestacey @sneerclub So, never. got it.

@Saledovil Thanks for telling us that you have absolutely no personal integrity.

Bye.

@Soyweiser @sneerclub It struck me more as a SNL character that didn’t really work out. Definitely a face for comedy…

@captainlezbian @sneerclub it would be unsurprising if he were to have an autoerotic asphyxiation mishap.

@gnomicutterance @sneerclub Are you familiar with Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now!”?

@PyroNeurosis @sneerclub Something like a national socialist party…

@self @sneerclub Thiel is more actively terrified of death than any other person alive. He is disappointed in your complacency about the possibility that he might die. Why do you not recognize the apocalyptic tragedy *for the universe* that his death would be?

@Amoeba_Girl He definitely needs to do it while he still is young enough to be considered fashionable when he comes back.

Last year would have been best. No time like now.

@zogwarg Bronze Age Empires:

Hittite
Minoan
Mycenaean (briefly but opportunistically picking up the very wet Minoan pieces after the Thera eruption & tsunami.)
Old Babylonia (i.e. not the Neo-Babylonians who revered that past)

Given their intermittent hegemony over Kush and Canaan, I don’t agree that Egypt doesn’t count as an empire. One can also make such a case for Zhou-era China, particularly before its splintering into the “Warring States” interregnum.

@self @sneerclub He really ruined the scam for the rest of us^Wthem…

@m @swlabr Tangential technical q: would not an SRE which came from the SRE mines be better referred as “refined ore?”

@swlabr Well, both, it’s just that the search engine is so small in comparison.

@Soyweiser OK, but Isaacson *specializes* in literary fellatio. See his Jobs book.

@Soyweiser Don’t forget the speculative, state, and crony varieties of capitalism…

@dgerard @sneerclub And it is beyond debate that the Internet has not lived up to the hype of its greatest hypesters.

@BrickedKeyboard @sneerclub Would it? For whom? Who wants a sex toy to do arithmetic??? Why!?

@froztbyte @sneerclub Data point: at one time as a kid it occurred to a school counselor that maybe my grades were evidence that my supposed “potential” based on an earlier IQ test was wrong & that a new more modern version of the Stanford-Binet would reveal my imbecility. The 2nd test came out 60+ points higher than the 1st. That couldn’t be correct, so I ended up taking 2 more tests, both with scores in between but substantially different.
Sure, IQ is real.