I did in fact have fun! If the quick-hit format turns out to be worth your time, I have to say I quite enjoy it, and I hardly count myself as a TikTok-obsessed zoomer.

I’ve been a little bit sad that Ed Z dropped the rapid-fire 15-minute format once he hit the podcast big time. I really appreciated that format’s conciseness; not sure if you’d want to pick that sort of thing up. I have to wonder if it’s easier or harder to book people for such a delimited time slot.

The Maoist version of Misesian goldbuggery, absolutely fascinating.

Isn’t this guy still mainly relevant for jailbreaking the PS3? Pretty sure he flamed out during the Muskification of Twitter

I’m convinced that these people have no choice but to do their next startup, especially if their names are already prominent in the press like Sutskever and Murati. Once you’re off the grift train, there is no easy way back on. I guess you can maybe sneak back in as a VC staffer or an independent board member, but that doesn’t seem quite as remunerative.

So, with Mr. Yudkowsky providing the example, it seems that one can practice homeopathy with “engineering mindset?”

Folks may want to close OpenAI accounts if they don’t want Oracle billing them someday.

geez, at least spoiler-tag a jump-scare this big

Bruce Wayne asserts to Alfred in The Dark Knight that “Batman has no limits.” But what if, and this has gone totally unconsidered by anyone up until now… Buttman also has no limits???

Central Preference Vector seems like a fantastic band name if some producer was trying to mainstream industrial music

It helps sanewash their own prejudices. “See, this guy could be talked down from the worst of it, aren’t we reasonable by comparison?”

They’re going to be headline sponsors of Fyre Festival II

lol wow, I’m cackling at Gackle. Perhaps we can call his brand of caping for polo-shirt fascism “gackin’ off”

Why not just make the refrigerator itself a robot

Mobile kegerator for tailgating/festivals might be able to pull Boston Dynamics outta the shit

Never got too deep into Hossenfelder, but I gradually got the impression that Woit was taking a bit of an online-influencer tack, even starting before influencers were really a thing. The whole “not even wrong” flap seemed to draw in people who wanted to have strong opinions about high-energy physics and string theory without really studying them in any detail.

Quantum computing will enable the AGI to entangle with all surrounding molecular vibrations! I saw another press release today

bahahahaha “judge every molecule.” I can’t believe I ever took this guy even slightly seriously.

I am willing to bet the upshot here is that he has certain very specific ideas about how humidifiers can be improved, and of course will accept nothing less

Nice try, but you’re going to have to work a lot harder if you want to trick me into clicking on that. I lived through browsing peak Slashdot at -1, you know

• Diligent application of Bayesian reasoning finally gains you the ability to fly, propelled by your own farts

#include BidenThoughts.h

The cult will be the very last constituency to drop away, and likely form the majority of his hiring pool at this point, especially to replace the high-level attrition they suffered last year.

Substantially, uh, wider than I expected. But I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. The bird flu is probably hitting that fellow’s diet hard.