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Continuing on from this nugget that Lex Fucking Fridman will be "analyzing" the Roman Empire, some nutter in the xhitter thread hoped the real reason the Empire fell would be "inflation"
https://awful.systems/comment/4649129
Looking forward to some chuds referencing the coming 1,000 hour podcast as proof the Roman Empire fell because woke
As for the prospect that AI will enable business users to do more with fewer humans in the office or on the factory floor, the technology generates such frequent errors that users may need to add workers just to double-check the bots’ output.
And here we were worrying about being out of work...
I don't see the point of this app/service. Why can't someone who is trusted at the company (like HR) just check ID manually? I understand it might be tough if everyone is fully remote but don't public notaries offer this kind of service?
Próspera seeks to sue Honduras for 2/3 of its GDP because a new government told them to fuck off:
https://xcancel.com/GarrisonLovely/status/1831104024612896795
FP article: https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/24/honduras-zedes-us-prospera-world-bank-biden-castro/
I've been going back and forth whether to dig deeper into this comment (I learned about the STAR system from downcomments, always nice to learn new hipster voting systems I guess). But I wonder if this is a cult leader move - state something obviously dumb, then sort your followers by how loyal they are in endorsing it.
Voting systems and government systems tend to be nerd snipe territory, especially for the kind of person who is obsessed with finding the right technical solution to social problems, so Yud being so obviously, obliviously not even wrong here is a bit puzzling.
Jackbooted thugs put creative entrepreneur behind bars for the "crime" of creating bots to listen to bot-created "music":
Dunno what’s worse, that he’s thirstily comparing his shitty writing to someone famous, or that that someone is fucking Hayek.
Knowing who he follows the unclear point of Hayek was probably “is slavery ok actually”
When the revolution comes, we have to cut off the hands wearing this abomination of a watch before we cut off the owner's head:
https://www.ablogtowatch.com/new-release-jacob-co-oil-pump-44mm-watch/
Price: $280k, limited to 88 pieces...
I hate to say it but pg's tweet was reasonable. Some asshole carrying water for Mike fucking Lee deserves to be blocked.
To be fair Drew has tried to be a better person lately.
I've had to do a number of "aptitude tests" in conjunction with applying for jobs[1] and RPMs have been a staple.
- Swedish Defense Force aptitude test (you kind of stand out as middle aged among all the yoofs taking it)
- one for a job at a state-owned enterprise
- one for a job at an outfit selling this stuff for other companies[2]
I never really got a good score on them either!
[1] I don't really like this but beggars can't be choosers
[2] like I said, beggars can't be choosers, lucklily I didn't have to take the job