what

Yeah they didn’t quite have a good plan the last time around, but Proton has been a game changer

Ah, classical music

Heartwarming ❤️

Yeah, I had an endocrine tumour that was really fucking me up and it took 4 years until I got a proper diagnosis and not just “it’s anxiety”, “it’s panic attacks” because some of the symptoms were things like tremor, sweating, weight loss, fast pulse, nervousness, insomnia etc. (some of you can probably guess where the tumor was.)

Shit, even after the tumor was found many if not most doctors attributed my symptoms to anxiety, even fucking endocrinologists.

“Sauron”? Really?

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In the future, your home will feel as safe from intruders as a state-of-the-art military base.

Yeah, if you’re a tech billionaire

Oh yeah the videos! I’d forgotten about that. Such a fun little detail

And the thing is, I think the reality is even worse than that.

Current AI models aren’t going to lead to general AI, we need something radically different. The current “static” neural network models just won’t cut it, we need something like spiking neural networks so the AI can be “on” all the time.

Actual AGI is probably still so far away that I doubt mass-scale industrial society has enough years left before either the climate or some other human-caused idiotic omnifuck kicks the chair away from under it.

Well, could be like Taiwan; never, ever underestimate the human capacity for fucking things up. If there’s one thing humans are exceptionally good at, it’s making the dumbest fucking decisions you can possibly make without being single-celled.

Who knows how the world would have turned out if things had gone in such a different direction.

We meatbags have to be the absolute worst role models for AIs

Fines levied by the EU can be pretty damn stiff though, so I doubt Bluesky can afford to just ignore the DSA

Yeah there’s a reason why people started calling it MurderFS

Ah, delicious cat vomit

Oh it’s the rule 30 sea snail! Didn’t know they were super poisonous, huh

Reality isn’t a video game: you can’t just “tank nukes”.

Even a limited nuclear conflict between, say, India and Pakistan would likely lead to a global food security disaster and could kill up to a third of the world’s population – see eg this article (open access). That’s using less than 3% of the world’s total nuclear stockpile

edit: welp I didn’t notice I was in NCD

Lots of our battery powered devices have a bunch of literal antennas, though. I actually don’t know the frequency ranges on which an EMP can be expected to “pump out” significant amounts of energy, but if there’s enough in the bands where WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS etc operate that’s going to fry devices that don’t have some sort of protection built in. I also have no clue how common it is for radio modules used in consumer stuff to protect against voltage surges on their antennas, but somehow I’d imagine it’s not very common.

Feels like we’re moments away from some fascist US state or European country proposing a final solution to the trans question

And I’m here for it

Current models point towards a max ~6°C anomaly for the pessimistic (and, imo, most probable) scenarios where we continue acting as we are now.

I feel we’re dealing with some sort of Trolley Problem scenario here