This was about where I gave up on Attack on Titan

going thru it myself, can report that non-graded “suggested exercises,” with exams being the only graded material, is not any better

who in the hell would want programmable matter anymore, after they’ve seen what happened to plain ol’ computer programming as already practiced

‘it’ll be Good beyond our wildest imagination’

pumpkin spice season will be permanent

It’s not working, I spotted a probable hackernews all the way out in Modesto last week, they’re like the goddamn nutria now

I would like to announce that I have committed last night’s Taco Bell to the septic system. Please clap

I can’t help but think it’s another instance of the unquestioning Californian Ideology assumption that all new technology is inherently liberatory.

woah damn why does this look exactly like some Kurzweil bullshit

I considered trying to get an account there, but the last ~18 months or so have made me feel the same way about Lobste.rs as I do about Bluesky. If you’re just running a lower-traffic version of the thing you’re trying to “improve” upon with slightly different moderation policies, you’re not going to build a lasting platform or community.

Lobste.rs is analogous to methadone treatment for Hacker News, prove me wrong

vicious traditionalism that refuses to create new things

The “vicious traditionalism” that develops among his fellow travelers, who insist that some form of autonomous, inscrutable AI has to be the next step in technological progress, will be something to see. Religious movements don’t just stop when their central prophecy disappoints.

Yeah this is literally pants-on-head crazy. The explicit business model of the AI companies is rent-seeking on as much human activity as they can figure out how to intermediate. I suspect our friend is having a bit of a dark night of the soul, and trying to cope with it by turning his opposition’s obviously correct argument back on them in slipshod fashion. Dare I say, a typical Republican tactic?

I wonder what answers you would get if you polled these Anthropic people about the Covid lab leak theory