

I’m only surprised that they’re so goddamned lazy.
[redacted] enthusiast, robot combat enjoyer, distressingly Appalachian, father of ninjas


I’m only surprised that they’re so goddamned lazy.


Today’s internet feels like an endless episode of that game they play in Waiting… where the back-of-house staff trick each other into looking at their balls, but instead of balls it’s AI cults.


Those comments are appalling. good god
Maybe its because I’m descended from hillbilly dirt farmers and so I had an unusually grounded upbringing, but I’m floored that so many educated people can be so lost in cloud cuckoo land.
It feels unreal, or maybe like an out-of-control prank. The sort of thing that drives a man to develop a curly mustache and paint melty clocks.
Part of me still refuses to believe that they’re serious.


Champion sneer


Please calm down.
lol


academ-ick


I’m just not going to waste my time with curve pointers who want to die on the hill of NeW sCaLiNG pArAdIgM. They are just too deep in the kool-aid at this point.
The singularity is near worn-out at this point.


LLMs are seven or eight bipartite graphs in a trench coat. Is your brain seven neurons thick, because that would explain a few things.


Very practical no notes


What if we made a human centipede with a homeopathic quantity of human in it?


Don’t make me tap the sign:
no gods, no kings


This is what a lifetime of never suffering a consequence does to a motherfucker


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Springer started off awful, and now many decades later it’s pure garbage. All those times in between? Also pretty bad.


Ed Zitron on bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3lsukqwhjvk26
Haven’t seen a newsletter of mine hit the top 20 on Hackernews and then get flag banned faster, feels like it barely made it 20 minutes before it was descended upon by guys who would drink Sam Altman’s bathwater
Also funny: the hn thread doesn’t appear on their search.


Instead of a diet coke button you get an ayahuasca button


It’s got what plants crave, so I’m told
Critical support to Chairman Meow