fools-pyrite

computer toucher; RPG enjoyer


mtrc
@mtrc

This is a post I've been trying to write for a while - like, years - and I've finally gotten it down. I want to stress that I'm not a sociologist, or a historian, this is not an academic treatise or anything like that. It's just a bunch of memories and thoughts, and I don't have a complete picture of all the political and social changes of the last few decades. (Update: thank you for the lovely responses! I will reply to every one, it just might take a little while.)

A few days ago someone sent me a clip of Elon Musk talking to Joe Rogan. In a wild act of self-hatred, I decided to play the clip. Here's a transcript of what he says:

Musk: If you start thinking that humans are bad, then the natural conclusion is that humans should die out. Now, I'm heading to an international AI safety conference later tonight, leaving in about three hours, and I'm gonna meet with the British Prime Minister and a number of other people. So you have to say, like, how could AI go wrong? Well, if the AI gets programmed by the extinctionists it will... its utility function will be the extinction of humanity.
Rogan: -pause- Well yeah... clearly.
Musk: They won't even think it's bad, like that guy. It's messed up.
Rogan: There's a lot of decisions that AI would make that would be similar to eugenics.

This is a blog post about the TV show QI, how the belligerent arrogance of a few people set an example for a whole generation, and why loving science is not enough.



fwankie
@fwankie

You know they say that all men are created equal, but you look at me and you look at Samoa Joe and you can see that statement is not true. See, normally if you go one on one with another wrestler, you got a 50/50 chance of winning.
But I'm a genetic freak and I'm not normal! So you got a 25%, AT BEST, at beat me. Then you add Kurt Angle to the mix, your chances of winning drastic go down. See the 3 way at Sacrifice, you got a 33 1/3 chance of winning, but I, I got a 66 and 2/3 chance of winning, because Kurt Angle KNOWS he can't beat me and he's not even gonna try!
So Samoa Joe, you take your 33 1/3 chance, minus my 25% chance and you got an 8 1/3 chance of winning at Sacrifice. But then you take my 75% chance of winning, if we was to go one on one, and then add 66 2/3 per cents, I got 141 2/3 chance of winning at Sacrifice. See Joe, the numbers don't lie, and they spell disaster for you at Sacrifice.



bcj
@bcj

me: Oh god, what now? I'm supposed to be at jury duty in an hour. I don't have time for a sadistic puzzle room
jigsaw: My bad. I didn't know. Here, I'll come let you out
me: Thanks bud


bcj
@bcj

jigsaw: I think we both know why you're here
me: Because I lied about having jury duty?
jigsaw: Because you lied about having jury duty