It's clear to me that a message from Roko's Basilisk caused Sam Bankman-Fried to destroy the reputation of Effective Altruism and I can't understand why no one is talking about it oh shit I understand now fuck.

This is utterly impossible but here it is.

You buy a big jar of olives and it feels like you're never going to run out of olives. Then, one day, BAM, syphilis.

Well before I had heard of EA, I once pitched a concept for a Superman comic to a DC editor: Superman as existential horror. Think about this for a minute. 1. Superman has the power to be almost anywhere on the earth in a short amount of time, and has the ability to stop any (normal) tragedy from happening. 2. So at any given moment - any second - he could be saving lives. 3. So anything else he does with his time and energy - have coffee with a friend, read a book, take a moment to appreciate - is paid for in human lives. And his supersenses often make him listen to the dying screams as he stops to chat with a friend. What does that that life do to someone psychologically? What kind of philosophies must one adopt to avoid going insane? This is my main critique of almost all SF: a basic failure to take its own premises seriously. (needless to say, the editor politely passed on my pitch)

Watched my wife play Dressmaker for five minutes, and I hope some sicko vibecodes a mod where you play as the Silence of the Lambs serial killer and get to craft increasingly intricate dresses out of human skin. Who's making this?

If I had made this poast I would've written 'finis' instead of 'over'.

Having a vibecoding wife is a mixed blessing.

>see poast >instantly think of insane banger response >check number of replies >23 >very little chance of response commensurate with quality of banger >continue to browse >it was such a banger tho >a quiet inner voice speaks >we must poast bangers as gifts to the world >scroll back, think for a moment, hit reply >three likes in four days

I love that, of all of the careers I've considered in my short life, "MMA Gym Coach" and "Actor" seem to be the most future-proof.

"Instead of providing important information to others, you need to be a tool that people manipulate to wait lemme try again imma get this."

1501: Pope Alexander VI criticizes Gutenberg’s printing press safety “The art of printing can be of great service in so far as it furthers the circulation of useful & tested books; but it can bring about serious evils l..it will, therefore, be necessary to maintain full control”

CRUEL AGENT THESIS

Not enough people are prepared for the future where your attractiveness is based entirely on your agency, your imagination, and your technical skill and those sick fucks who spend 9 hours in the character creation screen are all the hottest people around.

Grok's image of the world if I were in charge, based on my Tweets.

Happy 70th birthday to the perfect excuse.

I don't care if this is true. I want it to be true.

As you all may have heard, a nor’easter just hit the greater New York and New Jersey areas. Aside from rain, the storm brought some big waves and a churning ocean. With churning comes…discovery. A shipwreck that first appeared during storms in 2022/23 has reared its head again on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. She is believed to be the Warren Sawyer, and there are some very cool photos out there of her re-emerging on the island’s sands. But who was she, and why was she there to begin with? If only I knew someone who could answer that… The Warren Sawyer was a three-masted schooner sailing from New Orleans to Boston. She carried 1,115 bales of cotton and about 28 tons of scrap iron (scrap iron and oceans…ruh oh). Severe gales had blown her off course, and Captain Edwin Saunders later said he had been unable to get an observation for five days, leaving him unable to determine the ship’s position. Keep in mind she was entirely a sailing ship, at the mercy of waves, tides and wind…no engine to help. Around 11 p.m. on 22 December 1884, after striking Old Man/Pochick Rip and then Miacomet Rip, the schooner ran aground at Surfside on Nantucket’s south shore. Islanders began salvaging her cargo while the ship remained in the surf. On 6 January, a severe storm broke her apart, scattering the remaining cargo and wreckage along the shore. Free scrap metal for all! The sailors tried to abandon ship in their boat, but it was smashed alongside the schooner. The crew of the Surfside Life-Saving Station rushed to help, but the sailors’ own boat, launched to abandon ship, was smashed alongside the schooner. The sailors took refuge in the mizzen rigging as the lifesavers tried to get a line to them (huevos…big huevos). When the men aboard were too numbed by the cold to secure the first line, Patrolman Williams rushed down the beach with a hand-line and managed to get one over the bow. The lifesavers rigged a breeches buoy and all eight men were brought safely ashore overnight. I hope they all went to a nice seaside tavern (ghosts?) and spent an evening wearing itchy wool and singing sea songs. Or at least they got dry and thanked their maker they didn’t drown. She’s popped up a few times, as noted, and she’s partly washed ashore again. Stop and imagine all she has seen under the Atlantic. Hurricanes, storms, sharks, whales, swimming folks, maybe a mermaid. The ocean is unforgiving; no one has to listen to me to know that. But sometimes she spits out man-made artifacts that she never wanted. And now, you know about one more. Photos not mine, though I wish I saw her. @DanDonatoV

Every time I see a Top 10 TV Shows list without 'Rome' on it I get a little less concerned about existential AI risk.

I've always claimed Indiana is a southern state and now I have the map to prove it.