Yeah that’s “Lena” by the SCP guy. Great story.
MMAcevedo’s demeanour and attitude contrast starkly with those of nearly all other uploads taken of modern adult humans, most of which boot into a state of disorientation which is quickly replaced by terror and extreme panic. Standard procedures for securing the upload’s cooperation such as red-washing, blue-washing, and use of the Objective Statement Protocols are unnecessary.
About the only good stuff LW does is remind me of other, much better SF. In this case Ian McDonald’s Necroville (Terminal Café in the US), about a future where nanotech enables the resurrection of the dead. Said neo-living are of course discriminated against, have no human rights, and are used as cheap disposable labor by the corporation that uses the technology.
D’oh! I missed that connection, although the little infographic amoebas should have tipped me off
AI researchers continue to daub soot on the walls of Plato’s cave, scaring themselves witless:
https://www.emergent-values.ai/
At least I’ve IDd the transmission vector from LW to lobste.rs
Look I have nothing against fanfic myself but if there’s one powerful corrective it lacks, it is commercial content editorial feedback.
Credit where credit is due, this is a decent comeback
They didn’t care much for marine life when they abandoned a tugboat, leavnig it to leak fuel and crap into the sea:
they recently got a profile in fucking WaPo
Rats have reached the “put up stickers to proselytize” stage of their weird religion
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SvtKronRNrw9AxXwa/clement-l-s-shortform?commentId=ZifQXkhxo5dJvrL3Q
I bet that jacket is some super-nerdy thing that William Gibson once mentioned in a book
Anyone matched the list of names of the dinguses currently wrecking US agencies from the inside with known LW or HN posters?
balancing parentheses is why I draft all my comments in emacs
wow the sanewashing of trump in those threads is insane
I wonder how much % of the freakout over Deepseek is AI doomers realizing the coming AI god might be … ChiCom!
yellowstone caldera erupting during Trump II would be fitting somehow
What? You don’t have a spare $6,000 to run nonsense generators at home? Peasant…
https://xcancel.com/carrigmat/status/1884244369907278106?mx=2
white always wins
this is the method Elon prefers
this was mentioned in last week’s thread
what I don’t get is why the admins chose to both backdate the entries and re-use poster’s handles. If they’d just tried to “close” open questions using GenAI with the current date and a robot user it would still be shit but not quite as deceptive
This isn’t even skating towards where the puck is, it’s skating in a fucking swimming pool.