• maol@awful.systems
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    13 hours ago

    Real EA thinking there. Using spurious logic to provide a rational-sounding explanation for doing something bad you wanted to do anyway.

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    There’s a reason he can’t name any. Someone probably joked about it, and he thought it would be a good story to increase his shares in tobacco companies and AI

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    Finally some good fucking news. You know. They should be smoking 6 packs a day. Really gets the juices flowing. Gets your brain working at 600% efficiency. Running out of energy? Eat pure, raw Radium. Digest it. Make sure to snort some lead while you’re at it. Blocks negative pathways in your brains. And what’s a sandwich without some good old Americium. We’re all patriots here right.

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    21 hours ago

    *Cancers. We would have to cure many cancers. Smoking increases your risk of cancer beyond just throat and lunch cancers.

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    Honestly, they should just do fentanyl instead and put their full faith in AI happening faster and more meaningfully than it really is.

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    One of the strongest predictors of the cohesion of a religious movement is costly signaling by which people give things up in a highly visible, credible way for the cause, or in a way that only makes sense if they believe in the cause. Deconversion is highly correlated with not witnessing these credible displays.

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    okay but there’s no way lung cancer catches up to them before incoming ai winter will

    i also like how they’re not even considering that “there is no meaningful improvement” might be an option

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      but if there is no meaningful improvement then their lifes purpose is null so they couldnt possibly even consider that as an option. Thems going to get on early on the NEXT BIG THING and make MONEY!! And they have also committed so much is nothing left for them if they back out so might as well live in psychosisland completely.

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        21 hours ago

        oh no no no that there will be revolutionary machine god made by them is basically their religious dogma

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    1 day ago

    skinny nerd enters a bar, lights up and is thrown out

    blog post appears: “yet another blatant attempt to deny white men sex”

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    Our economy is fully intertwined with these people. They will crush us and demand to be spared from the consequences they wrought.

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    2 days ago

    Next please jump off a cliff after uploading your mind into the machine. Thank you!