Labcoats and Lairs

by disagreeing with me on this topic, you're aligning yourself with everyone else who disagrees with me, which includes the Chaos Death Cult, and they chaos kill people so....

we dont chaos kill that many people.

I feel like I hate AI slightly less than the average Tumblr user, but it still scares the shit out of me to see how many people now engage in internet arguments by submitting their opponent’s argument to an AI bot and saying “explain why this is wrong and I am right.” It is concerning first because most AI models are sycophants that will tell you exactly what you want to hear, which makes then extremely potent delusion-confirmers. But it’s even more concerning because learning how to argue for yourself— how to evaluate claims, to assess an argument, to find and check sources, to spot flaws in someone’s case— is one of the most important skills you can have in life. If you don’t have that, you are unable to evaluate what is true for yourself. You will walk right into the arms of the first crackpot or cult that talks to you when you don’t have Claude available. Extremely grim portent that many people seem to find this acceptable

^ superpersuasion

Acknowledging the post's validity despite it coming from Brett

I love when a movie has a premise so big and stupid that everybody talks about it, unrelated to the movie. The purge, old, one night only, etc. This is how culture should be. stupid hypotheticals

How come this didn't work for Downsizing?

"What if you were small" is a premise that has already been explored in the medium of film. You can't double dip.

Chase Whitt is a failure of a man in every way he cares about. He has this deeply ingrained notion of benevolent sexism that he keeps failing. He'll throw himself on a metaphorical grenade to save a girl, but he can't or won't stop people from creating environments of sexual threat around them. Not when they're his buddies, his parents, or even himself when drunk.

Anyway, pretty sure that JV guy is fairly well followed so, about to sleep, if I wake up to a bunch of people accusing me of being a Bezos simp I'll be pretty miffed