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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 15h

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Roko’s Modern Basilisk @ewiley.bsky.social · 11h

Exception: Firefly

Roko’s Modern Basilisk @ewiley.bsky.social · 11h

I feel this in my bones

Roko’s Modern Basilisk @ewiley.bsky.social · 11h

Scared of a dude in a cat costume, fascists are painfully weak and pathetic.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

PORTLAND — Robby Roadsteamer grabbed by ICE for singing… 🎵

Roko’s Modern Basilisk @ewiley.bsky.social · 1d

www.deaneckles.com/blog/700_doc...

Y.T.’s mom pulls up the new memo, checks the time, and starts reading it. The estimated reading time is 15.62 minutes. Later, when Marietta [her boss] does her end-of-day statistical roundup, sitting in her private office at 9:00 P.M., she will see the name of each employee and next to it, the amount of time spent reading this memo, and her reaction, based on the time spent, will go something like this

Roko’s Modern Basilisk @ewiley.bsky.social · 1d

Sound sustainable to me 🙃

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

There's one person who pays them $250 a month who cost Augment $15,000. Amazing stuff. Can only imagine how bad things are for Cursor or Replit
www.augmentcode.com/blog/augment...

The user message model also isn’t sustainable for Augment Code as a business. For example, over the last 30 days, a user on our $250 Max plan has issued 335 requests per hour, every hour, for 30 days, and is approaching $15,000 per month in cost to Augment Code. This sort of use isn’t inherently bad, but as a business, we have to price our service in accordance with our costs.

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Roko’s Modern Basilisk @ewiley.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus Christ I cannot imagine the outcomes of people who have to buy a book like this

Roko’s Modern Basilisk @ewiley.bsky.social · 1d

lol I love the assumption that there exist regular chatgpt users without mental issues.

Roko’s Modern Basilisk @ewiley.bsky.social · 1d

a VR rave would either be terrifying or awesome but there's only one way to find out

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Roko’s Modern Basilisk @ewiley.bsky.social · 1d

yeah Rossman is doing the lord's work calling-out all this genAI BS :)

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Roko’s Modern Basilisk @ewiley.bsky.social · 1d

Well, investors seeking to extract money out of every moment of human vanity and weakness asked for it, for sure.

Roko’s Modern Basilisk @ewiley.bsky.social · 1d

Who is asking for this?

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Roko’s Modern Basilisk @ewiley.bsky.social · 1d

This reminds me of the dev trick to make the train cars out of NPC hats in Fallout 3

Roko’s Modern Basilisk @ewiley.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most fucked up part of an extremely fucked up situation.

ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 2d

15/ "Basically, if everything goes well, if our relationships are normal, I'm ready to serve, ready to carry out combat missions. This isn't my first year serving. I have combat experience. I'm not afraid, and I'm ready to serve, to defend the Motherland."

Roko’s Modern Basilisk @ewiley.bsky.social · 2d

Near future Dystopian sci-fi is actually a mind virus (sorry Neil)

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Roko’s Modern Basilisk @ewiley.bsky.social · 2d

It’s how I learned to play the flute!

Roko’s Modern Basilisk @ewiley.bsky.social · 2d

Hey @dustrial.net what would it take to make something like this in VR? I feel like a 360deg corrupted video would be amazing

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ESTELLA BOERSMA - LIMBO [ DUSTRIAL NETART GLITCH MECH CHVRCH ]

YouTube video by Dustrial

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Roko’s Modern Basilisk @ewiley.bsky.social · 2d

sir for the last time this is a Wendy's

Roko’s Modern Basilisk @ewiley.bsky.social · 2d

All this with the presumption that somehow it makes everyone automatically more efficient and will demand lower fees from professional service firms that adopt it.

Roko’s Modern Basilisk @ewiley.bsky.social · 2d

so many roll-outs of genAI tools are like, throw an LLM in there and see who prompts, while not really providing any guidance or research into use cases

Roko’s Modern Basilisk @ewiley.bsky.social · 2d

A $10k bag of nickels falls on your head

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Roko’s Modern Basilisk @ewiley.bsky.social · 2d

a/b testing on click rates, that's it. Advertising is paperclip optimizers all the way down

Roko’s Modern Basilisk @ewiley.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine having to coordinate this, without being paid

Roko’s Modern Basilisk @ewiley.bsky.social · 2d

Dear Abby,

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Alexia 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇲🇽👩🏻‍💻 @thealexiaelise.com · 3d

That’s a long winded way of saying they have the reasoning of a 12 year old.

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