[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 21 points 1 month ago

The orange site comments aren't all worthless:

His attention span won't be enough to stick with physics for longer than 4 weeks.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 21 points 1 month ago

Max Kennerly's reply:

For a client I recently reviewed a redlined contract where the counterparty used an "AI-powered contract platform." It had inserted into the contract a provision entirely contrary to their own interests.

So I left it in there.

Please, go ahead, use AI lawyers. It's better for my clients.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 21 points 2 months ago

I think that in this particular instance, it's OK to kinkshame

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 22 points 3 months ago

"Your mother was volatile with poor control last night, Trebek!"

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 21 points 5 months ago

A statement by one of the authors who has resigned from the NaNoWriMo board: No More NaNoWriMo, by Cass Morris.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 22 points 7 months ago

"Computers will be really good at chess" was already a trope in 1960s science fiction. HAL 9000 is canonically so good that he was instructed to throw the game half the time so that his human opponents don't get bored. The Enterprise computer is so good that Spock being able to beat it — Spock — is a major plot point.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 22 points 9 months ago

"The image of the penis is translated into a depth measurement...."

That's numberwang!

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 21 points 10 months ago

Team members can ask the app questions like “How should I set this oven temperature?” rather than turning to training materials or tapping through an app interface.

Yep, that's a health code violation in the making.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 21 points 1 year ago

From a downvoted comment:

Because players aren't sure where a story is going and can't edit previous sections, the stories tend to be plagued by pacing problems- scenes that could be a paragraph are dragged out over pages, important plot beats are glossed over, and so on. It's also very rare that players are able to pull off the kind of coordination necessary for satisfying narrative buildup and payoff, and the focus on player character interaction tends to leave a lot of necessary story scaffolding like scene setting and NPC interaction badly lacking.

If your goal in writing this was in part to promote or socially explore these utopian ideas rather than just to enjoy a forum game, it may be worth considering ways to mitigate these issues- to modify the Glowfic formula to better accommodate an audience.

Yud's response:

We are both experienced authors not in need of this advice at this level.

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[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 21 points 1 year ago

If I were to transition today and didn't pass as well as Jessica, and everyone felt obligated to call me a woman, they would be wireheading me: making me think my transition was successful, even though it wasn't.

This is the same fuckin' diseased mentality that gets cis women harassed in changing rooms for having jawlines that are slightly too heavy.

The math is also weird and unclear in that way which feels like a person reaching for grandiose Theories Of It All without any experience solving more mundane problems first.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 20 points 1 year ago

The case for the importance of IQ for numerous real-world outcomes was made in the controversial book The Bell Curve (1994) by psychologist Richard Herrnstein and political scientist Charles Murray. They cogently argued

No, they didn't.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 21 points 1 year ago

It's an old creationist ploy. DNA is like a computer program, which implies there must have been a programmer, yadda yadda, just asking questions, wharblgarbl, brave scientists are speaking up and challenging the Darwinist regime.

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