[-] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago

It is what happened to look good in the valley between the Adderall comedown and yesterday evening's edible really starting to hit

[-] istewart@awful.systems 7 points 5 days ago

And the photos from a previous event are an ocean of whiteness. Hard to argue that they're not, uh, cultivating a certain demographic...

[-] istewart@awful.systems 9 points 5 days ago

I propose we pool funds, buy an old motel on the other side of the city limits in Oakland, and rename it Farthaven

[-] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago

Notwithstanding the subject matter, I feel like I've always gotten limited value from these Oxford-style university debates. KQED used to run a series called Intelligence Squared US that crammed it into an hour, and I shudder to think what that's become in the era of Trump and AI. It seems like a format that was developed to be the intellectual equivalent of intramural sports, complete with a form of scoring. But that contrivance renders it devoid of nuance, and also means it can be used to platform and launder ugly bullshit, since each side has to be strictly pro- or anti-whatever.

Really, it strikes me as a forerunner of the false certainty and point-scoring inherent in Twitter-style short-form discourse. In some ways, the format was unconsciously pared down and plopped online, without any sort of inquiry into its weaknesses. I'd be interested to know if anyone feels any different.

[-] istewart@awful.systems 22 points 2 months ago

This reinforces my judgment that the ultimate customers for code-completion models are people who don’t actually want to be writing code in the first place.

[-] istewart@awful.systems 25 points 3 months ago

On the other hand, bombing foreign data centers, likely located in densely populated urban areas, would be justified and morally upstanding if it seems like they might be incarnating the imaginary computer god! I'm glad we have such a nuanced thinker guiding our modern morality.

[-] istewart@awful.systems 23 points 5 months ago

Said it before, I'll say it again: if Americans are all temporarily embarrassed millionaires, HN is where the temporarily embarrassed billionaires go to hang out

[-] istewart@awful.systems 28 points 5 months ago

"Leaking rationalist-evidence-bits" is an unexpectedly top-tier euphemism for the aftermath of digesting Wendy's chili

[-] istewart@awful.systems 25 points 5 months ago

How interesting, a volcel who only thinks he’s an incel. Many such cases

[-] istewart@awful.systems 25 points 5 months ago
[-] istewart@awful.systems 25 points 6 months ago

The Hollywood bankruptcy auctions in a few years are gonna be lit

[-] istewart@awful.systems 22 points 6 months ago

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