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[redacted] enthusiast, robot combat enjoyer, distressingly Appalachian, father of ninjas

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CRITIHYPE, thank you! I couldn’t find the word!

If I had to guess a motive, it would be to bring mirror biology out of the obscurity of pure research (who funds that anymore?) and to instead plant it firmly into the popular zeitgeist as a “scary thing” that needs to be defended against. This can lead to it becoming a trendy topic, and therefore fundable by grant-awarding agencies.

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Us ADHD people really have to get our rejection sensitivity under control, I tell ya what.

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Casting Harlan Ellison as the Acausal Robot God is just the best.

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I read the headline yesterday and thought, “This is 100% fundraising bullshit.”

This strikes me as being exact same class of thing OpenAI does when they pronounce that their product will murder us all.

What do we call this? Marketerrorism?

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If Marc Andressen gets in some sort of public trouble, could we call it the TPOT-Dome Scandal?

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as someone who grew up in an “old timey” baptist church, I am 100% comfortable with someone yelling things at me that I agree with, but ymmv.

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“Decepticons” is right there!

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ain’t nobody got time for that

Edit: on reading the newer posts on this thread…oof

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