ngl, cosmologies where supernatural evil entities exist and influence the mortal world has helped me make sense of the last couple decades.

Uncalled for, maybe, but I get it. I hate it when people ask me "how I am" as a greeting.

We eat a credit card's worth of spiders in our sleep every year, though.

good for him

I think the "useful" applications are much more limited than advertised. Given the risk of an LLM hallucinating bullshit, I think deploying them as summarizers in search engine results or as a tech support chat or is the opposite of useful

When I saw him 15 years ago, he played quite a few hits, but he did them in weird tempos so no one could sing along. Fun concert.

I really thought the line was "you can have your cake... and eat it, too," As in, "enjoy the things you've got, dummy"

I wonder what Mao would have to say about the sexual apetites of Baloo the talking bear

"How expired are we talking?"

You're correct, but I have to think about that line of thought.
"Tax the rich to pay down the debt" sounds reasonable and I don't have to think about it. I'll take it.

Even predestination has the implication that if you're on Team God, you are on the literal side of the angels. Arguable whether that's actually good, but with Roko's the benevolence of the AI is an afterthought - it could be "make Skynet or suffer _more_" and nerds would still fall for it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...