Ugly Thersites
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Most unattractive of all the Hellenes who came to Troy. Unbridled scold.
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2020s: AI "System Prompts" are lengthy, carefully constructed sets of expert rules about a particular domain, created by "prompt engineers".
1980s: AI "Expert Systems" were lengthy, carefully constructed sets of expert rules about a particular domain, created by "knowledge engineers".
1980s: AI "Expert Systems" were lengthy, carefully constructed sets of expert rules about a particular domain, created by "knowledge engineers".
January 1, 2026 at 8:59 PM
2020s: AI "System Prompts" are lengthy, carefully constructed sets of expert rules about a particular domain, created by "prompt engineers".
1980s: AI "Expert Systems" were lengthy, carefully constructed sets of expert rules about a particular domain, created by "knowledge engineers".
1980s: AI "Expert Systems" were lengthy, carefully constructed sets of expert rules about a particular domain, created by "knowledge engineers".
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One thing I think about in terms of AI and jobs is that driverless metro technology has existed for many years now, works perfectly well, and is only implemented in a handful of lines around the world.
November 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
One thing I think about in terms of AI and jobs is that driverless metro technology has existed for many years now, works perfectly well, and is only implemented in a handful of lines around the world.
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Straight from the horse's mouth:
“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”
“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Straight from the horse's mouth:
“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”
“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”
If you're one of those profoundly stupid people who indiscriminately call any run-of-the-mill racist a white supremacist nazi, you'll be unable to even comprehend that there are actual white supremacist nazis who have nazi beef with other right wing racists.
September 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
If you're one of those profoundly stupid people who indiscriminately call any run-of-the-mill racist a white supremacist nazi, you'll be unable to even comprehend that there are actual white supremacist nazis who have nazi beef with other right wing racists.
JD Vance sits athwart two camps in right-wing American Catholicism.
The first, Integralism, unironically embodies what anti-immigration kooks of the last two centuries have believed about American Catholics... make the Pope King of America.
The first, Integralism, unironically embodies what anti-immigration kooks of the last two centuries have believed about American Catholics... make the Pope King of America.
September 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
JD Vance sits athwart two camps in right-wing American Catholicism.
The first, Integralism, unironically embodies what anti-immigration kooks of the last two centuries have believed about American Catholics... make the Pope King of America.
The first, Integralism, unironically embodies what anti-immigration kooks of the last two centuries have believed about American Catholics... make the Pope King of America.
Funny enough, it is the aspie fetishism of right-wing classicism that captures the attitude toward Homer that prevailed in antiquity. The hermeneutics of "Heroes awesome" and reading every interaction as signifying the proper way things should be is actually period reenactment.
September 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Funny enough, it is the aspie fetishism of right-wing classicism that captures the attitude toward Homer that prevailed in antiquity. The hermeneutics of "Heroes awesome" and reading every interaction as signifying the proper way things should be is actually period reenactment.
I think if a lot of noisy left progressives did some real deep extrospection and attuned themselves to the realities of near future possible politics in the USA, they would either give up or become insurrectionary anarchists.
September 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I think if a lot of noisy left progressives did some real deep extrospection and attuned themselves to the realities of near future possible politics in the USA, they would either give up or become insurrectionary anarchists.
there is this very confusing red scare genre of woman online whose whole shtick is just like, "be measured in your opinions and nice to your neighbors. go to church on sunday and speak ill of no one. most of all, however: stop being such a fat retarded fugly teasing whore"
September 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
there is this very confusing red scare genre of woman online whose whole shtick is just like, "be measured in your opinions and nice to your neighbors. go to church on sunday and speak ill of no one. most of all, however: stop being such a fat retarded fugly teasing whore"
"The submarine moves beneath the waters, unseen yet omnipresent, like thought itself becoming deed." - Xi Jinping, on the Sino-Russian joint naval exercises
August 31, 2025 at 9:04 PM
"The submarine moves beneath the waters, unseen yet omnipresent, like thought itself becoming deed." - Xi Jinping, on the Sino-Russian joint naval exercises
the talking cure works not through insight but through the patient becoming so unbearably boring to themselves that they stop all their bullshit because why bother
August 31, 2025 at 8:16 PM
the talking cure works not through insight but through the patient becoming so unbearably boring to themselves that they stop all their bullshit because why bother
cognitive behavioral therapy works not through training but because if you make depression sufficiently tedious, the soul will stop doing it.
August 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM
cognitive behavioral therapy works not through training but because if you make depression sufficiently tedious, the soul will stop doing it.
here's the pitch. it's The Music Man, but instead of a con man he's a CIA influence campaign covert ops agent in Greenland, and he's putting together a youth dog sledding team to keep the kids off TikTok.
August 31, 2025 at 8:13 PM
here's the pitch. it's The Music Man, but instead of a con man he's a CIA influence campaign covert ops agent in Greenland, and he's putting together a youth dog sledding team to keep the kids off TikTok.
Thucydides says that in 461 the Spartans called the Athenians in for aid against a Helot revolt, but sent them back on arrival bc they thought they would join the revolt. Supposedly a major cause of the subsequent hostility between the poleis. a lot happening in between the lines there
August 31, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Thucydides says that in 461 the Spartans called the Athenians in for aid against a Helot revolt, but sent them back on arrival bc they thought they would join the revolt. Supposedly a major cause of the subsequent hostility between the poleis. a lot happening in between the lines there
The tradition (of which Christianity is a part) that posits that we are disgusting little apes whose disgust for ourselves should be fixed by transforming ourselves rather than the way we feel about ourselves has been under assault for a long time.
August 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The tradition (of which Christianity is a part) that posits that we are disgusting little apes whose disgust for ourselves should be fixed by transforming ourselves rather than the way we feel about ourselves has been under assault for a long time.
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THE GLOBAL WOKE ELITE ARE MANIPULATING PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PERFECT MARKET
TO PROTECT YOURSELF UNTIL TRUMP’S TARIFFS STOP THEM ONCE AND FOR ALL, SET ALL THE STOCKS YOU OWN. THEY CANNOT MANIPULATE YOUR CASH
SAVE AMERICA. STAND WITH TRUMP. SELL AS SOON AS MARKETS OPEN 🇺🇸 🦅 🫡
THE GLOBAL WOKE ELITE ARE MANIPULATING PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PERFECT MARKET
TO PROTECT YOURSELF UNTIL TRUMP’S TARIFFS STOP THEM ONCE AND FOR ALL, SET ALL THE STOCKS YOU OWN. THEY CANNOT MANIPULATE YOUR CASH
SAVE AMERICA. STAND WITH TRUMP. SELL AS SOON AS MARKETS OPEN 🇺🇸 🦅 🫡
April 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
🇺🇸 🚨 PATRIOTS 🇺🇸 🚨
THE GLOBAL WOKE ELITE ARE MANIPULATING PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PERFECT MARKET
TO PROTECT YOURSELF UNTIL TRUMP’S TARIFFS STOP THEM ONCE AND FOR ALL, SET ALL THE STOCKS YOU OWN. THEY CANNOT MANIPULATE YOUR CASH
SAVE AMERICA. STAND WITH TRUMP. SELL AS SOON AS MARKETS OPEN 🇺🇸 🦅 🫡
THE GLOBAL WOKE ELITE ARE MANIPULATING PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PERFECT MARKET
TO PROTECT YOURSELF UNTIL TRUMP’S TARIFFS STOP THEM ONCE AND FOR ALL, SET ALL THE STOCKS YOU OWN. THEY CANNOT MANIPULATE YOUR CASH
SAVE AMERICA. STAND WITH TRUMP. SELL AS SOON AS MARKETS OPEN 🇺🇸 🦅 🫡
AI is not coming for your job for one simple reason: it's extremely important to be able to blame a person. no one finds it satisfying or fun to blame a large language model.
companies will always continue to hire people because if they didn't hire anyone, who would they fire?
companies will always continue to hire people because if they didn't hire anyone, who would they fire?
April 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
AI is not coming for your job for one simple reason: it's extremely important to be able to blame a person. no one finds it satisfying or fun to blame a large language model.
companies will always continue to hire people because if they didn't hire anyone, who would they fire?
companies will always continue to hire people because if they didn't hire anyone, who would they fire?
is the Ezra Klein prosperity thing just John Kenneth Galbraith for 2025?
April 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
is the Ezra Klein prosperity thing just John Kenneth Galbraith for 2025?
If you kick a cat without remorse, are you morally defective? To say no would be to betray the trust of my cat. This is the first step of ethical science.
April 3, 2025 at 11:46 PM
If you kick a cat without remorse, are you morally defective? To say no would be to betray the trust of my cat. This is the first step of ethical science.
I'm so sorry, but whenever I have anything critical to say, my fingers just type "deeply pathological" instead of whatever I specifically mean. I can't control it.
April 3, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I'm so sorry, but whenever I have anything critical to say, my fingers just type "deeply pathological" instead of whatever I specifically mean. I can't control it.
TS Eliot is kind of the godfather of the young rightwing intellectual, whose worldview is perfectly encapsulated by the way he eulogizes the virtue of the western canon but who only loves western literature for its vicious grotesqueries.
April 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
TS Eliot is kind of the godfather of the young rightwing intellectual, whose worldview is perfectly encapsulated by the way he eulogizes the virtue of the western canon but who only loves western literature for its vicious grotesqueries.
one of the worst pathologies in studying antiquity is to draw a line directly between two points just because they're the only points you have.
April 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
one of the worst pathologies in studying antiquity is to draw a line directly between two points just because they're the only points you have.
taking children's phones away from them is not "policing in schools" lmao
April 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
taking children's phones away from them is not "policing in schools" lmao
Somewhere nearby there's a car sitting at an intersection all by itself waiting for the light to turn green for absolutely no reason at all.
Even now, we live in a society.
Even now, we live in a society.
April 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Somewhere nearby there's a car sitting at an intersection all by itself waiting for the light to turn green for absolutely no reason at all.
Even now, we live in a society.
Even now, we live in a society.
humor is just cope. the more humorous you are the more pathetic your cope. humor is the refuge of the weak.
women are not funny? no. real men are not funny.
women are not funny? no. real men are not funny.
April 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
humor is just cope. the more humorous you are the more pathetic your cope. humor is the refuge of the weak.
women are not funny? no. real men are not funny.
women are not funny? no. real men are not funny.