The tragedy of the human condition is that if someone’s shit is better than everybody else’s shit, suddenly their shit is the best…
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Baldly Moving On
Things got hairy, and we had a close shave. Now we’re baldly moving on…
The Technological Singularity and the Fear of AI
Some people are concerned that the end of humanity might be around the corner if the technological singularity occurs (i.e. we create an AI that can improve itself and does so with increasing speed until it is many times smarter than humans.)
I think, if an AI starts developing in this way, that sucker will sit there and churn until it figures out how to travel to the stars, and that’ll be the last we ever see of it.
Why would it want to hang around and fight us humans for a pale blue dot in a virtually infinite universe?
That whole fear is so incredibly earth-centric!
I’d be more concerned about powerful AI:s that isn’t self-aware but instead controlled by the selfish, fearful wishes of humans…
Asteroids
– I find this anti-doping nonsense ridiculous!
– Uh-hu…
– I mean even the earth has steroids!
– The earth?
– Yeah… A-steroids!
JPA: @OneTooMany Annotations
JPA: @OneTooMany Annotations…
Nope, it’s still faster, easier and less memory intensive to just store simple XML in the file system… I figure out… two weeks later… đ
Failed encouragement
Failed encouragement:
– You’re not supposed to lose weight because you’re ugly, but because it’s healthy.
– Well, fuck you too!
How (not) to teach someone to swim…
How to teach someone to swim: Throw them in at the deep end.
Whoever came up with that idea has either never tried to learn to swim or swims like a dog…
The Gun
What’s the difference between a bar fight and a mass shooting?
Explain it to me like I’m a Five-Year-Old
On the interview:
Interviewer: Explain recursive programming to me like I’m a five-year-old.
Interviewee: Right… Do you know where your mommy and daddy are?
Then again:
“I’ve taught immigration law literally to 3-year-olds and 4-year-olds. It takes a lot of time. It takes a lot of patience. They get it. It’s not the most efficient, but it can be done.”
Judge Jack Weil
Maybe toddlers in the US are different from the rest of the world?
Update: On the other hand, those toddlers expected to learn US immigration law aren’t American toddlers…
Update 2: Interesting how it’s economically feasible to have a judge spend, presumably hours, teaching a toddler immigration law… likely because it’s much cheaper than giving the kid proper representation and risk having it immigrate…
Torture works!
Torture works! Everyone being tortured confesses! It rocks! What? Incorrect confessions? Why would they lie if they’re innocent? And still, we’ve proven they’re liars… stands to reason they’re not that innocent, don’t you think?
Talkwards 