Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
A prompt enjoyer does eschatology. Along the way he abuses mathematics, Ohio, and a chinchilla.
https://campedersen.com/singularity
2034 eh?
I recently purchased a couple of decent red wines with the intent to age them appropriately. Vendor said 8 years was good, so I Sharpied “'34” on the label and felt really really old when I did so.
Anyway, 18 Jul 2034 is as good a date as any to uncork one of them to enjoy. Marked my calendar!
2034 is also the year superintelligence is gonna happen according to the updated predictions from the AI 2027 crew, so double whammy!
You could’ve probably given me a good 80~100 rounds and I still would not have guessed that set of items
And I’ve been watching these dipshits for a while
(the first two I could’ve guessed/converged to within 10~20 I suspect, but a chinchilla? Fucked from left field, I tell ya)
Cool! I keep on saying that there will be at least one more AI bubble before 2045, because IIRC that’s the latest date for a singularity that Kurzweil gives, and this dude comes along with a date that’s conveniently ~halfway between now and then for people to anchor on. Thanks dude! If I find an online sod retailer that sells single square feet, I’ll send you some grass to touch!
@o7___o7 @istewart Kurzweil is also the guy who insists that technology will someday bring his dad back from.the dead, because…trust me, bro.
I’m not exactly confident in his predictions.
Out of all the robo-cult grifters, Kurzweil is an authentically tragic figure
I though Kurzweil’s latest singularity date was 2032 or smth
He might have revised it in more recent publications and/or brainfarts. If I were a Responsible Internet Debater™, I would go check, but the whole point is that i could give a fuck
managed to find my source
funny how all the tech CEOs are the ones who are saying in the next couple years and all the researchers give 10-20 year timelines. surely this does not mean anything about the reliability of such claims
It’s always Miller(ite) Time