tediousdemise

Total nonsense.

Using valid words in one language doesn’t mean that they directly translate. Only the author knows the intended meaning—no one else would, without some sort of table that maps the nonsense expressions to the proper loanwords.

No one but the author would be able to decipher the true meaning of this essay, making it useless as a form of communication.

I wonder if indicating likeness would be legally safe, i.e., “Song name - Artist [Drake-like/Drake-style]”

I’m vehemently opposed to BCIs.

History has demonstrated that every computer interface is hackable.

Hackable brains don’t bode well. Mind control? No thanks.

We will make it through it (well, some of us). That greater power is God. Read Revelation in the back of the Bible to see how it all ends!

I’m pretty sure Musk is the prophecied beast of the earth, and Trump is the prophecied beast of the sea. The next decade is going to be tumultuous because of those two (the great tribulation/WW3).

“The future.” Not a future I want to live in.

Musk is an evil member of the Novus Ordo Seclorum (New World Order). [0][1]

He is blanketing the planet for full coverage with Starlink. When Neuralink is forced on the population, there will be no way to escape from the global mind control hivemind. AI GPT profiles that override your thoughts and motor functions will be integrated with it.

Don’t take the Link.

[0] https://www.emilydawnlong.com/metgala2018

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-...

This seems like something there should be some AI safety ground rules for.

The number one rule for firearm safety is: always point the muzzle in a safe direction. Even if you know the gun is unloaded, you always obey this rule.

Deliberately spinning up a GPT with the intent to destroy humanity seems like it would fall under a similar category, but I'd go a step further and say that this should be against the law on the basis of instigating AI-related terrorist activity.

Elon is far from a solution to anything. He is the beast from the earth (see Rev 13). It won’t be long before he presents the mark to the world. My only advice: don’t take it.

Eschatology. I was an atheist when I cracked open my bible, but now I'm a firm believer in God after analyzing Revelation closely. It's pretty interesting to see it being played out. I think 2030 to 2033 is the approximate timeframe for TEOTWAWKI, with seven hard years of tribulation preceding it.

Main weathervanes:

- Events playing out in Israel. Watch for the construction of the third temple.

- Trump winning the next election. I think this will likely usher in full-scale nuclear conflict with Russia and China. This man is almost certainly the prophesied beast of the sea, the US being the modern-day Babylon.

- Neuralink. A very likely candidate for the mark. Musk is almost certainly the prophesied beast of the earth.

TikTok was essentially the only platform that had information about the Ohio train derailment. It was censored heavily on US-jurisdiction platforms like Facebook and Instagram.

The move to ban TikTok is because it's a liability to the propaganda apparatus that wants you to be misinformed about what's actually happening in the US. TikTok is the only place to get real, uncensored information about events as they're unfolding, because the algorithm lies outside of US control.

When layoffs like this happen, I cringe for these companies and the poor souls who keep joining them. What HR really needs to do is a full retracement.

Who hired "X" employee, and why? Follow this up the chain. Follow it as far up as it needs to go, to the very email or slide deck from an upper-level exec whose failure of a pet project was greenlit to begin with. Fire the entire chain of command complicit in the lowest level employee's firing.

Truly, drain the entire swamp, otherwise the execs will keep making bad choices and playing music chairs while the boots on the ground get mutilated for them.

We have free will, and the atrocities you mention are acts of men. Why would you blame God for them?

What is the actual mechanism of action here?

I assume it was an elephant coincidentally born without tusks, which then survived being poached thanks to the adaptation that was then passed on to subsequent offspring.

An impeccably timed advantageous mutation for an endangered species. We rely far too often on the word “coincidence” to describe what is clearly an unknown gene expression phenomenon, which gives me chills and seems to borderline the supernatural.

At what point to people throw in the towel and say, yup, God’s real? Or do we just keep saying these unexplainable things are coincidences since it somehow jives better with our worldview?

I never understood why people think that spirituality and science are mutually exclusive. In 2014, even the pope himself came out and said the Big Bang and evolution are real [0]. Maybe it’s part of the whole “works in mysterious ways” tidbit, if you believe that kind of stuff? Let’s try having an open mind.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pope-francis-evolution-bi...

As have plagues and other pandemics. I'm curious to see if there will be any more interesting volcanic activity!

This is so ironic.

Meta IS the adversarial threat.

People will only wake up once they realize that Mark Zuckerberg now owns their [digital] soul.

An always-on camera would be my favorite cyborg eye use case.

Imagine being able to go back and relive memories from your perspective. ML could be used to automatically caption and bookmark significant events for searchability.

I used to try to fight back against these guys. Slowly but surely, they purge Wikipedia articles of anything that portrays the US government in a negative light.

The last straw for me was when they deleted this Wikipedia article. Luckily it was backed up on IPFS, and then later on Everipedia.

https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/List_of_authoritarian_re...

I bet someone on Hacker News can set up a website that mirrors AirBnB reviews as they are posted. This would prevent revisionism.

They can slap vacation ads on it and now they have a stable source of income!

> What I have found is snake oil peddlers that like to hear themselves speak and throw around 'creative' ideas that get lost in a sea of dialogue.

What’s the real story here? Why characterize them as “snake oil peddlers who like to hear themselves speak?”

Anyone who makes a creative attempt to improve the workplace gets a gold star in my book.

Negativity is contagious, and I wouldn’t want an underminer on my team who characterizes other peoples’ ideas as “snake oil.”

Looks cool! Might try it out one day if I ever become unhappy with Notion.

How is this different from Super? (https://super.so)

Super is a tool to turn Notion pages into websites. Your tool seems extremely similar, but more expensive, so where's the value proposition?

1) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5419581/

2) https://n.neurology.org/content/90/15_Supplement/P6.079

You’re getting a lot of advice about ADHD and the medications prescribed for it. My advice is to tread cautiously and know the risks, because most doctors won’t tell you (or they’ll just gloss over them).

Amphetamines are addictive and, used as prescribed, you can find yourself with way worse attention and psychological problems. This is especially true if you take them on a daily basis as prescribed. Taken this way, they can lead to chronically depleted adrenals and long term downregulation of your dopamine receptors, which means you’ll feel like shit when you run out of medicine. The road to up-regulating your receptors is long and arduous.

Hopefully you don’t have a problem filling your medicine, as most people who take controlled substances inevitably come across righteous pharmacists who will refuse to fill them (instead, they will tell you they are out of stock).

There are also long term risks such as the development of Parkinson’s disease. Is a little bit of productivity now for your boss worth developing a debilitating disease in retirement? Only you can make that call.

Nice attempt at guilting me, Satan, but my mom is way, way worse than you.

If I were you, I’d be deeply concerned about only having 15 years left to yourself. Enjoy hell while it’s still warm and toasty down there.

Concluding that knowledge influences behavior isn't science. It's common sense.

> a small percentage of people write their opinions and then a much larger percent of people read them, eventually shaping aggregate opinion independently of any opinion held predominantly by “lurkers.”

ELI5 brainwashing

Knowledge influences behavior? No way, I don't believe it.

Say I want to learn how to do a backflip. I do a quick search, find an instructional video, and nope the fuck out because of how dangerous and difficult it seems to perform. A prime example of knowledge that influenced my behavior.

Pointless study since this is just common sense. So much time and money is wasted in science just so that people can make a name for themselves or get a promotion.

Yeah, hubby's strats are too lucrative for that. It's a non-starter.

We need to establish age limits and get all the old greedies out of politics.

Yeah, I'm of the firm opinion that the US is a second world plutocracy that masquerades as a first world democracy by using its military might.

The concept of being the best country in the world (American exceptionalism [0]) is not rooted in fact. In actuality, it's propaganda designed to keep people within US borders instead of seeing them flee to much greener pastures around the globe.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism

How would you know?