What a terrible argument. Anything that involves messing around with your teeth needs to have good reasons to do it, rather than just good arguments against doing it.

They've had enough problems with the guy who claimed to be the reincarnation of LRH.

I reckon Miscavige wouldn't want a robo-LRH as it could challenge his power within the organization.

Oh no, what happened to that dude? He seemed fairly sane from his blog.

Mr AGP? Wow.

It's interesting to me that they're named after four thieves. Not sure if it's a deliberate joke or just another manifestation of the anarchist herbalism tendency that seems to have developed in the last 20 or 30 years.

oh "environmentally sustainable AI", that's like clean coal isn't it.

Living is easy with eyes closed/misunderstanding all you see

You could build a whole library of articles like this: here's one from early last year

A new substack about AI: Ludd. "Citizen Journalism on AI, Publishing, and the new Tech Landscape". First post is about Repeater Books, Israel and AI: second is about AI and climate change.

I told one of my college professors I'd been having issues with some software I had to learn to use for another class, and he said "can I give you a tip? try using chat-gpt to explain how to use it" and without thinking I said "why would I use chat-gpt? It's rubbish" and his face fell. Sorry, Prof, I know you were trying to help.

This was after he'd said to the class that he knew we would all be using chat-gpt for assignments.

I'm not shocked.

He didn't mean it as a compliment!

Fuck it, throw some more junk into orbit, why not

Where's the guy who said AI use is a form of austerity

Serves indefinitely? Not even 8 or 16 year terms but indefinitely?? Surely the US supreme court is proof of why this is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea

"democracy, but if it wasn't a democracy"

Eurgh!

The story goes that Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the second draft of "Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" in less than a week while buzzing on cocaine. The Rationalists just write obnoxious blog posts.

Apparently newspapers are starting to get rid of mugshot galleries, so he might be lucky.

The combination of these two things is jarring because heroin is a Big Kid drug, not a prestige drug, and how, of course, could a neuroscientist smoke heroin?

Unlike this guy, I have no problem understanding that smart people sometimes like to do stupid things. There are a lot of doctors who smoke. This is not because they know tobacco is secretly good for you.

I can only assume the vibes were rancid

But does he know that one of the Pythons was a member of the UK Gay Liberation Front?

"poor people have had it too good for too long and slavery is the only answer. I consider myself a pragmatic centrist"

Where do these dopes come from? Do they grow them in a lab?

They did actually collaborate on Venus Fly, but that was before Grimes gave in to the allure of power.

It was Jann Wenner, former Rolling Stone owner/editor, who said that he only wanted to write about "philosophers of rock ’n’ roll" for a book he wrote called "The Masters".

You know, Joni was not a philosopher of rock ’n’ roll. She didn’t, in my mind, meet that test. Not by her work, not by other interviews she did. The people I interviewed were the kind of philosophers of rock.

• "Jann Wenner Defends His Legacy", web.archive.org

I recently got The Secret Public on CD and spent yesterday evening listening to it. Plenty of interesting LGBT+ history and there are some really great songs on there - the 60s songs really appeal to me, especially the girl groups, but there's also some good tough 70s funk and disco.

I don't know if I've been listening to anything that's relevant to Sneer Club.

Rationalwiki users later voted to disaffiliate from the discord server for reasons largely unrelated to what I'm having flashbacks about.

Having flashbacks to the rationalwiki discord server

This is the girl who went off the rails and started posting about neoreaction, right?

I don't make the rules, so you'd have to consult whoever does make the rules. I'm not really sure who that is though

Anyone who buys an island is evil sorry I don't make the rules

The solution for people in extreme poverty with zero access to healthcare is to get them healthcare, not to boil oceans so that silicon valley people can get rich from giving them disastrously bad medical advice.

• Find a Community Health Centre in the USA

• Health Poverty Action

• Where There Is No Doctor

ChatGPT: not just useless, but worse than useless.

I would definitely make lots of extremely boring posts about old bands in a music sub. Hmmm, maybe it would be a bad idea....

Surely this is 3 or 4 different anti-gun control tropes all smashed together.

I had just been looking at their website or I wouldn't have caught it, lol.

I think Yeah Nah Pasaran have done some coverage of technofascism and TESCREAL.

You should definitely pitch a show. You could have an evil AI as a co-presenter.

In another forum I'm in, someone posted this article and asked if someone, anyone could understand it. I kept schtum.

3CR! You should pitch a Sneer Club show to them.

My answer to bike theft is to scrap all the cop cars and make the police ride bikes. After the 500th police bike theft you bet they'd find a solution