It comes at the cost of being an ICE member, and that will follow you for the rest of your life.

I wonder if vampire brains freeze mentally once they’re turned

“Vampire: The Masquerade” has that as a downside of being a vampire. Vampires are less creative than humans, to the point that being turned into a vampire is said to hurt their talent worse than aging ever could. They also can’t properly adapt to new technology. Basically, vampirism comes with creative sterility.

AI doomerism typically refers to the belief that AI will rise up against us and kill us all. Given that current “AI” is just a guessing machine, that won’t happen, barring substantial breakthroughs. The end-of-the-world narratives are basically marketing for AI, as in, “hey, if this thing got any smarter, it would destroy the world”.

So, do they just keep buying 40% of the production in perpetuity? What if production of those chips gets scaled up, do they just buy more?

The problem isn’t the data center, but rather that the data center is being wasted on running AI. AI is a uniquely wasteful application, like crypto mining. If the data center does something actually useful, then it might provide utility greater than its expenses and externalities.

This could use some context, like where was this comment removed from? Who was yanks replying to? What comment did they reply to?

People claim to be effective altruists when they can’t claim that they’re altruists.

Not so fun fact: Gun suicides are far more common than any other type of gun related death. Having a gun in the house is a big risk factor for suicide.

If it really were a once in a lifetime career opportunity, then the salary would reflect that.

If that’s the plan, then it’s not a very good plan. You simply don’t need a high end PC for gaming anymore.

So, what’s the pun behind “Light Yagami”?

They are quite useful, actually. They predate on various vermin that are attracted by humans. They’re kind of like cats.

So, suppose all of this is true, why did they always win with >99% of the vote?

Sees article about a new and innovative embezzlement method. Concludes that they’re out of ideas.

Oh, I think OOP replied to me. Small world.

the bourgeoisie or the proletariat.

There’s more than just those two options, e.g. the nobility (which we don’t have anymore). If you had done some research on the topic, you’d know that a class is a group that shares a common relationship to the means of production. You could perhaps argue that career politicians constitute a sort of “political class”.

The USSR had democracy - there were voting structures up and down the entire structure of the union.

In their worst election (1946), the Bloc of Communists and Non-Partisans received 99.19% of the vote. I don’t know who their opponents were, the other 0.81% of the vote simply went to “against”. Results like this are impossible in a free and fair election.

The communist party of the soviet union was in control of the country, with absolutely no accountability to the proletariat they were supposed to be representing. Were they working class? No, because they did not work. They were a new kind of nobility, with the head of state effectively being a new Tsar.

Without democracy, you simply create a new ruling class. Workers had no say in the Soviet Union, even less than they had in the US back then.

And somebody buying from the scammer could get a legitimate card, thus allowing the scammer to blend in.

To be fair to LLMs they get the text as a series of tokens, so when you type strawberry, the see 🍓 or something. What works better as a counterexample are variations of the river crossing puzzle changed to be trivial.

Could be 70% overall, but only half of the tasks it’s good at.