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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

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We regret to inform you that Ray Kurzweil is back on his bullshit (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

I do subscribe to his ideas that technological growth is not currently exponential but even steeper

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

you can unsubscribe. that's allowed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You know that Factorio is a fictional video game, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Technically it is a real video game but yes. Amazing piece of technical work. Sad that the main dev seems to be a bit of chud. (But he now has a ~30 person team).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Hey wanna get in on the ground floor of my new cryptocurrency offer? You seem like just the person we are looking for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

logarythmically… what?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

logarhythmically, n.: in the manner of making banger beats composed in the method of striking logs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

They corrected it and made it even dumber, tech growth is steeper than exponential growth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i gues we're all living in the post-scarcity utopia then, because otherwise such growth would exhaust resources.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Wow yeah boss, just keep buying working machines until we don't have to work anymore, brilliant we're going to be so rich, hey wait where are you going take my with you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Like the turbo-encabulator’s malleable logarithmic casing