call out his confabulation machine usage, and the block will be quick

plus, russian empire has a huge tradition of genocide as imperial policy (including, but not limited to, circassian genocide).

the conquest of other caucasian nations was almost as bad

entirely through forced acquisition and, with notable exception of finland until late XIX century, with very aggressive russification policy.

austro-hungary (i.e post 1848) is a better example.

bloody polish-lithuanian commonwealth for fuck’s sake.

my apologies, i tend to visually stereotype stalinists very badly.

i’m all for abolishing copyright on the first day after we have introduced mechanisms that allow the artists to actually earn decent money from ther work taking into account the specifics of the work. and no, UBI doesn’t count.

it is so nice to see the hard-mustachioed leftists to think that real labour happens only at a steel mill (because even kolkhozy aren’t real enough for them to care about the freedom of movement of the peasants.)

so, dude’s a stalinist (and let me repeat myself) and dumb as fuck. i fucking love the totalitarian left, in so many aspects undistinguishable from any other type of totalitarian gobshite.

fucking nazi safety officers everywhere these days.

ah well, that explains things.

this doesn’t mean that the paper is any good or doesn’t deserve mockery (i don’t know, i didn’t read it yet, and i’m not sure i have apparatus to make other than esthetic judgements), just that the conclusions the og skeet author attributes to the paper aren’t the paper’s conclusions.

before you order the cavalry charge, fwiw this skeet misrepresents the actual study topic rather badly, as another bluesky commenter notes.

so many temporarily embarassed millionaires there, with the clarity of mind and purpose of a precocious seven-year-old.

it’s full of quotable bangers like this, and it’s hard to choose the one to quote, right.

i thought that the whole ruling principle of the effective altruists is primum non docere

the virile space men will have

i’ve heard they like to read sf, they might want to read heinlein’s luna stories and miss the point entirely

here’s another very good take from baldur bjarnason, answering the question if he had hardened his stance against LLMs.

(the answer is “not exactly”, and you want to read the whole thing, because the answer itself is the least interesting part of the essay.)

intellectual elite my arse.

i already have to be pleasant and composed while intercting with the managerial class.

i’m all for staking. specifically, i’m all for staking the bloody vampires.