blakestacey

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Incoming ban from site detected.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Saying anything in particular makes you open to fact-based criticism — I mean, it is object-level and bad, instead of meta-level and good.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is Virtuosity (1995) slander

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

"[A]cademic publisher Taylor & Francis, which owns Routledge, had sold access to its authors’ research as part of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnership with Microsoft—a deal worth almost £8m ($10m) in its first year."

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/academic-authors-shocked-after-taylor--francis-sells-access-to-their-research-to-microsoft-ai

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

"I love trash, baka!"

— Asuka the Grouch

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Artificial Intelligence professor Toby Walsh

Asking for a professor of genuine intelligence is just too much.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (10 children)

That seems suspiciously soon, but my impression is based on nothing but vibes — a sense that companies are still buying in.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

For example, in the case of physics one could imagine working through very high quality course materials together with Feynman

Women of the world: um, about that

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Apparently the "startup ecosystem" matters more than the ecosystem of, you know, actual living things.

These people are just amazingly fucking evil.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There is an entire second Earth right here on Earth.

"... Mister Bond."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have a whole series of rants about that cat, starting with how it doesn't illuminate anything about quantum theory specifically — as opposed to probabilistic or stochastic theories in general — and culminating in "Hey, maybe we should stop naming things after pedo creeps."

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