The discussion in the comments has continued in a low-key way. Now they're making excuses for why the nutbar is incomprehensible:
To understand why Chris thinks this way, it's important to remember that he had never been acculturated into the norms of the modern intellectual elite...
Langan has been "working" on the CTMU since the 1990s. People have been born since then and have had time to learn how to talk like academics.
Team members can ask the app questions like “How should I set this oven temperature?” rather than turning to training materials or tapping through an app interface.
Yep, that's a health code violation in the making.
The failure mode of clever continues to be asshole.
Name suggestion: Spider Plant Greenhouse
Six Double Oh Eww
The MIT alum in me wants to devise some variation on "Building 20" that conveys a "but without the worse aspects of MIT subculture" kind of message.
The Margaret Hamilton Society
acatinulthar reblogged this from nihilsupernum and added:
I think that this is probably a parody but it honestly sounds like excellent life advice.
He claimed a new, faster version of the Stable Diffusion image generator released earlier this month could generate “200 cats with hats per second.”
Pointless. The set of any type of funny cat picture on the Internet is already infinite.
The Financial Times reported Friday that the company made $5.4 million of revenue in February, against $8 million in costs. Several sources said there are ongoing concerns about making payroll for the roughly 150 remaining employees. Leadership roles have gone vacant for months amid the disarray, leaving the company increasingly directionless.
"... the AI-ristocrats!"
The repair should be put to commercial bid with a massive incentive for early and safe completion.
Fast, safe, cheap: pick two.
Transhumanism descended from Fyodorov's Cosmism, the Ineffectual Dork Web is shot through with whatever batshit Jordan Peterson is on, LessWrong can't tell that Christopher Langan is a kook....
So, a lesswrong suggests gathering "The Best Tacit Knowledge Videos on Every Subject," where "tacit knowledge" is defined as "knowledge that can't properly be transmitted via verbal or written instruction". The low-hanging fruit is that the recommendations under "Finance" are Keith "Roaring Kitty" Gill of GameStop fame... and Martin Shkreli.
The higher-hanging fruit is the seeming conviction that just because a lesswrong saw somebody drone on about a thing in a YouTube video, it can't be explained in written words.