WRT animal domestication, I mean there are plenty of ethicists who could credibly argue that it’s a form of abuse. IMO it’s not great.

WRT the rest- kind of riffing on your first sentence- we haven’t even sorted out those things for people, really.

Wait does LW even think slavery is bad

There is some pedophilia in there too.

…also, what the fuck. This is a step backwards, even just reading it. I’m mad.

They hope it’ll land safely, but all signs point to it disintegrating during descent and sinking into the abyss

Extremely mature of both of you to make a crouton joke and not once include a scrotum joke

I’ve always thought that the ability for a VCS to show me exactly what my codebase looked like at any point in the past wasn’t as dementia-simulating as I’d like

i will never watch marty supreme

TOTO pivots from bidets to, well, you know by now. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/toilet-maker-toto-ai https://archive.is/wip/rzLqn

Ah, the mind goblins manifested themselves into existence. Terrifying

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_memory

It’s giving “mama musk skinsuit”

If you asked me to guess the kind of kerfuffle that might develop between a Cape Breton fiddler and AI, I would have answered, well, my entire knowledge of Cape Breton fiddling is based on the paper “Cape Breton Fiddling and Intellectual Property Rights”, so my guess would be just “the normal AI stuff”. And I’d be totally wrong and reminded that just because I know one thing about something doesn’t mean it’s the only thing.

Well, we do have computer science, so necessarily we must have computer religion/superstition

a rationalist, catcalling: “nice gametes”

oh thanks, this is great.

yes now that it is pointed out, very eugenics-y to go around saying “ah yes there is one true supreme bacteria, we should culture this bacteria on the human petri dish aka vagina”

Congrats on the bottom surgery youngster joey

Well, he’s a tech ceo guy, so he doesn’t know that buses or trains exist

ok so just imagine that I’ve sneered at the 100 worst aspects of this already. lol @ this being the fifth point

4. Safety: feeling safety is a prerequisite.

motherfucker put it first then

File this under “I saw this now you get to”: https://xcancel.com/bryan_johnson/status/2049687845082910812#m

jfc bryan you are not the guy for this

NB: image is part of the linked tweet

I was thinking of an LLM trained on sovereign citizens. AKA “I’m not hallucinating, I’m generating. There is no such thing as copyright under maritime law”