*Russians lamenting on social media
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I'd love to see the comparison with a similar graph from the US or UK or, say, Germany or France or Australia or....
@bruces Very few “our dictator is a raving lunatic”, oddly enough
@bruces Who has translated this and what could have possibly made them think they knew Russian? I'm pretty sure this wasn't done by a LLM because it works have certainly done better than that.
@bruces Where is that from?
*The science-fiction angle is interesting here. He somehow spent $300K on his bed
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/29/carl-rinsch-47-ronin-netflix-fraud
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"In addition, he used some of the money to pay off about $1.8m in credit card bills,..."
So there's a credit card issuer out there that gives people 7-figure credit limits? I'd love to talk to them. For reasons.
@bruces One word: Hästens.
@bruces I think there was more than one involved. Bed that is. And high thread-count is costly. I’m more curious about the need for a fleet of Rolls-Royce autos. All the same or in different shades?
@bruces and it was 2 beds at $680K… I wondered the same thing. What was this bed made of?
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A Bayesian world view only works if you are willing to constantly update your priors. In a fast-moving field like coding llm whatever opinion one formed 3 months ago is irrelevant at best, a hindrance at worst.
Unfortunately mastodon is full of people who's attitude towards generative ai was shaped in 2025 (or even earlier) and who keep arguing faults that have long been rendered moot.
"What happens when we "fork" and the bro in the forkpod next-door is Sam Altman and I can't stand him
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Eh, fork Sam Altman
Maybe they got one thing accidentally right though. Everyone on Earth is living in the Arctic because thanks to the pursuit of this farcical techno-dystopia the rest of the planet is uninhabitable.
@bruces maybe you need to reissue Schizmatrix
@bruces Those digital upload people are unrealistically confident that their consciousnesses will be backed up and restored religiously and not left to rot like an old film reel.
@bruces the earth people hanging out on .. earth ..1 ? or did we decide to make twin earths ? either way i wanna sit outside in nature with a bottle of wine ..
@bruces I don't agree between choosing between valuing terrestrial life and space exploration.
Imhi, both are interlinked
As in, instead of mining and destroying our planet, we should find asteroids with the necessary materials and get those
If we worked towards doing stuff in space, instead of inside our planet, we could surely have both
P.S. Before the "is expensive" crowd comes in, that's because we currently don't calculate the ecological impact in the expenses.We throw that to the future
@bruces maybe the solution is to just sell those B ark people a blockchain enabled dongle with a Wifi antenna, an AI generated booklet on how to drill this in their skull and a cyanide fork acceleration pill.
@bruces I call bullshit. Fork 4 is actually Fork 1 and has been happening for a while now. It’s also the only one that actually matters.
@bruces this would be a great time to discover paratime technologies and watch humanity Spork
@bruces Why do so many AI-generated images illustrating space travel or "progress" feature an archaic Space Shuttle?
@bruces I guess it’s just another instance of “fork around, find out”.
On a more serious note, none of these suggested "forks" are actually biologically incompatible, so it seems more like a lifestyle choice, albeit at a larger scale. Since most of the choices fall straight in line with financial capabilities (you can’t have a nice simulation of you running if you’re broke), new options will only widen the social gap some more.
@bruces it’s also woefully and to be expected from AI unoriginal sci-fi.
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I have a better use case for forking. It may or may not involve a fork and Sam Altmann's face.
@bruces Having thought about it, I think I'd rather spoon.
Of course, this also raises the worrying possibility that humanity might spork, and I don't think anyone's ready for that.
@bruces Word!
@bruces motherforkers!
@bruces I believe the only acceptable response to this is "Fork off".
@bruces We are so forked