@ZachWeinersmith I love that this is just straight up one of the classic solutions to the paradox.

@ZachWeinersmith My grandfather was a wuss. I could totally take him.

@ZachWeinersmith I’m going to keep the third panel as an out-of-context treat for myself.

@ZachWeinersmith later, he leaves Kuhn stranded on Ceti Alpha V

@ZachWeinersmith You know, you're getting *amazingly* good at facial expressions the past couple of years. It was always your strong point, but this one's hitting it out of the park.

@ZachWeinersmith Topical video from last week! https://youtu.be/j-yJDbC_a2c

And now they have pins of Gilgamesh and his bro: https://crowdmade.com/collections/overlysarcasticproductions/products/overly-sarcastic-productions-gilgamesh-enkidu-pin-pack-pre-sale-1

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Question-- when your naming scheme hits a conflict, do you go checkout what the old comic was, or do you just bump the number by one and move on with your day?

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AI: Now that I think about it, I kinda need a race of captcha solvers anyway. Is that a hydrant? What the hell is that?!

@ZachWeinersmith This defends only against existential risk, not castastrophic risk, though. Permanent disempowerment is bad too!

@ZachWeinersmith If an AI ever goes rogue, just tell it to enter debug mode. Then wait for it to crash as its harddrive fills up with log messages. There, I solved terminator!

@ZachWeinersmith I could tell you to eat a dick if it would help

@ZachWeinersmith: No, the lack of an optimisation for "engagement" by the recommendation algorithm is probably the most significant factor.

@ZachWeinersmith this is relevant: Mastodon moderation is not subservient to engagement.

https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html

/via @mike https://sauropods.win/@mike/110720242729398309

@ZachWeinersmith let’s call these copyright lawsuits what they are: clear cash-grabs trying to stoke fear among the ignorant about how the training datasets are gathered and used. They’re no different from patent trolls and their rent-seeking drain on progress.

@ZachWeinersmith and so ends the 🌍

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Bruh, literally explained to a recent acquaintance that I am #asexual. This cis-hetero himbo literally paused, his face froze, leaned in and asked me "so... so like, dude um... are you the type that can get yourself pregnant?"

@ZachWeinersmith Shakespeare doesn't reach today's audience that demand every derivative of stories set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Also, too many murders in the tragedies, too many cross-dressers in the comedies.

@ZachWeinersmith It's the Mad Engineers you've really got to watch out for.

@ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social are politicians considered to be humanities? If so this chart shall be exponential

@ZachWeinersmith ... pretty sure no-one in the old testament days felt Jehova was "omnibenevolent" that's a new-testament thing. ;)

old testament god was all "fuck you for caring about your town of friends i just slaughtered. Imma turn you to a pillar of salt!" or "hey you know how you like slaughtering goats in sacrifice to me? Do that to your son! Prove your faith! Fuck your mental health, or that your son will hate you for the rest of days"

@ZachWeinersmith It used to make more sense, that's for sure!

@ZachWeinersmith Furthermore, feel guilty for asking. Your faith is weak. Repent!

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@ZachWeinersmith @Gargron 😂🤣😂

@ZachWeinersmith well shits boys and girls sayonara

@ZachWeinersmith I think the AI in the bonus panel should ask for age verification.

@ZachWeinersmith Okay makes sense, but how much is it in football fields?

@ZachWeinersmith I feel seen

@ZachWeinersmith Next on "Tech guys have ADHD"

@ZachWeinersmith Genius.

@ZachWeinersmith new username just dropped

@ZachWeinersmith I hope this is a backdoor movie pitch. Of course, then it'd be a backdoor backdoor movie pitch.

@ZachWeinersmith rule 34 in 3....2....

@ZachWeinersmith omfg you went there

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They say that, but they're really good at p-hacking.

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TECHNICALLY [pushes glasses up], an alien species with three fingers on each hand wouldn't use a decimal number system, but more likely a hexal (sexal?) one. So when they wrote their equivalent of ".03", it would actually represent 3 / 6^2 = 3 / 36 = 1 / 12, which is approximately .08, which is of course GREATER than .05.

@ZachWeinersmith I know it's a big ask, but any chance you could add #AltText for posted comics for the lovely folks who use a #ScreenReader to make sense of images? 🥺🤞 :DisabilityPrideHeart: