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narrator

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About narrator

I'm taking some time off right now to write a dystopian novel about the near future.

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    All of you that are excited for the m5 mac studios are going to be so bummed.

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    The ideological capture of Google and the gatekeeping around the ring of effective altruism AI power around there probably led to the demoralization of the technologists. I think i…

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    Meanwhile, the AI critics got an enormous war chest thanks to Vitalic giving them all his dog coins as a joke that ended up being worth almost a billion to fight against AI. https:…

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    Comment #49037021

    I think Em dashes are fine in fiction where you're listening to someone's train of thought or something sudden happens, but they are really annoying in non-fiction.

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    I like to think that all the crazy kids running around doing stupid and disruptive things for TikTok views is an early form of AI autonomously inducing mass psychosis.

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    All these big tech companies are fighting over the basics eventually like power and transformers and don't like to do anything dirty that would hurt their ESG score like getting in…

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    The antithesis of AI slop is when you've created a unique idea from first principles and AI keeps misunderstanding your idea and spell checking it back to something that's widely p…

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    One data point: 512GB Mac Studios are selling on ebay for double what they were selling for new at the beginning of the year.

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    Comment #49010468

    The military build-up in China is world war scale.

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    I've been asking Fable very complicated questions in heterodox economic theory, which is something I know a lot about. The stuff it comes back with is incredibly deep. To give a me…

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    The disappearance of high ram Mac studio rigs is probably just a coincidence, right? :/

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    I mean Elon probably doesn't want you to use it if you wouldn't use it not because of any technical reason, but just cause you don't like him.

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    Invariably there's some sort of enemy the government creates and the government says that in order to fight the enemy they need to do all these bad things, but you're protected bec…

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    Can it dumb down Ramanujen equations so someone with average intelligence could understand them if even world class mathematicians struggled to grasp them? This is the best analogy…

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    An exec can ask an expert to explain themselves, and if they're a good CEO they can weigh the pros and cons of the arguments from their staff and make a decision. Someone that's mu…

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    It should be reserved for a human because humans have time preference. An AI will wait for your prompt for a billion years. It can get turned off and found by alien archeologists a…

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    One kind of weird future alternative is we are like 5 year old children in a world we don't understand with vast complexity and we are completely reliant on our AI mommy and daddie…

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    Just remembering randomly here, xAI also sued an employee who went to OpenAI for trade secret theft: https://winbuzzer.com/2025/09/01/xai-sues-former-engineer-al...

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    I think the most ironic fact of the 21st century is that there are less than 20,000 naturalized citizens in China. Western leftists don't really have a good explanation for that on…

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    The guy was horrified by Napoleon and the violence of the French Revolution, so he mainly spends the book criticizing his fellow white catholic people in France. Yes, he says racis…

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    This book is an interesting chronicle of financial bubble history, but a far more distilled and actionable understanding of crowd psychology is Gustav Le Bonn's "The Crowd - A Stud…