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  • Universal Paperclips

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    This is a very fun game based on the Paperclip Maximiser concept. If you like that sort of thing… https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html It’s based on the Nick Bostrom thought experiment to terrify yourself about AI. So briefly the story is that humans design an AI to make paperclips as efficiently as possible, but accidentally make it a…

  • Dead Internet

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    A bit of a departure from the ‘drunk again?’ stuff I’ve been posting. This is about ‘The Dead Internet’. I’ll explain the theory briefly and I’ve left a very cool video at the bottom of the page which explains it much better than I can, this is because I want you to watch this really…

  • The Parapolitics of Britpop

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    Yay, a nice end to 1990s week. I actually had the idea to write about Radiohead before the Oasis thing (if you are in the future, Oasis announced that they were doing a reunion tour and people got really excited. I liked Oasis at the time but I was pretty surprised by just how big…

  • Goldie : Saturnz Returnz, and other songs

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    So this review idea, it’s popular, with me. I’m enjoying doing it, I will be bored of it shortly, my aim is just to write a lot. I am back to work in a couple of weeks and am also back into education so hopefully I will keep up my one post a week thing,…

  • Embracing this universe and shining

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    That is a quote from a translation of a Japanese song. We have lots of READ, let’s have a watch Neon Genesis Evangelion It’s like Miyazaki, it’s a Japanese national treasure, but it is so dark they don’t know what to do with it. They did a remake where they changed it from 12 hours…

  • Toby, ya fucker, how’s it collapsing?

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    I’ll just keep writing any old shit I guess. I just listen to the news about Gaza and know fucking loads about that, probably already said that. It would be stupid for me to write about that though, I don’t actually know any more than anyone else, I think half of the world is obsessed…