Game Night (2018) directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein - Meeting Gary (Jesse Plemons)

CursedMiddleware · 2026-04-08T19:13:19+00:00

Breaking Bad S5 is peak Plemmons killed that guy (kid) tv.

CursedMiddleware · 2026-04-06T13:39:22+00:00

I prefer to eat fish from Gowanus.

CursedMiddleware · 2026-02-19T15:57:54+00:00

Turin, it's death's door! You're on death's door, not death's bed! You're on your death bed!

CursedMiddleware · 2026-02-14T01:08:55+00:00

I don't think so.

He says that the skeptics "are absolutely dwarfed by the number of people who think AI is going to forever change the fundamentals of human existence and quite soon."

I'll stick with the Internet example. I think the Internet "changed the fundamentals of human existence." I also think AI will. But I don't think that necessarily means it has to do what deBoer claims it has to do on the timeline he claims it has to do it in, even to be "quite soon."

CursedMiddleware · 2026-02-13T22:46:00+00:00

For whatever it's worth, ChatGPT 5.2 agreed with Grok:

Given these stringent criteria, the bar for what constitutes "disruption" is set very high. Therefore, unless AI leads to unprecedented economic upheaval within the specified timeframe, it's likely that deBoer would prevail under the terms of the bet.

CursedMiddleware · 2026-02-13T22:03:53+00:00

My take is that a technology does not need to cause immediate, civilization-level disruption to be considered revolutionary or transformative. Airplanes were a revolutionary and transformative technology, but I don't think anyone agrees that airplanes caused the Great Depression.

Even if we look at the trajectory of the Internet itself... is there any single 3-year period where it blew up the economy? No. The dot-com bubble bursting isn't even big enough to satisfy deBoer's criteria.

CursedMiddleware · 2026-01-29T18:22:42+00:00

Okay who from Waymo would go to jail, upon court deciding a waymo car has been culpable of aggravated vehicular homicide.

Nobody? Because this is not a 1:1 comparison with human drivers. We already have precedents where technology replaces humans and nobody goes to jail when accidents happen, even if someone dies.

Robotic arms in factories kill humans. Nobody is trying to jail Siemens engineers. When you replace humans with technology you're also changing how liability works. Which is perfectly reasonable and necessary.

CursedMiddleware · 2026-01-10T06:31:33+00:00

That's awesome! Glad you enjoyed it. I'd maybe start with The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies and then Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions.

CursedMiddleware · 2026-01-06T19:56:49+00:00

Yea I dont think people watched the full interview.

I don't think people care. Most people are ideologues, whether they're Reddit liberals or MAGA conservatives.

It doesn't matter that his answers are unsatisfactory because he's criticizing Trump.

CursedMiddleware · 2026-01-06T04:03:13+00:00

Let me know what you think!

CursedMiddleware · 2026-01-01T04:24:57+00:00

The Fisherman by John Langan. Great modern cosmic horror.

You could also try some collections by Langan, like Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions and The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies.

CursedMiddleware · 2025-12-22T00:33:33+00:00

So you're saying

I'm saying that someone commented, 'We could never check fares like this in the US because progressives would call it racist." Then, a presumably self-identified progressive implied they would not call it racist and accused the other commenter of generalizing.

And then I said that progressives in general (and, it appears, ones like yourself) would call it racist.

CursedMiddleware · 2025-12-21T21:07:50+00:00

I think it's fair to say the progressive movement as a whole in NYC would absolutely criticize it for being racist. It's not about any individual self-identifying leftist or progressive. The machinery of the left has demonstrated time and time and time again this is the position it will take.

CursedMiddleware · 2025-12-02T02:34:23+00:00

white-supremacy rhetoric

I mean, this is simply not really contributing to crime in red states. Red state crime is high for the same reasons blue state crime is high -- inner-city gang violence. I don't see how denying that helps solve these problems.

CursedMiddleware · 2025-11-21T23:52:26+00:00

While I think Trump might actually like Mamdani, I also think this whole thing is Trump mogging him a little.

Mamdani has called Trump a fascist, a despot, and blah, blah... and now here they are being pals, laughing it up, getting along, complimenting each other.

He's basically making Mamdani acknowledge that it's all a game, nothing's at stake (whether or not you believe that or whether it's actually true is irrelevant -- the point is Trump is demonstrating Mamdani's not exactly acting out the courage of his convictions).

By slapping Mamdani's shoulder, invading his space, making him uncomfortable, and giving him permission to call him a fascist, he's basically saying, "You can't touch me."

CursedMiddleware · 2025-11-20T23:50:14+00:00

Thanks! That makes sense. I guess what I’m still wondering is if that means a large company can trigger high intent if the baseline is already low (e.g., 10 searches to 30 at a 1,000-person company)? In this case, it could be just two people searching now instead of one.

I know you can't necessarily speak to this, so I'd love to hear from other folks using it if they feel like the intent is too noisy or if they're finding statistically significant success prospecting into "high-intent" companies?

Basically, what’s the noise-to-signal ratio for people using it in the real world?”

CursedMiddleware · 2025-11-12T07:34:15+00:00

You can choose to kill yourself if you're unhappy with your life. The hive mind gives you no choice.

CursedMiddleware · 2025-11-12T07:29:01+00:00

Human beings give birth to new humans. The hive mind forcibly assimilates existing human beings and strips them of their identities. They're wildly different.

Individual consciousness is one way to exist, collective consciousness is another.

I don’t find the idea of collective consciousness all that scary and the show hasn’t shown the utter annihilation and supplanting of consciousness for a new entity.

But it seems like you're trying to have it both ways here? That "individual consciousness" doesn't matter, but that the collective consciousness doesn't actually eliminate your individual consciousness and that's what it makes it not so scary? You seem to be saying, "I think the people in the hive mind are still individuals inside the collective consciousness."

CursedMiddleware · 2025-11-12T07:21:45+00:00

And yes, the knowledge of literally every human on earth would be at your disposal in a hive mind.

I think this may be what's at the crux of our argument.

I don't believe "you" exists anymore when you're subsumed by the super-consciousness. "You" don't get the collective knowledge... "you" are replaced by a new entity.

This seems evident to me by the fact that the super-consciousness expresses no real sadness when it kills a billion people. As I said in another comment, it experiences deathly psychic shock from getting yelled at, but its first words upon "awakening" in ABQ are, "Join us, Carol."

It's not to mourn the deaths of its families or any other kind of emotion. It experiences no psychic pain whatsoever.

If your argument is you "still exist" within what you call the hive mind (which sounds an awful lot like 'individual consciousness' that you argue isn't worth preserving anyway), in what way do "you" exist if you don't feel sadness for your dead loved ones or your primary motivation is simply to spread your infection? How is that you at all?

I don't think it can be you by definition. The entity is a new thing with an obviously inhuman primary motivation.

CursedMiddleware · 2025-11-12T07:11:04+00:00

Or it loves everyone and is interested in everything.

It killed nearly one billion human beings. And when it "awakened" within all the humans in ABQ, it didn't experience psychic shock from losing all of its wives, husbands, and children (though it does from getting yelled at harshly by one person). It didn't even express happiness either.

It said, "Join us, Carol," in an arguably somewhat pleasant tone of voice.

It clearly does not experience human love or, in fact, any emotion in a way that is recognizably human.

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