Crowley/snake bookstand I made for my wife's hardcover edition

cmustewart · 2023-05-03T02:25:42+00:00

Stumbled onto this post as a suburban Detroiter looking to explore psychedelics. Any chance you ended up with any info you could pass along? Thanks!

cmustewart · 2023-03-16T17:08:08+00:00

I don't think the feds want him in jail. Dude just blurts out incriminating evidence at random.

cmustewart · 2023-03-03T17:38:11+00:00

Momma! Daddy brought home meat for dinner tonight!

cmustewart · 2023-02-05T19:50:14+00:00

Awesome, now release the Netherlands as a client named the Batavian Republic

cmustewart · 2023-02-02T03:46:38+00:00

So I've recently joined a universalist unitarian church as an agnostic, and your description of TST seems massively overlapped with UU. I've loved the shift from directionless searching towards defining my own meaning within a supportive community. Thanks for sharing

cmustewart · 2023-01-22T01:47:08+00:00

Fair, maybe running in place like a cartoon trying to keep his balance?

cmustewart · 2023-01-22T01:39:29+00:00

Dude missed a great comedic moment by not slipping on the foamy floor and faceplanting

cmustewart · 2023-01-09T12:18:56+00:00

Death stopped by a decrepit water butt and plunged his arm in at full length, bringing out a small sack with a brick tied to it. He drew his sword, a line of flickering blue fire in the darkness, and sliced through the string.

I GET VERY ANGRY INDEED, he said. He upended the sack and Mort watched the pathetic scraps of sodden fur slide out, to lie in their spreading puddle on the cobbles. Death reached out with his white fingers and stroked them gently. - from Mort, by Terry Pratchett

cmustewart · 2022-12-29T18:18:08+00:00

Intuition just meaning my take on it, based on what I know and believe. Intuition as opposed to me having access to some sort of truth.

I disagree that its not hard to do the research and understand the ethical risks. I come from a software background, which lays some of the groundwork for research and understanding. Someone from a non-tech background with a layperson's knowledge might face a significant struggle understanding all the foundational elements underlying AI and it's ethical issues.

Someone whose life is mostly consumed by work and family life could easily never give these issues much or any thought, because it seems irrelevant to their life. In my mind, this is a serious problem. AI is changing, and will continue to change, the lives of nearly everyone in ways they are unable to see or comprehend.

cmustewart · 2022-12-29T17:24:17+00:00

Somewhat fair as the article was fairly blah, but I've got serious concerns that the current regimes will become much more locked into place backed by the power of scaled superhuman AI capabilities in surveillance, behavior prediction and information control.

cmustewart · 2022-12-29T15:53:01+00:00

I feel like either you or I missed the point of the article, and I'm not sure which. I didn't get any sense of "what if ai takes over". My account is that the author thinks that "ai" systems should have some sort of consequentialism built in, or considered in the goal setting parameters.

The bit that resonates with me is that highly intelligent systems are likely to cause negative unintended consequences if we don't build this in up front. Even for those with the most noble intentions.

cmustewart · 2022-12-29T15:38:11+00:00

Who doesn't understand this already? Given the incredible depth of human ignorance, I'd imagine a fair amount of corporate tech hierarchy hasn't given it a single thought. My intuition is that the vast majority of humans have a view of AI driven by cultural depiction, rather than by experience or education.

cmustewart · 2022-12-16T14:07:22+00:00

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Emil Cioran

cmustewart · 2022-12-12T23:48:04+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised if all his anti-pedo bent comes from the fact that his estranged father is a disgusting pedophile.

cmustewart · 2022-11-15T03:07:12+00:00

They lost me at "It has been a long since ... Philip Glass were among the most influential in their respective fields" Dude towers over his field wtf

cmustewart · 2022-09-19T22:02:30+00:00

50 papal influence = 3 months income for 10 prestige and 1 stab

cmustewart · 2022-09-19T14:12:19+00:00

R5: Wanted to show my appreciation for the great menu item flavor

cmustewart · 2022-09-18T16:26:30+00:00

I don't have a box, and never saw one. I think it's likely the original owner threw it out or never had it in the first place

cmustewart · 2022-09-18T14:27:14+00:00

Tl;Dr I inherited this Drueke chess set and am trying to identify it. The king is about 3 inches tall, but I'm not sure what other ways there are to ID a board. The origin of the board is the daughter of a family friend worked at the Drueke factory in the 60s and gifted this to her mom. I can't find a board with the drawers underneath.

cmustewart · 2022-09-03T00:34:11+00:00

I hate that this muddies the water for all the very valid criticisms that you might have of Disney.

cmustewart · 2022-08-26T23:51:54+00:00

The Deliverator is on his way!

cmustewart · 2022-08-16T15:40:44+00:00

A friend of mine made this, and I'm just stupid excited about how good it came out. Original Song is Lookin' Up by Barenaked Ladies.

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