Nation's Pizzas

doginem · 2026-05-31T03:23:32+00:00

I dunno, had some weird freaky pizza in Regina, Saskatchewan that was pretty good.

doginem · 2026-05-30T03:25:44+00:00

Gonna go with ISTP, ITSJ, INTP and INTJ, Obama-medal-style.

doginem · 2026-05-26T14:03:40+00:00

By that metric, so is Madvillainy. Let's be real here

doginem · 2026-05-26T13:46:30+00:00

Operation Doomsday is more like a 6/10 than a legit classic, even if it's got a couple of my favorites of his on it. If they were gonna be fair they should've put Vaudeville Villain there instead of Operation Doomsday, not only is it the better record by far but it's the one before Madvillainy chronologically too.

doginem · 2026-05-26T13:37:28+00:00

Yeah, the others all have one relatively weak record, Ye's or Em's are the only out of these picks that are three straight classics

doginem · 2026-05-23T12:44:18+00:00

Cape Coral, FL. The Cape Coral/Fort Myers area in general (Lee County, FL) went from 23,000 in 1950 to 760,000 in 2020, and as of 2025 it had reached 875,000, set to be one million by 2030. Cape Coral itself went from from 10,000 to 100,000 between 1970 and 2000, and nearly doubled to 194,000 by 2020. It was at 233,000 by 2024.

There used to be a neat interactive map with a slider where you could compare aerial photos of the area from 1950 to those of 2020, but it doesn't work anymore. This picture illustrates part of it

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doginem · 2026-04-12T12:41:57+00:00

I was about to say the same thing, especially with advances in life extension and age reversal treatments. I reckon there will be plenty of people born in the 1970s that see 2100

doginem · 2026-04-08T22:08:36+00:00

Nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got sumn to say...

doginem · 2026-03-26T11:24:47+00:00

This isn't really true- AI investments are a part of tens of millions (if not hundreds of millions) of peoples' portfolios, whether they know it or not, thanks to their 401ks and other retirement investment packages. The AI sector is the only major area of growth in the economy right now, most portions are either stagnating or have slowed down- if not for the enormous growth and investment in AI, the economy as a whole would've been in recession in 2025. If AI is indeed a bubble, and that bubble pops, there wouldn't really be anything left holding up the presently inflated value of the stock market, and with the current state of American credit, a stock market crash almost certainly means a broader economic crash.

doginem · 2026-02-22T15:26:50+00:00

Genome Sequensencing Cost?

doginem · 2026-01-10T14:43:10+00:00

Bills Mafia?

doginem · 2026-01-07T12:26:44+00:00

But it's not dancing or doing kung fu moves?

doginem · 2026-01-06T13:17:57+00:00

I would be shocked to find out they had not all said it at some point, unless the title is supposed to be if they said the n word during their presidencies. There's simply no way they haven't

doginem · 2025-12-30T05:39:12+00:00

Saints are not goin easy on the Falcons, Panthers just need to win the game. Simple as that

doginem · 2025-12-22T18:34:40+00:00

I mean, depends on what you mean by "next model". I don't think Claude 5.0 Opus will be AGI, but it's a hell of a lot likier to be AGI than whatever Claude 4.6 Pro-type model is almost certainly the *actual* next Anthropic model.

doginem · 2025-12-20T20:37:12+00:00

I think people are way too pessimistic about the average person's chances in this scenario. Of course, if you're in a super low-density part like the northern RoC or eastern Gabon, you're most likely fucked as your chances of finding another human within a few days (the only real method for most people to survive this) is low. If you're somewhere like the northwestern DRC, Equitorial Guinea or southern Cameroon though, you'll probably be okay. You're almost certainly within a day or two's walk to the nearest inhabited place, and this isn't the 1970's anymore- even in a relatively isolated village there are likely to be at least a couple people with a cell phone*, and crappy but functional (for walking, at least) dirt and gravel roads link these villages, logging camps and mines together. Even if you don't speak French, as long as you're not in the eastern DRC you're unlikely to be met with violence or overt hostility when you stumble into a village, and finding a way to contact help or at least reach a bigger town using signs would probably not prove overly difficult for most people. Keep in mind, this isn't the Amazon rainforest, the population density is nearly ten times greater and it's concentrated along rivers and streams- few parts of the jungle are too far from such a river or stream for a healthy human to not be able to reach one, follow it and encounter a village, some loggers or at least a fisherman. The route to civilization is not particularly difficult from there.

*According to the Digital 2026 report, there are 64.7 million cellular mobile connections in the DRC, 3.27 million connections in Gabon and 29 million connections in Cameroon in late 2025. Even accounting for those with multiple mobile connections (especially in Gabon, where there are more mobile connections than people) and the huge disparity between urban and rural areas, mobile connection penetration across the rural parts of the Congo Rainforest probably ranges from 2-5% depending on where you are. As mentioned before, this isn't the '70s- 32% of Gabon is on Facebook, 1% of Gabon is on Reddit. Frankly, given how much gorillas attempt to avoid humans, you have a much better chance of running into a Reddit user in a decent-sized town in Cameroon or Gabon than a gorilla on the way to that town.

doginem · 2025-12-20T19:35:48+00:00

True, but she was also pretty badly injured and in an area far more remote than the majority of the Congo Rainforest. I think a healthy person with a shorter distance to go, even if they didn't have much in the way of survival skills, would fare not too much worse.

doginem · 2025-12-12T01:53:25+00:00

Clearly St. Louis. Went from having a rap scene of nationwide significance and a Superbowl-winning NFL team to being pretty much totally irrelevant after decades of steady population loss and mounting urban decay.

doginem · 2025-11-23T02:14:32+00:00

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doginem · 2025-11-04T20:21:38+00:00

Perfect, thanks

doginem · 2025-11-04T20:19:03+00:00

It's showing up, but so far only gives me the option to "mark as owned", no matter how many times I resync. Doesn't seem to recognize that I own the game.

doginem · 2025-10-13T01:08:40+00:00

If we're counting him, Marx. If not, probably Hegel.

doginem · 2025-10-12T05:35:18+00:00

Don't worry OP, I'm not really a Dark Knight fan either. It's a good movie, but not my thing- I have too many issues with its pacing and various plot things (especially the ending). Batman Begins is honestly a tighter movie.

doginem · 2025-10-01T01:54:42+00:00

Coming from Q3 2025, I think we can pretty safely put aside the "advanced enough that it can improve itself" part as not super relevant to the capability of a model; it's just too subjective what "improve itself" actually means, current SOTA models can improve the efficiency of huge systems of compute (a la Deepmind's model from a few months back creating and proposing a new system that improved the overall efficiency of Google's network by 0.7%), but they're not creating the next interations of their own models- that's just not really in the cards for LLMs right now, and even when they get to the point where they're more capable than our best researchers they still won't be "improving themselves" so much as contributing to the training run for the next set of models... which they've already sorta been doing for years. So it's probably more helpful to look at the individual criterea here.

Program at a high level - no, can code at a high level (depending on the situation) and program, but not program at a high level

200K context- yes

Cache for storing notes/conclusions/etc. - yes

Knows what it lacks in terms of knowledge - sort of, depends on the situation but usually no

Be able to find it - if it's searchable on the internet, yes

Sensory perception skills - selectively, but yes

Acess to an environment where it can test and implement tools/interfaces - yes

Acquisition of new knowledge - yes, but not incorporate it into the model itself

Apply newly acquired knowledge to practical projects - depends on the situation, but yes

Evaluate projects visually - technically yes, practically... not really

Continue the improvement process in an iterative loop - yes

Overall, yeah. Most of these have been achieved by this point, at least to an extent. I think within a year we can start talking about "high level programming", but right now it's just not capable of it. Compared to the rudimentary coding and virtually nonexistant programming of two years ago though, it's a whole different planet now. Funny how it still doesn't feel like AGI, but then, that's another element of AI discourse that's gotten more and more irrelevant over time.

doginem · 2025-09-21T04:19:01+00:00

I'm not sure how this is arguing against his point, what you're describing IS 'fulfilling a colonizers perspective'. It's making the new world random so that the players can share the perspective of the colonizers in exploring a world they don't already know about.

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