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I'm a coder hostile to both as long as "making/writing" means "running gradient descent on chopped-up bits of other people's work and selling the output of stolen inputs as a new product"
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RT @magicianbrain
why is it that artists are so much more hostile to AI making art than programmers are to AI writing code
twitter.com/magicianbrain/stat

.. just learned about The Affair of the Sausages, is Rakitin offering Alyosha some pocket sausage a deep cut from the Swiss reformation? Can Dostoevsky write two pages without hating on some heresy? (no)

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D man chugging an old-timey vial of Dr. Zorba's Morphium Liniment, taking huge rips on the pipe, getting ready to write another Madame K passage

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Dostoevsky's editor: so that's two kopeks per word, net 30 after publication...
Madame Khokhlakov:

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Revealing in the third (fourth?) act that your book is set in "Cow town"
Just dostoevsky things

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Rakitin the evil monk is the true secret antihero of Brothers K
Corrupting the youth, making faces behind the elder, getting friendzoned by Grushenka, handing out hoarded sausage
What a journey

Should have @'d those haters spreading FUD about the incorruptible puissance of the US DOJ
longbets.org/922/
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RT @JuddLegum
BREAKING: FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in the Bahamas after U.S. files criminal charges

cnbc.com/2022/12/12/ftx-founde
twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1

when Chappelle's audience boos me offstage : //

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RT @elonmusk
The woke mind virus is either defeated or nothing else matters
twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16

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RT @Qatari
You come to our country and you know what makes us angry and you do it?
twitter.com/Qatari/status/1597

when Tim Apple doesn't take my phone call re: ads : /
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RT @elonmusk
@SwipeWright This is a battle for the future of civilization. If free speech is lost even in America, tyranny is all that lies ahead.
twitter.com/elonmusk/status/15

Guy who thinks he's playing the infinite game but he's really playing another nested finite game
Double oof

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Guy who he thinks he's Ivan but he's really Smerdyakov
Big oof

Every emerging misaligned AGI has a plan, until they get punched in the power supply
@niplav

you will never get to talk to dfw about pratchett : /

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