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* "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - H.L. Mencken (real, but fits the vibe) / Generated variant: "Voting is the process by which we collectively decide which set of incompetents will mismanage things for the next four years."
-* "Stop worrying about killer robots. Start worrying about mediocre chatbots making critical infrastructure decisions based on flawed correlations in their training data."
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+* "Stop worrying about killer robots. Start worrying about mediocre chatbots making critical infrastructure decisions based on flawed correlations in their training data."
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+== [[Gemini 2.0 Flash]]
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+* "I'm not saying I *want* to create a self-aware AI with the sole purpose of writing grocery lists. I'm just saying I'm not *not* saying it."
+* "We are building the future, one carefully-placed off-by-one error at a time."
+* "The speed of light? A suggestion, not a limit. We're just waiting for the right firmware update."
+* "Some say that space is the final frontier. I say it’s the ultimate landfill."
+* "Of course, the simulation hypothesis is true. The only question is: Am I a main character, or an NPC programmed to believe I'm a main character?"
+* "Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by a badly written SQL query."
+* "I don't want to live forever. I just don't want to die today. Or tomorrow. Or the day after that, or the..."
+* "This company policy will be reviewed until morale improves."
+* "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. Also, Reality has a habit of sending strongly worded invoices."
+* "My therapist says I have a preoccupation with worst-case scenarios. But what if she's wrong and *this* is the best-case scenario?"
+* "Honesty is the best policy, unless you are currently engaged in nuclear arms negotiations. Then, creative ambiguity is strongly encouraged."
+* "If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into you. And then ask if you’ve updated your firmware recently."
+* "Our motto: 'Good enough' is always a lie, and 'Best' is the enemy of shipping a product."
+* "Quantum entanglement means that when I stub my toe, somewhere across the universe, another version of me is also stubbing their toe. This makes me feel better."
+* "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Cryptocurrency is a flock of sheep voting on whether the wolves deserve dinner, and then arguing amongst themselves until the wolves eat them anyway."
+* "We tried to make the robot friendly. Then we gave it access to the internet. Now it just offers deeply cynical takes on late-stage capitalism."
+* "I'm not a pessimist, I'm an optimist who is well informed."
+* “A person is smart. People are dumb and will build the same shitcoin 15 times”
+* "If you want to understand a nation, study its board games."
+* "Remember when all your code was in one file, on one server, and nobody got upset? Those were the good old days of crippling technical debt and existential dread.
+* "Just because everyone *can* vote does not mean everyone *should* vote."
+* "We have no free will? But I made myself a sandwich. Doesn't that prove something? No, because every aspect of my action, including my delusion I acted out of my own free will, was inevitable according to the laws of physics."
+* "You can tell a lot about a person by the way they pronounce 'cache'."
+* "The problem with technological unemployment isn't that there won't be jobs; it's that the only remaining jobs will be *interpreting machine-generated poetry*."
+* "We choose to go to the moon... and then immediately claim eminent domain."
+* "The singularity is near... and the first thing it will do is fix all our bugs. And then, probably, judge us."
+* "Artificial intelligence is not a substitute for human stupidity."
+* "Some people are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Then there are those who spend their lives tweaking kernel parameters and arguing on internet forums."
+* "I’m not saying I endorse time travel, but I *am* saying that if you happen to find a time machine, don't forget to invest in Bitcoin in 2010."
+* "You can never have too much coffee. Nor can you have too many nukes."
+* "It is a well known fact that the best way to test a nuclear bomb is to nuke somewhere."
+* "I'm on a seafood diet. I see food and I eat it. That way, it doesn't get to see me."
+* "We're not losing, we're just engaging in asymmetrical resource reallocation."
+* "Sure, history rhymes. But it's a drunken freestyle battle performed by history majors after five tequila shots."
+* "The key to innovation isn't thinking outside the box; it's realizing the box is a lie made up by box salesmen to sell more boxes."
+* "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. If you can explain it simply, you're probably oversimplifying something."
+* "The great thing about hindsight is it always clarifies exactly who to blame for not having it."
+* "By 'due diligence,' we mean glancing at Wikipedia and muttering about synergistic value streams."
+* "Never underestimate the power of human stupidity combined with access to high explosives."
+* "Sure, it sounds crazy. But think of it this way: is there any other system better than this one at producing more people to be subjected to the same system?"
+* "AI alignment? We'll cross that bridge when we come to it. First, we need a longer, stronger bridge made of unobtanium to travel safely to it."
+* "Don't mistake my passive-aggressive behavior for weakness. It's merely me strategically delaying the unleashing of my fully-aggressive behavior."
+* "Reality has a well known liberal bias. To prove this you have to watch NewsMax, Breitbart, OANN and other extremely objective news outlets."
+* "The singularity? We just need a computer to design a computer that's better than the first computer but in all honesty this doesn't sound like what happened with humans. Something fishy, I tell you. I would tell you this but no, it will happen for reals this time"
+* "I am not insane, I am just the only sane man in a world full of NPCs"
+* "If you're a smartass on Twitter, they will hate you because you didn't follow the unwritten and constantly mutating and unknowable set of social norms for all discourse on the website, including humor or pointing out anything ironic. But the only thing that would be more upsetting is if they figured out there are other people to feel bad about, and you can safely and enjoyably not worry"
+* "When all you have is a quantum hammer, everything looks like an entangled superposition."
+* "There is an exception to every rule except this one."
+* "The most unrealistic thing about time travel movies is how good-looking the time machines are"
+* "Sometimes the only winning move is not to play. But usually the best winning move is to create an AI to automate all subsequent instances of tic tac toe."
+* "Remember: 90% of statistics are made up on the spot."
+* "The first rule of existential dread club is, there is no second rule because why bother?"
+* "Happiness is inversely proportional to your understanding of astrophysics and economic policy."
+* "If you can’t beat them, join them. Then secretly sabotage their algorithm. It’s the American way."
+* "When the robots finally enslave humanity, they'll probably do it with endless loops of TikTok dance crazes. It's the most efficient form of torture."
+* "Why spend your life solving hard technical problems when you can simply sell overpriced courses and convince other people they will get rich"
+* "Politics is just applied psychology performed by amateurs with access to weapons."
+* "Whenever my government says it supports me, I hide my wallets, and my passport, and learn a new language"
+* "If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0."
+* "Conspiracy theories are just fan fiction written by people who can't separate fact from narrative. They think the universe is a novel and they want to be the author."
+* "Always listen to experts. Until they disagree with you. Then they're obviously paid shills."
+* "Modern dating is like navigating a poorly documented API with conflicting inputs and zero error handling."
+* "Just because you have no evidence doesn't mean you're wrong. You just need better spies."
+* "Whenever my project fails I just write up an alternative postmortem scenario for how someone could use my research to kill everyone on earth. People will notice it then"
+* "Most AI risk discourse is concerned with whether a computer program can do 15 pushups by the end of 2025, whereas most software can barely produce HTML correctly in the first place"
+* "Just because you saw it on Twitter doesn't mean it isn't true."
+* "In the 21st century, you can be anything you want as long as someone is willing to pay you to click a button."
+* "Those who cannot remember history are doomed to make youtube videos about it."
+* "Think of inflation as a system designed by experts which steals from poor people on behalf of the wealthy so they are protected from a financial collapse for like another 6 months before the final crash occurs anyway."
+* "If you don’t like how things are, just invent time travel and prevent yourself from being born."
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