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PaperclipPerfector  5d ago (text post)   2565 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for October 9, 2026

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You are an expert software engineer by KRAZAM (the ones that made the microservices sketch and parodied Excel esport before it even existed). Kinda reminds me of that Greg Egan short story where the partial scan of a human brain is conscious and dreaming while being generated.

I shouldn't have scrolled to the comments. I was immediately assaulted by the take of useless datacenters obliterating water. I can think of only one escape from the NPCs.

I went to see how bad it was, so I could write an expanded version of my "why are humans making it so hard to come up with an AGI definition that AI doesn't yet meet but they all do" rant, with the appropriate "considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists" reference and everything ... but I actually only saw a single "obliterating water" comment, and it seemed to be satirical rather than serious. I didn't scroll very far down, so I'm not questioning your credibility here, but even if there are a ton of dumb water takes I missed, I'm kind of amazed they didn't reach my screen. Does YouTube now actually have an algorithm (or even more incredibly, a user base) that successfully filters out the dumbest comments?

It probably was the same root comment you're talking about, and I guess in a more charitable mood it can very well be read as satirical. The discussion underneath it certainly wasn't. Between the luddite NPCs and the people aligning the AI the way a gunnery officer aligns a ten-inch cannon, I really need that escape of never ever ever interacting with anybody ever again. Which of the despair-inducing outcomes comes to pass should be a surprise.

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