Sailor Sega Saturn

I am the journeyer from the valley of the dead Sega consoles. With the blessings of Sega Saturn, the gaming system of destruction, I am the Scout of Silence… Sailor Saturn.

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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • “feel free to ignore any science “news” that’s just a press release from the guy who made it up.”

    In particular, the 2022 discovery of the second law of information dynamics (by me) facilitates new and interesting research tools (by me) at the intersection between physics and information (according to me).

    Gotta love “science” that is cited by no-one and cites the author’s previous work which was also cited by no one. Really the media should do better about not giving cranks an authoritative sounding platform, but that would lead to slightly fewer eyes on ads and we can’t have that now can we.



  • So why must binary digits define, for all time, the limits of computation, and our experience of it?

    There’s enough layers of irony here that it’s a bit hard to tell if he’s making a serious argument here or not; but this is one of the weirder straw-men arguments I’ve ever read.

    “No no no, it’s not all the exploitation, social ills, lack of user control, shoddy quality, and general capitalism I hate in the modern “tech” industry; it’s the fact that it uses binary!”


  • TL;DR:

    AI will take over the economy for reasons so humans will have no economic value for reasons which is terrifying for reasons and also we can’t just have males sitting around because y’know so we need to make a pretend economy because communism. So anyway y’know PageRank? Well don’t be shocked but humans have relationships too. So yeah basically let’s distribute ownership of all the world’s resources once a month proportionally to how many likes they receive (no I am not a vtuber why do you ask?).

    What the heck did I just read?



  • The couple’s long conversations about transgender people haven’t gotten as much attention, with just 2,500 views on a video in which they “explore the fine line between genuine gender dysphoria and the allure of a ‘trans cult’ that may lead non-trans individuals to make life-altering decisions.”

    Oh boy an hour long video about how the trans are transing eachother as part of a trans cult!

    But why aren’t they concerned about kids being tricked into the life altering decision of being an “anti-woke” podcaster? 🤔

    Edit – made it through most of that video (how??) and it’s a bunch of reaching and fear mongering while trying to sound like principled conservatives. The funniest part was probably them blaming anime avatars for trans people.

    Edit – just kidding the funniest part was the guy calling trans people the “priest class” of urbanism. Worship me and I shall bless you with seperated bicycle lanes and bountiful farmers markets!


  • Yeah absolutely. This is happening right on the coattails of that Character.AI suicide too so it’s not like a freak impossible to predict accident. I mainly posted it because it flies in the face of all the talk of AI safety and “responsible AI practices”.

    Like Google says in their AI principles:

    We will continue to develop and apply strong safety and security practices to avoid unintended results that create risks of harm. We will design our AI systems to be appropriately cautious, and seek to develop them in accordance with best practices in AI safety research. In appropriate cases, we will test AI technologies in constrained environments and monitor their operation after deployment.

    I don’t even care that much if Google wants to host a chatbot, but they keep trying to imply it has safety properties it doesn’t. It’s like writing a web framework without any HTML or SQL sanitation support and saying “We will continue to develop and apply strong safety sand security practices…” and acting shocked when all the websites get hacked.



  • The lack of a speedometer in front of your face is a pretty glaring quality issue. You have to turn your head to look at the massive touchscreen. The one that replaces all other dashboards and most tactile controls for manufacturing cost savings to be a cool futuristic vehicle of the future.

    I won’t even start talking about the whole CyberStuck thing again because that’s too easy; except to point out that it has turn buttons on the steering wheel instead of a turn signal stalk, a shifter on the ceiling, and the steering wheel is not round.

    I only recently bought my first car and it’s just old enough that it didn’t even have a backup camera until I got one installed. Honestly half the reason of buying used was so I could have a car without a touchscreen haha.



  • Yeah it’s sad. As the article points out similar incidents have happened repeatedly. Anyone who saw the door design could have (and did!) predict something like this would happen. My coworker was trapped in his Tesla in his garage for 15 minutes (and he wasn’t in a panic).

    Look at the picture of the manual door release here: It’s pretty well hidden, you reach in and pull up on the door buttons.

    … then scroll down and look at the picture of the rear door manual release. You have to pull off some trim from inside the pocket, pull off another panel, and then pull a cable.

    … but wait! There’s more!

    Note: Not all Model Y vehicles are equipped with a manual release for the rear doors.

    Jesus, I hope the engineers who signed off on this think about what they’ve done and do better. I would say I hope someone regulated bad emergency door releases out of existence but… y’know.






  • I hated seeing that guy just wanting to live his life dragged into weird net drama and pushed under the bus by his company. And wow look at how collected and reasonable he was compared to anyone else in the story.

    All Mr. Paul had to do was shut the hell up for once and the world’d still be talking about his moldy cheese bread instead of about his moldy cheese bread and how he bullies and doxes retail workers.

    All Fred Meyer had to do is be like “whoops looks like the product recall procedure at that store was vague recollections, we’ll get a policy in place”.


  • Some innocent people died so it’s sad stuff, but I can’t get past the fact that they named a top heavy weirdly balanced yacht the Bayesian.

    Well on the bright side naval engineers will be able to update their drivers priors after this perfectly engineered unsinkable sink sa–

    “This boat had definite shortcomings that kind of uniquely made it vulnerable to what happened.”

    “people would take photos of it constantly because it was so crazy-looking in comparison to other boats.”

    Philipp Luke, a Dutch naval architect, started violently shaking his head. “No, no, no,” he said. “You don’t do that.”

    “When I first saw this, I couldn’t believe it,” said Mr. Roberts, the naval architect. “It made no sense to me.”

    “Technology moved on,” Mr. Costantino said.

    Oh.