adrienne

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The worst person you know: "We bought an island" in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
"Hours and hours of content have been minted by highly-educated, prestigiously-credentialed people, consternating about the policy implications of Sam Altman’s speculative fan fiction" in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] adrienne@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago

In Canada the banks look at you funny but will issue chequebooks if you ask. (Source: am an American immigrant to Canada, refuse to sign up for our apartment management company's auto-rent-payment thingy. Rent is the only thing we use them for.)

rationalists discuss: does testosterone make you stupid? in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] adrienne@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

Also there's literally no correlation between skull size and intelligence in primates????

Roko puts self on ice floe, saving us the trouble in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] adrienne@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago

Also James Blish, in the of-their-time-but-still-worth-reading Cities in Flight series.

Tech Bros Invented Trains And It Broke Me in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] adrienne@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, the light-rail system in Vancouver, BC is basically fully-automated, but they do still have to have a person hanging out in the train in case something goes badly wrong.