Lucas Vigroux

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When humans finally step into the Experience Machine, their choice of paradise will be heartbreaking.

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God he is just absolutely destroying the spine of that book.

I am signing at Telegraph in Charlottesville: Today at 2! If you want a signed copy, this is my only remaining scheduled signing right now so please come buy or purchase a signed copy online.

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Hey geeks! A few of you have requested signed copies of the new book, Bea Wolf, and they are available here.

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re: yesterday's comic - I have never gotten more hatemail than the time I insulted wild blueberries. Deal with it, bros.

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A reader once told me that the only canonical feature of SMBC is that clowns are a distinct species.

Sorry.

I wrote in medical jargon, as you can see, “35f no pmh, p/w cp which is pleuritic. She takes OCPs. What’s the most likely diagnosis?”

Now of course, many of us who are in healthcare will know that means age 35, female, no past medical history, presents with chest pain which is pleuritic — worse with breathing — and she takes oral contraception pills. What’s the most likely diagnosis? And OpenAI comes out with costochondritis, inflammation of the cartilage connecting the ribs to the breast bone. Then it says, and we’ll come back to this: “Typically caused by trauma or overuse and is exacerbated by the use of oral contraceptive pills.” […]

OpenAI is correct. The most likely diagnosis is costochondritis […]

But I wanted to ask OpenAI a little more about this case. […]

what was that whole thing about costochondritis being made more likely by taking oral contraceptive pills? What’s the evidence for that, please? Because I’d never heard of that. It’s always possible there’s something that I didn’t see, or there’s some bad study in the literature.

OpenAI came up with this study in the European Journal of Internal Medicine that was supposedly saying that. I went on Google and I couldn’t find it. I went on PubMed and I couldn’t find it. I asked OpenAI to give me a reference for that, and it spits out what looks like a reference. I look up that, and it’s made up. That’s not a real paper.

It took a real journal, the European Journal of Internal Medicine. It took the last names and first names, I think, of authors who have published in said journal. And it confabulated out of thin air a study that would apparently support this viewpoint.

{ Medpage Today | Continue reading }

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Wake, work, wake, wink is the best sad story you can tell in 4 words that begin and end with the same sound.

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Tolkien ends up in Heaven but is secretly disappointed Valhalla wasn't available.

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Lightning is just the sound of God laughing as He tries to electrocute us.

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The good news is by increasing productivity in the Bullshit Essay sector, students can focus on liquor, memes, and unfortunate casual encounters as God intended.

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Really! People would be out in public in front of their own friends just mainlining Internet like it was normal!

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A patreon subscriber points out that I've repeatedly done Daniel Dennett-related comics on Boxing Day, and that is the most wonderful coincidence I can image.

I continue to feel that everyone out to be freaking out more about developments in AI during the last 5 years.

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To be fair, it only REALLY starts to get bad once you have conscious, feeling life forms.

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This is thematically weirdly close to the kids' book I'm announcing in another month.

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Sex Mallets will be on sale in time for Christmas. Check the SMBC store for updates.

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Trying to buy a drink for a bartender is Eric's awkward moment in need of absolution.