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A 2 minute youtube video

I'm not going to explain what it is because that would ruin the video.

Also since explaining the video ruins it, here is a link to rot13

Humor from today's Onion: World’s Supercomputers Release Study Confirming They Are Not Powerful Enough

A "game over" screen from the video game Balance of Power.

As seen on Reddit. Since the screen is just text, I'll go ahead and reproduce the text here:

You have ignited a nuclear war.

And no, there is no animated display of a mushroom cloud with parts of bodies flying through the air.

We do not reward failure.

You can access the mockery videos by Robert Gross once again.

Okay, honestly. I think they're pretty bad and lame.

But this recap of maybe the most funniest thing I've read on LessWrong is quite good. But the ending kinda ruins it, I don't think lukeprog is woman-objectifying misogyny rationalizing whatever, I just thought it was adorable.

• The End Is A.I.: The Singularity Is Sci-Fi's Faith-Based Initiative - positing that handwaving the bit where the AI is created isn't good enough. "To see AGI is unavoidable, you have to do as SF so often does, and imagine robots as monstrous or messianic geniuses waiting to happen, and humans as a bunch of dummies."
• Is It Time To Give Up On The Singularity? - apart from skepticism over the idea of an intelligence explosion, positing that the word doesn't usefully do any work any more.

Psychometrician tweets stuff on methodology & misconduct in psychology & statistics.

I can't see a reason as to why this would be a better place for posting links than the Open Thread.

There's a new subreddit for GIFs of cute baby elephants: http://www.reddit.com/r/babyelephantgifs