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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 29 September 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

it's Friday so I probably won't get an answer till Monday or Tuesday, but I did contact their press office asking about why the fuck NFTs in TYOOL twenty fucking twenty four and the sensitive issue of the art being facile plagiarism by an advertising executive

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 29 September 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

you sure about that?

The most depressing thing for me is the feeling that I simply cannot trust anything that has been written in the past 2 years or so and up until the day that I die. It's not so much that I think people have used AI, but that I know they have with a high degree of certainty, and this certainty is converging to 100%, simply because there is no way it will not. If you write regularly and you're not using AI, you simply cannot keep up with the competition. You're out. And the growing consensus is "why shouldn't you?", there is no escape from that.

This is someone who literally can't tell good writing from bad, so he assumes everyone is using AI

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 29 September 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

shocked that scorpions in a scorpion's nest funded by their scorpion mates might have fallen into stinging

Caroline Ellison: A dashing tale of Victorian race science and, somehow, Harry Potter (Yudkowsky version) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

PROSECUTOR, PROBATION SERVICE: look, even we think time served for this one
(Judge reads Caroline's book)
JUDGE: Jail for Caroline! Jail for Caroline for seven hundred and thirty days!

Marques Brownlee's ‘Panels’ Backlash, Explained in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

pumped: artificially inflated

Marques Brownlee's ‘Panels’ Backlash, Explained in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

my phone tries extra fucking hard to sell me on its built in wallpaper app which has data-scraping permissions out to here also

Marques Brownlee's ‘Panels’ Backlash, Explained in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

indeed. I have ... a photo of the family? It's fine and cool?

under categories "LEADERSHIP -> SAM ALTMAN": making drugs extremely uncool again in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wish our dude well in his endeavours to touch grass

under categories "LEADERSHIP -> SAM ALTMAN": making drugs extremely uncool again in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

any of their actions, wtf

EDIT: actually, looking through your posts, logging off is a good idea and we're delighted to help

a16z picks the next tech hype after Web3 and AI! It’s … anime? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

that's literally it, yes

fucking blockchain games but the illustrations have big eyes

Caroline Ellison: A dashing tale of Victorian race science and, somehow, Harry Potter (Yudkowsky version) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Diddy and the Sam, it's Diddy and the Sam

Caroline Ellison: A dashing tale of Victorian race science and, somehow, Harry Potter (Yudkowsky version) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Ryan Salame went down hard though, basically for being a huge asshole

his stuff in the Lewis book is amazing. Lewis seems actually sympathetic to Salame and he still sounds like the stupendous shithead he is out his own mouth

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Effective Altruists: look, we tried to invite nice people as well as the huge racists we knew were huge racists when we invited them. What? Exclude the racists? But they're so interesting! (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
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Lightcone is so outraged at the Guardian article that they have started a prediction market about it (manifold.markets)
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WE DEMAND A CORRECTION TO uh various minor nitpicks

also we swear we totally didn't get your email

bonus from thread:

I am having a lot of fun on Manifold, but if the team insists on inviting eugenics speakers to conferences, its probably time for me to leave :-/

What exactly is your objection to people exercising their bodily autonomy to implement voluntary eugenics?

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 23 June 2024 (awful.systems)
 

Need to make a primal scream without gathering footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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Silicon Valley’s biggest grifters love Trump. Who could have guessed? (sfstandard.com)
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using GitHub CoPilot leads to the obvious consequence (archive.is)
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The Australian Securities Exchange CHESS blockchain: seven years of sunk cost fallacy (davidgerard.co.uk)
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the Nostr guy totally isn't a nazi, how dare you! he's just an extremely interested reader of a nazi (www.businessinsider.com)
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Onion: Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI (www.theonion.com)
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Solana Dev Who Got Burned Up in Meme Coin Stunt Is Alive—And Wants Another Dare (decrypt.co)
 

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"You can see the future first in San Francisco." OpenAI alumnus Leopold Aschenbrenner pours out a worshipful paean to the AI future, just as if GPT wasn't topping out its S-curve (situational-awareness.ai)
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come see all the popular super-duper-autocomplete systems failing hard at really simple reasoning questions and babbling nonsense from latent space! (arxiv.org)
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another banger from Roko, definitely a thinker of a time. I would first guess that this time it was a trans woman he came onto and she kicked him in the nuts (x.com)
 

Women have two niches in life: looking beautiful and making babies

The first niche will be taken by sexbots

The second by artificial wombs

Society will suddenly realize it doesn't need women and those in power will quickly start replacing and disempowering them.

People like to consider the positive implications of technology but they don't like to consider the negative implications

The smart strategy for women would be to ban ALL of the following:

  • sexbots
  • artificial wombs
  • trans women

Nobody except women should be allowed to look sexy(feminine sexy), look female or bear children.

To some extent TERF women like @jk_rowling are smart enough to realize that it's essential to defend the female monopoly on this stuff. But the average woman just isn't strategic enough to go along with this, and there's (as always) a collective action problem so you get defectors.

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