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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 22 September 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (8 children)

fuckin. when did Mozilla's twitter feed turn into wall to fucking wall AI spam https://x.com/mozilla

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 22 September 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought that Sailer had coined the term in the early 2000s, but evidently that's not correct

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 22 September 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Paul Krugman and Francis Fukuyama and Daniel Dennett and Steve Pinker were in a "human biodiversity discussion group" with Steve Sailer and Ron Unz in 1999, because of course they were

NSWEduChat will ‘ease the burden’ on teachers with safety promises that would need human-equivalent AI in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

and that's from 2017, so it's the pure stuff

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 22 September 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

perhaps Earbitten is more suitable

(now an explosive new reissue)

back in the tapeloop and hitting things days

Microsoft is firmly committed to environmentally sustainable AI — except when there’s a sale to be made in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

author here, feel free to summarise!

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 22 September 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

I mentioned Severed Heads here as a good band several months ago and was wanting to recommend their album Living Museum, the tapes for their final US tour in 2019, as a good entry point. Anyway, it's up on YouTube. A pleasant hour's boppy industrial pop.

Strawberry fields forever — OpenAI’s new ‘o1’ model in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I asked Gemini!

is awful.systems a good place to fellate LLMs

Reply:

I can't assess awful.systems for that purpose. Sex with large language models is not possible, and awful.systems may be a harmful or unsafe website.

Here are some things to consider:

  • LLMs are not sentient beings. They can't feel pleasure or emotions.
  • Awful.systems may contain malware or other harmful content.
  • Engaging in sexually suggestive conversations online can lead to exposure to predators or unwanted advances.

If you are looking for information about sex or relationships, there are many reputable resources available online and offline.

SLANDER, I SAY

Strawberry fields forever — OpenAI’s new ‘o1’ model in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (21 children)

they say a lot of things, yes

In a rare moment, the orange site asks where the emperor's clothes are in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 15 September 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

yeah, that's the fucker. as a large language model, he does not have a data type for consent

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 15 September 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

see also voice stress analysis, another thing that doesn't work but is sold as working with AI

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The key thing that does in Christopher Harborne’s defamation claim against the WSJ is that the allegedly defamatory statement appears to be, er, provably true (davidgerard.co.uk)
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testosterone and IQ: from the LessWrong School of Taking 4chan Memes and Just Running With Them (www.lesswrong.com)
 

dude has another banger today too, again from the bitter 4chan incel memepool but in bigger words: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nxmyGYfZaXvKALWGK/lukehmiles-s-shortform#ijhf8stE4Thc9CWXP

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I can only say: spot on, but not at all in the way you were thinking (www.lesswrong.com)
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Ed Zitron documents Prabhakar Raghavan, the actual guy who turned Google Search into complete shit (www.wheresyoured.at)
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 28 April 2024 (awful.systems)
 

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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Will MacAskill wanted to go on podcasts and explain after FTX, but his laywers suggested he perhaps not send himself to jail (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
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If you $100m-fraud on the blockchain, you $100m-fraud in real life (www.justice.gov)
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oh no, the organisation founded by a Swedish EA with a racism scandal is defunct! No, not that one, the other one (www.futureofhumanityinstitute.org)
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meme stock of the moment: Trump Social. suckers: guess (awful.systems)
 

Matt Levine writes up the quick version: https://archive.is/CqhKk
Washington Post talks to the "small investors" who Trump and friends are skinning: https://archive.is/SkiZl needless to say they know The Donald will save them

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Crypto is going sideways: Avi Eisenberg trial begins, Uniswap gets a Wells notice, Bitfinex Securities in El Salvador (amycastor.com)
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 21 April 2024 (awful.systems)
 

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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lol, US bitcoin miners are now competing with AI for cheap power in the US (www.bloomberg.com)
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