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The worst person you know: "We bought an island" in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Metal and industrial both have a Nazi problem and you have to get unfortunately good at sign spotting.

ChatGPT makes a terrible doctor. But it’s very convincing! in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unless you read any of the linked words and see it manages a cointoss at best and confidently makes shit up. Like, who the fuck has access to ChatGPT and no other sources of information.

"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/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

you can do that in the uk too (because nobody can be bothered otherwise and the volume is so low)

Go West, Weird Man: The oddballs of the MAGA movement have nothing on Silicon Valley transhumanists - by Émile Torres in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

yeah, he was in the Extropians

"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/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

welcome to sneerclub! here's your accordion

Go West, Weird Man: The oddballs of the MAGA movement have nothing on Silicon Valley transhumanists - by Émile Torres in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I was neutral to positive on cryonics until a friend went to sign up for it. (The one who introduced me to LessWrong.) Then I looked into it and was like "w h a t t h e"

Kroger unveils AI-powered automatic price gouger in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

wear a mask of the CEO

use a blockchain, they said. Fabulous efficiency, they said. Will revolutionise stock trading in Australia, they said. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I wrote about this previously https://awful.systems/post/1695710

yeah it was literally to use it as the back-end database for the settlement system

tl;dr not even crypto exchanges do things this arse-backwards

"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/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

failed-utopia-4-2

dude. it's like a photoshop, that's been photoshopped!!

Kroger unveils AI-powered automatic price gouger in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

about as likely as getting Charlie Brooker to write a good ending

Kroger unveils AI-powered automatic price gouger in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (4 children)

whoops! that was our error! It's actually "Enhanced Display for Grocery Environment" which is at least an acronym. Fixed.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 18 August 2024 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

the original is one of the new approach from the Dimes Square nazis, isn't it?

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Introducing Deadweight Loss as a Service (unoriginal.blog)

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and too many on HN fail to realise

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Elon accidentally creates an AI that goes out of its way not to be racist (nitter.net)

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yes it's a bunch of text images. yes it's worth it

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loving the EA forum on how the problem with spending the charity money on a castle was the public relations (forum.effectivealtruism.org)

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e(thicaldogfucking)/acc (awful.systems)

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Anatoly Karlin @powerfultakes

Replying to @RichardHanania

I'm against legalizing bestiality because the animal consent problem hasn't been solved, but probably actually will be quite soon thanks to Al (at least for the higher animals with complex languages). So why not wait a few more years. I don't see disgust as a good reason. It was an evolutionary adaptation of the agricultural era against the spread of zoonotic illnesses, but technology will soon make that entirely irrelevant as well.

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e/acc origin manifestos (awful.systems)

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For your utter delight and mine.

This is readily available: https://beff.substack.com/p/notes-on-eacc-principles-and-tenets
This appears to be the first document: https://web.archive.org/web/20220602164803/https://swarthy.substack.com/p/effective-accelerationism-eacc?s=r

The original genesis appears to have been these guys rambling on Twitter shortly before one of them posted the first essay.

cheers to @[email protected] and @blakestacey for finding these

this is a worse understanding of the Second Law of Thermodynamics than creationists.

they don't name Nick Land as their origin, but do generally credit him as the creator of accelerationism, and also their ideas on the inevitability of techno-capitalism are straight out of "The Dark Enlightenment" by Land.

so firstly, I blame El Sandifer for speaking this fucking neutron star of stupidity into existence, and secondly myself for understanding most of this orchestra of neoreactionary dog whistles.

thirdly, these fuckers all talk like Sephiroth.

I feel like I should write it up to explain the AI grifter e/acc thing, but also it's hard to explain this nonsense without a #include of Neoreaction A Basilisk and I'm not sure the centrist finance types of my readership have that much patience, nor that I do.

EDIT: urgh. Vitalik Buterin is philosophising again. d/acc. https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism.html "Special thanks to" several rationalists

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from iucounu on bsky (awful.systems)

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