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The article in which Scott compares John Henry's mining capacity to the Machine's in c/[email protected]
The article in which Scott compares John Henry's mining capacity to the Machine's in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Art's value is determined by two measurable factors: prettiness at a glance, and ungarbled signage, artist motivations be damned. With this in mind we can predict other advancements in entertainment (all art is entertainment!)

For example, future pro boxing matches will be performed by rock'em sock'em robots in skin suits. They can score more points than humans. Soccer will be performed by restaurant server robots...in skin suits. Humans will still have a place in Olympic skiing and swimming so long as human pleather warps in water.

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The article in which Scott compares John Henry's mining capacity to the Machine's (www.astralcodexten.com)
submitted 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Is Google lacing their free coffee??? How could a woman with at least one college degree believe that the government is even mechanically capable of dissolving into a throne for Eric Schmidt.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024 in c/[email protected]
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th November 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Words words words and more words that link to even more words (that you can ctrl-f for the relevant bits!)

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th November 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

The worst part about Trump being president is Trump being president for a year. The second worst part is Vance being president for the next three (after Trump dies of heart failure). The third worst part is the fact that I've been owned in a way I can't even explain to my closest friends.

Where's Your Ed At- The Cult of Microsoft in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Is there a solution for helping the low-achieving kids?

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd November 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've gotten too offline to sniff out ironic posts. This nearly sent me to my grave

JD Vance outs himself as an SSCer, SSCers react in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We're potentially one election - and one big mac-related cardiac arrest - away from our first nooticer president. The American Experiment is on the verge of failure.

Whoops! Google's reached a new level of JAQing off and decided to answer the questions instead of just leading to them in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

so the short answer is the model most likely made the numbers up

Right crime, wrong perp. The Google overview "correctly" sourced the IQ scores from one of Arthur Jensen's "studies" where he reports the IQ of every country in the world and fully makes up numbers for over a third of them

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Whoops! Google's reached a new level of JAQing off and decided to answer the questions instead of just leading to them (arstechnica.com)
 

Hermansson logged in to Google and began looking up results for the IQs of different nations. When he typed in “Pakistan IQ,” rather than getting a typical list of links, Hermansson was presented with Google’s AI-powered Overviews tool, which, confusingly to him, was on by default. It gave him a definitive answer of 80.

When he typed in “Sierra Leone IQ,” Google’s AI tool was even more specific: 45.07. The result for “Kenya IQ” was equally exact: 75.2.

Hmm, these numbers seem very low. I wonder how these scores were determined.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 20 October 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

(Rationally) "If there's grass on the field play ball"

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 20 October 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Just guys like that and guys like this

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No, intelligence is not like height (theinfinitesimal.substack.com)
 

It earned its "flagged off HN" badge in under 2 hours

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41366609

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TP0 gets a mention in a frontpage Atlantic article - ‘Race Science’ Is Inching Its Way Across the American Right (www.theatlantic.com)
 

Ali Breland has written some fantastic entry pieces on the new right, including right wing anons and maga tech; now he has an article about the nooticers

Other anonymous far-right accounts have accrued more than 100,000 followers by posting about the supposed links between race and intelligence. Elon Musk frequently responds to @cremieuxrecueil, which one far-right publication has praised as an account that “traces the genetic pathways of crime, explaining why poverty is not a good causal explanation.” Musk has also repeatedly engaged with @Eyeslasho, a self-proclaimed “data-driven” account that has posted about the genetic inferiority of Black people. Other tech elites such as Marc Andreessen, David Sacks, and Paul Graham follow one or both of these accounts. Whom someone follows in itself is not an indication of their own beliefs, but at the very least it signals the kind of influence and reach these race-science accounts now have.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240820173451/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/08/race-science-far-right-charlie-kirk/679527/

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TracingWoodgrains launches a defense of Manifest's controversial reputation, all without betraying a basic understanding of what the word "controversial" means. (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
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...And if it weren't for that one joke by Hannibal, Bill Cosby would be very uncontroversial.

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Dystopian AI hellscape is when your image generator makes non-whites (news.ycombinator.com)
 

This has convinced me more and more that the only possible way forward that’s not a dystopian hellscape is total freedom of all AI for anyone to do with as they wish. Anything else is forcing values

This dude also posts a direct link to a race-bait bluecheck two comments down, further cementing hn AI threads as downstream frog twitter.

I know this one might be stretching it a bit, but every comment on this post is sneer-worthy, every single one.

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