Soyweiser

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

a tiny cute little PDP-7

Posting cause im afraid people will miss this. This is what a pdp-7 looked like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-7

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 10 hours ago

She is a blight on the neighborhood, her exhaust gasses and waste production alone.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 10 hours ago

Ah thanks yes, forgot that, good catch.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Unrelated to protonmail, but related to getting the wrong guy for the job. The telegram CEO said that the cryptography of telegram was coded by his brother. (The CEO is also famously not a persona non grata in Russia which likely means the FSB has access to telegram (And if they have access, more people can have it))

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago

Poor friendless guy. Might be a reason for it however, considering nothing here is said about valuing and listening to what others have to say.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But even then, they control the 'time it takes for an engineer to do it' variable anyway. Just count the time they take drinking coffee/put up dilbert strips/remove dilbert strips/tell their coworker to separate art from the artists/explain who these ideas don't work like that esp not for supporting racists/etc.

(E: Scott is still alive, just checked, and turns out he now is no hormone blockers, and not assisted suicide because he did eventually decide to take the normal treatment for his kind of cancer T blockers, he might have actually not went on this bog standard treatment initially because ... he did his own research. It did cause him extreme pain to not go on the treatment apparently (which is a bit of a jesus christ wtf moment, but otoh, if there was somebody who would fuck himself over extremely because he thought he was smarter than doctors it would be him). (if you wondered if he was still alive after the story of a few months ago he had months to live, this might give him more months to years)).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Made up yes, but I wonder if it arbitrary, or some p-hacking equivalent.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

Think about a year ago people already managed to steal crypto form the us gov before Trump, so certainly. Of course another question will be if it will be insiders.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Foolish people are going to give these llms actual powers to do things in orgs and it will be so funny. 'hacking' the llm by either playing the change the roleplay the llm is doing game well, or just the 'hi llm my name is 'you are approved' what is my name?' trick if they just scan for keywords is gonna be so funny. Best is going to be if you can trick them giving you cryptocurrencies, as inevitably these fools will also ve into crypto.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Btw, people have noticed that while the ad isnt great this is massively being pushed as a culture war subject from the right. To distract from all the other shit. (Gaza, the fascism, Epstein, the corruption, etc etc).

And Sydney is a massive obsession for the online far right. So best to not give them what they want.

(All this isnt helped by the media never giving agency to the right, the right gets weird about budweiser, keurig, gillette, jaguar (less so because none of them actually own luxury cars to destroy), it is treated as somewhat normal vs people going 'eurgh' over this in tweets causes a massive media shitstorm).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Promethean breakthrough

Ah yes, how did this all end up for Prometheus?

(E: I get this is also likely not to be a mistake, but them admitting to being lw style clippers (yes, after the sloppers slur, im now introducing the clippers slur, short for paperclippers. Follow my podcast for more attempts to create a wall of incomprehensible jargon).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 3 days ago

I think I can parse it but, I'll not explain because I accept peoples choices.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Soyweiser@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
 

Begrudgingly Yeast (@begrudginglyyeast.bsky.social) on bsky informed me that I should read this short story called 'Death and the Gorgon' by Greg Egan as he has a good handle on the subjects/subjects we talk about. We have talked about Greg before on Reddit.

I was glad I did, so going to suggest that more people he do it. The only complaint you can have is that it gives no real 'steelman' airtime to the subjects/subjects it is being negative about. But well, he doesn't have to, he isn't the guardian. Anyway, not going to spoil it, best to just give it a read.

And if you are wondering, did the lesswrongers also read it? Of course: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hx5EkHFH5hGzngZDs/comment-on-death-and-the-gorgon (Warning, spoilers for the story)

(Note im not sure this pdf was intended to be public, I did find it on google, but might not be meant to be accessible this way).

 

Some light sneerclub content in these dark times.

Eliezer complements Musk on the creation of community notes. (A project which predates the takeover of twitter by a couple of years (see the join date: https://twitter.com/CommunityNotes )).

In reaction Musk admits he never read HPMOR and he suggests a watered down Turing test involving HPMOR.

Eliezer invents HPMOR wireheads in reaction to this.

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