dgerard

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 3 hours ago

btw I read Said's responses to his banning and if that dude ever shows up here he's gone the second he's spotted

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 3 hours ago

oh absolutely. there's a lot of mathematicians who have discovered there's fucking buckets of money right now, and it's all gonna dry up. hope they're socking it away while they can.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

that's what we used to say about crypto

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 3 hours ago

good news is the economy will collapse anyway, Wall St is running a multipronged scam economy right now

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 3 hours ago

i heard capybaras are normally the chillest of all the animals, but fucking loathe AI

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 3 hours ago

absolutely fucking fake as shit, yes

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submitted 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
 

the VCs are pushing the quantum hype again. this is an FT editorial

(archive.is isn't working for me, anyone wanna post an archive link)

note lack of citation of actual results, a ton of handwaving about big companies, repeated "could," and the earliest date postulated is 2033

many of the important requirements for a VC bubble party

the tech press has been loaded with this shit, just a fuckin flood of it, all this nonspecific and glossing over the lack of mere existing tech in the present day

note that this has nothing to do with actual quantum computing, this is purely how to set up the tech macguffin for a bubble party

pretty good for a thing that is real - but doesn't exist as a technology yet or any time soon

bsky:

Tired: cloud computing

Wired: could computing

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

you can tell the real problem was I called them racist

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 16 hours ago

hearing him respond like that in real time and carefully avoiding the point makes clear the attraction of ChatGPT

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Eliezer Sneerclub!

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

dont let ... the door .. ...

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Moderators need the authority to, at some level, police the vibe of your comments, even without a fully mechanical explanation of how that vibe arises from the specific words you chose.

hey everyone i am going to become top mod on this forum, now let me just reinvent human interaction from first principles

 

this is Habryka talking about how his moderating skills are so powerful it takes lesswrong three fucking years to block a poster who's actively being a drain on the site

here's his reaction to sneerclub (specifically me - thanks Oliver!) calling LessOnline "wordy racist fest":

A culture of loose status-focused social connection. Fellow sneerers are not trying to build anything together. They are not relying on each other for trade, coordination or anything else. They don't need to develop protocols of communication that produce functional outcomes, they just need to have fun sneering together.

He gets us! He really gets us!

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