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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

yep that's the stuff. they HINT HINTed what they wanted the LLM to do.

Ziz update thread, started 19 February in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Wired: The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians (archive)

Evan Ratliff has apparently been tracking the Ziz cult since 2022 and when it blew up into mainstream news, he was ready

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

crayon either way

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

Has the study itself shown up?

EDIT: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.13295

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

that gives me questions about China

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

that's tomorrow's Pivot

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

Chris Kluwe vs Gamergate is an example of the jocks as the good guys up against the nerds as the bad guys

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

IQ is a farce multiplier. Elon is a High IQ Individual which means he wreaks 1000x the havoc of a regular dumbass. IQ stands for Idiot Quickly

Ziz update thread, started 19 February in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

BBC summary of the story of Ziz

Yudkowsky: eugenics is now "the third most important project in the world." After AI doom and anime, presumably. in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

the user has been gently directed to the debate club

Humane AI finally shuts down, HP pays $116m for the pieces — not including the Ai Pin in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

the Laserjet 4M from the 1990s, the incredible unstoppable tank of lasers

Yudkowsky: eugenics is now "the third most important project in the world." After AI doom and anime, presumably. in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (10 children)

Superbabies is a backup plan; focus the energy of humanity’s collective genetic endowment into a single generation, and have THAT generation to solve problems like “figure out how to control digital superintelligence

The academic institutions in charge of exploring these ideas are deeply compromised by insane ideologies. And the big commercial entities are too timid to do anything truly novel; once they discovered they had a technology that could potentially make a few tens of billions treating single gene genetic disorders, no one wanted to take any risks; better to take the easy, guaranteed money and spend your life on a lucrative endeavor improving the lives of 0.5% of the population than go for a hail mary project that will result in journalists writing lots of articles calling you a eugenicist.

oh no, not a eugenicist!

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DeepSeek roundup: banned by governments, no guard rails, lied about its training costs (pivot-to-ai.com)
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OpenAI does a Super Bowl ad, Google’s ad uses bad stats from Gemini (pivot-to-ai.com)
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that time the pronatalist couple were too blatantly racist even for the EA forum (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
 

the comments are a delight also

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Slate on the pronatalists: For the Love of God, Stop Profiling This Couple! (slate.com)
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tired: Roko's Basilisk. wired: Total Fucking Asshole Server 2006 (en.uncyclopedia.co)
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How to remove Copilot AI from your Office 365 subscription: hit ‘cancel’ (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Do be evil: Google now OK with AI for weapons and surveillance — for ‘freedom, equality, and human rights’ (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Iris Meredith: Licking the AI Boot (deadsimpletech.com)
 

"the AI thread in our society now is nothing more or less than a demand by the wealthy creators of it for submission. It's a naked show of force by the powerful and stupid: you will use this tool, and you will like it."

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Forum admin’s madness, AI edition: the old Physics Forums site fills with generated slop (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Popular anonymous race scientist "Crémieux Receuil" is actually a graduate student named Jordan Lasker (www.polemics.md)
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Oh no! AI can replicate itself! … when you tell it to, and you give it copies of all its files (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 (awful.systems)
 

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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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