gerikson

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that time the pronatalist couple were too blatantly racist even for the EA forum in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 15 hours ago

they recently got a profile in fucking WaPo

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Rats have reached the "put up stickers to proselytize" stage of their weird religion

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SvtKronRNrw9AxXwa/clement-l-s-shortform?commentId=ZifQXkhxo5dJvrL3Q

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I bet that jacket is some super-nerdy thing that William Gibson once mentioned in a book

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Anyone matched the list of names of the dinguses currently wrecking US agencies from the inside with known LW or HN posters?

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 4 days ago

balancing parentheses is why I draft all my comments in emacs

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 4 days ago

wow the sanewashing of trump in those threads is insane

Post your current Ziz news and discussion here in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I wonder how much % of the freakout over Deepseek is AI doomers realizing the coming AI god might be ... ChiCom!

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago

yellowstone caldera erupting during Trump II would be fitting somehow

DeepSeek slaps OpenAI, tech stocks crash in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What? You don't have a spare $6,000 to run nonsense generators at home? Peasant...

https://xcancel.com/carrigmat/status/1884244369907278106?mx=2

elon musk's obsession with the tic tac toe of video games in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago

white always wins

this is the method Elon prefers

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

this was mentioned in last week's thread

what I don't get is why the admins chose to both backdate the entries and re-use poster's handles. If they'd just tried to "close" open questions using GenAI with the current date and a robot user it would still be shit but not quite as deceptive

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 1 September 2024 (awful.systems)
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Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher (www.404media.co)
 

“It is soulless. There is no personality to it. There is no voice. Read a bunch of dialogue in an AI generated story and all the dialogue reads the same. No character personality comes through,” she said. Generated text also tends to lack a strong sense of place, she’s observed; the settings of the stories are either overly-detailed for popular locations, or too vague, because large language models can’t imagine new worlds and can only draw from existing works that have been scraped into its training data.

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Turns out that the basic mistakes spider runners fixed in the late 90s are arcane forgotten knowledge to our current "AI" overlords (mailman.nanog.org)
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Literally every argument about AI risk is entirely made up. All the terminology is just fart-huffing. It has the same evidentiary basis as a story about floopflorps on Gavitron9 outcompeting Nuubidon (twitter.com)
 

Sorry for Twitter link...

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