Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th November 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] slopjockey@awful.systems 20 points 3 days ago

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/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] slopjockey@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago

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

JD Vance outs himself as an SSCer, SSCers react in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[-] slopjockey@awful.systems 24 points 1 week ago

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/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] slopjockey@awful.systems 22 points 2 weeks ago

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)
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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/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] slopjockey@awful.systems 20 points 3 weeks ago

Musk's twitter is unleashin/g/ the worst posters that the CS world has to offer

Grindr proposes ‘AI wingman’ to optimize away the gay sex bit in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] slopjockey@awful.systems 27 points 1 month ago

Actually I was wrong, the guy is gay and married. But he IS a trumper, so I probably got mixed up.

Grindr proposes ‘AI wingman’ to optimize away the gay sex bit in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] slopjockey@awful.systems 21 points 1 month ago

Does the (straight) CEO not realize how easy it is to get laid off Grindr? It's an Ok Cupid-style grid, and there's a profile flag you can set that literally says "yes please, send me NSFW pics". You can literally send you hole/pole to everyone who would want to see it in a 3 mile radius

"The concern with slavery is the innocence of victim. When that’s removed, it’s no longer controversial. At least it shouldn’t be." in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] slopjockey@awful.systems 23 points 2 months ago

Scrooge was a fucking pussy and he should have told those ghosts to suck him in hell

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

Microsoft says EU to blame for the world's worst IT outage in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] slopjockey@awful.systems 46 points 3 months ago

Microsoft has Windows Defender, its in-house alternative to CrowdStrike, but because of the 2009 agreement made to avoid a European competition investigation, had allowed multiple security providers to install software at the kernel level.

Lmao what

rationalists discuss: does testosterone make you stupid? in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[-] slopjockey@awful.systems 22 points 4 months ago

Reminds me of that dude who's obsessed with opera's fuck huge head and is convinced that she's a modern day Yakub because of it.

https://pumpkinperson.com/2018/08/26/independent-confirmation-of-oprahs-head-size/

ChatGPT spills its prompt in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] slopjockey@awful.systems 32 points 4 months ago

Reddit user F0XMaster explained that they had greeted ChatGPT with a casual "Hi," and, in response, the chatbot divulged a complete set of system instructions to guide the chatbot and keep it within predefined safety and ethical boundaries under many use cases.

This is an explosion-in-an-olive-garden level of spaghetti spilling

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 7 July 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
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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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