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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th April 2025
  • These people really want to complicate things when it's really quite simple. Let me demonstrate with an elegant diagram.

    ...

    yes i spent an hour making this

  • LessOnline is a festival celebrating truthseeking and blogging, the totally not race science is just a bonus
  • Jesus Christ, $550?? That's a bit steep for a forum meet.

    Spose that's a good way to ensure all attendants are enlightened centrists.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th April 2025
  • Why yes, I'm sure 29 year old Jordan "El italiano 93" Bardella, who 10 years ago was uploading Call of Duty videos to youtube, is a much stronger candidate.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th March 2025
  • Sorry Yuds, Death Note is a lot of fun and the best part is the ĂĽbermensch wannabe's hilariously undignified death. I guess it struck a nerve!

  • lol they're gonna sell the Fort Knox gold to buy bitcoins
  • would you rather have a gram of gold or twenty hamburgers?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th March 2025
  • it doesn't look anything like him? not that he looks much like anything himself but come on

  • lol they're gonna sell the Fort Knox gold to buy bitcoins
  • not a currency, and only stable in the form of 197 Au

  • lol they're gonna sell the Fort Knox gold to buy bitcoins
  • Aw yeah time for the Great Libertarian Schism

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th March 2025
  • tracing going all in on left wing people aren't real they can't hurt you

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    Vaccinations in Book/Article Form, Part II
  • be like me and read the critique of pure reason and pierre bourdieu's distinction, you'll be ready for anything forever

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd March 2025
  • The ignorance about social science on display in that article is wild. He seems to think academia is pretty much a big think tank, which I suppose is in line with the extent of the rationalists' intellectual curiosity.

    On the IQ tier list, I like the guy responding to the comment mentioning "the stats that you are citing here". Bro.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd March 2025
  • No, it's just praise from lesswrong counts as a slight.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd March 2025
  • lmao, economists probably did deserve to catch this stray

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd March 2025
  • Nooo you see unlike your counterexemple, the AI is generating the picture from scratch, moulding noise until it forms the same shapes and colours as the original picture, much like a painter would copy another painting by brushing paint onto a blank canvas which ... Oh, that's illegal too ... ? ... Oh.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd March 2025
  • I have no other explanation for a sentence as strange as "The only reason copyrights were the way they were is because tech could remove other variants easily." He's talking about how watermarks need to be all over the image and not just a little logo in the corner!

    The "legal proof" part is a different argument. His picture is a generated picture so it contains none of the original pixels, it is merely the result of prompting the model with the original picture. Considering the way AI companies have so far successfully acted like they're shielded from copyright law, he's not exactly wrong. I would love to see him go to court over it and become extremely wrong in the process though.

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