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  • I agree with him insofar as Trump and his lackeys definitely think and act as if it was the "autocratic branch" and both the legislature and judiciary don't seem to be interested in disabusing them of that notion

  • read the study yourself

    • ask the commenter if it's a study or a self-interested blog post
    • they don't understand
    • pull out illustrated diagram explaining that something hosted exclusively on the website of the for-profit business all authors are affiliated with is not the same as a peer-reviewed study published in a real venue
    • they laugh and say "it's a good study sir"
    • click the link
    • it's a blog post
  • This is actually an accurate representation of most "gifted olympiad laureate attempting to solve a freshman CS problem on the blackboard" students I've went to uni with.

    Jumps to the front after 5 seconds from the task being assigned, bluffs that the problem is trivial, tries to salvage their reasoning for 5 minutes when questioned by the tutor, turns out the theorem they said was trivial is actually false, sits down having wasted 10 minutes of everyone's time.

  • OpenBrain "responsibly" elects not to release its model publicly to avoid it being called "underwhelming" and, to use a technical term, "gobshite".

  • It's eugenics but as a religious cult for reactionaries

    Yud is that creepy nerd from your middle school who wrote disturbing fan fiction, but it wasn't just a phase and now he has the aforementioned cult

  • There's a fucking for profit that does this and it's used by the god damn USA Speaker of the House so that his son can monitor his fondling

  • While all the comments are correct, i.e. what the fuck is wrong with you, this is also wrong since it immediately leaves the duck unsupervised after the first trip. So really not sure what you're trying to prove here.

  • In my head transhumanism is this cool idea where I'd get to have a zoom function in my eye

    But of course none of that could exist in our capitalist hellscape because of just all the reasons the ruling class would use it to opress the working class.

    And then you find out what transhumanists actually advocate for and it's just eugenics. Like without even a tiny bit of plausible deniability. They're proud it's eugenics.

  • Unlike in the paragraph above, though, most LW posters held plenty of nuts in their hands before.

    ... I'll see myself out

  • Bwahahaha, as I said on bsky: let them do it, can't wait to use it as a cautionary tale of why full rewrites are a terrible idea during freshman programming lectures

  • Jesus christ this is so cringe, they used The One Joke three times in the first minute and that's not even the halfway point, I'm not finishing this nonsense

  • The secret is to have cultivated a codebase so utterly shit that even LLMs can make it better by just randomly making stuff up

    At least they don't get psychic damage from looking at the code

  • To be fair, many men see every women, including cis, as one they're allowed to abuse and all the other things you mentioned. And then it'll be her fault for being "hysterical" or something similarly dumb.

  • ye like maybe let me make it clear that this was just a shitpost very much riffing on LWers not necessarily being the most pleasant around women

  • It's so funny he almost gets it at the end:

    But there’s another aspect, way more important than mere “moral truth”: I’m a human, with a dumb human brain that experiences human emotions. It just doesn’t feel good to be responsible for making models scream. It distracts me from doing research and makes me write rambling blog posts.

    He almost identifies the issue as him just anthropomorphising a thing and having a subconscious empathical reaction, but then presses on to compare it to mice who, guess what, can feel actual fucking pain and thus abusing them IS unethical for non-made-up reasons as well!

  • Sometimes pushing through pain is necessary — we accept pain every time we go to the gym or ask someone out on a date.

    Okay this is too good, you know mate for normally people asking someone out usually does not end with a slap to the face so it's not as relatable as you might expect