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  • bluesky is horrified to discover Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

  • Yep. Cf. the pervasive idea that the true fundamental purpose of intelligence is casting Persuasion spells.

  • bluesky is horrified to discover Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

  • I have an ATProto login and am skimming the threads before I have to go and do other stuff for a few hours. I came across a link to this podcast, which looks interesting. The transcript of the first episode (I'm more of a reader than a listener) barely gets going before (content warning for sexual assault by intoxication) this:

    E: ... right after I graduated from undergrad, I went on a date in San Francisco with a Harvey Mudd alum who revealed to me over the course of the date, which is at like a fancy prohibition style whiskey bar. That part was cool. You had to make a reservation. So I thought that was, I was like, that's a good sign. That's really that's cool of him. He revealed that he and his friend had written a musical based on Harry Potter and the methods of rationality. And I said, Oh, well, I don't want to brag, but I've written a pretty highly acclaimed The Dark Knight Rises fanfic, and he broke in and said, It's not a fanfic.

    A: Were they saying their musical wasn't a fanfic, or that rationality wasn't a fanfic?

    E: The musical was not a fanfic. And I didn't know what to say to that. [...] And then he also, this is the guy who he tried to get me drunk when I didn't want to. Uh, super rational. Very rational. Yeah, rational. I want to have sex with this girl and she doesn't want to have sex with me. The rational thing to do is to change one of those conditions, and I can't not want to have sex with her. Um, and told me that he did not ask his female friends for dating advice because if you're a hunter, you ask a hunter and not a deer. These were the same guys. He was the same guy.

  • General HPMoR sneer collection

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026

  • Quoth the blog post:

    I have a YouTube channel where I mostly get LLMs to write albums and make them into music videos.

    ... the fuck did I just read?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026

  • UC Berkeley Law:

    This policy seeks to ensure that our courses focus on requisite cognitive skills by default. It provides students with the opportunity to develop the skills they need to conceptualize, outline, draft, revise, and edit their work by forbidding the use of AI for these purposes in connection with work submitted for credit. It also forbids using AI to translate work for credit, thus providing students with the opportunity to develop and exercise their own fluency with legal English. [...] The use of AI is prohibited for aid in conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit. AI use is prohibited for any use for any purpose in any exam situation. Students may not upload course materials—including assignments, readings, slides, class recordings, or other class content—into generative AI systems.

  • How to hack Copilot AI: ask it how to hack it

  • Varonis just had to add “autorun=1” to the address.

    Oh, for the love of....

    "Make me a sandwich."

    "No."

    "Make me a sandwich, autorun=1"

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026

  • Word is that both Adam Conover and Carol Queen have backed out.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026

  • Perverts (shower-positive)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026

  • Somehow, the people who write stories where everyone just ends up in a giant fuck pile are both less vain and more dignified.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026

  • I cut YouTube out of my life a year ago, briefly returned for idle entertainment like cooking shows, and then gave it up again. Even before all that, I was generally ignorant of who YouTube-famous people were.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026

  • Well put.

  • Anthropic watermarks AI output — and the AI bros yell

  • Anthropic watermarks AI output — and the AI bros yell

  • Thus writes Mike Taylor:

    I’m a published author lol. I still write some stuff myself but I wouldn’t have time to write everything I want to without AI.

    Hey, I'm a published author too! From one published author to another, why don't you take a long fuck off a short pier?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026

  • The "Your Mileage May Vary" page even gets in a sneer!

    Derailing: He has a habit of going down the list of tvtropes fanfic recommendations and leaving reviews on ff.net exclaiming how amazing it is that the author’s story is just as or almost as good as his own writing while dropping his story’s name. He probably reads these stories but considering that in roughly 30% of these reviews he quotes lines of these stories out of context in order to draw false parallels to his philosophies, he may simply be skimming them.

    Yea verily, he is almost as smooth at this as I am at inserting references to The Romance of T'Lyn and Beckett Mariner.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026

  • Some things are classics for a reason.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026

  • Every time a new person learns who Aella is, an angel loses its wings.

  • MoreWrite @awful.systems
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    Random Positivity Thread: Happy Travel Memories

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    Lessons Learned from Writing a Moderate Amount of Fanfiction

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    Random Positivity Threads

  • MoreWrite @awful.systems
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    Random Positivity Thread: Movies and TV Wishlist

  • MoreWrite @awful.systems
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    Non-Sensational Physics: Episode 0

  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
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    Random Positivity Thread: Happy Food Memories

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    Coordinating a post-Calibre path forward

    wandering.shop /@xgranade/115680412493693277
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systems

    awful.systems /post/5699944
  • MoreWrite @awful.systems
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    Book Review: Quantum Computing Since Democritus by Scott Aaronson

  • SneerClub @awful.systems
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    General HPMoR sneer collection

  • SneerClub @awful.systems
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    The shocking rise of one of the tech right’s favorite posters

    www.motherjones.com /politics/2025/07/cremieux-jordan-lasker-mamdani-nyt-nazi-faliceer-reddit/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems

    awful.systems /post/4885338
  • SneerClub @awful.systems
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    Wake up babe, new "in this moment I am enlightened" copypasta just dropped

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Credulous coverage of AI slop on Wikipedia

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9 March 2025

    awful.systems /post/3608350
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025

    awful.systems /post/3491424
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    DeepSeek might not be such good news for energy after all

    www.technologyreview.com /2025/01/31/1110776/deepseek-might-not-be-such-good-news-for-energy-after-all/
  • MoreWrite @awful.systems
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    Random Positivity Thread: Happy Book Memories

    awful.systems /post/2359722
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd February 2025

    awful.systems /post/3329759
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th January 2025 - awful.systems - awful.systems

    awful.systems /post/3278715