David Gerard @ dgerard @awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceedi

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lol holy shit this just came into reddit sneerclub (and was zapped immediately)

user HardboiledHack

also tried r/lesswrong and r/slatestarcodex

i'm sure the guardian can be trusted to report on anything involving trans people

the journalist is J Oliver Conroy https://www.theguardian.com/profile/j-oliver-conroy who now writes for the Washington Examiner and used to write for Quillette (the article has been deleted from the site) https://archive.is/aSBjW

from http://joliverconroy.net/

I am a journalist who specializes in features and profiles. I write about the American right, ideologues, intellectuals, extremist movements, the culture wars, true crime, and strange events and strange places.

by "about", he means "for"

I'm a journalist at the Guardian working on a piece about the Zizians. If you have encountered members of the group or had interactions with them, or know people who have, please contact me: oliver.conroy@theguardian.com.

I'm also interested in chatting with people who can talk about the Zizians' beliefs and where they fit (or did not fit) in the rationalist/EA/risk community.

I prefer to talk to people on the record but if you prefer to be anonymous/speak on background/etc. that can possibly be arranged.

Thanks very much.

i've also warned over at the old place

benchmarks show that this LLM has the bouquet of the sunny side of the sewage farm

visible to me in a private window, but here's an archive https://archive.is/3TjLc

so you can run the good version at home! this thread tells how to build a workstation for it.

tl;dr 768GB RAM.

with that, you can run the largest deepseek model, or even open a tab in chrome

apparently it's not very fast, but it does in fact do the stuff

engage in societal blackmail to anyone who’s ever heard the words TensorFlow.

no no wait this is geoff's stopped clock moment

that thread is a work of genius and answers what the next tech boom needs to be

dicks in mousetraps I MEAN whatever wastes electricity most, preferably with Nvidia cards

It’s all fucking solipsism with extra steps

or not, like when he told Grimes to her face that he thought she must be an ideal simulation for him

expensive archival write-once BDs

this post from the guy who writes explainers about consumer financial structures hits different if you know he met and is exchanging tweets with noted race scientist Jordan Lasker (cremieux)

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/chicago-casino-investment-offering/

maybe it's me but i'm hearing ultrasonic frequencies

probably nothing, right?

did the stubsack end up in all somehow

we have this year's greatest pride anthem already and it's only january

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SIEOYOuX4s

Rationalism is a cult, but it's also a cult franchise that generates smaller cults. Also a lot of the people were not entirely balanced to start with and rationalism made them worse. Anyway, Ziz.

yeah bsky is where journalists post now so it's where they scrape stories from

Ulbricht also had really bad lawyers. The FBI evidence on the server in Iceland was tainted in fairly obvious ways and he coulda got much of the case thrown out, then just ... didn't? I can't find it, but Nicholas Weaver wrote some stuff on this.

it's better than that, he didn't dump a penny in

the deal is:

1. they get unregulated
2. they promise to spend money they were going to anyway, they're totally getting round to it bro

the Smasnug investigation is amazing

lol i was about to reply "welcome to awful systems here's your accordion"

also they are rationalists and hence the most gullible mfs on any of this stuff

they can't even sell o3 really - in o3 high mode, needed to do this level of query, it's about $1000 per query lol