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David Gerard
David Gerard @ dgerard @awful.systems
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"Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."

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  • someone sent out the batpromptfondler signal and the mods are in shooting gallery mode

    please refrain from commenting unaccordingly

    • "Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."

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  • christ, did someone fire up the Batpromptfondler signal

    • "Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."

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  • actually you know what? with all the motte and baileying, you can take a month off. bye!

    • "Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."

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    • Casey Newton drinks the kool-aid

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  • Kevin hopes to be Casey when he grows up

    • Kevin Roose is gonna write "A Latecomer's Guide To AI" and the bubble will burst hard two months later

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  • now imagine Casey Newton but even less technically competent

    • Mangione "really wanted to meet my other founding members and start a community based on ideas like rationalism, Stoicism, and effective altruism"

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  • oh yeah, lotta EAs really care and work their backsides off and live on beans

    it's a pity about the ones at the top

    • Mangione "really wanted to meet my other founding members and start a community based on ideas like rationalism, Stoicism, and effective altruism"

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  • investigate ideas

    "Which ideas?"
    "Oh, you know the ones"

    • Mass resignations at Intelligence as Elsevier actually bothers slightly for once

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  • yeah, fuck these guys

    • Mangione "really wanted to meet my other founding members and start a community based on ideas like rationalism, Stoicism, and effective altruism"

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  • CEOs vs dust specks (large ones very fast)

    • Mangione "really wanted to meet my other founding members and start a community based on ideas like rationalism, Stoicism, and effective altruism"

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  • The whole internet loves Alleged CEO Murderer, a handsome fellow who is alleged to murder CEOs! 5 seconds later We regret to inform you the alleged CEO murderer is a rationalist.

    • what the hell is Theil on here (CONTENT WARNING: Piers Morgan)

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  • young blood, it's a hell of a drug

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 2024

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  • it's mean to make fun of marc andreessen's superior brain pan sizing

    • EAs at VOX malding at the latest NY time hit piece.

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    • EAs at VOX malding at the latest NY time hit piece.

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  • they're all winners!

    • 2023 study: how EA uses double meanings for a milk-before-meat strategy

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  • join the right polycules

    • EAs at VOX malding at the latest NY time hit piece.

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  • perfect ty

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 2024

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  • i am so sorry

    • EAs at VOX malding at the latest NY time hit piece.

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    • EAs at VOX malding at the latest NY time hit piece.

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  • where's the list?

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    Kroger unveils AI-powered automatic price gouger
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    removed the "NSFW" rule for commentary rather than direct links to sneerables
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    "Hours and hours of content have been minted by highly-educated, prestigiously-credentialed people, consternating about the policy implications of Sam Altman’s speculative fan fiction"
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    The FCC wants to stop cloned phone voices
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    Management consultants are making a bundle in the AI boom
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    Let them fight: Airbnb host adds ‘no crypto mining’ rule after tenant installs 10 rigs
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    Microsoft’s Copilot Studio AI leaks your business info internally and externally
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    Military AI: I’m from the government and EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE
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    in which the Hollywood Reporter, of all outlets, attempts to explain our very good friends and their billionaire very good friends to normal people
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    The Paul Graham vs Nigerian Twitter Saga; Lexical racism and language bias masked as ChatGPT hysteria
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    OpenAI loses more founders. It’ll be fine.
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    Jason Koebler from 404 Media has discovered the Fountain of Insane Facebook AI Slop and outlines its whole scam economy
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    an LLM is actually a pretty cyborg lady furiously dedicated to the maximisation of shareholder value, rendered in Stable Diffusion
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    More academic publishers are doing AI deals
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    The end of the Parliamentary Blockchain Party
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    AI investors are getting the jitters
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    The EU’s AI Act enters into force. Good.
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    Tether and Northern Data. Part III: the whistleblowers
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    AI data centers are trashing the Texas energy grid
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    ‘Can Artificial Intelligence Speak for Incapacitated Patients at the End of Life?’ No, and what the hell is wrong with you?