David Gerard @ dgerard @awful.systems

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8mo ago

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

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local note: we don't need to "nsfw" tag links on the awful systems version of sneerclub any more

8mo ago

OpenAI launches then un-launches Sora, Twitter gives Grok away for free

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archive added!

8mo ago

The dregs of Dimes Square after the election: the most despondent winners you ever saw

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to be fair that was mclaren's original plan for punk rock and the sex pistols were a boy band assembled by an exploitative manager. he just got a bit more than he bargained for.

8mo ago

The Prophet

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where are these bozos blowing in from anyway

8mo ago

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

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the grok AI is now available to free twitter users, evidently not enough paying users were interested

it's somewhat more tedious than Gemini and that's saying something

8mo ago

The Prophet

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someone is about to be!

8mo ago

The Prophet

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these are compute GPUs that don't even have graphics ports

8mo ago

Eliezer Yudkowsky on discovering that the (ALLEGED) ceo shooter was solidly a member of his very own rationalist subculture: "he was crazy and also on drugs and also not a real e/acc"

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why does my degeneracy feel like work

8mo ago

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

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being performatively worried about maid cafes specifically is absolutely a new one on me

8mo ago

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

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yeah, TPOT is specifically the uwu smol bean neoreactionary race scientists

8mo ago

Sabine Hossenfelder: Google's quantum announcement is the usual puffery

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fwiw, after I posted this link on bsky I was alerted to this video (here's a transcript) on Hossenfelder's unfortunate foray into physicist disease, where she started pontificating on trans teens and treated the ROGD paper as non-trash:

https://skepchick.org/2023/05/physicist-sabine-hossenfelder-screws-up-on-trans-kids-care/

so Hossenfelder's physics takes are one thing, buuut.

8mo ago

Sabine Hossenfelder: Google's quantum announcement is the usual puffery

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this video is from a month before the post

8mo ago

Sabine Hossenfelder: Google's quantum announcement is the usual puffery

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mod note: I now don't care if your video is good or not

8mo ago

Eliezer Yudkowsky on discovering that the (ALLEGED) ceo shooter was solidly a member of his very own rationalist subculture: "he was crazy and also on drugs and also not a real e/acc"

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greatest point against him being a rationalist is the 262 word manifesto, it would be 20,000 words with sections numbered I. II. III. and possibly diagrams

8mo ago

Eliezer Yudkowsky on discovering that the (ALLEGED) ceo shooter was solidly a member of his very own rationalist subculture: "he was crazy and also on drugs and also not a real e/acc"

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mod note: it's time for less enthusiasm

8mo ago

Eliezer Yudkowsky on discovering that the (ALLEGED) ceo shooter was solidly a member of his very own rationalist subculture: "he was crazy and also on drugs and also not a real e/acc"

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i'm sure we can get there with reasoned discussion and voting harder

8mo ago

Eliezer Yudkowsky on discovering that the (ALLEGED) ceo shooter was solidly a member of his very own rationalist subculture: "he was crazy and also on drugs and also not a real e/acc"