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David Gerard
David Gerard @ dgerard @awful.systems
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 2024

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  • lol that's exquisite

    but you could tell the guy was into Effective Altruism from how he did dust specks vs CEOs

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

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  • The whole internet loves CEO Murderer, a handsome murderer that targets CEOs! 5 seconds later We regret to inform you the murderer is into AI

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  • just delivered a commission on why bitcoin is very like hawk tuah

    this season's word is: kleptokakistocracy

    • in which Edward Ongweso, Jr. beats Casey Newton repeatedly around the head with a clue bat

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  • fwiw Amy and I are delighted to be in the "AI is fake and it sucks" camp

    though also it's real and dangerous, but not from going AGI lolol

    • A polite disagreement bot ring is flooding Bluesky — reply guy as a (dis)service

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  • the block is as fast, but it's more personal

    • A polite disagreement bot ring is flooding Bluesky — reply guy as a (dis)service

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  • rahaeli is fucking gold

    • Moderators Across Social Media Struggle to Contain Celebrations of UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Assassination

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    • Moderators Across Social Media Struggle to Contain Celebrations of UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Assassination

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    • On bitcoin topping $100,000

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  • Bitcoin and Hawk Tuah: Not So Different

    • Godot Isn't Making it - (What if AI has already peaked?)

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  • Ed is presuming a high school education from his readers, where kids get hammered with the play whether or not they have any idea what it is

    out in the world, ~nobody has heard of the game engine

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th December 2024

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    • Godot Isn't Making it - (What if AI has already peaked?)

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  • I wonder if there’s any analysis to link NFTs and blockchain boosters back to the AI pushers as well?

    literally the same VCs

    compute power to some extent, or repurposing wired-up crypto mining data centres

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th December 2024

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  • pivot to ai has a new beg post, but mostly i wanna show off Sad Robot In Snow:

    • Enterprise has no idea what to do with generative AI. This means it’s early days, and not that AI is a bubble

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  • N-rays were discovered in 1903, clearly it's just early days

    • AI-generated travel influencers — marketers love them! Real travelers, not so much

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  • Nah, people have loved travel stories for centuries. The markety fakeness to the point of straight up synthesis is the problem.

    • AI-generated travel influencers — marketers love them! Real travelers, not so much

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  • saw a marketer on bsky point out the attraction: influencers, and particularly travel influencers, are the most unreliable arseholes you'll ever find yourself paying to do something, and I can see that

    • That Time Eliezer Yudkowsky recommended a really creepy sci-fi book to his audience

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  • next up: "In The Barn" as first effective altruist text

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th December 2024

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    • LessWrong House Style (2023)

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  • "which stereotypes?"
    "oh, you know the ones"

    • Does AI startup Extropic actually … do anything?

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  • that's Beff too

    the guy is actually almost a physicist, even flunked out of a Ph.D

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    Nakamoto Dundee referred to Crown Prosecution Service for perjury and forgery
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    Biiiiiitconnneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeect Australian promoter pleads guilty, gets 3yr good behaviour bond
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    AI Go bots not so superhuman after all
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 21 July 2024
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    AI does stand-up: ‘cruise ship comedy material from the 1950s, but a bit less racist’
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    Tether and Northern Data. Part 1: the miner’s tale
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    OpenAI’s Strawberry will turn you into paperclips any day now
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    Molly White's new project, Follow The Crypto - tracking crypto industry political donations
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    LLM vendors are incredibly bad at responding to security issues
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    I'm on Paris Marx's podcast this week rambling about crypto, AI hype and social media. Oh yeah and Jack Dorsey, our supposed subject. 1 hour.
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    a16z is working hard to get stuck with last year’s Nvidia chips
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    OpenAI and Arianna Huffington: transforming healthcare with nagbots
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    LA school chatbot vendor goes bust, student data at risk
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    MetaMed, slight return: BayesMed, featuring Jann Tallin. AI workflows for clinicians. No medical advice. No sign of Vassar.
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    Google put an API into Chrome that sends extra system info but only to*.google.com domains. In every Chromium browser.
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    How batshit insane are the rich in 2024? Here's a Bloomberg article on the estate law aspects of cryonically freezing your head and trying to keep all your money
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    Pivot to AI: Venture capital kept shoveling money into AI startups in Q2 2024
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    Pivot to AI: Venture capital will eat itself
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 14 July 2024
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    Actual comedians try to use LLM in a writing room. Result: “cruise ship comedy material from the 1950s, but a bit less racist”