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  • Aschenbrenner bet everything on AI — and lost

  • JFC it's already been 2 years

  • Gwern: I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel Inc and bring GAs to life.

  • if Gwern is not a pasty white dude with a degree from a top-level US university I will eat my hat

    also the probability we can match their now-revealed identity to past far-right/racist content that's not been scrubbed is very close to 1

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th August 2026

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th August 2026

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th August 2026

  • GDP Growth in Second Quarter Slows to 1.5%, No Evidence of AI Productivity Boom

  • here's some nerd who calculates that GenAI gives a senior dev a 15% productivity increase, and a junior 25%

    https://bjorg.bjornroche.com/management/ai-productivity-gap/

    HN correctly calls his numbers bullshit, especially because the time spend reviewing code is unchanged between pre- and post-AI:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152222

    Even if his numbers are correct, it essentially means that software companies are around 10% faster in delivering something, however that something might be even more bug-ridden and slow than before.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026

  • Sure sounds like aspiring and/or existing professional mathematicians are taking the latest GenAI assault on their craft either with shock or horror, or with full-on welcoming of their new robot overlords

    https://borretti.me/article/mathematics-without-mathematicians

    I for one know who to point and laugh at when the revolution comes.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026

  • Non-sober spaces

    I guess this is what a matematician calls a bar.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026

  • Coindesk: Major bitcoin wallet flaw drains $38 million worth of BTC in 25-minute sweep

    A wallet's seed, the secret phrase controlling the funds, is meant to be drawn at random from a pool so vast that guessing is hopeless.

    Coldcard's firmware was not doing that. According to a report published by Block's Bitcoin engineering and security teams, a build setting told the device to skip its own hardware randomness generator, and a check in a supporting library tested only whether that setting existed rather than whether it was switched on.

    Key generation quietly fell through to a basic software substitute seeded from the chip's serial number and clock registers.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026

  • yeah it's a common trope/cope

    like "most human programmers suck too"

    ok dude who do you think wrote the code the LLM is cribbing from

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026

  • "surely all these very wealthy people and the people they pay to invest for them can't all be under some sort of mass delusion"

  • Let’s palm off humanoid robot teachers onto the poor kids!

  • someone just got a Rule34 scenario for free

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026

  • A LWer runs the numbers and doesn't run away screaming like Zitron:

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EeTQGxa8RSpwHo4Ez/the-biggest-bet-in-history

    Note that this implies massive efficiency gains to the economy. For their one-third slice to equal 8% of those salaries [59% of the total workforce in the USA], the total savings (productivity across that share of the workforce) will need to rise by roughly 24%. So they are absolutely serious about this, and are betting heavily that the productivity boost arrives within four years.

  • Let’s palm off humanoid robot teachers onto the poor kids!

  • you missed the nod to masturbation

    also "palm off" implies deceit on the ... palmer-offer

  • AI vendors are destroying rare books to feed the chatbot

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026

  • they're all getting stiffies from the idea of black market models

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026

  • a stock-slobber posts a cri de cœur about the coming automation of maths and HN says it's no biggie, think how productive the field will become

    https://kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-night-of-mathematics

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49048681

    btw the language in the post is bad enough to be entirely human-generated

    For me, the affective quality of learning mathematics is empathetically tethered to an act of discovery and creation.

    Before you a channel through which humans have accessed the ineffable and sacred for thousands of years is being sealed for eternity.

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    Why do many rationalists like cryptocurrency?

    www.lesswrong.com /posts/KAyttPTh7bnfPoxsb/why-do-many-rationalists-like-cryptocurrency
  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
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    Advent of Code 2024 - the home stretch - it's been an aMAZEing year

  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
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    Advent of Code Week 3 - you're lost in a maze of twisty mazes, all alike

  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
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    Advent of Code 2024 Week 2: this time it's all grids, all the time

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 1 September 2024

  • Buttcoin @awful.systems
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    Person who exercises her free association rights at conferences incites ire in Jameson Lopp

    protos.com /bitfinex-hacker-razzlekhan-was-job-hunting-at-bitcoin-2024/
  • Buttcoin @awful.systems
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    Butters do a 180 regarding statism as Daddy Trump promises to use filthy Fed FIAT to buy and hodl BTC

    www.marketwatch.com /story/trump-vows-to-build-bitcoin-reserve-crypto-community-is-cheering-b9751f76
  • Buttcoin @awful.systems
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    Martin Shkreli claims to have been behind a Donald Trump memecoin

    www.web3isgoinggreat.com
  • Buttcoin @awful.systems
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    In an attempt to secure the libertarian vote, Trump promises to pardon Dread Pirate Roberts (while calling for the death penalty for other drug dealers)

    www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com /2024/05/ross-ulbricht
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher

    www.404media.co /bards-and-sages-closing-ai-generated-writing/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Turns out that the basic mistakes spider runners fixed in the late 90s are arcane forgotten knowledge to our current "AI" overlords

    mailman.nanog.org /pipermail/nanog/2024-April/225407.html
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    AI grifters con the US gov that AGI poses "existential risk"

    time.com /6898967/ai-extinction-national-security-risks-report/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    "The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I." - hackernews discussion

    news.ycombinator.com /item
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Elon Musk’s legal case against OpenAI is hilariously bad

    www.theverge.com /2024/3/1/24087937/elon-musk-suing-openai-nightmare-1l-contracts-exam
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Some interesting tidbits in this ElReg story about "AI Dean Phillips"

    www.theregister.com /2024/01/22/openai_presidential_candidate_bot/
  • bless this jank @awful.systems
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    SOLVED

    cannot login using mobile Firefox

  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
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    Looking for: random raytracing program

  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
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    The official awful.systems Advent of Code 2023 thread

  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
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    Any interest in an Advent of Code thread?

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    ScottA is annoyed EA has a bad name now

    www.astralcodexten.com /p/in-continued-defense-of-effective