mirrorwitch @ mirrorwitch @awful.systems

Posts

7

Comments

188

Joined

2 yr. ago

after calling the con about a super hacker AI the "mythos", now they're calling the next spiel "fable"? are they like, just taking the piss at this point?

A detailed look at what kind of slop code is being added to rsync and how exactly slop codes does, allegedly, "tests". Somehow it's just what I expected and worse than I thought.

https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116667218484408879

don't give them ideas

Ah yes, the famous resistance that doesn't destroy anything. Famously effective, the passive non-destructive inaction resistance

slop code in rsync timeline Ψ(･ω･ )Ψ

I mean, those sound like rookie numbers to me. I regularly spend like, less than five minutes between eye-contact-and-smile and wild hardcore sex, and most of the five minutes is the time to walk them down to the dungeon and negotiate limits. The only special trick is simply going to a space where everyone else also wants to have sex, it's called a sex club.

Leaving aside all considerations of ethics, I cannot comprehend why the supposed bastions of rationality would waste time with baroque theories of psychological manipulation to try to coax randos during non-sexual situations into having sex, when if all you want is sex you can simply go have sex with the people who want sex. Or just pay for sex, or use grindr or whatever. You know, like, if I wanted to play boardgames I would go to boardgame night, if I wanted people to listen to me sing I would go to karaoke. I would not approach strangers in a bus stop and go, "hey wanna hear me sing?" The idea of doing that for sex of all things is bizarre to me.

(This is a rhetorical sneer, the pickup-artistry phenomenon is easily comprehendable; it's because these men are not really trying to have sex, they're trying to fulfil a gaping hole of unexamined, endless need for validation.)

Something seems to be lost on my peers today: it’s still easy to not use AI. The food we eat, clothes we wear, and every electronic device we touch may embody innumerable injuries to the world, and all this is inescapable. Eschewing AI is one thing that we can actually do to live out ethics that affirm values of human and environmental rights. It’s almost a gift! Just use a computer the same way you did three years ago!

https://www.eamoncaddigan.net/posts/ai-in-2026/

Rhythms of the body are showcased in the scores of dances performed daily across the continent [inaudible] in Uganda, Kpanlogo in Ghana, Nganda in Gambia, [inaudible] in Cameroun, Sindimba [phonetics] in Tanzania, [inaudible] in Nigeria and so on.

Imagine if this was about European music and naming various cultures inside Europe, if all of them would be the [inaudible] people.

"There are some good uses for 'AI' like making transcriptions", they tell me. "No need to pay people to do transcriptions, this is good for accessibility, nope, no issues whatsoever with using 'AI' transcriptions everywhere" /s

Generally conspiracy theorists aren't interested in actual things that cause real problems, I think. Air polution and global warming being deliberate decisions by elites who don't care about killing millions, for example. It has to be some wild take like Pokémon child sacrifice or something, so you get to feel like you spotted the secret truth.

But if you want to see some actual apocalyptic conspiracy against "AI", as in it is literally the manifestation of the body of the Beast and the voice of demons etc., check out Paul Kingsnorth's substack. This is a burned-out environmental activist who radicalised anti-immigration with Brexit, started pushing a narrative of hobbit pastoralism as a justification for racism, and converted to Christianity with that fervour you only find in converts.

Seizing "the res novæ of our time" [derogatory] from this

it's hard to explain how wrong this is thing is if you don't already know the books (which is a demonstration of the same principle, it looks too plausible, it's signal-shaped noise). but I'll try.

what am I doing with my life why did I set out to do this. I miss wasting precious free time late night because somebody was wrong on the Internet, emphasis on somebody

back when LLMs started to get widespread and it became clear that they always make errors and you can only spot the errors if you're an expert who already knows the answers, because the errors are disguised with plausibility, people would tell me, "oh but they're useful for some things, like making summaries".

four years and billions of dollars and devastation to "improve" them later, and I see from this Spotify screenshot that "AI summaries" are going well:

Saying a lot of rationalists endorse eugenics is a bit like saying a lot of Nazis endorse white supremacy.

Rationalism (the online subculture, not the older philosophical meaning of the term) is a subculture predicated on a notion of "general intelligence" which is reified ableism and therefore, necessarily, entails eugenics.

They do. Not the booing itself but being an edgy contrarian. Saying "provocative" anti-human hot takes is how you one-up one another inside the cult and prove you're the edgiest, most disruptive, fastest moving breaker of things in the industry.

We are going to harvest the entire Sun!! And then eat up the stars themselves!! For profit! Humanity shall be an ever-expanding Empire, grinding resources of the whole universe into shareholder value!!!

even their conmanship story is a depressing dystopia. have these people ever considering just chilling. get a girlfriend who plays drums, hang out with her jamming with a bass. watch a movie together, then go out for a walk. play boardgames with children. take up embroidery

See, it's a good practice under the principle of charity to read as much fascist propaganda as you can and incorporate it into your worldview. It doesn't matter who said things, but rather whether they're true, and since you're a rational agent you can surely evaluate each claim with perfect objecitivity. Digging a 19th-century eugenics study is expanding your objectivity score.

Reading polemics from leftists too? lol no what are you talking about, they're all irrational and biased

/s

I rarely find that reading fiction makes me upset […] fiction can be quite bad, but rarely do I find it personally offensive…

Rat reading a book that makes fun of AI doom in passing:
Me, a trans woman immigrant:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mel-gibson-talking-to-bloody-jesus

Critical support for comrade Yudkowsky for getting some nerds to finally engage in direct action and blow up some goddamn datacenters

Major rats jumping out of the ship before the bubble pops. Dang I mixed the metaphors. You get the idea
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/26/coca-cola-james-quincey-walmart-doug-mcmillon-artificial-intelligence-step-down.html

Kitty? Back when I tried to use it (uim-xim+anthy), no it didn't, also it broke my xcompose setup. When I asked the devs about it they said they don't care about non-European languages. I do not want to use software where the devs don't even bother to performatively pretend that languages outside of Europe matter. What I am missing is being treated like an equal fucking human being.