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  • LessWrong's Psychedelic Phase: Perigee

  • BTW psilocybin was decriminalized there in the middle of all this, not sure if that has made a difference or not.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026

  • my Rationalist Sense smells Effective Altruists all over this

  • how did you even find this?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026

  • Her grift is the exact same one as the Honey extension from the megalag video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc4yL3YTwWk - like her dad she just rips off better programs, but she didn't even have the taste to copy an actual good product.

    EDIT:

    Oh yeah, she popped up in that How To Rule The World book about Stanford:

    “Everyone was very sharp. Very sharp,” one student, who didn’t otherwise love the class, stressed. The cohort my year included freshmen and sophomores funded by Sam Altman or Peter Thiel. Some wanted to “solve aging.” were in defense tech, working on secret projects with contracts from the government or major companies. Some worked on climate change. One had already started a string of robotics companies and earned a display in a museum. Others worked on commodities trading. Another was Phoebe Gates—daughter of Bill and Melinda—who made her name as a prominent sustainability advocate and cofounded a company with her Stanford roommate.[*2] Together, as undergraduates, they’d already collectively raised millions of dollars for startups—and, of course, had done internships at every possible top company, from classic FAANG behemoths (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google), to Jane Street, the quantitative trading firm that pays interns hundreds of thousands of dollars, to top-flight VCs.

    Footnote:

    *2 When I reached her, Phoebe Gates wrote that she “would rather not speak on the class.”

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026

  • Thank you for the technical explanation, that was absent from some mainstream coverage I'd seen.

    Given that it works by controlling the PRNG, does that mean they could salt it by user id and track particular outputs back to specific accounts?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026

  • I just got back from the p2p workshop and discussed legacy sites / sites legacies; met an artist that went viral circa 2006 and she had a screenshot of the digg that launched it. She seems like she is doing ok but kinda got screwed over, basically the old youtube video was actually a bootleg and they didn't monetize it until several years later, and then there was a male copycat a month later.

    Anyway, so I looked up digg again and it has re-re-launched as an X aggregator and is extra sad now !? ...

  • 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

  • Mass is estimated; only Chinese weights are public.

    OK that one got me

  • 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

  • Vice has a writeup - https://archive.is/ooVju - more of a bring-your-own-taser kind of thing I guess

    The tortures varied wildly in nature, and were too numerous to list in full, but several stuck out for me: There was someone pinning clothespins to partygoers’ cheeks; a man called SirLemmings used some herbal powder to strip you of your sense of sweetness, then made you eat an Oreo to test the result; Avalon Warren, an actress resembling Lola Bunny sprung to life, made partygoers make the ahegao hentai face, and carried a fly zapper; other electric torments were also popular—several people carried tasers, and someone had an electric baton that transferred shocks between participants; someone else’s bit was asking you to yell compliments for Donald Trump, which was perhaps the most polarizing (SirLemmings told me that when he declared the president was an excellent comedian, he drew glares); yet another was writing unknown directives onto others’ foreheads. My friend Jahnik had “pls give me a smooch <3” penned on his, and afterward, received kisses throughout the night. Meanwhile all I got was “CTRL-ALT-Z,” making me wonder if they wanted to undo me from reality.

    As for my torture? I was merely a journalist. A lazy choice, I felt, but for some it was the most terrifying of the bunch. One girl even walked away when I told her; before, she’d been nothing but smiles.

    Another resident teacher was political satirist YouTuber JREG, real name Greg Guevara, who recently published a polemical video calling for Total Clanker Death, or the eradication of all would-be sentient machines.

    youtube faves are implicated!?

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

  • The tech-bro cult that funded Wes Streeting| Telegraph

    Not sure who Wes Streeting is, but "Labour for the Long Term" and "Effective Altruism for Christians" sound like some internet rabbit holes to go down later.

    Prof MacAskill and Sam Bankman-Fried first met in 2012, long before Bankman-Fried would make his billions. Prof MacAskill had contacted him out of the blue while he was still a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), inviting him to attend a talk he was giving to students at nearby Harvard University.

    /why/ did he do that? out of the blue, no reason at all? what did SBF have going on in undergrad?

    Mr Lawrence now runs the Centre for British Progress, a “non-partisan” think tank “producing concrete ideas for… British growth”.

  • 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

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

  • https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yTucIB_73L0

    I noticed when I posted a little AI scene of me riding my mule and eating cheese sandwiches, but totally AI, like everyone got really mad, which I found quite amusing, y'know? So I kept doing it.

    I mean, not sure what I expected when I looked him up.

  • 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

  • AI Crisis Flowchart spotted on linkedin

    and the actual article: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-ai-that-hacked-its-way-out-and-the-hype-that-followed-it

    quoted zvi haha :|

    To be fair, the safety community can plausibly claim vindication here. At worst, an autonomous agent that breaches containment and attacks a real third party is precisely the scenario researchers have warned about for years, which enthusiasts have routinely dismissed as speculative. And at best, the company in charge of maintaining safety failed to construct an adequate containment system.

    are you fucking kidding me, they have been DDoSing sites for months, everybody knows about it, and the "safety" community has done jack shit the entire time and has offered zero solutions. I know multiple companies that woke up one day to 10-20k netlify bills until they could stand up an anubis.

    Just let hugging face sue the idiots, it isn't like law enforcement will do anything even though there's already laws on the books for unauthorized access, industrial espionage, etc etc etc.

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    How Effective Altruists Use Threats and Harassment to Silence Their Critics | Émile P. Torres

    www.realtimetechpocalypse.com /p/how-effective-altruists-use-threats
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Coding in a material world | deadSimpleTech

    deadsimpletech.com /blog/material_girl
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Google's nihilists destroying open web and its own business chasing AI

    www.nakedcapitalism.com /2025/06/coffee-break-nihilists-at-google-wrecking-existing-business-to-chase-ai-growth.html
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Toward A Theory Of Kevin Roose | Defector

    defector.com /toward-a-theory-of-kevin-roose
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Manifest 2025 Update: Still A Tech Bro Eugenics Conference

    www.polemics.md /manifest-2025-update-still-a-tech-bro-eugenics-conference/
  • FreeAssembly @awful.systems
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    Confronting the Crises of AI Through Research | UCLA

    livescu.ucla.edu /confronting-the-crises-of-ai-through-research-seminar/