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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th November 2024
  • The worst part about Trump being president is Trump being president for a year. The second worst part is Vance being president for the next three (after Trump dies of heart failure). The third worst part is the fact that I've been owned in a way I can't even explain to my closest friends.

  • Whoops! Google's reached a new level of JAQing off and decided to answer the questions instead of just leading to them
  • so the short answer is the model most likely made the numbers up

    Right crime, wrong perp. The Google overview "correctly" sourced the IQ scores from one of Arthur Jensen's "studies" where he reports the IQ of every country in the world and fully makes up numbers for over a third of them

  • Whoops! Google's reached a new level of JAQing off and decided to answer the questions instead of just leading to them
    arstechnica.com Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity promote scientific racism in AI search results

    AI-powered search engines are surfacing deeply racist, debunked research.

    Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity promote scientific racism in AI search results

    > Hermansson logged in to Google and began looking up results for the IQs of different nations. When he typed in “Pakistan IQ,” rather than getting a typical list of links, Hermansson was presented with Google’s AI-powered Overviews tool, which, confusingly to him, was on by default. It gave him a definitive answer of 80.

    > When he typed in “Sierra Leone IQ,” Google’s AI tool was even more specific: 45.07. The result for “Kenya IQ” was equally exact: 75.2.

    Hmm, these numbers seem very low. I wonder how these scores were determined.

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    Grindr proposes ‘AI wingman’ to optimize away the gay sex bit
  • Does the (straight) CEO not realize how easy it is to get laid off Grindr? It's an Ok Cupid-style grid, and there's a profile flag you can set that literally says "yes please, send me NSFW pics". You can literally send you hole/pole to everyone who would want to see it in a 3 mile radius

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 6 October 2025
  • I wanted to see how much lactose was in Monterey Jack, and this was the very first result on bing for:

    monterey jack lactose per 10 grams

    https://thekitchencommunity.org/the-nutritional-profile-of-monterey-jack-cheese/

    It's absolutely over. This is why every other search I make has "site:reddit.com" attached to it.

    And no, the site didn't tell me how much lactose there was per gram

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 9 September 2024
  • There is an übermensch and there is an untermensch.

    The übermensch are masculine males, the bodybuilders I follow that are only active in the gym and on the feed; the untermensh are women and low-T men, like my bluepilled Eastern European coworker whose perfectly fine with non-white immigration into my country.

    The übermensch also includes anybody whose made a multi-paragraph post on 4chan with no more than one line break between each paragraph. It also includes people at least and at most as autistic as I am.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 9 September 2024
  • This is barely on topic, but I've found a spambot in the wild. I know they're a dime a dozen, but I wanted to take a deep dive.

    https://www.reddit.com/user/ChiaPlotting/

    It blew its load advertising a resume generator or something bullshit across hundreds of subs. Here's an example post. The account had a decent amount of karma, that stood out to me. I'm pretty old school, so I thought someone just sold their account. Right? Wrong. All the posts are ChatGPT generated! Read in sequence, all the karma farm posts are very clearly AI generated, but individually they're enticing enough that they get a decent amount of engagement: "How I eliminated my dent with the snowball method", "What do you guys think of recent Canadian immigration 🤨" both paraphrased.

    This guy isn't anonymous, and he seemingly isn't profiting off the script that he's hawking. His reddit account leads to his github leads to his LinkedIn which mentions his recent graduation and his status as the co-founder of some blockchain bullshit. I have no interest in canceling or doxxing him, I just wanted to know what type of person would create this kind of junk.

    The generator in question, that this man may have unknowingly destroyed his reddit account to advertise, is under the MIT license. It makes you wonder WHY he went to all this trouble.

    I want to clone his repo and sniff around for data theft; the repo is 100% percent python, so unless he owns any of the modules being imported the chance of code obfuscation is low. But after seeing his LinkedIn I don't think this guy's trying to spread malware; I think he took a big, low fiber shit aaaaalll over reddit as an earnest attempt at a resume builder.

    Personally, I find that so much stranger than malice. 🤷‍♂️

  • here's the amazing Vibecamp essay where the rationalists talk about "microdosing" meth if they can't take the adderall to become a financial genius like Scoot promised them
  • I REALLY don't wanna rank rapes, but isn't frat rape an archetypal rape? It's unambiguously terrible to the point that the only defense the perpetrators can mount is that it didn't happen. This is like decrying the expansion of murder to include defenstration along side the more traditional bludgeoning and stabbing.

  • theinfinitesimal.substack.com No, intelligence is not like height

    ... and the reason is one of the most interesting findings from modern behavioral genetics

    No, intelligence is not like height

    It earned its "flagged off HN" badge in under 2 hours

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41366609

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    TP0 gets a mention in a frontpage Atlantic article - ‘Race Science’ Is Inching Its Way Across the American Right

    Ali Breland has written some fantastic entry pieces on the new right, including right wing anons and maga tech; now he has an article about the nooticers

    > Other anonymous far-right accounts have accrued more than 100,000 followers by posting about the supposed links between race and intelligence. Elon Musk frequently responds to @cremieuxrecueil, which one far-right publication has praised as an account that “traces the genetic pathways of crime, explaining why poverty is not a good causal explanation.” Musk has also repeatedly engaged with @Eyeslasho, a self-proclaimed “data-driven” account that has posted about the genetic inferiority of Black people. Other tech elites such as Marc Andreessen, David Sacks, and Paul Graham follow one or both of these accounts. Whom someone follows in itself is not an indication of their own beliefs, but at the very least it signals the kind of influence and reach these race-science accounts now have.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20240820173451/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/08/race-science-far-right-charlie-kirk/679527/

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    TracingWoodgrains launches a defense of Manifest's controversial reputation, all without betraying a basic understanding of what the word "controversial" means.
    forum.effectivealtruism.org My experience at the controversial Manifest 2024 — EA Forum

    Comment by TracingWoodgrains - I'm not particularly happy to see people within this community immediately present and accept the framing that Manifest was controversial because people reacted harshly to an article explicitly aimed at smearing a community I belong to with reckless disregard for truth...

    My experience at the controversial Manifest 2024 — EA Forum

    ...And if it weren't for that one joke by Hannibal, Bill Cosby would be very uncontroversial.

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    Dystopian AI hellscape is when your image generator makes non-whites

    >This has convinced me more and more that the only possible way forward that’s not a dystopian hellscape is total freedom of all AI for anyone to do with as they wish. Anything else is forcing values

    This dude also posts a direct link to a race-bait bluecheck two comments down, further cementing hn AI threads as downstream frog twitter.

    I know this one might be stretching it a bit, but every comment on this post is sneer-worthy, every single one.

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