Soyweiser

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago

Yes. Not totally sure if this was a short of just a vertical vid, but those also suck.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"A new report showed that Trump's win was extremely narrow except in 'News deserts', places where there is no local reporting or information, where he won by upwards of fifty points"

Apparently the repubs always do good there or something, i saw somebody complain that the news desert stuff claims there is a much stronger casual link between news desert and trump won than there actually is.

"if you chat with it about its designers"

I hope the people here at least realize how bullshit this is right? The ai doesnt know who designed it. It isnt a child talking about how their parents looked.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 6 months ago

Is the brain just a computer By Iris van Rooij, a psychologist and cognitive scientist (and she is also a bit skeptical about the claims about AI). Might be an interesting read for the people here.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 18 points 6 months ago (3 children)

They’re targeted at execs. It’s execs who get all excited that they can start firing their expensive and pesky developers that complain so much.

Your corporate boss just saw an article about AI (yt short)

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I thought those non crypto cranks were relatively rare, which is why I added the "really" part. There has been only one templeos after all. And cryptography (crypto too but that is more financial cranks) has that 'this will ve revolutionary feeling which cranks seem to love, while also feeling accessable (compared to complexity theory, which you usually only know about if you know some cs already). I didn't mean there are no cranks/weird ass claims about the whole field, but Id think that cryptography attracts the lions share. The lambda calculus bit down thread might prove me wrong however.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago

That test doesn't totally work as Elon does often say fuck.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago

When they mention AI guardrails, they mean so it does become racist, spamming, abusive and based on the largest abuse of the cultural sector since spotify right?

Right?

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Thanks for the update. Damn this got very weird. Appreciate the 2025 writers throwing in a few twists. E: looks like the guy was a bit of an accelerationist fascist

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wow, how is every post somehow weird and offputting? And lol at 'im seeing evidence the voting public was HACKED! (emph mine)' a few moments later 'anybody know some big 5 webscrape API coders? I need them for evidence gathering'. The delightful pattern of crankery where there is a big sweeping new idea that nobody else has seen, plus no actual ability in a technical field.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (9 children)

That first post. They are using llms to create quantum resistant crypto systems? Eyelid twitch

E: also, as I think cryptography is the only part of CS which really attracts cranks, this made me realize how much worse science crankery is going to get due to LLMs.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 6 months ago

It also is 'great' for creating post for people who want to debate others but who dont actually care to make up arguments themselves, quality of the argument doesnt even matter. Which is quite the shit development.

At least you can recognize real replies as there are words they never fucking use.

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