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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

and imagine the ego to name yourself after the Simurgh from Worm

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago (12 children)
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 1 month ago (17 children)

this is a nice writeup of the story of Ziz

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

fwiw, this /r/slatestarcodex poster says that Ziz of the Zizians did indeed take her name from Worm the web serial

“indirect personal communication”

https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1icege1/associates_of_exlesswronger_ziz_arrested_for/m9yyhw8/

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

lol holy shit this just came into reddit sneerclub (and was zapped immediately)

user HardboiledHack

also tried r/lesswrong and r/slatestarcodex

i'm sure the guardian can be trusted to report on anything involving trans people

the journalist is J Oliver Conroy https://www.theguardian.com/profile/j-oliver-conroy who now writes for the Washington Examiner and used to write for Quillette (the article has been deleted from the site) https://archive.is/aSBjW

from http://joliverconroy.net/

I am a journalist who specializes in features and profiles. I write about the American right, ideologues, intellectuals, extremist movements, the culture wars, true crime, and strange events and strange places.

by "about", he means "for"

I'm a journalist at the Guardian working on a piece about the Zizians. If you have encountered members of the group or had interactions with them, or know people who have, please contact me: oliver.conroy@theguardian.com.

I'm also interested in chatting with people who can talk about the Zizians' beliefs and where they fit (or did not fit) in the rationalist/EA/risk community.

I prefer to talk to people on the record but if you prefer to be anonymous/speak on background/etc. that can possibly be arranged.

Thanks very much.

i've also warned over at the old place

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

benchmarks show that this LLM has the bouquet of the sunny side of the sewage farm

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

visible to me in a private window, but here's an archive https://archive.is/3TjLc

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago

you should definitely report @self lots

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

so you can run the good version at home! this thread tells how to build a workstation for it.

tl;dr 768GB RAM.

with that, you can run the largest deepseek model, or even open a tab in chrome

apparently it's not very fast, but it does in fact do the stuff

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

engage in societal blackmail to anyone who’s ever heard the words TensorFlow.

no no wait this is geoff's stopped clock moment

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

that thread is a work of genius and answers what the next tech boom needs to be

~~dicks in mousetraps~~ I MEAN whatever wastes electricity most, preferably with Nvidia cards

 

amazing to watch American right-wingers flounder at the incredibly obvious questions from UK media guys, even Piers fucking Morgan on a podcast

Morgan - as a fellow right winger - asks Thiel about Mangione quoting Thiel

watch Thiel melting in the excruciating video clip

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