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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I did two Intelligence Squared debates in the UK. The best bit was I got paid. The second best was the people running it were actually very nice and quite competent. Recommend to all.

As for content, the first one featured the guy behind Liberland, so lol

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

Curtis Yarvin being into lizards is the most endearing thing I've ever heard about him

AGI Escapes Containment; Trump Admin: "Hold My Beer" — Tariff Terathread in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

so I previously predicted the AI bubble would pop on Trump's watch and crash the stock market. Never did I envision Trump doing it to himself, in a manner so stupid I'm not sure anyone anticipated it.

I'm wondering what this does to the AI bubble. I think the bubble is led by trillions of dollars desperate for lottery-sized returns. There's so much family, pension and sovereign wealth money that can't get returns on sane investments that they're left only with insane ones.

This is not about tech at all. If they thought they could do a tech bubble with ELIZA chatbots, we'd have number power plants being restarted to power hyperscale data centres running billions of copies of ELIZA.

What would it take for this crash to affect the AI bubble materially?

China massively overbuilds empty AI data centres in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

By the same fuckin people! A perfect Pivot to AI

"The Phony Comforts of AI Optimism": Ed Zitron on lazy hypemongers and CoreWeave's brick-wall-headed trajectory in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

multiverse hype

???

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

"Yudkowsky sincerely believes the following. You'll recognise it because Altman uses it as marketing buzzwords."

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (18 children)

a journalist wants to ask me about Urbit. Should I install Urbit so I can at least say I've tried it and can speak authoritatively?

[ ] no
[ ] hell no
[ ] jesus h. christ no why

i just had a 1.5 hour half-hour chat with another journalist about the Fucking Rationalists

i have a call with a third one scheduled for tomorrow

i have followed these fucks for 15 years in detail and i still don't know how to properly explain them to our lovely pivot-to-ai readers

at least it'll be these suckers' job to do the explaining while i rant

fuck. it's rationalist season

"The Phony Comforts of AI Optimism": Ed Zitron on lazy hypemongers and CoreWeave's brick-wall-headed trajectory in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

he was the most prominent voice saying "hey wait this is shit"

Customer service sucks, chatbots must be the solution in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

112 pages jfc

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

tip from a discord:

I've been doing some micro tasking to train LLM's the last few months to earn some extra cash, the last month it's all dried up, no tasks available. I can't help thinking that is a sign of a bubble deflating.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th March 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago

it would be nice if people ever read the history of their favourite thing

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th March 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago

one for the arse-end of this week's stubsack

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that time the pronatalist couple were too blatantly racist even for the EA forum (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
 

the comments are a delight also

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Slate on the pronatalists: For the Love of God, Stop Profiling This Couple! (slate.com)
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tired: Roko's Basilisk. wired: Total Fucking Asshole Server 2006 (en.uncyclopedia.co)
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How to remove Copilot AI from your Office 365 subscription: hit ‘cancel’ (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Trump starts a presidential shitcoin (davidgerard.co.uk)
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Do be evil: Google now OK with AI for weapons and surveillance — for ‘freedom, equality, and human rights’ (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Iris Meredith: Licking the AI Boot (deadsimpletech.com)
 

"the AI thread in our society now is nothing more or less than a demand by the wealthy creators of it for submission. It's a naked show of force by the powerful and stupid: you will use this tool, and you will like it."

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Forum admin’s madness, AI edition: the old Physics Forums site fills with generated slop (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Popular anonymous race scientist "Crémieux Receuil" is actually a graduate student named Jordan Lasker (www.polemics.md)
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Oh no! AI can replicate itself! … when you tell it to, and you give it copies of all its files (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 (awful.systems)
 

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

last week's thread

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Skynet, but it’s Wheatley: OpenAI sells ‘reasoning’ AI to US government for nuclear weapon security (pivot-to-ai.com)
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