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"OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry" [Ed Zitron] in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I'm not really an accelerationist, but I'll make an exception for this

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

christ. can't he go back to disco, he was good at that

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

COMMERCIAL NOTICE: Pivot to AI now has T-shirts! yeah, I sorted out Redbubble. Also does mugs and stuff. All proceeds go to a worthy cause, i.e. me.

$119 Springer cancer treatments book: ‘As an AI language model …’ in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

you saw nothing

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Single Pilot Operations — let’s replace airline copilots with AI! in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I understand this post is technically illegal in the US

Crypto being the solution to the bot problem is the most techbro take I have seen so far. in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

this user is far too informed and knowledgeable to lower himself to educating us peons, and has been guided elsewhere

Your humanoid robot servant: a new hope for AGI! (A Guy Instead) in c/techtakes@awful.systems
U.S. Housing Agency Considers Launching Crypto Experiment in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

Maxine Waters hates crypto bullshit with the fire of a thousand suns, she's not in power any more but she can help jam this up

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

when you say "made it", i think FUCKING ROOSE

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago (7 children)

that's CFAR cult jargon right?

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago (7 children)

apparently a complete archive of scott siskind's old livejournal. found on the EA forum no less. https://archive.fo/fCFQx

LLMs average <5% on 2025 Math Olympiad; award each other 20x points in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 3 months ago

the user who cannot read has been guided to go not read elsewhere

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Elon Musk’s DOGE turns to AI to accelerate its destructive incompetence (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Microsoft research: Use AI chatbots and turn yourself into a dumbass (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Andrew Molitor on "AI safety". "people are gonna hook these dumb things up to stuff they should not, and people will get killed. Hopefully the same people, but probably other people." (nonesense.substack.com)
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DeepSeek roundup: banned by governments, no guard rails, lied about its training costs (pivot-to-ai.com)
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OpenAI does a Super Bowl ad, Google’s ad uses bad stats from Gemini (pivot-to-ai.com)
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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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