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Kevin Roose is gonna write "A Latecomer's Guide To AI" and the bubble will burst hard two months later in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

now imagine Casey Newton but even less technically competent

Mangione "really wanted to meet my other founding members and start a community based on ideas like rationalism, Stoicism, and effective altruism" in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago

oh yeah, lotta EAs really care and work their backsides off and live on beans

it's a pity about the ones at the top

Mangione "really wanted to meet my other founding members and start a community based on ideas like rationalism, Stoicism, and effective altruism" in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 4 days ago (7 children)

investigate ideas

"Which ideas?"
"Oh, you know the ones"

Mass resignations at Intelligence as Elsevier actually bothers slightly for once in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 4 days ago

yeah, fuck these guys

Mangione "really wanted to meet my other founding members and start a community based on ideas like rationalism, Stoicism, and effective altruism" in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago

CEOs vs dust specks (large ones very fast)

Mangione "really wanted to meet my other founding members and start a community based on ideas like rationalism, Stoicism, and effective altruism" in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (17 children)

The whole internet loves Alleged CEO Murderer, a handsome fellow who is alleged to murder CEOs! 5 seconds later We regret to inform you the alleged CEO murderer is a rationalist.

what the hell is Theil on here (CONTENT WARNING: Piers Morgan) in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

young blood, it's a hell of a drug

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what the hell is Theil on here (CONTENT WARNING: Piers Morgan) (www.thewrap.com)
 

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

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

it's mean to make fun of marc andreessen's superior brain pan sizing

EAs at VOX malding at the latest NY time hit piece. in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
EAs at VOX malding at the latest NY time hit piece. in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 6 days ago

they're all winners!

2023 study: how EA uses double meanings for a milk-before-meat strategy in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 6 days ago

* join the right polycules

EAs at VOX malding at the latest NY time hit piece. in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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Son! Are you in there building God from neural networks? (www.smbc-comics.com)
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OpenAI launches then un-launches Sora, Twitter gives Grok away for free (pivot-to-ai.com)
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TPOT hits the big time! (sfstandard.com)
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The dregs of Dimes Square after the election: the most despondent winners you ever saw (thepointmag.com)
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Sorry kid, we killed your robot — Embodied goes broke, AI social devices will stop working (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Eliezer Yudkowsky on discovering that the (ALLEGED) ceo shooter was solidly a member of his very own rationalist subculture: "he was crazy and also on drugs and also not a real e/acc" (awful.systems)
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https://xcancel.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1866223174029095113#m
https://xcancel.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1866241512293781930#m

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Sabine Hossenfelder: Google's quantum announcement is the usual puffery (x.com)
 

archive: https://archive.is/WmcV2

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Itch․io taken down by bogus AI-sourced phishing claim from Funko Pop, BrandShield (pivot-to-ai.com)
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in which Edward Ongweso, Jr. beats Casey Newton repeatedly around the head with a clue bat (thetechbubble.substack.com)
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Survey: UK financial services add more AI, mostly machine learning (pivot-to-ai.com)
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A polite disagreement bot ring is flooding Bluesky — reply guy as a (dis)service (pivot-to-ai.com)
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