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AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t care in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

yeah looks like I'm thankfully wrong!

AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t care in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

reheated gaming moments

AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t care in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago

most, Sony still has them

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th May 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

does anyone know who the company who did the AI video was? This reeks of PR.

AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t care in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

it's the button for more RGB

saw a microphone with RGB and i'm like wtf is this thing supposed to do, flash disco lights when you're on stream shouting slurs at your esteemed fellow gamers

AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t care in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

oh really? I thought MS had demanded boot locking for the ARM laptops.

A report by IBM explains part of the hype around GenAI: in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago

The poster has been assigned the complete works of Umberto Eco and escorted to the egress.

AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t care in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

this post has been deleted as a prion

AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t care in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 2 weeks ago

Now it's up to the Linux desktop environments for determining what to do if the new Copilot key is pressed.

launch ELIZA obv

AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t care in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

quite annoyed that the Snapdragon laptops are bootlocked cos they'd make great Linux boxes

AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t care in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

list them, as far as I can tell NPUs are shitty cut-down GPUs with a few functions much slower

AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t care in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 2 weeks ago

OpenAI admitted that with o1! they included graphs directly showing gains taking exponential effort

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Single Pilot Operations — let’s replace airline copilots with AI! (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDqA6KDvKgs - video

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Your humanoid robot servant: a new hope for AGI! (A Guy Instead) (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u8VpVEBWEY - video

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Confirmed: Microsoft stops new data centres worldwide (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdbyF7uN2sM - video

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How Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI in 2023: not being an AI doom crank (and lying a lot) (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlrBjeAtJUk - video

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Capgemini: Fix your customer service — with chatbots! (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

As spotted by @mountainriver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXc9-oD_iFo - video

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China massively overbuilds empty AI data centres (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH39J3rUAmE - video

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How to explain our very good friends to normal humans? (awful.systems)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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Thinking about how the arsing fuck to explain the rationalists to normal people - especially as they are now a loud public problem along multiple dimensions.

The problem is that it's all deep in the weeds. Every part of it is "it can't be that stupid, you must be explaining it wrong."

With bitcoin, I have, over the years, simplified it to being a story of crooks and con men. The correct answer to "what is a blockchain and how does it work" is "it's a way to move money around out of the sight of regulators" and maybe "so it's for crooks and con men, and a small number of sincere libertarians" and don't even talk about cryptography or technology.

I dunno what the one sentence explanation is of this shit.

"The purpose of LessWrong rationality is for Yudkowsky to live forever as an emulation running on the mind of the AI God" is completely true, is the purpose of the whole thing, and is also WTF.

Maybe that and "so he started what turned into a cult and a series of cults"? At this point I'm piling up the absurdities again.

The Behind The Bastards approach to all these guys has been "wow these guys are all so wacky haha and also they're evil."

How would you first approach explaining this shit past "it can't be that stupid, you must be explaining it wrong"?

[also posted in sneer classic]

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Bonfire of the LLMs: Gartner forecasts ‘extinction’ for generative AI vendors (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7DZZuCi95o - video

my delivery was near perfect on this video, i'm very pleased

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LessOnline is a festival celebrating truthseeking and blogging, the totally not race science is just a bonus (less.online)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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yeah i'm sure Matt Levine, qntm and Wildbow are gonna be champing at the bit to attend wordy racist fest

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OpenAI signs its $40 billion deal with SoftBank! Or maybe $30 billion, probably (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aP1zUUcmjk - video

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EAs sad that their previous rich grifters are trying to distance themselves from the movement (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
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AI in the enterprise is failing over twice as fast in 2025 as it was in 2024 (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjgdohQk0IY - video

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