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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Pivot to AI: Amy is retiring! Probably! yes my cowriter has heard the call of revolution and will be having full and frank debates in the marketplace of ideas. WIth sweet reason.

Yet another bit about Musk's delusions of grandeur in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago

If Jason Wilson calls you for a quote, you give him your best.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

i got quoted as an ai authority, talking about elon's rational boys https://www.dailydot.com/news/elon-musk-doge-coup-engineer-grant-democracy/

What is the charge? Eating an LLM? A succulent chinese LLM? Deepseek judo-thrown out of Australian government devices in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

looks like it's only the app, which is served from China

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

LW, one is an actual LW poster

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

so there's a whole network of specifically Thiel-associated SF tech guys who are into particular churches

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

lol, multiple

Skynet, but it’s Wheatley: OpenAI sells ‘reasoning’ AI to US government for nuclear weapon security in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

gemini just now:

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago (7 children)

existing class of kook - hooks into the Zizians

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

at least one matches, i forget the name but it's all over bsky

Post your current Ziz news and discussion here in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A subspecies of the tie nazi

OBJECTION! Lanyard nazis include many a shove-in-a-locker nazi

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Sam Altman: AI agents will totally replace your employees any year now! Also, ChatGPT Pro is losing money (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Elsevier rewrites academic papers with AI — without telling editors or authors (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Nvidia primes the pump, puts $1b of pocket change into AI startups (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Shock as OpenAI’s Media Manager opt-out tool turns out to be vaporware (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Facebook: Who needs users? We have AI slop! (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

WE'RE BACK

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"My Windows 11 user experience document that I keep adding to" (pastebin.com)
 

Note: I don't care if the issues listed can be fixed - it's still like selling a nonworking car then getting the users to go to the shady cyberpunk district to get the fixes. It's like selling a dangerous power adapter and then go, hey, you can get an expert to go in there and do some soldering to the bridge rectifier and bulk cap trace widths, fix up the spark gaps so it complies with the most basic of safety regulations, and it will work as well as the competitor's, so aren't they practically the same? "Duurp, well at least you CAAAN get inside and solder-" Hey, what if a power supply just worked and was well featured? After like 40 years of development. Ever thought about that?

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You knew crypto was a sea of the most dissolute and dubious bozos, here's Molly White on what the FTX in ch 11 adversary cases reveal (www.citationneeded.news)
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Lightcone needs your funding for LessWrong! because they had to give the FTX money back (awful.systems)
 

Funding beg: (The) Lightcone is nothing without its people: LW + Lighthaven's big fundraiser
The story: Sam Bankman-Fried funded a group with racist ties. FTX wants its $5m back

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at last, OpenAI's official definition of "AGI"! Can you guess what it is? (gizmodo.com)
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coindesk writers outraged it's going full blockchain pumping newsletter and not just 98% pumping newsletter (www.theblock.co)
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Not that we’d ever do a filler piece on Christmas and AI (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Call 1-800-CHATGPT for an annoying time with OpenAI’s cheerful bot (pivot-to-ai.com)
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