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Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] nfultz@awful.systems 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Aella popped up on doomscroll - https://youtu.be/r7WL6kaTJnw

E: oh man the comments are great

E2:

1:08:02 There's a lot of discussions among the rationalist community about the uneven distribution of IQ and its correlation with race. Why is this a topic that people fixate on if they're also convinced that this ultra intelligence an AGI that's like smarter than every human on the planet why are these marginal differences so important to people?

Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
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Coding in a material world | deadSimpleTech (deadsimpletech.com)
 

Another response to Ptacek.

Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] nfultz@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Another response to Ptacek. "Vibe coding as contempt for materiality" part is particularly good.

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/material_girl

Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] nfultz@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago

AI powered lie detectors spotted in the wild - https://pimagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/100.png => https://eyecanknow.com/

Brought to you by researchers at the University of Utah. smh.

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Google's nihilists destroying open web and its own business chasing AI (www.nakedcapitalism.com)
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Toward A Theory Of Kevin Roose | Defector (defector.com)
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Manifest 2025 Update: Still A Tech Bro Eugenics Conference (www.polemics.md)
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Confronting the Crises of AI Through Research | UCLA (livescu.ucla.edu)
 

I found this seminar for spring quarter, does anyone have some suggested / related readings? Especially deep cuts or articles from the first AI winter.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 04 August 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] nfultz@awful.systems 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

In the spirit of "worse is better", here is a ublock filter I just threw together to highlight all the comments less than a day old:

! Jul 31, 2024 https://awful.systems
awful.systems##.comment article.comment-node :has-text("hours ago"):style(background-color:#7700AA)

EDIT: fix bug with 1 hour and 20 minutes ago. regex is even worse is better.

! Jul 31, 2024 https://awful.systems
awful.systems##.comment article.comment-node :has-text(/(hour|minute)s? ago/):style(background-color:#7700AA)
a collection of thousands of prompts attempting to control the idiot genie of ChatGPT in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] nfultz@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

I have LLMs translate novels, I can tell when they run over the window because they forget characters' gender half way through, things like that. Lots of legal documents are even longer, maybe.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 12 May 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] nfultz@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago (27 children)

https://less.online/ - they couldn't be bothered to write the 5 lines of js to do their karma discount automatically