nfultz

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[–] nfultz@awful.systems 5 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-the-astral-codex-ten lol but good for lore:

The most toxic the comments section has ever got (beyond the very early days) was on the post Gupta on Enlightenment. I feel like the comments section on this post should be part of the ACX main canon because it is so cosmically hilarious. It concerns a man name Vinay Gupta (founder of a blockchain-based dating website) and his claims to have reached enlightenment. Some people in the comments are sceptical that Vinay Gupta is indeed an enlightened being, citing that enlightened people don’t typically found blockchain-based dating websites. A new forum poster with the handle ‘Vinay Gupta’, claiming to be Vinay Gupta and writing in a very similar style to the actual Vinay Gupta, turns up and starts arguing with everyone in an extremely toxic way (in the objective sense that his comments score very highly on the toxic-bert scoring system), which provokes more merriment that a self-described enlightened being would deploy such classic internet tough-guy approaches as ‘I don’t think much of a four-on-one face off against untrained opponents’ (link) and ‘this board is filled with self-satisfied assholes who feel free to hold forth on whatever subject crosses their minds, with the absolute certainty that they’re the smartest people in the room’

[–] nfultz@awful.systems 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I try to talk to ChatGPT for 2 straight hours but go crazy and have to stop | Daniel Hentschel

I'm here to help in whatever way I can. Just let me know what you'd like to do next.

What I'd like to do next is fucking hang myself. Oh shit I shouldn't have said that. No, I'm joking. That was a joke. I was joking about that. Joking.

[–] nfultz@awful.systems 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not sure if this was already posted here but saw it on LI this morning - AI for Good [Appearance?] - sometimes we focus on the big companies and miss how awful the sycophantic ecosystem gets.

[–] nfultz@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nikhil's guest post at Zitron just went up - https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-remarkable-incompetence-at-the-heart-of-tech/

EDIT: the intro was strong enough I threw in $7. Second half is just as good.

[–] nfultz@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

I liked his stuff on wework back in the day. Funny how he could see one tech grift really clearly and fall for another. Then again, WeWork is in the black these days. Anyway I think Galloway pivoted (apologies) to Mens Rights lately; and he also gave some money to UCLA Extension (ie not the main campus) which is a bit hard to interpret.

[–] nfultz@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago (9 children)

https://www.profgalloway.com/ice-age/ Good post until I hit the below:

Instead of militarizing immigration enforcement, we should be investing against the real challenge: AI. The World Economic Forum says 9 million jobs globally may be displaced in the next five years. Anthropic’s CEO warns AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs. Imagine the population of Greece storming the shores of America and taking jobs (even jobs Americans actually want), as they’re willing to work 24/7 for free. You’ve already met them. Their names are GPT, Claude, and Gemini.

Having a hard time imagining 300 but AI myself, Scott. Could we like, not shoehorn AI into every other discussion?

[–] nfultz@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

One of the subjects in the MER study posted that too: https://x.com/QuentinAnthon15/status/1943948796414898370

[–] nfultz@awful.systems 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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?

[–] nfultz@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago
 

Another response to Ptacek.

[–] nfultz@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/material_girl

[–] nfultz@awful.systems 10 points 1 month 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.

 

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

[–] nfultz@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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)
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