swlabr

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 6 days ago (7 children)

But doctor, I am L7 twitter manager Pagliacci

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Jesus fucking christ. Fuck Yud. It's on sight. I'm gonna empirically find out what his jaw is made of; current hypothesis: sugar glass. At this point, at his age, and at the amount of time he spends in the communities he does, this should only be interpreted as full support of genocide. Pretending not to have formed an opinion here is some real ghoulish shit.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

On one hand, this is another case of capitalism working as intended. You have the ruling class dangling the carrot of the promise of social mobility via job. Just gotta turn the crank of the orphan grinder for 4 years or so, until there's enough orphan paste to grease the next grinding machine. But it's ok, because your experience in crank will let you climb the ladder to the next, higher paying, higher prestige crank of the machine. Then one day, they decide to turn on the motor.

On the other hand? There is no other hand, they chopped it off because you didn't turn the crank fast enough when you had the chance.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Possibly my favorite kind of article. “The numbers that get thrown about don’t mean what the people throwing them around think them to mean, here is what they actually mean”. It’s like someone telling you about the defcon numbers and that smaller is more serious, or that if they say 50% chance of rain, they don’t mean it is a coin flip on it raining, they mean that in 50% of the area they are talking about, it will definitely rain. Except this one is: “numbers used in polygenic embryo selection aren’t like base stats in a videogame menu, you turds”

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

No predate was fine. I was joking and using it as in “predator”

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago (6 children)

power poster that predates the mod team

Does Yud predate for food or sport?

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (15 children)

Forwarding this discussion to here:

News from r/philosophy: OOP, Richard Y Chappell, posted an article containing image slop, landing them a 3-day ban. OOP writes a new article that DESTROYS the r/philosophy moderation policy on AI generated content with FACTS and LOGIC. For added flavour, OOP is an EA. OP is an SSCer. Both are participants in the thread.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I did look into this at time of edit: the author of the article linked AND the poster of the link are nestled in rat space. So yes

E: when I wrote this comment, I was only thinking about the statement "OP is an EA/LWer". to be clear:

author of the article claims that they tried to post one of their articles to r/philosophy, and because the article contained AI generated content, they received a 3 day ban

poster of the article is a separate person

E2: the author of the article is also participating in the reddit thread, FWIW

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Will probably repost this in the next sack. A redditor over at r/philosophy tries to argue that AI bans are ideological and therefore bad, after a 3 day ban for posting slop.

E: OP is an EA/LWer. lol

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

ah man this rules. just gonna live in this world for a bit

  • LW -> "Love Wrestling!" an online forum discussing all things wrestling
  • Zizians are just an alternate, more extreme promotion
  • Roko's Basilisk -> a finisher move of 3rd rate, tech-themed wrestler "Roko" that not only "finishes" your opponent, but simulates them getting finished infinitely
  • Musk and Grimes are personas and their weird dating life is just a long and drawn out storyline
  • All enthusiasm for polyamory replaced with enthusiasm for tag team matches
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Imagine a world where, instead of performing this kind of juvenile psychoanalysis of slop, Yud instead turned his stupid focus on, like, Star Wars EU novels or something.

Edit: from the comments: there's mention about "HHH", so now I say: imagine a world where all the rats and other promptfondlers dedicated all their brainrot energy toward the pro-wrestling fandom instead.

 

Abstracted abstract:

Frontier models are increasingly trained and deployed as autonomous agents, which significantly increases their potential for risks. One particular safety concern is that AI agents might covertly pursue misaligned goals, hiding their true capabilities and objectives – also known as scheming. We study whether models have the capability to scheme in pursuit of a goal that we provide in-context and instruct the model to strongly follow. We evaluate frontier models on a suite of six agentic evaluations where models are instructed to pursue goals and are placed in environments that incentivize scheming.

I saw this posted here a moment ago and reported it*, and it looks to have been purged. I am reposting it to allow us to sneer at it.

*

 

Didn’t see this news posted but please link previous correspondence if I missed it.

https://archive.is/XwbY0

 

This is somewhat tangential to the usual fare here but I decided to make a post because why not.

I’ve been listening to the back catalog of the Judge John Hodgman podcast, and this ep came up. This ep is the second crypto based case after “crypto facto” in ep 333.

John Hodgman is a comedian, probs best known for being the “I’m a PC” guy in the “I’m a Mac” ad campaign from ancient times. In the podcast, he plays a fake judge that hears cases and makes judgements. In this ep, “Suing for Soul Custody,” he hears a case in which a husband wants to sell his soul on the blockchain, while his wife does not want him to do that.

Some good sneers against the crypto bro husband (in both this case and the other I linked). Brief spoilers as to the rulings in case you don’t want to listen:

333Judge rules that the husband should continue to mine ETH until his rig burns down his house.

556Judge rules that the guy shouldn’t sell his soul, for symbolic reasons.

Note: I like John Hodgman. He’s funny. He’s not really inside the tech space, but he is good friends with Jonathan Coulton, who is. If all you know of him is the “I’m a PC” ads, he has an entertaining wider catalogue worth checking out.

 

On the hottest and coldest days, when demand for electricity peaks and the price rockets, the bitcoin miners either sell power back to providers at a profit or stop mining for a fee, paid by ercot. Doing so has become more lucrative than mining itself. In August of 2023 Riot collected $32m from curtailing mining and just $8.6m from selling bitcoin.

Archive link: https://archive.md/O8Cz9

 

Kind of sharing this because the headline is a little sensationalist and makes it sound like MS is hard right (they are, but not like this) and anti-EU.

I mean, they probably are! Especially if it means MS is barred from monopolies and vertical integration.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by swlabr@awful.systems to c/meta@awful.systems
 

Wish I had a screengrab of this, but occasionally when I open the awful.systems page, it looks like I've logged in as a different user. Just now the username "autumnal" appeared instead of my own. Don't know how to reproduce.

This has happened in chrome on macosx a few times, haven't seen it elsewhere.

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VoughtCoin (the-boys.fandom.com)
 

TIL that television program “The Boys” has an in universe cryptocurrency as a satire of, well, cryptocurrency in general but also specifically that time when DJT was selling NFTs. They occasionally tweet about it.

It has a listing on the “BSCScan” crypto tracker under the name “VTC” so someone might have actually minted it? It might surprise some of you that I have no way of telling the realness of such a thing.

 

Uncritically sharing this article with naive hope. Is this just PR for a game? Probably. Indies deserve as much free press as possible though.

 

As is tradition I am sharing this link without having listened yet.

 

The video game in question:

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