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Ziz update thread, started 19 February in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2 March 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

looks like tomorrow's Pivot

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2 March 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 4 hours ago

i am presuming his lawyers, and a special crypto bro pardon

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AI benchmarks are self-promoting trash — but regulators keep using them (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Microsoft plays down AI bubble, cancels data center leases (pivot-to-ai.com)
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

yep that's the stuff. they HINT HINTed what they wanted the LLM to do.

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AI ‘hacks’ system to cheat at chess! — because the researchers told it how to (pivot-to-ai.com)
Ziz update thread, started 19 February in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Wired: The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians (archive)

Evan Ratliff has apparently been tracking the Ziz cult since 2022 and when it blew up into mainstream news, he was ready

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

crayon either way

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

Has the study itself shown up?

EDIT: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.13295

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Tech Under Fascism: Lessons from the first Trump term (write.as)
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Google Co-Scientist AI cracks superbug problem in two days! — because it had been fed the team’s previous paper with the answer in it (pivot-to-ai.com)
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago

that gives me questions about China

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago

that's tomorrow's Pivot

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago

Chris Kluwe vs Gamergate is an example of the jocks as the good guys up against the nerds as the bad guys

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

IQ is a farce multiplier. Elon is a High IQ Individual which means he wreaks 1000x the havoc of a regular dumbass. IQ stands for Idiot Quickly

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here's a recent 46 minute interview with SBF, which i am taking tremendous delight in not caring about (www.youtube.com)
Ziz update thread, started 19 February in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago

BBC summary of the story of Ziz

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Yahoo! Mail shows email users fake AI-mangled subject lines (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Yudkowsky: eugenics is now "the third most important project in the world." After AI doom and anime, presumably. (awful.systems)
 

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lesswrong: How To Make Superbabies

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Businesses still don’t know what an ‘AI agent’ is and they don’t really want one (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Humane AI finally shuts down, HP pays $116m for the pieces — not including the Ai Pin (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Ziz update thread, started 19 February (awful.systems)
 

the old one is three weeks old, let's start another

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AI chatbots test as having cognitive decline (pivot-to-ai.com)
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