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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 11 hours ago

Additional "points" for the commenting system using local times in the user's browser, thereby timestamping further unfunny AFJ at 2 Apr in my timezone.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 16 hours ago

misread as Eliezer, semantic content unchanged

EAs sad that their previous rich grifters are trying to distance themselves from the movement in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

LOL from the comments

[...] "people having unreasonably high expectations for epistemics in published work" is definitely a cost of dealing with EAs!

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

Their dumb contraction should have doomed the project from the start...

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Prize for least funny, laziest AFJ goes to, no surprise, LW:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2NGKYt3xdQHwyfGbc/lesswrong-has-been-acquired-by-ea

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I knew the HN reaction to Marine Le Pen being banned from being elected to public office would be unhinged, but weirdly I did not have "good, she's a woman and weak so now a strong man can lead RN to glorious victory" on my bingo card. More fool me, misogyny is always on the card.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43534140

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th March 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago (3 children)

For some reason it's on brand for HN to have a discussion of different dash widths stick on the front page more than 24h

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43497719

Extra spice and relevance for the observation that GenAI text apparently has a lot of em-dashes in it, so add that to the frequency of the word "delve".

Renowned Tumblr folklore expert Strange Æons covers Yud's Potter Fanfic in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago

Herostraticly renowned.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th March 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I decided to remove that comment because of the risk of psychic damage.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th March 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th March 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

From the comments

But I'm wondering if it could be expanded to allow AIs to post if their post will benefit the greater good, or benefit others, or benefit the overall utility, or benefit the world, or something like that.

(https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KXujJjnmP85u8eM6B/policy-for-llm-writing-on-lesswrong?commentId=xnfHpn9ryjKqG8WKA)

No biggie, just decide one of the largest open questions in ethics and use that to moderate.

(It would be funny if unaligned AIs take advantage of this to plot humanity's downfall on LW, surrounded by flustered rats going all "techcnially they're not breaking the rules". Especially if the dissenters are zapped from orbit 5s after posting. A supercharged Nazi bar, if you will)

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th March 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 6 days ago

"It's not lupus. It's never lupus. It's whatever."

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Advent of Code 2024 - the home stretch - it's been an aMAZEing year (awful.systems)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems
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current difficulties

  1. Day 21 - Keypad Conundrum: 01h01m23s
  2. Day 17 - Chronospatial Computer: 44m39s
  3. Day 15 - Warehouse Woes: 30m00s
  4. Day 12 - Garden Groups: 17m42s
  5. Day 20 - Race Condition: 15m58s
  6. Day 14 - Restroom Redoubt: 15m48s
  7. Day 09 - Disk Fragmenter: 14m05s
  8. Day 16 - Reindeer Maze: 13m47s
  9. Day 22 - Monkey Market: 12m15s
  10. Day 13 - Claw Contraption: 11m04s
  11. Day 06 - Guard Gallivant: 08m53s
  12. Day 08 - Resonant Collinearity: 07m12s
  13. Day 11 - Plutonian Pebbles: 06m24s
  14. Day 18 - RAM Run: 05m55s
  15. Day 04 - Ceres Search: 05m41s
  16. Day 23 - LAN Party: 05m07s
  17. Day 02 - Red Nosed Reports: 04m42s
  18. Day 10 - Hoof It: 04m14s
  19. Day 07 - Bridge Repair: 03m47s
  20. Day 05 - Print Queue: 03m43s
  21. Day 03 - Mull It Over: 03m22s
  22. Day 19 - Linen Layout: 03m16s
  23. Day 01 - Historian Hysteria: 02m31s
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Advent of Code Week 3 - you're lost in a maze of twisty mazes, all alike (awful.systems)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems
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Problem difficulty so far (up to day 16)

  1. Day 15 - Warehouse Woes: 30m00s
  2. Day 12 - Garden Groups: 17m42s
  3. Day 14 - Restroom Redoubt: 15m48s
  4. Day 09 - Disk Fragmenter: 14m05s
  5. Day 16 - Reindeer Maze: 13m47s
  6. Day 13 - Claw Contraption: 11m04s
  7. Day 06 - Guard Gallivant: 08m53s
  8. Day 08 - Resonant Collinearity: 07m12s
  9. Day 11 - Plutonian Pebbles: 06m24s
  10. Day 04 - Ceres Search: 05m41s
  11. Day 02 - Red Nosed Reports: 04m42s
  12. Day 10 - Hoof It: 04m14s
  13. Day 07 - Bridge Repair: 03m47s
  14. Day 05 - Print Queue: 03m43s
  15. Day 03 - Mull It Over: 03m22s
  16. Day 01 - Historian Hysteria: 02m31s
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Advent of Code 2024 Week 2: this time it's all grids, all the time (awful.systems)
 

The previous thread has fallen off the front page, feel free to use this for discussions on current problems

Rules: no spoilers, use the handy dandy spoiler preset to mark discussions as spoilers

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 1 September 2024 (awful.systems)
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Person who exercises her free association rights at conferences incites ire in Jameson Lopp (protos.com)
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Butters do a 180 regarding statism as Daddy Trump promises to use filthy Fed FIAT to buy and hodl BTC (www.marketwatch.com)
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Martin Shkreli claims to have been behind a Donald Trump memecoin (www.web3isgoinggreat.com)
 

This season's showrunners are so lazy, just re-using the same old plots and antagonists.

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In an attempt to secure the libertarian vote, Trump promises to pardon Dread Pirate Roberts (while calling for the death penalty for other drug dealers) (www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com)
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Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher (www.404media.co)
 

“It is soulless. There is no personality to it. There is no voice. Read a bunch of dialogue in an AI generated story and all the dialogue reads the same. No character personality comes through,” she said. Generated text also tends to lack a strong sense of place, she’s observed; the settings of the stories are either overly-detailed for popular locations, or too vague, because large language models can’t imagine new worlds and can only draw from existing works that have been scraped into its training data.

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Turns out that the basic mistakes spider runners fixed in the late 90s are arcane forgotten knowledge to our current "AI" overlords (mailman.nanog.org)
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AI grifters con the US gov that AGI poses "existential risk" (time.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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The grifters in question:

Jeremie and Edouard Harris, the CEO and CTO of Gladstone respectively, have been briefing the U.S. government on the risks of AI since 2021. The duo, who are brothers [...]

Edouard's website: https://www.eharr.is/, and on LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/users/edouard-harris

Jeremie's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremieharris/

The company website: https://www.gladstone.ai/

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"The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I." - hackernews discussion (news.ycombinator.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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HN reacts to a New Yorker piece on the "obscene energy demands of AI" with exactly the same arguments coiners use when confronted with the energy cost of blockchain - the product is valuable in of itself, demands for more energy will spur investment in energy generation, and what about the energy costs of painting oil on canvas, hmmmmmm??????

Maybe it's just my newness antennae needing calibrating, but I do feel the extreme energy requirements for what's arguably just a frivolous toy is gonna cause AI boosters big problems, especially as energy demands ramp up in the US in the warmer months. Expect the narrative to adjust to counter it.

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