[-] maol@awful.systems 1 points 5 hours ago

It's just....blah.

[-] maol@awful.systems 2 points 5 hours ago

You can't really accuse the Dead Boys of bad taste and expect it to mean anything. What a dumb idea though

[-] maol@awful.systems 1 points 5 hours ago

Irish election watch: Scary far right candidate uses scary AI images for his leaflet in the Dublin Bay North constituency.

[-] maol@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago

Some anti-AI propaganda via spellingmistakescostlives

[-] maol@awful.systems 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

All

Coppers

Are

Bots

[-] maol@awful.systems 4 points 3 days ago

I'm scared of Big Ulster

[-] maol@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago

I click the link and the first thing I see is an Andrew Tate NFT. "Yikes" doesn't cover it

[-] maol@awful.systems 9 points 3 days ago

Rationalists like to keep all their eugenics talk hypothetical or speculative, because if you ever hear or read about actual neo-eugenics it become clear how outrageous it is

[-] maol@awful.systems 22 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Eugenics in action:

Danish parenting tests under fire after baby removed from Greenlandic mother

Psychometric tests are widely used in Denmark as part of child protection investigations into new parents, and have long been criticised by human rights bodies as culturally unsuitable for Greenlandic people and other minorities.

In a 2022 report, the institute said that because the tests were not adapted to take cultural differences into account, Greenlandic parents ran “the risk of obtaining low test scores, so that it is concluded, for example, that they have reduced cognitive abilities, without there being actual evidence for this."

Psychological assessments of her were made by a Danish-speaking psychologist. Kronvold, whose first language is Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic), is not fluent in Danish.

[-] maol@awful.systems 28 points 1 month ago

She's entitled to a "default mode of victimhood"! She is your victim!

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submitted 2 months ago by maol@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

"Total demand for electricity last year grew by 4.4pc, or 1.3 terawatts (TW), but 80pc of that increase, or 1.1TW, was from data centre growth."

Training data for LLMs = higher energy prices and environmental degradation.

[-] maol@awful.systems 46 points 6 months ago

They bought this house and the one next door for $575,000; they allow their neighbours to live in the second house rent free, in exchange for childcare.

Seems normal !

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submitted 6 months ago by maol@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

A video interview with the artist John Wild about AI, AGI, eugenics and Silicon Valley TESCREAL cultism. Posting without watching.

[-] maol@awful.systems 41 points 7 months ago

OH WOW WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS

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"AI for dummies" interview from Irish radio with Dr Abeba Birhane, who's on a UN advisory board about AI.

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According to wikipedia, Runaway received "mixed reviews".

13

Interview on Australian anti-fascist radio show Yeah Nah Pasaran! with Dan McQuillan, computer lecturer and author of "Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach To Artificial Intelligence". Interesting comments on AI as a tool of/for austerity politics, and an argument that AI is inherently anti-worker. Probably nothing new to people in here, but eloquently stated and put into a wider political context.

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Sure, why attempt to improve the climate resilience or affordable housing in the cities where millions of people already live, when you can just buy land upstate and get a whole new toy to play with? And why tell local, state or national government anything - they'll only be supplying the land, water, sewerage, utilities & transport links. You pay your taxes, you deserve to get something back.

This is going to be one hell of a planning application. What's the land use code for "feudal stronghold"?

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maol

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