blakestacey

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

"First, he started his blog with the deliberate goal of giving a veneer of respectability to racist pseudoscience. Second, everything else...."

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The report received feedback from ~100 AI experts (myself included)

"It's Shake and Bake — and I helped!"

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 20 points 2 months ago

I'm trying to imagine how a John Oliver sketch would introduce them. "The kind of nerds who make you think the jocks in '80s movies had a reasonable point got together and sold 'science' and 'rational thinking' as self-help, without truly understanding either, and it got very culty."

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

Charts 5 and 7 in particular are giving Pyramid Power and/or Flat Earth.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

"Drink deep, or taste not the fanfiction spring"

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago

That image needs a content warning for YouTube Face. Jesus H. Fuck.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

8 thousand words of Daria/Hellraiser crossover fic has not been enough to get me invited anywhere.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Laudatory quote number 3 is from Cremieux....

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

... the EAristocrats!

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

The NYT also ran this little story about Bloomberg having "to correct at least three dozen A.I.-generated summaries of articles published this year".

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/business/media/bloomberg-ai-summaries.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7k4.rrgt.pt3AGFekgpT3

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

By "better", he means "more fuckable".

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There's just something so ... basic about HPMOR. Oh, so you wrote a Harry Potter story? Targeted at emotionally vulnerable neurodivergent young people? That's playing fanfiction on easy mode. Meanwhile, people are out there inventing a whole sui generis fandom about humanity being force-femmed by communist space plants. I don't understand it, but (stirring brass band) by Gad, I respect it.

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