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"OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry" [Ed Zitron] in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 35 minutes ago

I'm not really an accelerationist, but I'll make an exception for this

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

christ. can't he go back to disco, he was good at that

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 14 hours ago

COMMERCIAL NOTICE: Pivot to AI now has T-shirts! yeah, I sorted out Redbubble. Also does mugs and stuff. All proceeds go to a worthy cause, i.e. me.

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New York mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo writes his housing plan with ChatGPT (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

video version

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How to sell AI slop to the US military — with Vannevar Labs and MIT Tech Review (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

video version

$119 Springer cancer treatments book: ‘As an AI language model …’ in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago

you saw nothing

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$119 Springer cancer treatments book: ‘As an AI language model …’ (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3dIL_Ljro8 - video

Single Pilot Operations — let’s replace airline copilots with AI! in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I understand this post is technically illegal in the US

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Meet Nate, the AGI shopping app! Yeah, it’s A Guy Instead (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb0bq3gAB9s - video

Crypto being the solution to the bot problem is the most techbro take I have seen so far. in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago

this user is far too informed and knowledgeable to lower himself to educating us peons, and has been guided elsewhere

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a16z raising fresh $20b to keep the AI bubble pumping (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7a1-6MU3QA - video

Your humanoid robot servant: a new hope for AGI! (A Guy Instead) in c/techtakes@awful.systems
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Single Pilot Operations — let’s replace airline copilots with AI! (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDqA6KDvKgs - video

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Your humanoid robot servant: a new hope for AGI! (A Guy Instead) (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u8VpVEBWEY - video

U.S. Housing Agency Considers Launching Crypto Experiment in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

Maxine Waters hates crypto bullshit with the fire of a thousand suns, she's not in power any more but she can help jam this up

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

when you say "made it", i think FUCKING ROOSE

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (7 children)

that's CFAR cult jargon right?

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (7 children)

apparently a complete archive of scott siskind's old livejournal. found on the EA forum no less. https://archive.fo/fCFQx

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Confirmed: Microsoft stops new data centres worldwide (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdbyF7uN2sM - video

LLMs average <5% on 2025 Math Olympiad; award each other 20x points in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 1 week ago

the user who cannot read has been guided to go not read elsewhere

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How Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI in 2023: not being an AI doom crank (and lying a lot) (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlrBjeAtJUk - video

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Capgemini: Fix your customer service — with chatbots! (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

As spotted by @mountainriver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXc9-oD_iFo - video

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China massively overbuilds empty AI data centres (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH39J3rUAmE - video

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How to explain our very good friends to normal humans? (awful.systems)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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Thinking about how the arsing fuck to explain the rationalists to normal people - especially as they are now a loud public problem along multiple dimensions.

The problem is that it's all deep in the weeds. Every part of it is "it can't be that stupid, you must be explaining it wrong."

With bitcoin, I have, over the years, simplified it to being a story of crooks and con men. The correct answer to "what is a blockchain and how does it work" is "it's a way to move money around out of the sight of regulators" and maybe "so it's for crooks and con men, and a small number of sincere libertarians" and don't even talk about cryptography or technology.

I dunno what the one sentence explanation is of this shit.

"The purpose of LessWrong rationality is for Yudkowsky to live forever as an emulation running on the mind of the AI God" is completely true, is the purpose of the whole thing, and is also WTF.

Maybe that and "so he started what turned into a cult and a series of cults"? At this point I'm piling up the absurdities again.

The Behind The Bastards approach to all these guys has been "wow these guys are all so wacky haha and also they're evil."

How would you first approach explaining this shit past "it can't be that stupid, you must be explaining it wrong"?

[also posted in sneer classic]

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