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TinyTimmyTokyo
TinyTimmyTokyo @ TinyTimmyTokyo @awful.systems
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Nvidia is being a bubble stock again

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  • Please touch grass.

    • Nvidia is being a bubble stock again

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  • The next AI winter can't come too soon. They're spinning up coal-fired power plants to supply the energy required to build these LLMs.

    • TracingWoodgrains launches a defense of Manifest's controversial reputation, all without betraying a basic understanding of what the word "controversial" means.

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  • Until a month ago, TW was the long-time researcher for "Blocked and Reported", the podcast hosted by Katie 'TERF' Herzog and relentless sealion Jesse Singal.

    • Yud goes full seed oil-ist

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  • That reminds me. If the world is about to FOOM into a kill-all-humans doomscape, why is he wasting time worrying about seed oils?

    • IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle

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  • Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man is always a good place to start.

    • Yud goes full seed oil-ist

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  • Random blue check spouts disinformation about "seed oils" on the internet. Same random blue check runs a company selling "safe" alternatives to seed oils. Yud spreads this huckster's disinformation further. In the process he reveals his autodidactically-obtained expertise in biology:

    Are you eating animals, especially non-cows? Pigs and chickens inherit linoleic acid from their feed. (Cows reprocess it more.)

    Yes, Yud, because that's how it works. People directly "inherit" organic molecules totally unmetabolized from the animals they eat.

    I don't know why Yud is fat, but armchair sciencing probably isn't going to fix it.

    • IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle

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  • This is good:

    Take the sequence {1,2,3,4,x}. What should x be? Only someone who is clueless about induction would answer 5 as if it were the only answer (see Goodman’s problem in a philosophy textbook or ask your closest Fat Tony) [Note: We can also apply here Wittgenstein’s rule-following problem, which states that any of an infinite number of functions is compatible with any finite sequence. Source: Paul Bogossian]. Not only clueless, but obedient enough to want to think in a certain way.

    Also this:

    If, as psychologists show, MDs and academics tend to have a higher “IQ” that is slightly informative (higher, but on a noisy average), it is largely because to get into schools you need to score on a test similar to “IQ”. The mere presence of such a filter increases the visible mean and lower the visible variance. Probability and statistics confuse fools.

    And:

    If someone came up w/a numerical“Well Being Quotient” WBQ or “Sleep Quotient”, SQ, trying to mimic temperature or a physical quantity, you’d find it absurd. But put enough academics w/physics envy and race hatred on it and it will become an official measure.

    • Urbit announced its summer accelerator program as "u/acc". Someone asked me "wtf is an Urbit" so I wrote this. May be useful. "what if networked Lisp machines, but for Nazis"

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  • "TempleOS on the blockchain"

    Ok that's some quality sneer. A bit obscure and esoteric, but otherwise perfect for those who know anything about Temple OS.

    • reposting David’s repost of Scott Alexander’s leaked neoreaction and race science emails

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  • Yeah, Behe's one of the leading lights (dimmest bulbs?) of the so-called "Intelligent Design" movement: a molecular biologist who knows just enough molecular biology to construct strawmen arguments about evolution. Siskind being impressed by him tells me everything I need to know about Siskind's susceptibility to truly stupid ideas.