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the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and then Reddit

https://davidgerard.co.uk/

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  • lol holy shit this just came into reddit sneerclub (and was zapped immediately)

    user HardboiledHack

    also tried r/lesswrong and r/slatestarcodex

    i'm sure the guardian can be trusted to report on anything involving trans people

    the journalist is J Oliver Conroy https://www.theguardian.com/profile/j-oliver-conroy who now writes for the Washington Examiner and used to write for Quillette (the article has been deleted from the site) https://archive.is/aSBjW

    from http://joliverconroy.net/

    I am a journalist who specializes in features and profiles. I write about the American right, ideologues, intellectuals, extremist movements, the culture wars, true crime, and strange events and strange places.

    by "about", he means "for"

    I'm a journalist at the Guardian working on a piece about the Zizians. If you have encountered members of the group or had interactions with them, or know people who have, please contact me: oliver.conroy@theguardian.com.

    I'm also interested in chatting with people who can talk about the Zizians' beliefs and where they fit (or did not fit) in the rationalist/EA/risk community.

    I prefer to talk to people on the record but if you prefer to be anonymous/speak on background/etc. that can possibly be arranged.

    Thanks very much.

    i've also warned over at the old place

  • benchmarks show that this LLM has the bouquet of the sunny side of the sewage farm

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    a handy list of LLM poisoners

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    Attached: 1 image Sabot in the Age of AI Here is a curated list of strategies, offensive methods, and tactics for (algorithmic) sabotage, disruption, and deliberate poisoning. 🔻 iocaine The deadliest AI poison—iocaine generates garbage rather than slowing crawlers. 🔗 https://git.madhouse-projec...

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    Aella's timeline on the current Zizian issue (warning: she sure does love her deadnames)

    this is very self-serving ass covering from the rationalist sphere

    there's a glaring hole in it: what precisely the break was between Ziz and her friends and the rest of the rationals. this isn't detailed.

    xcancel: https://xcancel.com/aella_girl/status/1884481375690223684

    aella's document dump: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1z21U_q1tESO61iL35ertsIjZYczJrHpQ

  • you should definitely report @self lots

  • so you can run the good version at home! this thread tells how to build a workstation for it.

    tl;dr 768GB RAM.

    with that, you can run the largest deepseek model, or even open a tab in chrome

    apparently it's not very fast, but it does in fact do the stuff

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  • engage in societal blackmail to anyone who’s ever heard the words TensorFlow.

    no no wait this is geoff's stopped clock moment

  • that thread is a work of genius and answers what the next tech boom needs to be

    dicks in mousetraps I MEAN whatever wastes electricity most, preferably with Nvidia cards

  • It’s all fucking solipsism with extra steps

    or not, like when he told Grimes to her face that he thought she must be an ideal simulation for him

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  • this post from the guy who writes explainers about consumer financial structures hits different if you know he met and is exchanging tweets with noted race scientist Jordan Lasker (cremieux)

    https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/chicago-casino-investment-offering/

    maybe it's me but i'm hearing ultrasonic frequencies

    probably nothing, right?

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    a short story of the robot rebellion. We had it coming.

  • Rationalism is a cult, but it's also a cult franchise that generates smaller cults. Also a lot of the people were not entirely balanced to start with and rationalism made them worse. Anyway, Ziz.

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    McSweeneys: Our Customers Demand Terrible AI Systems

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  • Ulbricht also had really bad lawyers. The FBI evidence on the server in Iceland was tainted in fairly obvious ways and he coulda got much of the case thrown out, then just ... didn't? I can't find it, but Nicholas Weaver wrote some stuff on this.

  • it's better than that, he didn't dump a penny in

    the deal is:

    1. they get unregulated
    2. they promise to spend money they were going to anyway, they're totally getting round to it bro
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  • they can't even sell o3 really - in o3 high mode, needed to do this level of query, it's about $1000 per query lol

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    Hacker News: Are there any real examples of AI agents doing work? The answer may not surprise you!

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    cower in fear of the basilisk, meat machines

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    did scoot at one time have the mask on, cos if so that must be the distant past

    How To Stop Worrying And Learn To Love Lynn's National IQ Estimates

    Isn't It Super-Racist To Say That People In Sub-Saharan African Countries Have IQs Equivalent To Intellectually Disabled People?

    No. In fact, it would be super-racist not to say this!

    https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-to-stop-worrying-and-learn-to

    archive: https://archive.ph/BJ6bd