David Gerard @ dgerard @awful.systems

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

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multiverse hype

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"Yudkowsky sincerely believes the following. You'll recognise it because Altman uses it as marketing buzzwords."

a journalist wants to ask me about Urbit. Should I install Urbit so I can at least say I've tried it and can speak authoritatively?

[ ] no
[ ] hell no
[ ] jesus h. christ no why

i just had a 1.5 hour half-hour chat with another journalist about the Fucking Rationalists

i have a call with a third one scheduled for tomorrow

i have followed these fucks for 15 years in detail and i still don't know how to properly explain them to our lovely pivot-to-ai readers

at least it'll be these suckers' job to do the explaining while i rant

fuck. it's rationalist season

he was the most prominent voice saying "hey wait this is shit"

112 pages jfc

tip from a discord:

I've been doing some micro tasking to train LLM's the last few months to earn some extra cash, the last month it's all dried up, no tasks available. I can't help thinking that is a sign of a bubble deflating.

it would be nice if people ever read the history of their favourite thing

one for the arse-end of this week's stubsack

It's just training the model

"it can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong"

I need to put the threads together, but as far as I can tell OpenAI is singlehandedly responsible for the present bubble

don't worry, you're probably just thick

best guess i've heard so far is they're trying to sell this shitass useless company before the bubble finally deflates and they're hoping the AI interviews of suckers are sufficient personal data for that

you don't understand, sam cured cancer or whatever

holy shitting fuck, just got the tip of the year in my email

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it's called kerplunk.com, a domain named after the sound of your balls disappearing forever

the market is gullible recruiters

founder is Jonathan Gallegos, his linkedin is pretty amazing

other three top execs don't use their surnames on Kerplunk's about page, one (Kyle Schutt) links to a linkedin that doesn't exist

for those who know how Dallas TX works, this is an extremely typical Dallas business BS enterprise, it's just this one is about AI not oil or Texas Instruments for once

what is it about the comedy article on a comedy site that is attracting the posters who are way too smart for us

this poster is way too smart for us

actual lol

considering how hard even the "good" ones are on eugenics, it's not veiled

EVILexa