gerikson @ gerikson @awful.systems

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I have 3 kids, 1 bio and 2 bonus, and man it's a lot of work. (youngest is technically an adult but de facto...)

I also feel there's insane pressure nowadays not just to have a kid but to have the perfect kid - great childhood, great education - and if you miss just one PTA meeting you're branded for life

Frankly surprised to see something this funny on LinkedIn.

Micro-sneer, inspired by this article on Swedish public service broadcasting

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/anna-bjorklund-folk-uppfattar-barn-som-valdigt-jobbiga

The background is that the center-RIGHT gov of Sweden is gonna put up an investigation ("utredning") into why people aren't getting (the RIGHT kind of) kids. Nothing new there, simply the same culture war fretting already percolating in the anglosphere.

Finland already has an investigation ongoing, and the spokesperson there raises the point that one societal change that's happened in the last 25 years is... social media.

Wouldn't it be delicious if it could be proved that Facebook and Twitter and Tiktok are the reasons people don't get into relationships and have kids? Eat that, Elon!

This titbit by Molly White about how whales have captured Polymarket's "dispute resolution" mechanism had me chuckling

https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/114779592623569008

LW was pushing this book hard - multiple posts by Habryka, custom color scheme on the front page. Granted, it's perfectly in line with the site's "mission" but several people commented on it.

In the meantime, I hope Nate finds happiness as an author b/c he doesn't seem to find it by trying to use DOOM as a pretext to get laid:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dqSwccGTWyBgxrR58/turntrout-s-shortform-feed?commentId=9tK6DiFxk7bGqNMdT

Wrong thread, buddy?

I think they're different people but may be in communication out of band.

edit a search for "HandofLixue" on Google only gives one hit, an old profile on LessWrong now renamed to "The Dao of Bayes":

https://www.lesswrong.com/users/the-dao-of-bayes

Maybe instead of worrying about obscure wiki pages, Habryka should reflect why a linkpost titled Racial Dating Preferences and Sexual Racism is on the front page of his precious community now, with 48 karma and 22 comments.

Pretty sure Altman is gonna get away with settling with Iyo. Hopefully they demand cold hard cash and not weird-ass OpenAI company scrip.

Following up on the thread that spawned from my comment yesterday:

https://awful.systems/comment/7777035

(I'm in vacation mode and forgot it was late on Sunday)

I wonder if Habryka, the LWer who posted both there and on Xhitter that "someone should do something about this troublesome page" realized that there would be less pushback if he'd simply coordinated in the background and got the edits in place without forewarning others. Was it intentional to try to pick a fight with Wikipedians?

Re-begun, the edit wars over EA have:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EQJfdqSaMcJyR5k73/habryka-s-shortform-feed?commentId=bfzEHGiiNtnRerujL

it's circled back to LW so expect a bunch of people showing up going ACTUALLY

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EhE2jsiMcqGPRjd9a/papetoast-s-shortforms?commentId=AgG8ZM8kP98TKoW7J

I'm no fan of MSFT but in this case I hope they squeeze Saltman for everything he has.

They have a badge now, JFC

ChatGPT Has Already Polluted the Internet So Badly That It's Hobbling Future AI Development

pls let me know who thinks Ringworld is ”hard SF” so I can punch them

Except my feeling is it's mostly people who have grown up with Linux as a settled fact of computing life, not Unix greybeards.

Don't have much to add, other than I first became aware of this connection when Freenode imploded. I wrote in a short essay that

[the] dominant ideology of new Freenode is free speech, anti-LGBT, and adherence to fringe Unix shibboleths such as anti-systemd, anti-Codes of Conduct, and anti anti-RMS.

(src)

Maybe it's connected to the phenomenon of old counter-cultural activist become massive racists.

As an Apple customer I am entirely unmoved by their utter failure to shoehorn an LLM into their gadgets. I'm starting to think they might have dodged a bullet by missing the hype train.