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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd December 2024
  • He's really sold the bit, hasn't he?

    Yet, if you cover up his hair, he easily scans as "generic English aristocrat."

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd December 2024
  • People probably asked the same question about the first Habsburgs.

  • Anthropic and Apollo astounded to find that a chatbot will lie to you if you tell it to lie to you
  • I used to think that comparing LLMs to people was dumb, because LLMs are just feed-forward networks--basically seven bipartite graphs in a trench coat--that are incapable of introspection.

    However, I'm coming around to the notion that some of our drive-by visitors a brain that's seven cells deep.

  • "Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."
  • Protip: If you give a hackernews 25 candies, it evolves into a programmingdotdev.

  • the dead end grift that is lab grown meat
  • The riff-raff have brought us a graft grift.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 2024
  • Maybe I'm being too cynical. It wouldn't be the first time this week that someone drew a spooky picture, would it?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 2024
  • CRITIHYPE, thank you! I couldn't find the word!

    If I had to guess a motive, it would be to bring mirror biology out of the obscurity of pure research (who funds that anymore?) and to instead plant it firmly into the popular zeitgeist as a "scary thing" that needs to be defended against. This can lead to it becoming a trendy topic, and therefore fundable by grant-awarding agencies.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 2024
  • The basement in Caanan House if God were Cajun.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 2024
  • Us ADHD people really have to get our rejection sensitivity under control, I tell ya what.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 2024
  • Casting Harlan Ellison as the Acausal Robot God is just the best.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 2024
  • I read the headline yesterday and thought, "This is 100% fundraising bullshit."

    This strikes me as being exact same class of thing OpenAI does when they pronounce that their product will murder us all.

    What do we call this? Marketerrorism?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 2024
  • If Marc Andressen gets in some sort of public trouble, could we call it the TPOT-Dome Scandal?

  • The Prophet
  • as someone who grew up in an "old timey" baptist church, I am 100% comfortable with someone yelling things at me that I agree with, but ymmv.

  • The Prophet
  • "Decepticons" is right there!

  • Sabine Hossenfelder: Google's quantum announcement is the usual puffery
  • ain't nobody got time for that

    Edit: on reading the newer posts on this thread...oof

  • Eliezer Yudkowsky on discovering that the (ALLEGED) ceo shooter was solidly a member of his very own rationalist subculture: "he was crazy and also on drugs and also not a *real* e/acc"
  • Big Yud is the all-time champion of shooting his mouth off from the hip.

    BTW, there is evidence emerging that all of this is a downstream consequence of chronic pain from a back injury. As a lifting-things enthusiast who mildly tweaked their back once, whew, I can see this being a thing.

    https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/alleged-ceo-shooter-luigi-mangione

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 2024
  • On the flip side, this gives American doctors a new way to explain child birth in terms of hamburgers.

  • Salesforce invites a horse into the hospital
    sfstandard.com Comedian John Mulaney roasts SF techies at Dreamforce

    "Let me get this straight," he said. "You're hosting a 'future of AI' event in a city that has failed humanity so miserably?"

    Comedian John Mulaney roasts SF techies at Dreamforce

    John Mulaney gets paid by prompt fondlers to tell jokes at a party. He spends 45 minutes telling them that they are idiots, which is nice.

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    Oklahoma, Alabama Now Have AI-Powered Vending Machines That Sell Bullets
    gizmodo.com Oklahoma, Alabama Now Have AI-Powered Vending Machines That Sell Bullets

    In a questionable new trend, supermarkets in the South now seem to be selling bullets right out of a dispenser.

    Oklahoma, Alabama Now Have AI-Powered Vending Machines That Sell Bullets

    When you think MURDER, think MARCUS MUNITIONS!

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