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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024
  • Ugh. Tangentially related: a streamer I follow has been getting lots of people in her chat saying that one of the taters wants to hire her. I've started noticing comments like "I love white culture" and weird fantasies about the roman empire. Historically she's also been asked multiple times what her ethnicity is (she is white), specifically if she is scandanavian, which I am starting to view under some kind of white supremacist lens. I've told her to ignore anything mentioning the taters or "top g" as one of them is known.

    Honestly, I'm worried that she could get brigaded by these creeps, even if she shows no response whatsoever.

  • Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive
  • People who struggle to find basic things via web searches. That is, before the somewhat recent ratcheted up enshitification

    This is you: LLMs are good, except they are enshittifying search, which follows from the fact that LLMs are bad. But actually, even though they are bad, I know how to use them, so LLMs are good, actually. Normies are dumb and I’m better than them and it doesn’t matter if search is good or bad, normies r dumb and normies will never learn to google good which they can learn from me, a LLM understander who is very smart

  • Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive
  • I’m pretty fucking tired of seeing all the ads for computers with integrated AI chips. You’re telling me you made an RV for the virtual dumbass and you want me to pay for it? Fuck off!

  • On “Safe” C++: An Odyssey of Sneers
  • Eeps: 90%. I have found something to disagree with:

    Everybody loves Puerto Rican music (please get on this, you’re missing out)

    I cannot stand reggaeton, so this is a no from me.

  • On “Safe” C++: An Odyssey of Sneers
  • Eepy Status*: about 20% of the way through. This is all I have to share so far:

    Bjarne Stroustrup? More like, Blarney Should-Shut-Up.

    *yes, short for epistemic status. Don’t like it? Good, mission accomplished.

    Edit: Eepyness: 60% of the way through.

    This is a masterclass in tea spilling. So many shots fired at fucking everything. I am in awe.

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024
  • Ah you see, the moment you entered the realm of numbers and estimates, you’ve lost! I activate my trap card: 「Bayesian Reasoning」 to Explain Away those numbers. This lets me draw the「Domain Expert」 card from my deck, which I place in the epistemic status position, which boosts my confidence by 2000 IQ points!

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024
  • General sneer against the SH: I choose to dismiss it entirely for the same reason that I dismiss solipsism or brain-in-a-vat-ism: it’s a non-starter. Either it’s false and we’ve gotta come up with better ideas for all this shit we’re in, or it’s true and nothing is real, so why bother with philosophical or metaphysical inquiry?

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024
  • I don’t have the time to deep dive this RN but information dynamics or infodynamics looks to be, let’s say, “alternative science” for the purposes of trying to up the credibility of the simulation hypothesis.

  • Microsoft says EU to blame for the world's worst IT outage
    www.euronews.com Microsoft says EU to blame for the world's worst IT outage

    Up to 8.5 million Windows devices were affected by Friday's IT outage after Crowdstrike's antivirus update went awry.

    Microsoft says EU to blame for the world's worst IT outage

    Kind of sharing this because the headline is a little sensationalist and makes it sound like MS is hard right (they are, but not like this) and anti-EU.

    I mean, they probably are! Especially if it means MS is barred from monopolies and vertical integration.

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    An AI beauty pageant? Miss me with that Miss AI.
    www.forbes.com World’s First AI Pageant To Judge Winner On Beauty And Social Media Clout

    In a contest sponsored by Fanvue, models and influencers crafted from artificial intelligence can now jockey for the title "Miss AI."

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    "The Better Angels of Our Nature" Part 2: Campus Lies, I.Q. Rise & Epstein Ties - If Books Could Kill
    www.buzzsprout.com "The Better Angels of Our Nature" Part 2: Campus Lies, I.Q. Rise & Epstein Ties - If Books Could Kill

    2 Better 2 AngelsSupport us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPodWhere to find us: Peter's other podcast, 5-4Mike's other podcast, Maintenance PhaseSources:Jeffrey Epstein’s Science of SleazePinker’s response to Epstein allegationsHow...

    Followup to part 1, which now has a transcript!

    As is tradition, I am posting this link without having listened to it. (too many podcasts)

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    Roko’s Basilisk gets a shoutout on CONAF, hypothetically dooming many unsuspecting listeners to… nothing, basically.
    www.earwolf.com Patton Oswalt Returns - Earwolf

    Comedian and actor Patton Oswalt feels radiant about being Conan O’Brien’s friend.

    Patton Oswalt Returns - Earwolf

    Discussion on AI starts at about 17mins. The Bas(ilisk) drop happens at 20:30. Sorry if ads mess up my time stamps. I think this is the second time it’s come up on the show.

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    A (non-tech) comedy podcast I like covered FTX!
    www.earwolf.com The Collapse of FTX w/ Josiah Johnson - Earwolf

    What’s Poppin’ Con-gregation? This week, Josiah Johnson joins the show to discuss Sam Bankman-Fried, once considered the biggest wunderkind of crypto, establishing his crypto currency exchange only for it to collapse in November 2022.

    The Collapse of FTX w/ Josiah Johnson - Earwolf

    Don't expect a good or deep analysis of FTX or any TREACLESy stuff here.

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