Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post, there’s no quota here and the bar really isn’t that high
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
In the comments to a submission about a private company trying to design a new supersonic airliner(!) this gem appears
Can we get LLMs to design the engine?
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39793848 if you have showdead)
The rest of the comments range from the realistic (it’s hard to design an airliner, and the market for fast ones is not big) over the inevitable Elon-fluffing (SpaceX is just like an airliner, duh!) to the above insanity.
Can we get LLMs to design the engine?
a lesswrong: Modern Transformers are AGI, and Human-Level
Modern NLP systems can do most things you would want an AI to do, at some basic level of competence.
For example, drawing mutant rodent dicks of unusual size
I’m actually at a loss of words for this. What the actual fuck …
From here. The article is pretty interesting, though.
He claimed a new, faster version of the Stable Diffusion image generator released earlier this month could generate “200 cats with hats per second.”
Pointless. The set of any type of funny cat picture on the Internet is already infinite.
The Financial Times reported Friday that the company made $5.4 million of revenue in February, against $8 million in costs. Several sources said there are ongoing concerns about making payroll for the roughly 150 remaining employees. Leadership roles have gone vacant for months amid the disarray, leaving the company increasingly directionless.
“… the AI-ristocrats!”
Guy who was previously featured here for championing the merits of dropping the n-word when meeting new (white) people in order to judge them worthy had an extensive twitter rant about how scott alexander may be an actual prophet, while quote-twitting another similarly afflicted person.
If you bother, which I barely did, this is what you’re in for:
Trace says Scott has given up his will to power. but it’s not a giveaway, it’s a trade: if you don’t seek power you retain the ability to seek unpolluted truth. here’s this tradeoff explained by Curtis Yarvin, another reluctant prophet, whom Scott has definitely read:
Man I do NOT fuck with TracingWoodgrains. I assume that most of the people who interact with Hannania - and his ilk of wordy r9k robots and reply guys - is a a crypto-reactionary. But I think Tracey just really really likes tweeting and culture war fence straddling? Somehow it’s still obnoxious.
Scott Alexander is one of the most gifted and prolific writers of our day—compelling and strikingly original on any number of topics.
An assessment of a writer’s skill, with no regards to prose. This is what happens when the only text you consume come from techie microbloggers
tasty tasty dead dove, yum yum
The sentencing of Sam Bankman-Fried is humbling. I remember researching his rise to power many years ago, with some care, over a few weeks. Listened to a lot of his interviews, etc. I remember feeling deeply impressed, almost saddened by my own relative inferiority. I thought he was very cool. I really did. I thought he was a legitimate genius, bold, independently-minded, and admirably risk-tolerant: A paragon of contemporary, accelerated, cultural and technological entrepreneurship. His initial rise to power was the kind that often makes me wonder “What is wrong with me? Why can I not be smarter, sharper, bolder, and more successful with my own projects?” Since I admired him, I know that I am in no way above him; I could have very well made all of the same mistakes he made, if I had been given the power that he accrued. “There go I but for the grace of God,” as they say. Ultimately, you never know what someone is really doing and you never know what will happen to them. You just cannot know whether someone’s life and work are enviable until after they have died. With his sentencing today, I am at present just as awestruck as when I learned about his rise to power, but in the exact opposite direction—the envy I felt toward him I now feel toward my own life, and I’m beyond grateful to have achieved such tremendous success compared to him. If comparison is all too often the thief of joy, for the same reason it can also be a multiplier of gratitude and humility. I pray for Sam Bankman-Fried.
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you’ll be pleased to know that Justin used to think SBF was the smartest man inna worl’, but now he realises that he himself is