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Sam Altman, the recently fired (and rehired) chief executive of Open AI, was asked earlier this year by his fellow tech billionaire Patrick Collison what he thought of the risks of synthetic biology. ‘I would like to not have another synthetic pathogen cause a global pandemic. I think we can all agree that wasn’t a great experience,’ he replied. ‘Wasn’t that bad compared to what it could have been, but I’m surprised there has not been more global coordination and I think we should have more of that.’

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

this thread appears to have attracted keyword-seeking bad posters. these fine posters have been escorted to the egress and may continue to enjoy their subthreads on other fediverse servers and not this one.

[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 19 points 1 year ago

we should post keyword honey pots every few months for culling

[-] self@awful.systems 16 points 1 year ago

I have been meaning to make a vegan pitbull thread for just such an occasion

[-] self@awful.systems 18 points 1 year ago

to clear up any confusion: if you’re a drive-by poster we’ve never seen before and you’re posting bullshit covid theories instead of anything related to what we discuss on this instance (Sam Altman being a fucker, for example), we can’t tell you apart from someone keyword searching threads to spread conspiracy bullshit en masse and the very funny part is, we don’t actually care how you got here

garbage is garbage, don’t post your trash here

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

I mean it showed up in all for me.

[-] self@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago
[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

I didn't say anything on the topic and I can't even see the negative ones. I don't really know how many comments you guys usually get off-instance. I'm curious now if people actually care enough to just monitor shit and say dumb things.

[-] self@awful.systems 11 points 1 year ago

this kind of keyword searching (sometimes via a discord bot or similar for coordination purposes) is ridiculously common — old r/SneerClub was an interesting Petri dish for it, cause you’d get accounts that only post about Urbit or on TheMotte every couple months barging into a SneerClub thread for the first time going “uhhh can you prove to me, whoever the fuck I am, that these people are fascists though?” and it was painfully obvious to everyone else what they were trying to do

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

It seems insane to me, but I used to do some useless shit online so I guess I shouldn't find it so odd.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

i meant that the discussion threads will still be present on non-home servers even as the users are blocked from here

it lets them have the last word but in a way that means nobody on awful.systems will have to see it

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Ah. I should familiarize myself with instance/moderation specifics better.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago

the Fediverse is a network of software that doesn't quite talk to each other, but just enough to stoke the drama

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

The leening tovver oph Bayble: the fedi experience

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

the fun @self has been having getting Lemmy to talk reliably with Mastodon, Kbin or indeed Lemmy

[-] Floey@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

How do you determine if someone is coming across a post because they searched a keyword? I arrived here because I sort by new comments and someone must have just commented.

[-] self@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago

if the post tastes off I throw it out

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