[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 21 points 4 weeks ago

I got bored and flipped to the replies. The first was this by "TERFs 'r' us":

Excellent overview!

This is transhumanism.

This is going to destroy humanity, @elonmusk.

Put the breaks on!

I hate transhumanism because it's eugenics for 1990s Wired magazine.

You hate it because it has "trans" in the name.

We are not the same.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

We—yes, even you—are using some version of AI, or some tools that have LLMs or machine learning in them in some way shape or form already

Fucking ghastly equivocation. Not just between "LLMs" and "machine learning", but between opening a website that has a chatbot icon I never click and actually wasting my time asking questions to the slop machine.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 21 points 3 months ago

Paragraph 2:

METR funded 16 experienced open-source developers with “moderate AI experience” to do what they do.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 21 points 6 months ago

Etymology is not destiny. Otherwise, naughty children would be full of nothing, and (Borges' example) sarcophagi would be the opposite of vegetarians. So, Moldy's argument would be bad even if it were founded on linguistic facts, which it isn't.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 20 points 7 months ago

The genocide understander has logged on! Steven Pinker bluechecks thusly:

Having plotted many graphs on "war" and "genocide" in my two books on violence, I closely tracked the definitions, and it's utterly clear that the war in Gaza is a war (e.g., the Uppsala Conflict Program, the gold standard, classifies the Gaza conflict as an "internal armed conflict," i.e., war, not "one-sided violence," i.e., genocide).

You guys! It's totes not genocide if it happens during a war!!

Also, "Having plotted many graphs" lolz.

A crude bar graph. The vertical axis is "Photos with Jeffrey Epstein". Along the horizontal are "Actual Experts" with none and "Steven Pinker" with a tall bar.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 21 points 9 months ago

And I'm sure that your snide remark will both tell them what to simplify and explain how to do so.

Enjoy your free trip to the egress.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 21 points 9 months ago

Pouring one out for the local-news reporters who have to figure out what the fuck "timeless decision theory" could possibly mean.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 21 points 10 months ago

The orange site comments aren't all worthless:

His attention span won't be enough to stick with physics for longer than 4 weeks.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 21 points 1 year ago

A statement by one of the authors who has resigned from the NaNoWriMo board: No More NaNoWriMo, by Cass Morris.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 20 points 1 year ago

I regret to inform you that Trace is hate-reading awful.systems too & has posted this comment on their Twitter.

Their writing is so boring I can't even summon up the enthusiasm to make a "senpai has noticed us" joke.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 21 points 2 years ago

Team members can ask the app questions like “How should I set this oven temperature?” rather than turning to training materials or tapping through an app interface.

Yep, that's a health code violation in the making.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 21 points 2 years ago

If I were to transition today and didn't pass as well as Jessica, and everyone felt obligated to call me a woman, they would be wireheading me: making me think my transition was successful, even though it wasn't.

This is the same fuckin' diseased mentality that gets cis women harassed in changing rooms for having jawlines that are slightly too heavy.

The math is also weird and unclear in that way which feels like a person reaching for grandiose Theories Of It All without any experience solving more mundane problems first.

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