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

got the wrong song stuck in my head

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Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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 for posting 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.

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xcancel link: https://xcancel.com/jxmnop/status/1953899426075816164

this thing is clearly trained via RL to think and solve tasks for specific reasoning benchmarks. nothing else. and it truly is a tortured model. here the model hallucinates a programming problem about dominos and attempts to solve it, spending over 30,000 tokens in the process completely unprompted, the model generated and tried to solve this domino problem over 5,000 separate times

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 96 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

MOD NOTICE: we're not putting up with debate club rubbish in this thread. If you don't have the reading comprehension to understand the problems with those threads, you shouldn't be posting here.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 49 points 9 months ago

dude. the AGI will simply vanish the evidence wherever they're standing

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 48 points 10 months ago

musn't make the eight guys who own everything sad!

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 60 points 1 year ago

ah, it's a paid ad for Ripple

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 79 points 1 year ago

Every article on pronatalism in the past few years has been these two Thiel-sponsored white nationalist dweebs and nobody else. Why the fuck does the Guardian fall for this shit too.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 135 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

note: tech sociopath apologists in this thread will be removed and banned for everyone's best interests

edit: or just acting like a pointless dipshit. jfc you people

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 51 points 1 year ago

Laurens Hof on Mastodon:

absolutely insane article:

  • the headline claims the models capable of reasoning are ready
  • first paragraph moves from 'ready' to 'on the brink'
  • 4th paragraph moves from 'on the brink' to 'hard at work, figuring it out'
  • 5th paragraph scales it down further, now the next model with only 'show progress' towards reasoning'
  • halfway through LeCun admits that current models cannot reason at all

the journalistic malpractice here is honestly a parody of itself

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 49 points 1 year ago

NFTs can contain code that messes with your Metamask wallet. SVG NFTs can contain JavaScript. Now, you might think any attention would be paid to security.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 53 points 1 year ago

Catholics, well known for their low fertility

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 57 points 1 year ago

always love* it when these guys get so race scientist they start on different groups of white people

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 52 points 2 years ago

uh have you tried xydfgq-blurble browser it's my home brew fork of chromium and firefox i call it "chromefox" which is also my fursona

thinking of changing the name to something lighthearted, marketable and non-objectionable like "GNU-Scrotum"

i am the only maintainer and i keep up with 110% of security issues

we are not in the android store as the oppressive statists at google said that if i ever switched on this uh "piece of shit" in a built up area theyd cut my nuts off, but

ignore the FUD about chromefox spilling your bank account and leaking your tastes in hentai and fucking your cat it's all LIES FILTHY LIES by THAT BITCH ANDREW he is SUCH an asshole

anyway free software stallman was right peace out

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