we're up to 51 replies to the post, which has 198 karma points. I guess it's hard to distinguish between those that are in support of the racist, in support of a fellow rationalist, or some other reason.
JFC it's already been 2 years
if Gwern is not a pasty white dude with a degree from a top-level US university I will eat my hat
also the probability we can match their now-revealed identity to past far-right/racist content that's not been scrubbed is very close to 1
I've been following it a bit, there's a lot less comedy gold to mine nowadays
here are some links from another forum
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/07/31/major-bitcoin-wallet-flaw-drains-594-btc-in-25-minute-sweep (crypto shill outfit link)
https://bitcoinenthusiast.org/uploads/31820a53956b53c5/image.png
https://bitcoinenthusiast.org/uploads/c0804335a52922e4/image.png - this last is attributing to malice what's clearly stupidity
an EA racist is offered a job, gets duck-milk-shaked, and worries that future AI models won't be aligned correctly (i.e. be racist):
here's some nerd who calculates that GenAI gives a senior dev a 15% productivity increase, and a junior 25%
https://bjorg.bjornroche.com/management/ai-productivity-gap/
HN correctly calls his numbers bullshit, especially because the time spend reviewing code is unchanged between pre- and post-AI:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152222
Even if his numbers are correct, it essentially means that software companies are around 10% faster in delivering something, however that something might be even more bug-ridden and slow than before.
Sure sounds like aspiring and/or existing professional mathematicians are taking the latest GenAI assault on their craft either with shock or horror, or with full-on welcoming of their new robot overlords
https://borretti.me/article/mathematics-without-mathematicians
I for one know who to point and laugh at when the revolution comes.
Non-sober spaces
I guess this is what a matematician calls a bar.
I believe the scientific consensus is that it originated in a wet market in Wuhan.
The "lab leak theory", while not impossible, is also shorthand for a morass of conspiracy theories grounded in racist attitudes towards China. It somehow conflates that the pandemic is China's fault, if not an outright attack from China, while simultaneously downplaying any efforts to mitigate such an attack.
could be a legacy admittant