Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systems by gerikson in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 10 hours ago

Let's not forget the perennial favorite "humans are just stochastic parrots too durr" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452238

to be scrupulously fair, the submission is flagged, and most of the explicit rat comments are downvoted

Microsoft Copilot AI tries faces instead of a pearly blob by gerikson in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 10 hours ago

This is the dumbest timeline.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systems by gerikson in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 13 hours ago

Some Rat content got shared on HN, and the rats there are surprised and outraged not everyone shares their deathly fear of the AI god:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45451971

"Stop bringing up Roko's Basilisk!!!" they sputter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452426

"The usual suspects are very very worried!!!" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452348 (username 'reducesuffering checks out!)

``Think for at least 5 seconds before typing.'' - on the subject of pulling the plug on a hostile AI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452743

Microsoft’s Office 365 workslop generator — for ‘vibe working’ by gerikson in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 20 hours ago

Can't wait to use this as a cudgel when the next lobsters whines that the "vibecoding" tag is disrespectful.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systems by gerikson in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago

Surprise level: zero

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systems by gerikson in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago

The second screenshot goes to a chart where the Y axis is labelled

Task duration (for humans) where logistic regression of our data predicts the AI has a 50% chance of succeeding

So they're just extrapolating an exponential, not actually measuring it.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systems by gerikson in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 3 days ago

Check out this epic cope from an Anthropic employee desperately trying to convince himself and others that actually LLMs are getting exponentially better

https://www.julian.ac/blog/2025/09/27/failing-to-understand-the-exponential-again/

Includes screenshots of data where he really really hopes you don't look at the source, and links to AI 2027.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systems by gerikson in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago

He's been on the vibecoding bandwagon for quite some time on lobste.rs.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025 by gerikson in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 5 days ago

What book is that?

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Advent of Code 2024 - the home stretch - it's been an aMAZEing year (awful.systems)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems
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current difficulties

  1. Day 21 - Keypad Conundrum: 01h01m23s
  2. Day 17 - Chronospatial Computer: 44m39s
  3. Day 15 - Warehouse Woes: 30m00s
  4. Day 12 - Garden Groups: 17m42s
  5. Day 20 - Race Condition: 15m58s
  6. Day 14 - Restroom Redoubt: 15m48s
  7. Day 09 - Disk Fragmenter: 14m05s
  8. Day 16 - Reindeer Maze: 13m47s
  9. Day 22 - Monkey Market: 12m15s
  10. Day 13 - Claw Contraption: 11m04s
  11. Day 06 - Guard Gallivant: 08m53s
  12. Day 08 - Resonant Collinearity: 07m12s
  13. Day 11 - Plutonian Pebbles: 06m24s
  14. Day 18 - RAM Run: 05m55s
  15. Day 04 - Ceres Search: 05m41s
  16. Day 23 - LAN Party: 05m07s
  17. Day 02 - Red Nosed Reports: 04m42s
  18. Day 10 - Hoof It: 04m14s
  19. Day 07 - Bridge Repair: 03m47s
  20. Day 05 - Print Queue: 03m43s
  21. Day 03 - Mull It Over: 03m22s
  22. Day 19 - Linen Layout: 03m16s
  23. Day 01 - Historian Hysteria: 02m31s
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Advent of Code Week 3 - you're lost in a maze of twisty mazes, all alike (awful.systems)
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Problem difficulty so far (up to day 16)

  1. Day 15 - Warehouse Woes: 30m00s
  2. Day 12 - Garden Groups: 17m42s
  3. Day 14 - Restroom Redoubt: 15m48s
  4. Day 09 - Disk Fragmenter: 14m05s
  5. Day 16 - Reindeer Maze: 13m47s
  6. Day 13 - Claw Contraption: 11m04s
  7. Day 06 - Guard Gallivant: 08m53s
  8. Day 08 - Resonant Collinearity: 07m12s
  9. Day 11 - Plutonian Pebbles: 06m24s
  10. Day 04 - Ceres Search: 05m41s
  11. Day 02 - Red Nosed Reports: 04m42s
  12. Day 10 - Hoof It: 04m14s
  13. Day 07 - Bridge Repair: 03m47s
  14. Day 05 - Print Queue: 03m43s
  15. Day 03 - Mull It Over: 03m22s
  16. Day 01 - Historian Hysteria: 02m31s
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Advent of Code 2024 Week 2: this time it's all grids, all the time (awful.systems)
submitted 9 months ago by gerikson@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems
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The previous thread has fallen off the front page, feel free to use this for discussions on current problems

Rules: no spoilers, use the handy dandy spoiler preset to mark discussions as spoilers

Eric Schmidt: ‘We’re not going to hit the climate goals. I’d rather bet on AI solving the problem.’ With "alien intelligence"! by gerikson in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] gerikson@awful.systems 81 points 1 year ago

This is the inevitable evolution of climate change denialism - accept it's real and happening, just that it's too late / too expensive to do anything about it.

threads is cookin tonite by gerikson in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] gerikson@awful.systems 75 points 1 year ago

"tenant of white supremacy"

White Supremacy is the worst landlord.

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 1 September 2024 (awful.systems)
submitted 1 year ago by gerikson@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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Person who exercises her free association rights at conferences incites ire in Jameson Lopp (protos.com)
submitted 1 year ago by gerikson@awful.systems to c/buttcoin@awful.systems
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Butters do a 180 regarding statism as Daddy Trump promises to use filthy Fed FIAT to buy and hodl BTC (www.marketwatch.com)
submitted 1 year ago by gerikson@awful.systems to c/buttcoin@awful.systems
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Martin Shkreli claims to have been behind a Donald Trump memecoin (www.web3isgoinggreat.com)
submitted 1 year ago by gerikson@awful.systems to c/buttcoin@awful.systems
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This season's showrunners are so lazy, just re-using the same old plots and antagonists.

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In an attempt to secure the libertarian vote, Trump promises to pardon Dread Pirate Roberts (while calling for the death penalty for other drug dealers) (www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com)
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Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher (www.404media.co)
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“It is soulless. There is no personality to it. There is no voice. Read a bunch of dialogue in an AI generated story and all the dialogue reads the same. No character personality comes through,” she said. Generated text also tends to lack a strong sense of place, she’s observed; the settings of the stories are either overly-detailed for popular locations, or too vague, because large language models can’t imagine new worlds and can only draw from existing works that have been scraped into its training data.

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Turns out that the basic mistakes spider runners fixed in the late 90s are arcane forgotten knowledge to our current "AI" overlords (mailman.nanog.org)
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AI grifters con the US gov that AGI poses "existential risk" (time.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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The grifters in question:

Jeremie and Edouard Harris, the CEO and CTO of Gladstone respectively, have been briefing the U.S. government on the risks of AI since 2021. The duo, who are brothers [...]

Edouard's website: https://www.eharr.is/, and on LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/users/edouard-harris

Jeremie's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremieharris/

The company website: https://www.gladstone.ai/

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"The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I." - hackernews discussion (news.ycombinator.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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HN reacts to a New Yorker piece on the "obscene energy demands of AI" with exactly the same arguments coiners use when confronted with the energy cost of blockchain - the product is valuable in of itself, demands for more energy will spur investment in energy generation, and what about the energy costs of painting oil on canvas, hmmmmmm??????

Maybe it's just my newness antennae needing calibrating, but I do feel the extreme energy requirements for what's arguably just a frivolous toy is gonna cause AI boosters big problems, especially as energy demands ramp up in the US in the warmer months. Expect the narrative to adjust to counter it.

Turns out Altman is a lab-leak covid truther, calls virus 'synthetic' according to Spectator piece on AI risk. by gerikson in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] gerikson@awful.systems 88 points 2 years ago

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.

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