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On this most terrible of online days, "enjoy" this LW attempt at humor
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3GbM9hmyJqn4LNXrG/yams-s-shortform?commentId=ik6ywoQYsGrrQv8Dm
edit there are more submissions on the theme of "humor" on site now. Let's just say the cringe factor outweighs the humor factor by a large amount.
omg I don't have anything better to do
- Lesswrong Liberated - they implemented a chat interface to redesign the LW site according to different themes. Mostly boring
- LIMBO: Who We Are, What We Do, and an Exciting High-Impact Funding Opportunity - probably not AFJ? Can't really tell. Bad day to launch a call for funding if not
- Announcing Doublehaven with Reflections on Humour - protip do not try to reflect on "humour" (native brit speaker or pretentious LWer? flip a coin) with boring examples of "ratty humour"
- ACME Alignment Co Announces: Aligning Humans - this one is easy to call as AFJ
- Giving up on EA after 13 years - lol it's funny because EA means "Electronic Arts" here
- "You Have Not Been a Good User" (LessWrong's second album) - also seems to be a "straight" post, not a joke, but released on AFJ b/c then the community can "cut loose"? I dunno, and I am never gonna listen to any songs by "Fooming Shoggoths" in my life
- Announcing EA Omelas - "[Extensively co-written with Claude Opus 4.6]" you have been warned. Considering how every rat coverage of Omelas has been utter shit I'm just posting the link, not reading it
Kinda crazy that these date from 2025 and no-one has noticed (or bothered to complain) until now.
“an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.”
I think we can all agree now that US Rationalists are basically all ex-Christians who are looking for the same thing but with the serial numbers filed off.
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.
"tenant of white supremacy"
White Supremacy is the worst landlord.
As for the prospect that AI will enable business users to do more with fewer humans in the office or on the factory floor, the technology generates such frequent errors that users may need to add workers just to double-check the bots’ output.
And here we were worrying about being out of work...
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I wish I could say "let them fight" but this is bad for the environment and bad for productive uses of energy so it's more a "whoever wins, we lose" situation.
Normal person: an LLM is trained on publicly available images of MRIs, most with tumors, so presenting an image of any MRI will naturally generate text related to brain tumor descriptions.
Brain-addled prompt fondlers: clearly this response proves Claude is more intelligent than any doctor.
Imagine being richer than god and still being mad about how nerds were treated in 80s teen movies.
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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