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JD Vance outs himself as an SSCer, SSCers react by gerikson in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 42 points 1 month ago

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.

The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble by gerikson in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 46 points 3 months ago

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...

the Humane AI Pin is fucked by gerikson in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 27 points 4 months ago

L O and I cannot emphasize this enough, L

Pivot To AI is launched! Elevator pitch: “Web 3 Is Going Great, but it’s AI.” by gerikson in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 30 points 6 months ago

Web 3.5.1 - web for workgroups

"Google Gemini tried to kill me" by gerikson in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 37 points 6 months ago

It’s slowly refining its approach. No-one went for the pizza glue or eating rocks, so…

Reddit still delivers sometimes.

America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death’ by gerikson in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 27 points 7 months ago

The entire "the world is running out of people" meme is just an attempt to find a non-religious rationale to limit reproductive choice.

e/acc founder Based Beff Jezos' startup Extropic tries pivot to quantum computing. Twitter handle still has "AI" in it by gerikson in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 26 points 8 months ago

There will come a time when the economic tide has receded and we notice that not only were a lot of people swimming naked, they were very very high on drugs too.

lol, US bitcoin miners are now competing with AI for cheap power in the US by gerikson in c/buttcoin@awful.systems

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 41 points 8 months ago

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.

what AI does to a mf: Claude proudly misdiagnoses an MRI. "We're still early..." by gerikson in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 40 points 9 months ago

If you feed AI an MRI, it will happily write a detailed and very convincing diagnosis...

even if the patient is a dead salmon.

what AI does to a mf: Claude proudly misdiagnoses an MRI. "We're still early..." by gerikson in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 57 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

We started a charity to alleviate wild fish suffering. We spent $30k trying to contact fish farmers via email. This didn't work, so we gave up. We consider the project a success. by gerikson in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 33 points 9 months ago

The comments are the best part.

And by best, I mean worst.

Thank you for trying!

We also made sure to enjoy our trip and tried some Turkish coffee and petted some of the stray cats." (Awwww),

Well, cats like fish too so this is relevant.

One thing I reflected on after learning about your experiences is the challenge of getting in touch with other, non-EA established organizations

Who knew that acting in a weird, insular manner would hinder the very thing that was attempting to be accomplished?

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Elon Musk’s legal case against OpenAI is hilariously bad (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by gerikson@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Yes, I know it's a Verge link, but I found the explanation of the legal failings quite funny, and I think it's "important" we keep track of which obscenely rich people are mad at each other so we can choose which of their kingdoms to be serfs in.

you just hate me because my IQ is sooo high by gerikson in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 41 points 10 months ago

Imagine being richer than god and still being mad about how nerds were treated in 80s teen movies.

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Some interesting tidbits in this ElReg story about "AI Dean Phillips" (www.theregister.com)

submitted 11 months ago by gerikson@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Apologies for the link to The Register...

Dean Phillips is your classic ratfucking candidate, attempting to siphon off support from the incumbent to help their opponent. After a brief flare of hype before the (unofficial) NH primary, he seems to have flamed out by revealing his master plan too early.

Anyway, apparently some outfit called "Delphi" tried to create an AI version of him via a SuperPAC and got their OpenAI API access banned for their pains.

Quoth ElReg:

Not even the presence of Matt Krisiloff, a founding member of OpenAI, at the head of the PAC made a difference.

The pair have reportedly raised millions for We Deserve Better, driven in part by a $1 million donation from hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman, who described his funding of the super PAC as "the largest investment I have ever made in someone running for office."

So the same asshole who is combating "woke" and DEI is bankrolling Phillips, supposed to be the new Bernie. Got it.

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[SOLVED] cannot login using mobile Firefox (awful.systems)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/meta@awful.systems

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Anyone else have this problem? It’s been bothering me for a while and is the last thing keeping me using mobile Chrome.

On the login page , after entering username and password, the “login” button does nothing. It might slightly change color but I am not directed to the site logged in, nor do I get an error.

platform: iOS

The username and password are entered automatically via either Firefox’s password store, or iOS’.

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Looking for: random raytracing program (awful.systems)

submitted 11 months ago by gerikson@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems

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Years ago (we're talking decades) I ran into a small program that randomly generated raytraced images (think transparent orbs, lens flares, reflection etc), suitable for saving as wallpapers. It was a C/C++ program that ran on Linux. I've long since lost the name and the source code, and I wonder if there's anything like that out there now?

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The official awful.systems Advent of Code 2023 thread (awful.systems)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems

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Rules: no spoilers.

The other rules are made up as we go along.

Share code by link to a forge, home page, pastebin (Eric Wastl has one here) or code section in a comment.

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Any interest in an Advent of Code thread? (awful.systems)

submitted 1 year ago by gerikson@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems

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The wider community is still on Reddit, I wonder if there’s an interest to have a small alternative?

If not, what’s a good Lemmy instance for these things?

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ScottA is annoyed EA has a bad name now (www.astralcodexten.com)

submitted 1 year ago by gerikson@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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In a since deleted thread on another site, I wrote

For the OG effective altruists, it’s imperative to rebrand the kooky ultra-utilitarianists as something else. TESCREAL is the term adopted by their opponents.

Looks like great minds think alike! The EA's need to up their google juice so people searching for the term find malaria nets, not FTX. Good luck on that, Scott!

The HN comments are ok, with this hilarious sentence