[-] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 40 minutes ago* (last edited 39 minutes ago)

Jesus fucking christ. Fuck Yud. It's on sight. I'm gonna empirically find out what his jaw is made of; current hypothesis: sugar glass. At this point, at his age, and at the amount of time he spends in the communities he does, this should only be interpreted as full support of genocide. Pretending not to have formed an opinion here is some real ghoulish shit.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 1 day ago

On one hand, this is another case of capitalism working as intended. You have the ruling class dangling the carrot of the promise of social mobility via job. Just gotta turn the crank of the orphan grinder for 4 years or so, until there's enough orphan paste to grease the next grinding machine. But it's ok, because your experience in crank will let you climb the ladder to the next, higher paying, higher prestige crank of the machine. Then one day, they decide to turn on the motor.

On the other hand? There is no other hand, they chopped it off because you didn't turn the crank fast enough when you had the chance.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago

Possibly my favorite kind of article. “The numbers that get thrown about don’t mean what the people throwing them around think them to mean, here is what they actually mean”. It’s like someone telling you about the defcon numbers and that smaller is more serious, or that if they say 50% chance of rain, they don’t mean it is a coin flip on it raining, they mean that in 50% of the area they are talking about, it will definitely rain. Except this one is: “numbers used in polygenic embryo selection aren’t like base stats in a videogame menu, you turds”

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago

No predate was fine. I was joking and using it as in “predator”

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago

power poster that predates the mod team

Does Yud predate for food or sport?

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Forwarding this discussion to here:

News from r/philosophy: OOP, Richard Y Chappell, posted an article containing image slop, landing them a 3-day ban. OOP writes a new article that DESTROYS the r/philosophy moderation policy on AI generated content with FACTS and LOGIC. For added flavour, OOP is an EA. OP is an SSCer. Both are participants in the thread.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I did look into this at time of edit: the author of the article linked AND the poster of the link are nestled in rat space. So yes

E: when I wrote this comment, I was only thinking about the statement "OP is an EA/LWer". to be clear:

author of the article claims that they tried to post one of their articles to r/philosophy, and because the article contained AI generated content, they received a 3 day ban

poster of the article is a separate person

E2: the author of the article is also participating in the reddit thread, FWIW

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Will probably repost this in the next sack. A redditor over at r/philosophy tries to argue that AI bans are ideological and therefore bad, after a 3 day ban for posting slop.

E: OP is an EA/LWer. lol

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

ah man this rules. just gonna live in this world for a bit

  • LW -> "Love Wrestling!" an online forum discussing all things wrestling
  • Zizians are just an alternate, more extreme promotion
  • Roko's Basilisk -> a finisher move of 3rd rate, tech-themed wrestler "Roko" that not only "finishes" your opponent, but simulates them getting finished infinitely
  • Musk and Grimes are personas and their weird dating life is just a long and drawn out storyline
  • All enthusiasm for polyamory replaced with enthusiasm for tag team matches
[-] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Imagine a world where, instead of performing this kind of juvenile psychoanalysis of slop, Yud instead turned his stupid focus on, like, Star Wars EU novels or something.

Edit: from the comments: there's mention about "HHH", so now I say: imagine a world where all the rats and other promptfondlers dedicated all their brainrot energy toward the pro-wrestling fandom instead.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 6 days ago

left behind

Ah great. So if I don't get the glasses, I don't get raptured and am left behind. If I do get the glasses, I get raptured, everything I'm wearing is left behind, specifically the glasses. So this is a no-win scenario.

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Tickled pink that BI has decided to platform the AI safety chuds. OFC, the more probable reason of “more dosh” gets mentioned, but most of the article is about how Anthropic is more receptive to addressing AI safety and alignment.

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Burns said the driving force behind the Runway deal was to allow filmmakers to “make movies and television shows we’d otherwise never make. We can’t make it for $100 million, but we’d make it for $50 million because of AI… We’re banging around the art of the possible. Let’s try some stuff, see what sticks.”

read: "I huffed my own farts and passed out. This gave me a dream where we made a film via promptfondling. I decided that I'll make a press release with made up numbers based on that dream."

As reported by New York Magazine: “With a library as large as Lionsgate’s, they could use Runway to repackage and resell what the studio already owned, adjusting tone, format and rating to generate a softer cut for a younger audience or convert a live-action film into a cartoon.”

read: "There's no need to do requels like disney does. The serfs will gobble the slop and they'll like it. After all, why risk creating new jobs or any creative output when we could just melt the ice caps instead?"

As for another example of how the studio can use AI, Burns said to consider this scenario: “We have this movie we’re trying to decide whether to green-light. There’s a 10-second shot — 10,000 soldiers on a hillside with a bunch of horses in a snowstorm.” Using Runaway’s AI technology, the studio can avoid a pricy film shoot that would cost millions and take a few days and use AI to create the shot for about $10,000.

read: "Here's a bottle of my farts. Smell it. Feeling dizzy? Good. Now imagine a scenario where you're looking at your bank account, and instead of number go down, number go up. Isn't that nice? Have another whiff."

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Take that, Saltman! Bet you never thought it was possible!

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Original Title: Elizabeth Holmes’s Partner Has a New Blood-Testing Start-Up

Billy Evans has two children with the Theranos founder, who is in prison for fraud. He’s now trying to raise money for a testing company that promises “human health optimization.”

Original link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/business/elizabeth-holmes-partner-blood-testing-startup.html

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Original NYT title: Billionaire Airbnb Co-Founder Is Said to Take Role in Musk’s Government Initiative

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OFC if there were any real sense or justice in the world, LLMs would be banned outright.

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No link given because it's all over the news. If you ask for proof you're going to have to eat my ass.

A lot of people are going to say it wasn't intended as a Nazi salute, and to that, I say: it doesn't matter. Was it a dog whistle? A variation of a Nazi salute from a South African neo-nazi party? Or just the vanilla salute? Such pontification is a waste of time. Fokker is a Nazi; you didn't need to see him salute. To all the regulars here, Musk being a Nazi is just an axiom of his whole deal. I mean, it's not called technofascism for nothing.

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Just for my personal pride, I would like to state that the father of my children was the first american druid in diablo to clear abattoir of zir and ended that season as best in the USA. He was also ranking in Polytopia, and beat Felix himself at the game. I did observe these things with my own eyes. There are other witnesses who can verify this. That is all.

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“If all of this sounds like a libertarian fever dream, I hear you. But as these markets rise, legacy media will continue to slide into irrelevance.”

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