[-] swlabr@awful.systems 20 points 2 months ago

Gouda dog, my name is Herr Fschmidt.

I’m a 27 year old American Reactionary Programmer (Mennonite coder for you morons). I write parsers and text editors on my TempleOS PC, and spend my days perfecting my html and playing superior Mennonite games. (Determining the closest connection I have with Mennonite strangers, reading the bible, and shunning)

I train with my Holzaxt every day, this superior weapon can cut clean through Peruvian Walnut because it is hammered over a thousand times, and is vastly superior to any other weapon on earth. I earned my axe license two years ago, and I have been getting better every day.

I speak Mennonite fluently, both Plautdietsch and the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect, and I write fluently as well. I know everything about Mennonite history and their anabaptism, which I follow 100%

When I get my Mennonite visa, I am moving to Pennsylvania to attend a prestigious High School to learn more about their magnificent culture. I hope I can become a farmhand at a puppy mill or a pastor!

I own several zipperless trousers, which I wear around town. I want to get used to wearing them before I move to Lancaster County, so I can fit in easier. I bow to my elders and seniors and speak Bernese German as often as I can, but rarely does anyone manage to respond.

Wish me luck in Pennsylvania!

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You can pull a lever to divert the train and save your daughter. But there’s a catch, as there always is in these moral dilemmas: namely, the murderer has also tied his own five innocent children to the tracks, in such a way that, if you divert the train, then it will kill his children.

Zionism, to define it in one sentence, is the proposition that, in the situation described, you have not merely a right but a moral obligation to pull the lever—and that you can do so with your middle finger raised high to the hateful mob.

I deal with emails and social media posts day after day calling me a genocidal baby-killing monster.

I mean this is all just textbook zionism. Zionists are openly genocidal and proud of it, and are aghast that anyone might oppose zionism.

E: to be clear, zionist propaganda gets regurgitated by western media outlets to try and hide the genocide; this is a tactical measure as israel relies on international support to continue its genocide. Internally, israeli news outlets openly celebrate genocide.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 20 points 9 months ago

The US deploys tear gas against protestors on the reg. Meanwhile they straight up merc’d MLK. Clearly the US thought MLK was worse than tear gas, so not sure what point the OP was trying to make.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Why? Per the poll: “a lack of reliability.” The things being sold as “agents” don’t … work.

Vendors insist that the users are just holding the agents wrong. Per Bret Taylor of Sierra (and OpenAI):

Accept that it is imperfect. Rather than say, “Will AI do something wrong”, say, “When it does something wrong, what are the operational mitigations that we’ve put in place to deal with it?”

I think this illustrates the situation of the LLM market pretty well, not just at a shallow level of the base incentives of the parties at play, but also at a deeper level, showing the general lack of humanity and toleration of dogshit exhibited by the AI companies that they are trying to brainwash everyone with.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 20 points 1 year ago

I actually have a shrimp torture farm. It brings me infinite joy. However its running costs are quite high and I require donations to keep it going

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 20 points 1 year ago

Thinker? Debatable. Computer scientist? LOL

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 20 points 2 years ago

Given that Ellison star-witnessed her ex into >200000 hours in the clink, I dread to think of what might happen to the person that marries her

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sneering my way through the comments.

Here’s Jonatan Pallesen, whose twitter bio is: “PhD in statistical genetics. I analyze and tweet about questions in science and economics.” HMM.

Another example of targeting in this case is me. I wrote a critique of Claudine Gay's research, which I think is quite strong. (https://x.com/jonatanpallesen/status/1749546447811277119 and https://x.com/jonatanpallesen/status/1740324971430154471)

Putting aside the validity of the critiques, why does this fellow feel the need to look into this research at this point in time? Could it be that he is… targeting Gay while she is in the limelight? Couldn’t be, only the evil media would do such a thing.

And for this I was attacked by the Guardian for things completely unrelated, such as my views on immigration, and previous coauthors.

So I went ahead and searched the dude’s name and “guardian”. Here’s what showed up.

If I were to guess why he was “attacked” (really just reported on accurately), it would be that he was name checked by one of the main parties involved in Gay’s resignation, and the guardian was doing its due diligence and investigating every aspect of the story. That’s way less assuming than Jon’s explanation of being targeted.

It can obviously have a chilling effect if you write a critique of a scientific paper, you risk being called racist by a major newspaper.

Better ways to say what really happened:

  • A racist dude sung my praises, the guardian suspected I am racist by association, investigated, and found out that I am indeed racist.
  • If you say and do racist shit like race science, people will call you racist, because you are racist
[-] swlabr@awful.systems 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nothing is sacred to anyone who is willing to consume or make this kinda thing. 100% of showcases of AI capability are just AIs copying something humans do. Sometimes it’s chess. Other times it’s copying Monet, of Van Gogh, or in this case, Carlin.

This is exactly the kind of thing that the WGA was striking against and what big media corporations want to have happen. As shown by some of the comments in this thread there are people that are absolutely fine with facsimile as art. It’s all bad and I hate it. I especially hate how nostalgia for the classics is gonna drive this.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 20 points 2 years ago

There’s a lot of stupidity to unpack in that first tweet.

  • “I’m called a Nazi” honestly first I’m hearing of it, so to me this is self identification
  • “White culture” I imagine grimes here is saying “anything that someone who would at first glance look like a modern white person has done in all of history”
  • “Brown king Cyrus the Great” I’m not racist because one of the historical figures i think about every day is brown!
  • “who invented the first empire” ah yeah he MacGuyver’d one together with pure brown ingenuity, sticktoitiveness, and a plastic straw
  • “Japanese icon Murasaki Shikibu[‘s] … first novel ever” tangent: perhaps this is just my own brand of degeneracy on display here: grimes is referring to “The Tale of Genji”, which I mainly know about because some of the core relationships in the book revolve around adults grooming their wards into spouses (it was a different time), which has popped up nowadays in the discourse of some fiction coming out of Japan (see Usagi Drop). So I’m tempted to project onto grimes a veneration for grooming, which kinda tracks, but it’s a stretch.
  • “What if humans just loved each other?” You’re like 3 years late to former IDF member Gal Gadot’s imagine video

Gotta love the way that TESCREALnts write and how they have a tendency to generate fractally stupid things like this. There’s so much more you could say. Basically, if I could say “that’s not how any of this works” to Grimes, I would.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 20 points 2 years ago

Hmm, how significant are we talking

predicted IQ of about 900

lol

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