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Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2025-02-01 at 23:04

www.lesswrong.com/posts/…/re-taste

A random walk, in retrospect, looks like like directional movement at a speed of √n.

No it doesn’t, you fools, you absolute rubes

If you consider your normative values to be true, then everything looks like progress.

wat

Scott Alexander was a founding though-leader behind the Lightcone salon.

Your future region of the spacetime diagram is inside a locker, nerd

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Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2025-02-01 at 22:51

xcancel.com/tsarnick/status/1882927003508359242

Eliezer Yudkowsky says he would like to be a post-human some day, but the way to get there is by experimenting on augmenting biological intelligence through adult gene therapy targeting the human brain with suicide volunteers who may end up schizophrenic rather than taking a “leap of death” into unconstrained AI development

(found via flipping through LW for sneerable posts/comments)

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Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2025-02-01 at 17:41

DeepSeek might not be such good news for energy after all

https://awful.systems/post/3426300

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Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2025-01-30 at 21:50

Kelsey Piper bluechecks thusly:

James Damore was egregiously wronged.

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Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2025-01-27 at 04:22

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd February 2025

https://awful.systems/post/3382551

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Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2025-01-25 at 20:39

PhysicsForums was apparently deliberately corrupted with LLM content in old posts.

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Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2025-01-25 at 02:04

From the “flipping through LessWrong for entertainment” department:

What effect does LLM use have on the quality of people’s thinking / knowledge?

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Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2025-01-20 at 05:26

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th January 2025 - awful.systems - awful.systems

https://awful.systems/post/3329759

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Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2025-01-18 at 07:34

I have spent the last half-hour in the angry dome

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Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2025-01-18 at 06:59

So, the Wikipedia article about “prompt engineering” is pretty terrible. First source: OpenAI. Second: a blog. Third: OpenAI. Fourth: OpenAI’s blog. ArXiv, arXiv, arXiv… 43 times. Hop on over to the Talk page, and we find this gem:

It is sometimes necessary to make assumptions to write an article (see WP:MNA).

Spoiler alert: that link doesn’t justify anything. It basically advises against going off on tangents: There’s no need to rehash the fact that evolution is a fact on every damn biology page. It does not say that Wikipedia should have an article on some creationist fantasy, like baraminology or flood geology, based entirely on creationist screeds that all cite each other.

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Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2025-01-13 at 20:43

If you can’t get through two short paragraphs without equating Stalinism and “social justice”, you may be a cockwomble.

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Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2025-01-13 at 20:05

Paul Graham is on his bullshit again.

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Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2025-01-13 at 03:59

Welp, time to start the thread with fresh Awful for everyone to regret:

r/phenotypes

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Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2025-01-13 at 02:18

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th January 2025 - awful.systems

https://awful.systems/post/3278715

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Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2025-01-10 at 00:42

Facebook "Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal"

https://awful.systems/post/3255778

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Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2024-12-27 at 20:26

Elsevier: Proudly charging you money so its AI can make your articles worse

https://awful.systems/post/3157911

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Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2024-10-23 at 01:53

Harmonice Mundi Books: An idea for an ethical academic publisher

https://awful.systems/post/2683200

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Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2024-10-02 at 15:12

Found while poking around today: the Wikipedia club for cleaning up after AI.

Example: the article Leninist historiography was entirely written by AI and previously included a list of completely fake sources in Russian and Hungarian at the bottom of the page.

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Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2024-09-30 at 05:05

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 6 October 2025

https://awful.systems/post/2505486

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Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2024-09-23 at 05:41

From an article about a boutique brand that sells books to rich people:

Assouline has made its name publishing tomes that sell for $1,000 or more.

Oh, so they publish textbooks.

“They represent stealth wealth, intended to tell you what your hosts are about and to provide visual evidence: that the owners are people of wealth, education and taste.”

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