Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 2024
https://awful.systems/post/3015993
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Baldur Bjarnason just put out his interim notes on tech
Reading through his notes, I get the feeling my off-the-cuff predictions from two months ago are very likely to come true - much more likely than I had anticipated. I’m gonna focus on Predictions 2 and 3:
Whether or not tech crashes like I expect, AI’s likely did some serious damage to the notion of “tech/STEM = high-paying job” as it sent the job industry into turmoil ( with junior positions being particularly affected).
Whilst my original post focused on AI turning the public against the tech industry, one thing I didn’t account for was the tech industry directly aligning itself with Trump. As such, tech/STEM’s public image is now firmly intertwined with Trump’s public image - with predictable results.
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just delivered a commission on why bitcoin is very like hawk tuah
this season’s word is: kleptokakistocracy
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en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grosse_commission
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Someone made a… thing where you run all your mastodon toots through a prompt before posting them and thought it would be a great idea to let us lemmy users know. Comes with ugly autoplag image on the github. The names of the “bots” are hilarious: “ennui” for low-effort posts; I don’t think that word means what you think it means. “Legion” for automatic spam posts. Cause that’s not a dogwhistle or anything.
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So the code doesn’t make use of any LLM, it’s just incredibly basic shit like string.toUpper(). It’s curious how much the author wants to make it seem like it does. Even one guy on lemmy asks
Is it so that you don’t have to read replies?
It will be added
Aargh, what’s the point??
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Yeah, I’m struggling to understand the fucking purpose here o.O. It feels like someone desperately trying to make anything for their portfolio or smt
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“Legion” for automatic spam posts. Cause that’s not a dogwhistle or anything.
Their name is Legion, for there are too fucking many.
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Im going to assume they meant it as a reference to the Castlevania boss.
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reddit just launched an LLM integrated into the site. hardly any point going through what garbage these things are at this point but of course it failed the first test I gave it
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Lots off developments in the UHC shooter case
-They (probably) caught him
-He’s even hotter without his three identical jackets
-He’s a Thielhead
Not very happy with how this day’s going
x.com/pepmangione
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He was radicalized by Tim Urban
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Ed Zitron found this post about a WIlly-Wonka-Experience-style cheese injection facility in Toronto:
xcancel.com/i_zzzzzz/status/1865956680481354184#m
This is what it was like to live in Chasm City during the Melding Plague.
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That is it, im joining the Conjoiners to become an engine.
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imma knight of cydonia
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“The Fancy Induced Burger” is what you nickname your baby if your pregnancy goes past the due date
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On the flip side, this gives educators a way to explain child birth in terms of hamburgers, which is always a plus for us Americans.
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That assassin in New York has turned out to be a EA hang around.
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The whole internet loves CEO Murderer, a handsome murderer that targets CEOs! 5 seconds later We regret to inform you the murderer is into AI
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So it turns out the healthcare assassin has some… boutique… views. (Yeah, I know, shocker.) Things he seems to be into:
How soon until someone finds his LessWrong profile?
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StRev was calling him TPOT adjacent and woodgrains was having a bit of a panic over it.
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Do you have a link? I’m interested. (Also, I see you posted something similar a couple hours before I did. Sorry I missed that!)
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x.com/tracewoodgrains/status/1866197443404247185?…
x.com/st_rev/status/1866191524498719147?s=46&t=nT…
Sorry for not using nitter but im on phone.
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I gotchu fam
xcancel.com/…/1866197443404247185?s=46&t=nT1XIOTx…
xcancel.com/st_rev/status/1866191524498719147?s=4…
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TWG: is a good reminder that atrocities don’t come from convenient avatars of all I oppose
Random bluecheck: On the contrary, this just reaffirms my biases that e/accs and AGI race-promoters are the source of every bad thing in the world.
TWG: was he e/acc?
We are in the ‘he only followed some e/acc, he never said he was e/acc’ phase. Wonder what his manifesto will say.
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Hopefully it elaborates on whatever the fuck this is:
Modern Japanese urban environment is an evolutionary mismatch for the human animal.
The solution to falling birthdates isn’t immigration. It’s cultural.
Encourage natural human interaction, sex, physical fitness and spirituality:
If we couldn’t react with “wake up babe, new copypasta just dropped” or “tag yourself, I’m the false fitness signal in the maid café”, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
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I dont know enough about Japan, but is it just me or is that a very specific fleshlight gripe?
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Menawhile: tenga prices soar because apparently their toys are so good that a guy was willing to kill for them to be banned
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being performatively worried about Japanese birth rates is a HN trope, for whatever that’s worth
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being performatively worried about maid cafes specifically is absolutely a new one on me
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Pretty sure this person has been watching a lot of very inappropriate anime
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i thought for some time now that problems with jalanese society are things like stifling conformism, ridiculous degree of nationalism and sexism, how they are functionally an one-party state or stiff strictly hierarchial relationships that appear out of nowhere the entire time. but yeah definitely this seed oils level of conspiracy thinking is accepted truth on eacc twitter
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this whole exchange is so beautiful
i love these stupid fucking idiots
WHY ARE THEY EVERYWHERE
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“Tensor Templar” lmao. Hey buddy, what did the Knights Templar do, besides banking?
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bwahahaha “most reasonable operationalizations; conditional upon being e/acc.” Why does this person make me think of nasal, vaguely whiny prequel Spock?
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The man who hypes up that higher intelligences can figure out laws and rules from data quicker and more thoroughly than lower intelligences defending e/acc accounts by going ‘well they never openly advocated for killing, so this is not a valid concern’. Did he forget he advocated for bombing datacenters? Guess he never read any science fiction where ‘“rational” leader accidentally inspires murderous cult’, By The God Emperor, somebody should write a science fiction novel about that.
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That conversation reads like from a variation of Mafia/Werewolf where you have to figure out who in your circle of rationalists is secretly e/acc and wants to build the torment nexus.
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This reminded me that TWG has a Twitter account. I could have done without that reminder.
A few years ago, I would have pointed to Elon Musk as someone approximately where I was in the political spectrum. The left pushed him away, the right welcomed him, and he spent hundreds of millions of dollars and put in immense effort to elect Trump.
No, you embossed carbuncle. Apartheid boy was evil all along; you were just too media-illiterate to see through the propaganda.
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The left made him call that guy a pedo in 2018, and tell his first wife he was the alpha in the relationship in 2000. Thanks Obama.
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Thobama.
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The left did not push Elon Musk away. The left has fundamentally different interests and values to the billionaire and alleged rapist.
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lol that’s exquisite
but you could tell the guy was into Effective Altruism from how he did dust specks vs CEOs
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From the replies:
I see the interest in AI, Peter Thiel, and the far future, but it’s a lot more rationality adjacent than EA.
“It’s a lot more country than western”
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meanwhile his twitter:
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The starving people are tied to the track, the trolley barreling down at them, they are screaming at you to release them or pull the lever, which they can’t, not without the rich guys help. But the rich are not helping.
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this guy nailing the UHC CEO is the only good thing they will ever have a chance of claiming credit, for so of course they rush to disavow him
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“My heavens, our self-regarding supremacist ideology can’t possibly imply violence… can it???”
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“Our righteous warriors are only supposed to kill brown people and women, not captains of industry!!”
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Thats a very real viewpoint being pushed by the Thiel adjacent far righters.
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dust specks vs CEOs
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tfw the Holy Book (Atlas Shrugged) was misinterpreted.
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According to his goodreads he had not read it yet.
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It’s so embarrassing to watch upper-middle class (at best!) rationalists get their panties in a twist over Luigi. At least the right wing talking heads are getting paid, these guys are just mad he did things instead of tweeting about things.
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the absolute state of american politics: rentseeker ceo gets popped by a libertarian
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We should expect more of this to come. The ascendant right wing is pushing policies that only deliver for people who are already stinking rich. Even if 99% of those who vote that way go along with the propaganda line in the face of their own disappointment, that’s still a lot of unhappy people, who are not known for intellectual consistency or calm self-reflection, in a country overflowing with guns. All it takes is one ammosexual who decides that his local Congressman has been co-opted by the (((globalists))), you know?
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there’s gotta be many more than 1% of right to far-right wingers clocking that that ambient suckiness is result of republican policies or profit squeezing, it’s just that i expected them to be way more apathetic
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also, killing CEOs is more of traditional activity of more ideologically consistent far left groups, like RAF. can’t have shit in late capitalism
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RAF’s aims were explicitely accelerationist - their terror would provoke a ferocious repressional response that would open the eyes of the masses to the repressive government and trigger a revolution.
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Someone else said it, but for someone completely accustomed to a life of easy privilege, having it suddenly disappear can be utterly intolerable.
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@TinyTimmyTokyo @BlueMonday1984 lab-gown mest is fine tho. I'd be all over it if it ever works.
But yeah he'd fit right in on LW I'm sure
Edited based on later chat: eh
https://med-mastodon.com/@noodlemaz/113641637798676074
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Same. I’m not being critical of lab-grown meat. I think it’s a great idea.
But the pattern of things he’s got an opinion on suggests a familiarity with rationalist/EA/accelerationist/TPOT ideas.
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