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Marques Brownlee's ‘Panels’ Backlash, Explained in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

indeed. I have ... a photo of the family? It's fine and cool?

under categories "LEADERSHIP -> SAM ALTMAN": making drugs extremely uncool again in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wish our dude well in his endeavours to touch grass

under categories "LEADERSHIP -> SAM ALTMAN": making drugs extremely uncool again in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

any of their actions, wtf

EDIT: actually, looking through your posts, logging off is a good idea and we're delighted to help

a16z picks the next tech hype after Web3 and AI! It’s … anime? in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

that's literally it, yes

fucking blockchain games but the illustrations have big eyes

Caroline Ellison: A dashing tale of Victorian race science and, somehow, Harry Potter (Yudkowsky version) in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Diddy and the Sam, it's Diddy and the Sam

Caroline Ellison: A dashing tale of Victorian race science and, somehow, Harry Potter (Yudkowsky version) in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

Ryan Salame went down hard though, basically for being a huge asshole

his stuff in the Lewis book is amazing. Lewis seems actually sympathetic to Salame and he still sounds like the stupendous shithead he is out his own mouth

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 29 September 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

Hello Matt this is your lawer speaking

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 29 September 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

ya know that inane SITUATIONAL AWARENESS paper that the ex-OpenAI guy posted, which is basically a window into what the most fully committed OpenAI doom cultists actually believe?

yeah, Ivanka Trump just tweeted it

But right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness. Through whatever peculiar forces of fate, I have found myself amongst them.

oh boy

"You can see the future first in San Francisco." OpenAI alumnus Leopold Aschenbrenner pours out a worshipful paean to the AI future, just as if GPT wasn't topping out its S-curve in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago

Ivanka Trump just tweeted this

SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead - an amazing slab of AI doomerism. This is what the OpenAI inner cultists actually believe in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago

retweeted by Ivanka Trump, so relevant to know about too

OpenAI ditches non-profit board, will spin off as venture capital lottery ticket in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Jacob Silverman:

It's March 2025. Everyone has resigned from OpenAI except Altman, a single H1B programmer, 50 lawyers, and the guy who refills the keurig. The company is worth $4 trillion.

OpenAI ditches non-profit board, will spin off as venture capital lottery ticket in c/techtakes@awful.systems
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"You can see the future first in San Francisco." OpenAI alumnus Leopold Aschenbrenner pours out a worshipful paean to the AI future, just as if GPT wasn't topping out its S-curve (situational-awareness.ai)
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come see all the popular super-duper-autocomplete systems failing hard at really simple reasoning questions and babbling nonsense from latent space! (arxiv.org)
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Vulkan 1.3 on the M1 in 1 month - this is cool as heck (rosenzweig.io)
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another banger from Roko, definitely a thinker of a time. I would first guess that this time it was a trans woman he came onto and she kicked him in the nuts (x.com)
 

Women have two niches in life: looking beautiful and making babies

The first niche will be taken by sexbots

The second by artificial wombs

Society will suddenly realize it doesn't need women and those in power will quickly start replacing and disempowering them.

People like to consider the positive implications of technology but they don't like to consider the negative implications

The smart strategy for women would be to ban ALL of the following:

  • sexbots
  • artificial wombs
  • trans women

Nobody except women should be allowed to look sexy(feminine sexy), look female or bear children.

To some extent TERF women like @jk_rowling are smart enough to realize that it's essential to defend the female monopoly on this stuff. But the average woman just isn't strategic enough to go along with this, and there's (as always) a collective action problem so you get defectors.

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At the AI Chatbot conference, an event suffused with use cases for guillotines (www.nplusonemag.com)
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CEO of Zoom: what if we take deepfake fraud, right, and make it a push-button feature of Zoom (www.theverge.com)
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Sam Altman makes $65k a year as CEO of OpenAI. He also makes millions from his portfolio companies doing conflicted deals with OpenAI. (www.wsj.com)
 

archive https://archive.ph/x2hx4

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Crypto is going back: Ethereum front-runner charged, Coinbase looking to re-enact 2022 crash, Uniswap responds to SEC, the not-Telegram Open Network, Wyoming (davidgerard.co.uk)
 

by Amy Castor and David Gerard

In this episode:

  • Ethereum front-runners get front-run

  • Coinbase looks to play CeFi games (and re-enact 2022)

  • Uniswap refutes SEC accusations by detailing why they're true

  • Telegram's TON adds Tether

  • Custodia Bank is still trying again, and we seem to be the only people in crypto to notice that Lummis' stablecoin bill is a loophole written for Custodia

  • Money laundering, Binance, FTX, Craig Wright and all sorts of other fun.

We also have a life-sized cardboard cutout Sam Bankman-Fried, for all your many, many life-sized cardboard cutout Sam Bankman-Fried needs.

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"So, rather than just tell students that they’re in for a rough ride if they cram my prompt through ChatGPT, I show them." (chelseatroy.com)
 

this is AI but it felt a lot more guy with broken gear

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The FTX examiner's report is out. 234 pages in PDF of crime, crime, crime!! If these guys hadn't been thoroughly busted already ... (restructuring.ra.kroll.com)
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shocked to hear that Brian Chau, executive director of e/acc aligned AI "think tank" Alliance for the Future, has a habit of spewing jawdropping racism and sexism on main (www.transformernews.ai)
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LLMs still don't understand the word "no", much like their creators (www.quantamagazine.org)
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