gerikson

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 18 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Continuing on from this nugget that Lex Fucking Fridman will be "analyzing" the Roman Empire, some nutter in the xhitter thread hoped the real reason the Empire fell would be "inflation"

https://awful.systems/comment/4649129

Looking forward to some chuds referencing the coming 1,000 hour podcast as proof the Roman Empire fell because woke

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Tally Labs launched a project called The Writers Room, which let holders of an associated NFT project dictate storytelling elements. That led to the creation of an Ape-focused novel written by Neil Strauss, a New York Times bestselling author.

Somehow I had not heard of this particular idiocy.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 47 points 2 months ago (4 children)

As for the prospect that AI will enable business users to do more with fewer humans in the office or on the factory floor, the technology generates such frequent errors that users may need to add workers just to double-check the bots’ output.

And here we were worrying about being out of work...

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't see the point of this app/service. Why can't someone who is trusted at the company (like HR) just check ID manually? I understand it might be tough if everyone is fully remote but don't public notaries offer this kind of service?

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago

Próspera seeks to sue Honduras for 2/3 of its GDP because a new government told them to fuck off:

https://xcancel.com/GarrisonLovely/status/1831104024612896795

FP article: https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/24/honduras-zedes-us-prospera-world-bank-biden-castro/

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

I've been going back and forth whether to dig deeper into this comment (I learned about the STAR system from downcomments, always nice to learn new hipster voting systems I guess). But I wonder if this is a cult leader move - state something obviously dumb, then sort your followers by how loyal they are in endorsing it.

Voting systems and government systems tend to be nerd snipe territory, especially for the kind of person who is obsessed with finding the right technical solution to social problems, so Yud being so obviously, obliviously not even wrong here is a bit puzzling.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Jackbooted thugs put creative entrepreneur behind bars for the "crime" of creating bots to listen to bot-created "music":

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/fbi-busts-musicians-elaborate-ai-powered-10m-streaming-royalty-heist/

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Dunno what’s worse, that he’s thirstily comparing his shitty writing to someone famous, or that that someone is fucking Hayek.

Knowing who he follows the unclear point of Hayek was probably “is slavery ok actually”

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago (5 children)

When the revolution comes, we have to cut off the hands wearing this abomination of a watch before we cut off the owner's head:

https://www.ablogtowatch.com/new-release-jacob-co-oil-pump-44mm-watch/

Price: $280k, limited to 88 pieces...

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hate to say it but pg's tweet was reasonable. Some asshole carrying water for Mike fucking Lee deserves to be blocked.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To be fair Drew has tried to be a better person lately.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

I've had to do a number of "aptitude tests" in conjunction with applying for jobs[1] and RPMs have been a staple.

  1. Swedish Defense Force aptitude test (you kind of stand out as middle aged among all the yoofs taking it)
  2. one for a job at a state-owned enterprise
  3. one for a job at an outfit selling this stuff for other companies[2]

I never really got a good score on them either!


[1] I don't really like this but beggars can't be choosers

[2] like I said, beggars can't be choosers, lucklily I didn't have to take the job

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