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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

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Lightcone is so outraged at the Guardian article that they have started a prediction market about it (manifold.markets)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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WE DEMAND A CORRECTION TO uh various minor nitpicks

also we swear we totally didn't get your email

bonus from thread:

I am having a lot of fun on Manifold, but if the team insists on inviting eugenics speakers to conferences, its probably time for me to leave :-/

What exactly is your objection to people exercising their bodily autonomy to implement voluntary eugenics?

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[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Is the header image on that page an intentional joke at the expense of GenAI, or did someone seriously make that and add it to the page? Do they autogenerate their pics?

a generated image of an open newspaper that says the guardian in one page and contovicsy on the other, in front of some monstrous microscope and a distorted chessboard and a chess piece in an orb

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i think they honestly think this shit is cool

[–] carlitoscohones@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hard to know if "Contovicsy" is an AI in-joke or a Grauniad in-joke. Or neither.

[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The more I look, the more I'm sure it's just bad GenAI art. I mean, look at the random Big Ben with newspaper art extending into the ether behind it, the off-center knight-in-orb, the decomposed microscope thing, the physically impossible structural shadow on the disproportionate globe that simultaneously shows from Panama east to Borneo but somehow lacks India...

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

New Zealand has entered the chat

[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Do you think it was NZ? I kept trying to figure out what it was but because India was missing I was really unclear. I also guessed “extremely large New Guinea.”

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago

“extremely large New Guinea.”

It's just got big bones

[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 3 points 5 months ago

@gnomicutterance @o7___o7 Extremely Large New Guinea is a variant of Bigger Luke http://biggerluke.wikidot.com/bigger-luke

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

iirc (and rough neuron lookup here:) there’s a longstanding issue with entertainment etc mapmakers that leave NZ out of their maps

[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just a conspiracy of cartographers then.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

ah, I was remembering half correctly, and also lol. a conspiracy is now definitely the new mental collective noun I have for cartographers

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago

More-crap-ter Projection

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago

It's still hard to beat the dck pck

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago

Contovicsy isn't a river in Ukraine.