Soyweiser

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 56 minutes ago

He looked in the mirror and wept, for there were no more things to ruin.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 11 hours ago

Thank you, fixed. And thanks for looking it up.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Thank you.

E: and small victory but at least .nl made it. more than 3k signatures in day in .nl alone, about 50k increase total.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 13 hours ago

And the healthcare CEO.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 15 hours ago

His blog was wild. Remains sad that the first part of the 'DANGER DO NOT READ!!! I will hypnotize you into having the best orgasms of your life' blog series was not properly archived.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

From the comments of the LW article.

"I like and admire both Charles Stross and Greg Egan a lot but I think they both have "singularitarians" or "all of their biggest fans" or something like that in their Jungian Shadow.

I'm pretty sure they like money. Presumably they like that we buy their books? Implicitly you'd think that they like that we admire them. But explicitly they seem to look down on us as cretins as part of them being artists who bestow pearls on us... or something?"

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submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by Soyweiser@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
 

Begrudgingly Yeast (@begrudginglyyeast.bsky.social) on bsky informed me that I should read this short story called 'Death and the Gorgon' by Greg Egan as he has a good handle on the subjects/subjects we talk about. We have talked about Greg before on Reddit.

I was glad I did, so going to suggest that more people he do it. The only complaint you can have is that it gives no real 'steelman' airtime to the subjects/subjects it is being negative about. But well, he doesn't have to, he isn't the guardian. Anyway, not going to spoil it, best to just give it a read.

And if you are wondering, did the lesswrongers also read it? Of course: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hx5EkHFH5hGzngZDs/comment-on-death-and-the-gorgon (Warning, spoilers for the story)

(Note im not sure this pdf was intended to be public, I did find it on google, but might not be meant to be accessible this way).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 22 hours ago

Tact filter is prob what went wrong with the Lawyer person discussed elsewhere, I never had heard about it (or had forgotten).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 19 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

I'm gonna do something now that prob isn't that allowed, nor relevant for the things we talk about, but I saw that the European anti-conversion therapy petition is doing badly, and very likely not going to make it. https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home But to try and give it a final sprint, I want to ask any of you Europeans, or people with access to networks which include a lot of Europeans to please spread the message and sign it. Thanks! (I'm quite embarrassed The Netherlands has not even crossed 20k for example, shows how progressive we are). Sucks that all the empty of political power petitions get a lot of support and this gets so low, and it ran for ages. But yes, sorry if this breaks the rules (and if it gets swiftly removed it is fine), and thanks if you attempt to help.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Ow yeah, I don't disagree on that, even if I do keep up with them. Just making my sources obvious. (One of the ticks I do find valuable from the Rationalists, the verbosity and tendency to try and over explain isn't as valuable, but hard to shift (and the one feeds in the other (and... im doing it again ain't I?))).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (4 children)

'we use LLMs for X in our security products' gets brought up a lot in the risky business podcast promotional parts basically, and it sometimes leaks into the other parts as well. That is basically the times I hear people speak somewhat positively about it. Where they use LLMs (or claim to use) for various things, some I thought were possible but iffy, some impossible, like having LLMs do massive amounts of organizational work. Sorry I can't recall the specifics. (I'm also behind atm).

Never heard people speak positively about it from the people I know, but they also know I'm not that positive about AI, so the likelyhood they just avoid the subject is non-zero.

E: Schneier is also not totally against the use of llms for example. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/05/privacy-for-agentic-ai.html quite disappointed. (Also as with all security related blogs nowadays, dont read the comments, people have lost their minds, it always was iffy, but the last few years every security related blog that reaches some fame is filled with madmen).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

It gets better btw, nobody mentioned this so far. But all this is over warnings. From what I can tell it still all compiles and works, the only references for the build failing seem to come from the devs, not the issue reporter.

E: I'm a bit tempted to send the guy a email to go 'I saw your blog and had a question, was it an error or did it stop compilation' but that would imho cross the line into harassment, esp as to be fair I think I should also divulge where I come from as an outsider which would not go over well with a guy in that kind of mindset (if I have him pegged correctly). The next blogpost would be about me personally.

 

The interview itself

Got the interview via Dr. Émile P. Torres on twitter

Somebody else sneered: 'Makings of some fantastic sitcom skits here.

"No, I can't wash the skidmarks out of my knickers, love. I'm too busy getting some incredibly high EV worrying done about the Basilisk. Can't you wash them?"

https://mathbabe.org/2024/03/16/an-interview-with-someone-who-left-effective-altruism/

 

Some light sneerclub content in these dark times.

Eliezer complements Musk on the creation of community notes. (A project which predates the takeover of twitter by a couple of years (see the join date: https://twitter.com/CommunityNotes )).

In reaction Musk admits he never read HPMOR and he suggests a watered down Turing test involving HPMOR.

Eliezer invents HPMOR wireheads in reaction to this.

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