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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 14 hours ago

that gives me questions about China

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 14 hours ago

that's tomorrow's Pivot

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 14 hours ago

Chris Kluwe vs Gamergate is an example of the jocks as the good guys up against the nerds as the bad guys

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

IQ is a farce multiplier. Elon is a High IQ Individual which means he wreaks 1000x the havoc of a regular dumbass. IQ stands for Idiot Quickly

Ziz update thread, started 19 February in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 15 hours ago

BBC summary of the story of Ziz

Yudkowsky: eugenics is now "the third most important project in the world." After AI doom and anime, presumably. in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

the user has been gently directed to the debate club

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Yahoo! Mail shows email users fake AI-mangled subject lines (pivot-to-ai.com)
Humane AI finally shuts down, HP pays $116m for the pieces — not including the Ai Pin in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

the Laserjet 4M from the 1990s, the incredible unstoppable tank of lasers

Yudkowsky: eugenics is now "the third most important project in the world." After AI doom and anime, presumably. in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Superbabies is a backup plan; focus the energy of humanity’s collective genetic endowment into a single generation, and have THAT generation to solve problems like “figure out how to control digital superintelligence

The academic institutions in charge of exploring these ideas are deeply compromised by insane ideologies. And the big commercial entities are too timid to do anything truly novel; once they discovered they had a technology that could potentially make a few tens of billions treating single gene genetic disorders, no one wanted to take any risks; better to take the easy, guaranteed money and spend your life on a lucrative endeavor improving the lives of 0.5% of the population than go for a hail mary project that will result in journalists writing lots of articles calling you a eugenicist.

oh no, not a eugenicist!

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Yudkowsky: eugenics is now "the third most important project in the world." After AI doom and anime, presumably. (awful.systems)
 

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lesswrong: How To Make Superbabies

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Businesses still don’t know what an ‘AI agent’ is and they don’t really want one (pivot-to-ai.com)
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago

apparently video is just huuuuge

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

this is also why pivot to AI is mostly 200-250 words, not 1200 or 2000 or 8000

Humane AI finally shuts down, HP pays $116m for the pieces — not including the Ai Pin in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

per link, venture capital has been very reluctant to unambiguously realise the losses. a $1b book value is an (imaginary) asset you can hug and hold, a $114m loss is not.

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Humane AI finally shuts down, HP pays $116m for the pieces — not including the Ai Pin (pivot-to-ai.com)
Ziz update thread, started 19 February in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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Ziz update thread, started 19 February (awful.systems)
 

the old one is three weeks old, let's start another

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