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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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originally on reddit sneerclub, but reddit didn't like links to Yarvin's substack

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 5 points 4 hours ago

That reads a lot like “how I got the stripper to like me by stuffing her garter with hundred-dollar bills”

[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 3 points 4 hours ago

I can't imagine anyone really subjecting themselves to reading all that, I'm delighted for them though, or distraught that it happened...

It is a bit sad how Yarvin frontlines his "victory", by quoting some extruded text, but in context—he is somehow kind enough to provide, maybe he didn't bother reading all of that either—it's just some fence-sitting big nothing, i doubt the claims that this produces any form of "red-pilled" Claude.

(I'm not sure what I expected, but it truly was a dead dove.)

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Mostly I'm just upset that he brings up knob-and-tube wiring and then moves on without ever actually explaining what the fuck he's taking about. Congratulations on living in an old house that hasn't been completely rewired up to modern code I guess? What does that have to do with literally anything that follows? Going off on a long tangent about the history of domestic wiring sounds way more interesting than this dreck.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Didn't really think about it until just now, but a load-bearing part of Yarvin's work seeming erudite is him dropping in little bits of obscure trivia that may or may not have anything to do with the topic at hand

[–] cstross@wandering.shop 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

@istewart @sneerclub Hey, I do that too! In fiction. Adds that crunchy texture that makes readers think it's profound.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Like the bottle opener on a Galil, or the "Flower Field" version of Minesweeper, it can also help distinguish your story in small, but interesting ways, and help it stick in a reader's mind. (Had to try this trick for myself :P)

[–] mirrorwitch@awful.systems 16 points 1 day ago

oh gosh our boy is just so proud that he got the echo-chambering machine specifically engineered to chamber echoes to echo his words.

what kinds of jailbreak is he going to invent next, maybe a way to make LLMs suck up to everything you say? perhaps even a sophisticated hacker glitch to make LLMs say things that are statistically likely to follow the preceding input

[–] mwenge@awful.systems 16 points 1 day ago

"I have a newborn baby and a startup and time is tight." Proceeds to write 10,000 words about typing into the void.

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

dead dove

Truer words, dawg. Amongst everything else, what the fuck is up with the subtitle.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

In 50 years some history pervert's gonna dig this up and have a very weird day.

[–] YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 3 points 12 hours ago

Unless he starts engraving copper plates none of this shit will keep that long.