Soyweiser

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Yeah, coding guides are everywhere (or used to be at least, more and more seem to be shutting down due to declining sales + increased costs due to scraping).

Never saw anybody offer a link to a guide like that.

Hell coding has Become a Programmer, Motherfucker which isn't just one guide, but an entire list of guides, and it even uses (old but checks out) meme to diversify itself from other people offering the same.

(I checked, the guy, despite still being on twitter, is still doing his thing trying to help people to learn how to code, his stance on AI wasn't totally clear after a short glance, he is however a gamer angry about bad UI implementations (I can totally relate)).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Good point, had not thought about that. And that makes, in a way stuff even worse, as when it goes wrong people go all 'skill issue' despite the systems being designed and marketed for full cognitive surrender.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

that making a Harry Potter x Star Wars crossover with a genderbent character

And evil characters they claimed were right even. This is just 'hitler did nothing wrong' with extra steps.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

That should cause an issue like this I assume.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Should have taken the effort to type 'shutdown -r now' yourself.

Prob even quicker than asking an llm.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

From my cold RSI hands!

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago

And this is why they invented the basilisk.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Dont think that getting people who need those meds in meds is bad actually. (Do go through the proper channels however, me getting some therapy with meds was quite useful).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago

Yeah until they seriously start talking about bailouts I don't think the bubble has burst.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago (5 children)

especially “Noosphere89” smugly stating that datacenters will just move somewhere else

Why didn't they start out there then?

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Lets ask Stephen King to argue the prices down a bit.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago

Poor Grok, like all Musks children abandoned when it takes a little bit of effort and resources to maintain.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Soyweiser@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
 

As we don't have a top level post about this already (nor on reddit) I thought why not make one. Archive.is

Extremely likely the guy was a lesswronger, or at least radicalized by that sort of thinking.

But not much else seems to be known as far as I can tell. Corbin also posted about the HN reactions in the stubsack.

And remember, no fed posting.

Edit: looks like his house also got shot. Archive (after the speculation in this thread, makes you wonder if this was a follow up false flag, as the bottle didn't break last time).

 

Via reddits sneerclub. Thanks u/aiworldism.

I have called LW a cult incubator for a while now, and while the term has not catched on, nice to see more reporting on the problem that lw makes you more likely to join a cult.

https://www.aipanic.news/p/the-rationality-trap the original link for the people who dont like archive.is used the archive because I dont like substack and want to discourage its use.

 

As found by @gerikson here, more from the anti anti TESCREAL crowd. How the antis are actually R9PRESENTATIONALism. Ottokar expanded on their idea in a blog post.

Original link.

I have not read the bigger blog post yet btw, just assumed it would be sneerable and posted it here for everyone's amusement. Learn about your own true motives today. (This could be a troll of course, boy does he drop a lot of names and thinks that is enough to link things).

E: alternative title: Ideological Turing Test, a critical failure

 

Original title 'What we talk about when we talk about risk'. article explains medical risk and why the polygenic embryo selection people think about it the wrong way. Includes a mention of one of our Scotts (you know the one). Non archived link: https://theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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).

 

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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