korydg

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Émile Torres deep-sneers Nick Bostrom, the smartest man in Sweden in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] korydg@awful.systems 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So in this article Yudkowsky comes off looking better than Bostrom... </shakes head/>

“At Manifest, though, there is a certain existential loneliness, a specifically sexual strain of angst, that did not lift once in the three days of the conference.” in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] korydg@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Not to mention the "blocked-off 'private events'" as well.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th July 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] korydg@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Vox Day, the living embodiment of Dashiell Hammett's line, "The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter".

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th December 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] korydg@awful.systems 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

What do you expect, it's a mixed-up crazy world where East is West and West is East and ...?

Habryka posts a NEW OFFICIAL LESSWRONG ENEMIES LIST. Guess who's #1, go on, guess in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] korydg@awful.systems 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Well done, bravo!

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th August 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] korydg@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

Gotta come to Latin's defense here -- you can write proper literature, science, poetry in Latin, and people did so for thousands of years. This stuff? Nah. (I am not literate in Latin.)

did scoot at one time have the mask on, cos if so that must be the *distant* past in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] korydg@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wow. Just, wow. (I actually clicked on the link to see if the title was accurate, and not just snark.)