mawhrin

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[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

oh, and let's entirely ignore “consider phlebas”…

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“let me be really brave and unique: let's imagine culture is how the azadians (or veppers, or the affront, or even the gfcf…) see them. let's ignore the basic fact that this misconception is the main reason why culture's opponents, ultimately, lose. i am very intelligent.”

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“i have a theoretical doctorate in medicine”.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

he's claiming he is taking no llm money with exception of specific cases, but he does accept api credits and access to early releases, which aren't payments only when you think of payments in extremely narrow sense of real money being exchanged.

this would in no way stand if he were, say, a journalist.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago (17 children)

simon willison, the self-styled reasonable ai researcher, finds it hilarious and a good use of money throwing $14000 at claude to create an useless programming language that doesn't work.

good man simon willison!

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

fuck, i can't imagine someone doing this, even though we do have fascists and neonazis in poland, but man, horst-wessel-lied is a fist-in-the-face offence level.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

there's a bit more; tanja lange, a notable cryptographer herself and djb's partner was appelbaum's phd advisor (and didn't drop him after he got outed as a rapist).

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago

krauss in this photo specifically reminds me of gibson's description of the finn

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago (7 children)

oh, i'm laughing now. it's actually beautiful that it was the anubis' anime jackal girl that forced him to drop the plausible deniability shield and go full queerphobic.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

that habryka dude sure loves the sound of his voice.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

the eternal mba graduate worldview

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago

very not a cult phrasing

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