Soyweiser

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 1 hour ago

Re the blocking of fake useragents, what people could try is see if there are things older useagents do (or do wrong) which these do not. I heard of some companies doing that. (Long ago I also heard of somebody using that to catch mmo bots in a specific game. There was a packet that if the server send it to a legit client, the client crashed, a bot did not). I'd assume the specifics are treated as secret just because you don't want the scrapers to find out.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 1 hour ago

I'm GamerSexual, and that my dear Sir is no Gamer.

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

Yeah with PG it was 'who are you saying this for, you cannot be this dense' (Esp considering the shit he said about wokeness earlier this year).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Even more signs that sneering might soon be profitable, or at least exploitable. Look who is pivoting to sneer

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 2 hours ago (5 children)

Finally, a non-sexy picture.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 4 hours ago

Ignored the text, go LGBT buster sword.

Inclusion through saving all the consumables for the next boss battle!

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, and despite me being quite anti LLMs, I did like how he didn't make them useless, fits nicely with the story, also allowed the great ending line.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 6 hours ago

lol that tweet. But yeah why don't the people who write dystopian fiction about the torment nexus and the people who want to build torment nexusses together? Don't they want to understand why we cannot make life slightly better for the poor tortured kid?

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 10 hours ago

They all have vague imprints of the Rhodesian flag now.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, the image was quite tame and I don't think we should ban all female robots, I do agree with the point that there are too many conventionally attractive bald female coded robots being used as imagery next to robots, but I also don't think we should overreact and remove them all. Not like pivot has not used a lot of other robot images, including Rosey. And part of the problem pivot is talking about is that the pro robot/ai people see robots/ai as doing the roles beneath them (ai as maid/nurse/secretary), so an image like that while being critical also fits. And it also is just part of the American cartoon artstyle the Russian artist is going for. It was just a small badly timed thread on bsky anyway (as it was at the same time as the other guy here), lets not make a big thing out of it.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

"apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer" ALT"

Check the quote skeets for a lot more. Somebody messed up. Wonder if they also managed to collapse the whole model into this permanently. (I'm already half assuming they don't have proper backups).

E: Also seems there are enough examples out there of this, don't go out and test it yourself, try to keep the air in Tennessee a bit breathable.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

Ah the book that made me change my mind on book bannings.

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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day 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).

 

The interview itself

Got the interview via Dr. Émile P. Torres on twitter

Somebody else sneered: 'Makings of some fantastic sitcom skits here.

"No, I can't wash the skidmarks out of my knickers, love. I'm too busy getting some incredibly high EV worrying done about the Basilisk. Can't you wash them?"

https://mathbabe.org/2024/03/16/an-interview-with-someone-who-left-effective-altruism/

 

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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