[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 4 hours ago

Using sea water to cool things has a secondary problem. All the stuff that lives in the salt water which will love to live inside your cooling loop.

Anyway, I look forward to our new allies in the anti-ai war. Barnacles.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 14 points 1 day ago

the weird community,

Are you part of the 'regularly needs to answer questions about rape/pedophilia/bestiality' weird community or the 'knows too much about warhammer' weird community?

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Did you know that RFKs story about the brainworms is prob a lie as he came up with that during his divorce. His divorce cause he coulnd't stop cheating and bragging to her about it which drove her to suicide. (and even the suicide is weird, as apparently she tried to free herself). And then he also had her grave dug up and moved to an unmarked spot. The guy is so fucking weird. (Allegedly)

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I was not hired for my tweets, my succulent tweets!

(To meta milkshake duck, the succulent meal guy also was a nazi fan).

relevant part quoted.The book also revealed that Karlson was an admirer of Adolf Hitler and Nazism who would "indulge his Nazi fetish", use the expression "Two Heil Hitlers" instead of "three cheers" and had a car decorated with a swastika on his lawn. On at least one occasion he threw a party at his home to celebrate Hitler's birthday

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago

Would I be liable for damages if I made a viral worm on my air gapped pc and then accidentally connect it to the internet and it escapes? Cause I think I would and dont see how this is different if it an ai agent.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago

It is important to treat the slave race we are creating with respect.

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

That so many sites now have you wait a few seconds before showing you the site cant be good for global productivity.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago

A sign the bubble might pop yes, but also a sign how toxic the whole youtube space is. If a yt'er with 3M+ subs and 500k+ views per video on average feels the pressure to publish or perish like this.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago

How long will it take before they are bought up by a second company which makes military/police models with these 'problems' removed?

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 5 days ago

It really grinds my gears.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago

That fits the pattern, when AI isn't living up to the sky high promises, the promoters act like people are less special than they are.

See how a debate about are they conscious often devolves into 'are humans conscious?'

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Reminds me of how you got spam by following buttcoin in places (or how they just mindlessly spammed r/buttcoin). Best was the dubious job offer cause they liked my posts on r/buttcoin so much.

Wonder if the stipend is in tokens. And perhaps you could send somebody with some journalistic chops in your stead, if they are bored.

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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).

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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.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Soyweiser@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Soyweiser@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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).

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Soyweiser@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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/

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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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