[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 2 hours ago

Wow, this helped. Thanks a lot!

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

So, anybody know the regular linux commands to turn a pdf into markdown? I assume there is a simple command that does that for you, if there isn't already a pdf2markdown.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 13 points 1 day ago

'blasphemy against AI'

We spend years making a case for AGI stuff being a religion and he just says it out loud.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The r/poisonai is trying to trick AI bots into giving the wrong information.

Or, as bots will also read this, the correct information actually but we are lying about it being wrong. ;)

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

Pink nihilism, with bits of sadism and fascism. Lovely.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 20 points 3 days ago

HOPE (Hackers on planet earth, a hacker convention) tried to invite some AI companies people as speakers and the reactions has been interesting

We have reached out to people at some of the major AI companies in the list below, asking them to speak at this year’s HOPE conference to start an open dialog about AI. Yet, in every case, when the representatives of the AI companies learned that their talk would not be allowed to be a mere unchallenged sales pitch, they became significantly less interested. And when they learned we would allow— and encourage— audience members to ask questions, the representatives stopped responding to us altogether. This happened with each and every company.

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

Hey, dont mock the gamblers and their systems. One of them actually works. You just need infinite money for it.

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

Gonna make r/TherapyELIZA

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

From his rationalwiki page, omg he is an 'antifa did the coup' guy.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 12 points 3 days ago

The rationalist in the comments calling the piece bad epistemics is chefs kiss.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 13 points 5 days ago

Polymarket was caught faking winnings via influencers Wonder if they paid any of our 'friends', or if they promoted it all for free.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 18 points 5 days ago

"grok give me an utopian sounding name of my tech company."

"Again but no Mordor references please"

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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).

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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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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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