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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

yep that's the stuff. they HINT HINTed what they wanted the LLM to do.

Ziz update thread, started 19 February in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Wired: The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians (archive)

Evan Ratliff has apparently been tracking the Ziz cult since 2022 and when it blew up into mainstream news, he was ready

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

crayon either way

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

Has the study itself shown up?

EDIT: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.13295

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

that gives me questions about China

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

that's tomorrow's Pivot

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Chris Kluwe vs Gamergate is an example of the jocks as the good guys up against the nerds as the bad guys

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

IQ is a farce multiplier. Elon is a High IQ Individual which means he wreaks 1000x the havoc of a regular dumbass. IQ stands for Idiot Quickly

Ziz update thread, started 19 February in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

BBC summary of the story of Ziz

Yudkowsky: eugenics is now "the third most important project in the world." After AI doom and anime, presumably. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the user has been gently directed to the debate club

Humane AI finally shuts down, HP pays $116m for the pieces — not including the Ai Pin in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

the Laserjet 4M from the 1990s, the incredible unstoppable tank of lasers

Yudkowsky: eugenics is now "the third most important project in the world." After AI doom and anime, presumably. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

Superbabies is a backup plan; focus the energy of humanity’s collective genetic endowment into a single generation, and have THAT generation to solve problems like “figure out how to control digital superintelligence

The academic institutions in charge of exploring these ideas are deeply compromised by insane ideologies. And the big commercial entities are too timid to do anything truly novel; once they discovered they had a technology that could potentially make a few tens of billions treating single gene genetic disorders, no one wanted to take any risks; better to take the easy, guaranteed money and spend your life on a lucrative endeavor improving the lives of 0.5% of the population than go for a hail mary project that will result in journalists writing lots of articles calling you a eugenicist.