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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Donald Trump, so yeah

"OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry" [Ed Zitron] in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I'm not really an accelerationist, but I'll make an exception for this

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

christ. can't he go back to disco, he was good at that

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

COMMERCIAL NOTICE: Pivot to AI now has T-shirts! yeah, I sorted out Redbubble. Also does mugs and stuff. All proceeds go to a worthy cause, i.e. me.

$119 Springer cancer treatments book: ‘As an AI language model …’ in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

you saw nothing

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Single Pilot Operations — let’s replace airline copilots with AI! in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I understand this post is technically illegal in the US

Crypto being the solution to the bot problem is the most techbro take I have seen so far. in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

this user is far too informed and knowledgeable to lower himself to educating us peons, and has been guided elsewhere

Your humanoid robot servant: a new hope for AGI! (A Guy Instead) in c/techtakes@awful.systems
U.S. Housing Agency Considers Launching Crypto Experiment in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

Maxine Waters hates crypto bullshit with the fire of a thousand suns, she's not in power any more but she can help jam this up

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

when you say "made it", i think FUCKING ROOSE

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (7 children)

that's CFAR cult jargon right?

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (7 children)

apparently a complete archive of scott siskind's old livejournal. found on the EA forum no less. https://archive.fo/fCFQx

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OpenAI’s for-profit plan is in trouble (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

vidyer version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJhcCgB-c3w

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Foreign Policy: The U.K. Pivot to AI Is Doomed From the Start (foreignpolicy.com)
 

at frickin last - I wrote this in January and it's finally been published

archive: https://archive.is/RSU91

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Let’s write PR pitches with an AI! (report spam, block sender) (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

short ranty video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKdhf_hDQGU

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Scientific peer review by AI — with its own cryptocurrency! As promoted in Nature (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Tom Chivers, the science writer who stanned hard for the rationalists and Siskind and started writing for Unherd, is doing gender critical podcasts now (www.transgendermap.com)
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Science journal Nature promotes using chatbots for academic peer review (pivot-to-ai.com)
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new Foreign Policy piece on the bitcoin reserve, not by me but quoting me extensively (foreignpolicy.com)
 

archive: https://archive.is/8T8RO

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Oops, all AI! Google replaces search with the AI Overview (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

with bonus video version

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Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’ (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, DOGE, and the coming superhuman ‘woke’ AI (pivot-to-ai.com)
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LA Times ‘bias meter’ goes live, pushes AI slop without journalistic review (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Now That's What I Call Bart (awful.systems)
 

near flawless in execution

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