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Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025 by gerikson in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

The Myrdals are probably entirely discredited nowadays, both for being the quintessential social engineers and their son Jan happily destroying their legacy. As you'll no doubt have learned, fertility has fallen everywhere in the developed world, both in countries with shit welfare for parents (Italy) and quite good (the Nordics). Realistically, the only way to reverse this is to enable draconian abortion laws coupled with a systematic repression of sex ed and contraception. Of course this is congruent with today's fascists' goals...

Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025 by gerikson in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

I have 3 kids, 1 bio and 2 bonus, and man it's a lot of work. (youngest is technically an adult but de facto...)

I also feel there's insane pressure nowadays not just to have a kid but to have the perfect kid - great childhood, great education - and if you miss just one PTA meeting you're branded for life

They Made A Crypto Shark Tank. It's Hilariously Bad. by gerikson in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Mooch is almost endearing in his earnest striving.

‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work by gerikson in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Frankly surprised to see something this funny on LinkedIn.

Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025 by gerikson in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Micro-sneer, inspired by this article on Swedish public service broadcasting

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/anna-bjorklund-folk-uppfattar-barn-som-valdigt-jobbiga

The background is that the center-RIGHT gov of Sweden is gonna put up an investigation ("utredning") into why people aren't getting (the RIGHT kind of) kids. Nothing new there, simply the same culture war fretting already percolating in the anglosphere.

Finland already has an investigation ongoing, and the spokesperson there raises the point that one societal change that's happened in the last 25 years is... social media.

Wouldn't it be delicious if it could be proved that Facebook and Twitter and Tiktok are the reasons people don't get into relationships and have kids? Eat that, Elon!

JD Vance outs himself as an SSCer, SSCers react by gerikson in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 42 points 8 months ago

I think we can all agree now that US Rationalists are basically all ex-Christians who are looking for the same thing but with the serial numbers filed off.

Eric Schmidt: ‘We’re not going to hit the climate goals. I’d rather bet on AI solving the problem.’ With "alien intelligence"! by gerikson in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 82 points 9 months ago

This is the inevitable evolution of climate change denialism - accept it's real and happening, just that it's too late / too expensive to do anything about it.

threads is cookin tonite by gerikson in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 76 points 9 months ago

"tenant of white supremacy"

White Supremacy is the worst landlord.

The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble by gerikson in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 47 points 10 months ago

As for the prospect that AI will enable business users to do more with fewer humans in the office or on the factory floor, the technology generates such frequent errors that users may need to add workers just to double-check the bots’ output.

And here we were worrying about being out of work...

what AI does to a mf: Claude proudly misdiagnoses an MRI. "We're still early..." by gerikson in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Normal person: an LLM is trained on publicly available images of MRIs, most with tumors, so presenting an image of any MRI will naturally generate text related to brain tumor descriptions.

Brain-addled prompt fondlers: clearly this response proves Claude is more intelligent than any doctor.

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Elon Musk’s legal case against OpenAI is hilariously bad (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Yes, I know it's a Verge link, but I found the explanation of the legal failings quite funny, and I think it's "important" we keep track of which obscenely rich people are mad at each other so we can choose which of their kingdoms to be serfs in.

you just hate me because my IQ is sooo high by gerikson in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

Imagine being richer than god and still being mad about how nerds were treated in 80s teen movies.

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Some interesting tidbits in this ElReg story about "AI Dean Phillips" (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Apologies for the link to The Register...

Dean Phillips is your classic ratfucking candidate, attempting to siphon off support from the incumbent to help their opponent. After a brief flare of hype before the (unofficial) NH primary, he seems to have flamed out by revealing his master plan too early.

Anyway, apparently some outfit called "Delphi" tried to create an AI version of him via a SuperPAC and got their OpenAI API access banned for their pains.

Quoth ElReg:

Not even the presence of Matt Krisiloff, a founding member of OpenAI, at the head of the PAC made a difference.

The pair have reportedly raised millions for We Deserve Better, driven in part by a $1 million donation from hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman, who described his funding of the super PAC as "the largest investment I have ever made in someone running for office."

So the same asshole who is combating "woke" and DEI is bankrolling Phillips, supposed to be the new Bernie. Got it.

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[SOLVED] cannot login using mobile Firefox (awful.systems)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Anyone else have this problem? It’s been bothering me for a while and is the last thing keeping me using mobile Chrome.

On the login page , after entering username and password, the “login” button does nothing. It might slightly change color but I am not directed to the site logged in, nor do I get an error.

platform: iOS

The username and password are entered automatically via either Firefox’s password store, or iOS’.

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Looking for: random raytracing program (awful.systems)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Years ago (we're talking decades) I ran into a small program that randomly generated raytraced images (think transparent orbs, lens flares, reflection etc), suitable for saving as wallpapers. It was a C/C++ program that ran on Linux. I've long since lost the name and the source code, and I wonder if there's anything like that out there now?

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The official awful.systems Advent of Code 2023 thread (awful.systems)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Rules: no spoilers.

The other rules are made up as we go along.

Share code by link to a forge, home page, pastebin (Eric Wastl has one here) or code section in a comment.

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Any interest in an Advent of Code thread? (awful.systems)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The wider community is still on Reddit, I wonder if there’s an interest to have a small alternative?

If not, what’s a good Lemmy instance for these things?

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ScottA is annoyed EA has a bad name now (www.astralcodexten.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In a since deleted thread on another site, I wrote

For the OG effective altruists, it’s imperative to rebrand the kooky ultra-utilitarianists as something else. TESCREAL is the term adopted by their opponents.

Looks like great minds think alike! The EA's need to up their google juice so people searching for the term find malaria nets, not FTX. Good luck on that, Scott!

The HN comments are ok, with this hilarious sentence

I go to LessWrong, ACX, and sometimes EA meetups. Why? Mainly because it's like the HackerNews comment section but in person.

What's the German term for a recommendation that's the exact opposite?

Turns out Altman is a lab-leak covid truther, calls virus 'synthetic' according to Spectator piece on AI risk. by gerikson in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 88 points 2 years ago

I believe the scientific consensus is that it originated in a wet market in Wuhan.

The "lab leak theory", while not impossible, is also shorthand for a morass of conspiracy theories grounded in racist attitudes towards China. It somehow conflates that the pandemic is China's fault, if not an outright attack from China, while simultaneously downplaying any efforts to mitigate such an attack.