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It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025

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  • Hey it's the character.ai guy, a.k.a. first confirmed AI assisted kid suicide guy.

    I do not believe G-d puts people in the wrong bodies.

    Shazeer also said people who criticized the removal of the AI Principles were anti-Semitic.

    Kind of feel the transphobia is barely scratching the surface of all the things wrong with this person.

  • The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter — by Nicholas Weaver

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  • So if a company does want to use LLM, it is best done using local servers, such as Mac Studios or Nvidia DGX Sparks: relatively low-cost systems with lots of memory and accelerators optimized for processing ML tasks.

    Eh, Local LLMs don't really scale, you can't do much better than one person per one computer, unless it's really sparse usage, and buying everyone a top-of-the-line GPU only works if they aren't currently on work laptops and VMs.

    Sparks type machines will do better eventually but for now they're supposedly geared more towards training than inference, it says here that running a 70b model there returns around one word per second (three tokens) which is snail's pace.

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  • It definitely feels like the first draft said for the longest time we had to use AI in secret because of Woke.

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  • only have 12-days of puzzles

    Obligatory oh good I might actually get something job-related done this December comment.

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025

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  • What's a government backstop, and does it happen often? It sounds like they're asking for a preemptive bail-out.

    I checked the rest of Zitron's feed before posting and its weirder in context:

    Interview:

    She also hinted at a role for the US government "to backstop the guarantee that allows the financing to happen", but did not elaborate on how this would work.

    Later at the jobsite:

    I want to clarify my comments earlier today. OpenAI is not seeking a government backstop for our infrastructure commitments. I used the word "backstop" and it mudlled the point.

    She then proceeds to explain she just meant that the government 'should play its part'.

    Zitron says she might have been testing the waters, or its just the cherry on top of an interview where she said plenty of bizzare shit

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025

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  • it often obfuscates from the real problems that exist and are harming people now.

    I am firmly on the side of it's possible to pay attention to more than one problem at a time, but the AI doomers are in fact actively downplaying stuff like climate change and even nuclear war, so them trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room is a legitimate problem.

    Yudkowsky and his ilk are cranks.

    That Yud is the Neil Breen of AI is the best thing ever written about rationalism in a youtube comment.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025

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  • this seems counterintuitive but... comments are the best, name of the function but longer are the worst. Plain text summary of a huge chunk of code that I really should have taken the time to break up instead of writing a novella about it are somewhere in the middle.

    I feel a lot of bad comment practices are downstream of javascript relying on jsdoc to act like a real language.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025

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  • Managers gonna manage, but having a term for bad code that works that is more palatable than 'amateur hour' isn't inherently bad imo.

    Worst i've heard is some company forbidding LINQ in C#, which in python terms is forcing you to always use for-loops in place of filter/map/reduce and comprehensions and other stuff like pandas.groupby

  • New Omarchy damage control just dropped

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  • My impression from reading the stuff posted here is that omarchy is a nothing project that's being aggressively astroturfed so a series of increasingly fashy contributors can gain clout and influence in the foss ecosystem.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025

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  • Definitely, it's just code for I'm ok with nazis at this point.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025

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  • pro-AI but only self hosted

    Like being pro-corporatism but only with regard to the breadcrumbs that fall off the oligarchs' tables.

    We should start calling so-called open source models trickle-down AI.

  • AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats

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  • and actually use an AI that cites it’s sources

    make the hallucinotron useful with this one weird trick

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025

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  • Zitron catching strays in the comments for having too much of a bullying tone, I guess against billionaires and tech writers, and being too insistent on his opinion that the whole thing makes no financial sense. It's also lamented that the entire field of ML avoids bsky because it has a huge AI hostility problem.

    Concern trolling notwithstanding, the eigenrobot stuff is worrisome though, if not specifically for him about how extremely online the ideological core of the administration seems to be, as close to the lunatics running the asylum as you'll get in a modern political setting.

  • Microsoft tracks your Copilot AI usage in its workplace spyware

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  • Micrsosoft will be adding numbers on total meetings summarised, total hours summarised, and various classes of prompts.

    So the manager types are also affected? This might be interesting.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025

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  • Governments are toppled, not opted out of, is all I'm saying.

    Also not sure I agree that all consumer activism is inherently in vain.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025

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  • This wasn't a pro-spotify post, it was a your government isn't something you can just boycott away post.

    Like, your taxes are already paying for ICE directly.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025

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  • I feel that if you are an USian who thinks that accepting US government contracts has become morally incorrect then fretting over swedish audio streaming companies is a waste of your time.

    edit: free market solutionism as a response to having a dollarstore sturmabteilung running the streets in the USA just rubs me the wrong way. Sorry if the original post reads a bit coy, I just feel it would be incredibly cringe of me to make overt recommendations on how to handle things from the relative safety of living in a first world country on the other side of the world.

  • Google won’t fix ‘ASCII smuggling’ hack in Gemini AI

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  • Google says it's giving instructions to LLMs via invisible ascii characters.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025

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  • So much psychic damage (and also /r/brandnewsentence material) in that thread...

    The problem is solved by pairing those who wish to live longer at personal cost to themselves with virtuous pedophiles.

    edit: That's not the alluded Yud's solution btw

    edit edit:

    I still wouldn't be all that tempted in his place, if pedophilia is merely a positive description. There's little advantage in not being a pedophile.

    Man rationalists from back when they didn't worry about being youtube-ready were something else.

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    Peter Thiel Antichrist lecture: We asked guests what the hell it is

    sfstandard.com /2025/09/16/peter-thiel-antichrist-san-francisco/
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    Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption

    www.reuters.com /technology/albania-appoints-ai-bot-minister-tackle-corruption-2025-09-11/
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    Where Scoot makes the case about how an AGI could build an army of terminators in a year if it wanted.

    www.reddit.com /r/slatestarcodex/comments/1kp3qdh/how_openai_could_build_a_robot_army_in_a_year/
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    OpenAI scuttles for-profit transformation

    www.axios.com /2025/05/05/opena-nonprofit-altman-chatgpt
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    "If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own social network." -- L. Ron Altman

    www.theverge.com /openai/648130/openai-social-network-x-competitor
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    UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill

    www.theguardian.com /uk-news/2025/apr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill
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    Advent of Code 2024 - Historian goes looking for history in all the wrong places

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