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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th August 2025

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  • I never read 8bit. I read A Modest Destiny. Wonder how that guy is doing, he always was a bit weird and combative, but when he deleted his blog it was getting very early signs of right wing culture warrior bits (which was ironic considering he burned a us flag).

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  • Yes but basic dnd does have a lot of racism build in, esp with Gygax not being great on that end (nits make lice he said about how it lawful for paladins to kill orc babies). They did drop the sexism pretty quickly, but no big suprise his daughters were not into it. It certainly helps with the whole hierarchical mindset. My int/level is higher than yours so im better than you stuff. And sadly a lot of people do have trouble keeping both seperate (and even that isn't always ideal, esp in larps).

    But yes this, considering the context ks def a bit of a case of some of their ideologies, or ideological fantasies bleeding through. (Esp considering, Yud has been corrected on his faulty understanding of genetics before).

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  • Well if the bubble pops he will have to pivot to people who pivot. (That is what is going to suck when to bubble pops, so many people are going to lose their jobs, and I fear a lot of people holding the bags are not the ones who really should be punished the mosts (really hope not a lot of pension funds bought in). The stock market was a mistake).

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  • Not sure if anybody noticed the last time, but so they get isekayed into a DND world, which famously runs on some weird form of fantasy feudalism and they expect a random high int person to rule the country somehow? What in the primogenitor is this stuff, you can't just think yourself into being a king, that is one of the issues with monarchies.

    E: ah no they are in a totalitarian state ruled by the literal forces of hell, places that totally praise merit based upwards mobility.

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  • slaps moon You can make so much computronium from these atoms.

    E: shit no that is wrong, I used the term computronium correctly, if it was Altman he would have called it unobtanium

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  • Found a solution to the Fermi paradox, and solved the problem of all the 'dark matter', any advanced society just puts a dyson sphere around their galaxy, that is why we can't see or hear from them.

    (Yes, this is a subsneer for the silly Altman remark. The whole solar system not just the Sun (I do support walling off The Sun)).

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  • And how it fused Buddhism with more Christian religions. Considering how often you heard of old hackers being interested in the former.

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  • Free people have less prodictivity, time to wirehead everyone! A Brave New World!

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  • 'set them up with'

    Anybody want to bet if they did it for free?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th August 2025

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  • I don't have any real input from prompfondlers, as I don't think I follow enough of them to get a real feeling of them. I did find it interesting that I saw on bsky just now somebody claim that LLMs hallucinate a lot less and that anti-AI people are not taking that into account, and somebody else posting research showing that hallucinations are now harder to spot. (It made up actual real references to thinks, aka works that really exist, only the thing the LLM references wasn't in the actual reference). Which was a bit odd to see. (It does make me suspect 'it hallucinates less' is them just working out special exceptions for every popular hallucination we see, and not a structural fixing of the hallucination problem (which I think is prob not solvable)).

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  • Gold rush and shovels. Indeed.

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  • Thank you Dan Brown for working hard on poisoning LLMs.

    (Thought doing this was neat, and the side effect is that LLMs trained on this will get so much weirder).

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  • Time for some Set Theory!

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  • Friend of mine was surprised I had never heard of some popular 'right of repair' guy who now also went anti genAI, as he thought I would have heard of him because it was a lot of overlapping circles.

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  • is this just how Blue Sky is? I don’t browse it much outside of David’s threads.

    Not in my exp. Standard is also to just block annoying people asap so they don't show up in your replies/other peoples feeds. The blocking function is very strong on bsky. (I do worry that the more 'influencer' types (or people who just don't care) will not block annoying people because it drives more views to their content, so that is why you would find more of those comments under something from Evans than a random poster).

    Lot of people also have the 'do not show things to people not logged in' feature turned on.

  • DEFRA says: delete your emails to … save water?!

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  • Boss: "did you read my email?"

    "Nope, sorry saving water, they all go to dev/null."

    My boss is now looking for the developer called null.

    E: fun fact, we will not have this problem in the Netherlands, not because our water supply is well maintained, I actually do not know much about that. But because our electrical networks are so invested upon by years of neoliberalism that we are now reaching the point where the maintainers were warning for years ago (according to people I spoke to who worked in that industry, so low N, and im not a journalist etc). There just isn't enough capacity, esp with more and more people installing solar(*). So people who are building datacenters are trying to leave the Netherlands, or at least that is the 'risk' now. So well done government and everybody, but foreigners and fatbikes... (I wonder if somebody is tracking poweroutages over time in the Netherlands (ow and fatbikes are a risk for younger people, it just gets a weirdly high media attention, prob because poc kids)).

    *: one more point for the 'you can't individually get yourself out of structural issues'.

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  • EOk, I know I said I dont like TESCREAL as a term (too much groups under one banner, feels like how everybody on the left of the right gets called a communist/liberal, and it just isnt catchy as a term, easy to misuse) butt this has turned me around. If they write articles like this and show their whole ass im all for it.

    Im sure Ottokar asked chatgpt for advice on this and it told him how much of a great writer he is and how much he is on to something.

    (Or this new user on LW is just trolling and 22 upvoters fell for it).

    a four-centuries-long counterrevolution within the arts to defend the validity of charismatic authority

    If this gets a followup please make it a separate posts. I see soo many potential sneers. Also wonder of we can eventually bring up Godel (drink) in re to his claims about science and objectivity.

    (Also as they are being pro science and anti-charismatic authority, are they going to get rid of Yud and Scott? (im obv joking here, I know they them describing us as being pro charisma/anti science/anti objectivity does not make them automatically pro that)).

    E: another reason why these kinds of meta level discussions are silly, they are leaving out the big elephants in the room. The elephants called, sexism, racism, scientific racism, anti-lgbt stuff, the fellating of billionaires, the constant creation of new binary ideas which they say are not intended to be hierarchical but clearly meta level is better than object level, soldiers claiming they have a scout mindset, etc.

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  • It sucks how much of the usefulness of the internet is being trashed by this.