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  • Massachusetts MCAS tests: sorry kid, AI says ‘fail’

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  • In this case these are grade schooler's (roughly ages 9-18) essays for a standardized test, so there isn't a body of students who could grade them.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Given consistent trends of exponential performance improvements over many years and across many industries, it would be extremely surprising if these improvements suddenly stopped.

    I have a Petri dish to sell you

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th September 2025

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  • codeword is banana bread

    Will there be statues to swap as well?

  • Wireborn husbands, ELIZA effect, Clippy, empathy (ramble)

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  • Mistress

    is this more evidence that robots are taking our jobs? the investigation continues...

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systems

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  • The Democratic party's presidential nominee for 2028 will be chosen by a primary election, which will also be in 2028. Until a candidate wins the primary election, there is no nominee. This is important because Newsom is a sack of shit and we have multiple years with which to oppose his run for nomination.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systems

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  • He is not the Democratic presidential nominee for 2028.

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

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  • There's a part where they quote someone saying "I am not particularly confident [in my p(doom)]" and I'm still remembering getting talked down to about how Actually all subjective uncertainty can be represented as probabilities because Bayesianism and you wouldn't happen to be one of those stupid frequentists right?

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

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  • That's weird, The Register's versions of the quotes are different (not just pared down).

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

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  • I don't really understand what point Zitron is making about each query requiring a "completely fresh static prompt", nor about the relative ordering of the user and static prompts. Why would these things matter?

  • Cybersecurity ‘red teams’ to UK government: AI is rubbish

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025

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  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems

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  • their story is so incoherent, i can't even tell if there was a database to begin with

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems

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  • solve this sokoban or you're fired

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems

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  • the announcement post is obviously LLM-generated as well

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd June 2025

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  • And sure enough, just within the last day the user "Hand of Lixue" has rewritten large portions of the article to read more favorably to the rationalists.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd June 2025

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  • Yeah for some reason they never covered that in the stats lectures

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd June 2025

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  • I thought part of the schtick is that according to the rationalist theory of mind, a simulated version of you suffering is exactly the same as the real you suffering. This relies on their various other philosophical claims about the nature of consciousness, but if you believe this then empathy doesn't have to be a concern.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd June 2025

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  • If the growth is superexponential, we make it so that each successive doubling takes 10% less time.

    (From AI 2027, as quoted by titotal.)

    This is an incredibly silly sentence and is certainly enough to determine the output of the entire model on its own. It necessarily implies that the predicted value becomes infinite in a finite amount of time, disregarding almost all other features of how it is calculated.

    To elaborate, suppose we take as our "base model" any function f which has the property that lim_{t → ∞} f(t) = ∞. Now I define the concept of "super-f" function by saying that each subsequent block of "virtual time" as seen by f, takes 10% less "real time" than the last. This will give us a function like g(t) = f(-log(1 - t)), obtained by inverting the exponential rate of convergence of a geometric series. Then g has a vertical asymptote to infinity regardless of what the function f is, simply because we have compressed an infinite amount of "virtual time" into a finite amount of "real time".