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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th February 2025 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah that’s “Lena” by the SCP guy. Great story.

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

MMAcevedo's demeanour and attitude contrast starkly with those of nearly all other uploads taken of modern adult humans, most of which boot into a state of disorientation which is quickly replaced by terror and extreme panic. Standard procedures for securing the upload's cooperation such as red-washing, blue-washing, and use of the Objective Statement Protocols are unnecessary.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th February 2025 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

About the only good stuff LW does is remind me of other, much better SF. In this case Ian McDonald's Necroville (Terminal Café in the US), about a future where nanotech enables the resurrection of the dead. Said neo-living are of course discriminated against, have no human rights, and are used as cheap disposable labor by the corporation that uses the technology.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th February 2025 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

D'oh! I missed that connection, although the little infographic amoebas should have tipped me off

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th February 2025 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (4 children)

AI researchers continue to daub soot on the walls of Plato's cave, scaring themselves witless:

https://www.emergent-values.ai/

At least I've IDd the transmission vector from LW to lobste.rs

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th February 2025 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

MoreWronger is concerned that the shitty fanfic the community excretes is limited to LW and Xhitter and wonders if The Atlantic is a better venue

Look I have nothing against fanfic myself but if there's one powerful corrective it lacks, it is commercial content editorial feedback.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th February 2025 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Credit where credit is due, this is a decent comeback

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43005246

Post your current Ziz news and discussion here in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

They didn't care much for marine life when they abandoned a tugboat, leavnig it to leak fuel and crap into the sea:

https://archive.ph/1UcWZ

that time the pronatalist couple were too blatantly racist even for the EA forum in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

they recently got a profile in fucking WaPo

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Rats have reached the "put up stickers to proselytize" stage of their weird religion

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SvtKronRNrw9AxXwa/clement-l-s-shortform?commentId=ZifQXkhxo5dJvrL3Q

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I bet that jacket is some super-nerdy thing that William Gibson once mentioned in a book

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Anyone matched the list of names of the dinguses currently wrecking US agencies from the inside with known LW or HN posters?

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

balancing parentheses is why I draft all my comments in emacs

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Advent of Code 2024 - the home stretch - it's been an aMAZEing year (awful.systems)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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current difficulties

  1. Day 21 - Keypad Conundrum: 01h01m23s
  2. Day 17 - Chronospatial Computer: 44m39s
  3. Day 15 - Warehouse Woes: 30m00s
  4. Day 12 - Garden Groups: 17m42s
  5. Day 20 - Race Condition: 15m58s
  6. Day 14 - Restroom Redoubt: 15m48s
  7. Day 09 - Disk Fragmenter: 14m05s
  8. Day 16 - Reindeer Maze: 13m47s
  9. Day 22 - Monkey Market: 12m15s
  10. Day 13 - Claw Contraption: 11m04s
  11. Day 06 - Guard Gallivant: 08m53s
  12. Day 08 - Resonant Collinearity: 07m12s
  13. Day 11 - Plutonian Pebbles: 06m24s
  14. Day 18 - RAM Run: 05m55s
  15. Day 04 - Ceres Search: 05m41s
  16. Day 23 - LAN Party: 05m07s
  17. Day 02 - Red Nosed Reports: 04m42s
  18. Day 10 - Hoof It: 04m14s
  19. Day 07 - Bridge Repair: 03m47s
  20. Day 05 - Print Queue: 03m43s
  21. Day 03 - Mull It Over: 03m22s
  22. Day 19 - Linen Layout: 03m16s
  23. Day 01 - Historian Hysteria: 02m31s
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Advent of Code Week 3 - you're lost in a maze of twisty mazes, all alike (awful.systems)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Problem difficulty so far (up to day 16)

  1. Day 15 - Warehouse Woes: 30m00s
  2. Day 12 - Garden Groups: 17m42s
  3. Day 14 - Restroom Redoubt: 15m48s
  4. Day 09 - Disk Fragmenter: 14m05s
  5. Day 16 - Reindeer Maze: 13m47s
  6. Day 13 - Claw Contraption: 11m04s
  7. Day 06 - Guard Gallivant: 08m53s
  8. Day 08 - Resonant Collinearity: 07m12s
  9. Day 11 - Plutonian Pebbles: 06m24s
  10. Day 04 - Ceres Search: 05m41s
  11. Day 02 - Red Nosed Reports: 04m42s
  12. Day 10 - Hoof It: 04m14s
  13. Day 07 - Bridge Repair: 03m47s
  14. Day 05 - Print Queue: 03m43s
  15. Day 03 - Mull It Over: 03m22s
  16. Day 01 - Historian Hysteria: 02m31s
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Advent of Code 2024 Week 2: this time it's all grids, all the time (awful.systems)
 

The previous thread has fallen off the front page, feel free to use this for discussions on current problems

Rules: no spoilers, use the handy dandy spoiler preset to mark discussions as spoilers

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 1 September 2024 (awful.systems)
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Person who exercises her free association rights at conferences incites ire in Jameson Lopp (protos.com)
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Butters do a 180 regarding statism as Daddy Trump promises to use filthy Fed FIAT to buy and hodl BTC (www.marketwatch.com)
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Martin Shkreli claims to have been behind a Donald Trump memecoin (www.web3isgoinggreat.com)
 

This season's showrunners are so lazy, just re-using the same old plots and antagonists.

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In an attempt to secure the libertarian vote, Trump promises to pardon Dread Pirate Roberts (while calling for the death penalty for other drug dealers) (www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com)
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Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher (www.404media.co)
 

“It is soulless. There is no personality to it. There is no voice. Read a bunch of dialogue in an AI generated story and all the dialogue reads the same. No character personality comes through,” she said. Generated text also tends to lack a strong sense of place, she’s observed; the settings of the stories are either overly-detailed for popular locations, or too vague, because large language models can’t imagine new worlds and can only draw from existing works that have been scraped into its training data.

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Turns out that the basic mistakes spider runners fixed in the late 90s are arcane forgotten knowledge to our current "AI" overlords (mailman.nanog.org)
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AI grifters con the US gov that AGI poses "existential risk" (time.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The grifters in question:

Jeremie and Edouard Harris, the CEO and CTO of Gladstone respectively, have been briefing the U.S. government on the risks of AI since 2021. The duo, who are brothers [...]

Edouard's website: https://www.eharr.is/, and on LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/users/edouard-harris

Jeremie's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremieharris/

The company website: https://www.gladstone.ai/

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"The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I." - hackernews discussion (news.ycombinator.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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HN reacts to a New Yorker piece on the "obscene energy demands of AI" with exactly the same arguments coiners use when confronted with the energy cost of blockchain - the product is valuable in of itself, demands for more energy will spur investment in energy generation, and what about the energy costs of painting oil on canvas, hmmmmmm??????

Maybe it's just my newness antennae needing calibrating, but I do feel the extreme energy requirements for what's arguably just a frivolous toy is gonna cause AI boosters big problems, especially as energy demands ramp up in the US in the warmer months. Expect the narrative to adjust to counter it.

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