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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 14th December 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Very good read actually.

    Except, from the epilogue:

    People are working to resolve [intelligence heritability issue] with new techniques and meta-arguments. As far as I understand, the frontline seems to be stabilizing around the 30-50% range. Sasha Gusev argues for the lower end of that band, but not everyone agrees.

    The not-everyone-agrees link is to acx and siskind's take on the matter, who unfortunately seems to continue to fly under the radar as a disingenuous eugenicist shitweasel with a long-term project of using his platform to sane-wash gutter racists who pretend at doing science.

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  • Hyperstition is such a bad neologism, apparently doubleplus superstition equals self-fullfilling prophecy (transitive)? They don't even bother to verb it properly... Nick Land got a nonsense word stuck in his head and now there's a whole subculture of midwit thought leader wannabes parroting that shit.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th December 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Additionally he said something to the effect of I don't blame you for not knowing this, it wasn't effectively communicated to the media like it's no big deal, which isn't really helping to beat the allegations of don't ask don't tell policies about SA in rat related orgs.

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  • OpenAI Declares ‘Code Red’ as Google Threatens AI Lead

    I just wanted to point out this tidbit:

    Altman said OpenAI would be pushing back work on other initiatives, such as advertising, AI agents for health and shopping, and a personal assistant called Pulse.

    Apparently a fortunate side effect of google supposedly closing the gap is that it's a great opportunity to give up on agents without looking like complete clowns. And also make Pulse even more vapory.

  • LA Unified School District forces unfiltered AI on kids

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  • The kids were using Adobe for Education. This calls itself “the creative resource for K–12 and Higher Education” and it includes the Adobe Express AI image generator.

    I feel the extent to which schooling in the USA is of the this arts and crafts class brought to you by Carl's Jr™ variety is probably understated.

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  • Could be part of its RLHF training, frequent emphasized headers maybe help the prediction engine stay on track for long passages.

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  • /r/SneerClub discusses MIRI financials and how Yud ended up getting paid $600K per year from their cache.

    Malo Bourgon, MIRI CEO, makes a cameo in the comments to discuss Ziz's claims about SA payoffs and how he thinks Yud's salary (the equivalent of like 150.000 malaria vaccines) is defensible for reasons that definitely exist, but they live in Canada, you can't see them.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems

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    Graham Linehan is a normal and well man.

    A few hours later, he sends me an example of how he’s been using AI. It’s a “hidden role deduction” game he’s working on. At the top is the prompt he put into ChatGPT: “You are five blind lesbian adventurers out for a good night out. Slaying dragons and whatnot. But one of your number is a hulking great troll pretending to be a woman. Find the troll lesbian and then devise an amusing punishment without giving him an erection.

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  • No idea if it was intentional given how long a series' production cycle can be before it ends up on tv/streaming, but it's hard not to see Vince Gilligan's Pluribus as a weird extended impact-of-chatbots metaphor.

    It's also somewhat tedious and seems to be working under the assumption that cool cinematography is a sufficient substitute for character development.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • most BNPL loans aren’t reported to credit bureaus, creating what regulators call “phantom debt.” That means other lenders can’t see when someone has taken out five different BNPL loans across multiple platforms. The credit system is flying blind.

    Only good things can come of this.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025

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  • I always thought it was cool that (there is a case to be made that) HPL created Azathoth, the monstrous nuclear chaos beyond angled space, as a mythological reimagining of a black hole. Stuff like The Dreams in the Witch-house shows he was up to date on a bunch of cutting edge for the time physics stuff, at least as far as terminology is concerned, massive nerd that he was.

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  • 'Genetic engineering to merge with machines' is both a stream of words with negative meaning and something I don't think he could come up with on his own, like the solar system sized dyson sphere or the lab leak stuff. He just strikes me as too incurious to have come across the concepts he mashes together on his own.

    Simplest explanation I guess is he's just deliberately joeroganing the CEO thing and that's about as deep as it goes.

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  • Michael Hendricks, a professor of neurobiology at McGill, said: “Rich people who are fascinated with these dumb transhumanist ideas” are muddying public understanding of the potential of neurotechnology. “Neuralink is doing legitimate technology development for neuroscience, and then Elon Musk comes along and starts talking about telepathy and stuff.”

    Fun article.

    Altman, though quieter on the subject, has blogged about the impending “merge” between humans and machines – which he suggested would either through genetic engineering or plugging “an electrode into the brain”.

    Occasionally I feel that Altman may be plugged into something that's even dumber and more under the radar than vanilla rationalism.

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  • users trade off decision quality against effort reduction

    They should put that on the species' gravestone.

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  • What if quantum but magically more achievable at nearly current technology levels. Instead of qbits they have pbits (probabilistic bits, apparently) and this is supposed to help you fit more compute in the same data center.

    Also they like to use the word thermodynamic a lot to describe the (proposed) hardware.

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  • Everything about this screams vaporware.

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  • As far as I can tell there's absolutely no ideology in the original transformers paper, what a baffling way to describe it.

    James Watson was also a cunt, but calling "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" one of the founding texts of eugenicist ideology or whatever would be just dumb.

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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.

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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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    "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