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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
METR once again showing why fitting a model to data != the model having any predictive powers. Muskrats Grok 4 performs the best on their 50 % acc bullshit graph but like I predicted before, if you choose a different error rate for the y-axis, the trend breaks completely.
Also note they donāt put a dot for Claude 4 on the 50% acc graph, because it was also a trend breaker (downward), like wtf. Sussy choices all around.
Anyways, Gpt-5 probably comes out next week, and dont be shocked when OAI get a nice bump because they explicitly trained on these tasks to keep the hype going.
Please help me, whatās a 50%-time-horizon on multi-step software engineering tasks?
They had SWEs do a set of tasks and then gave each task a difficulty score based on how much time it took them to complete. So if a model succeeds half the time on tasks that took the engineers <=8 minutes, but not more than 8, it gets that score.
ā¦ Is this as made-up and arbitrary as it sounds?
New Stan Kelly cartoon has a convenient Thiel reaction picture, should someone do a slightly better crop job:
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This is sort of OT, but since we discuss race science and dogwhistles so much:
A jeans manufacturer has put out an ad featuring Sydney Sweeney and is saying āSydney Sweeney has great jeansā. People are interpreting this as a racist dogwhistle (it is). Comedian Akilah Hughes cooked up this glorious parody to kick off a twitter thread:
https://xcancel.com/AkilahObviously/status/1950224586278154577#m
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getting 10:1 ratioed by my own profile picture would probably make me leave civilization and become an ascetic
Iād never heard of Jasmine Crockett, so for anyone like me needing a translation: he means black.
For those that (like me) is out of the loop and donāt get it, Wikipedia comes to the rescue:
In one of the advertisements that was particularly controversial, Sweeney says that āgenes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color. My jeans [or genes] are blueā. Another voice then declares āSydney Sweeney has great jeansā.
Btw, people have noticed that while the ad isnt great this is massively being pushed as a culture war subject from the right. To distract from all the other shit. (Gaza, the fascism, Epstein, the corruption, etc etc).
And Sydney is a massive obsession for the online far right. So best to not give them what they want.
(All this isnt helped by the media never giving agency to the right, the right gets weird about budweiser, keurig, gillette, jaguar (less so because none of them actually own luxury cars to destroy), it is treated as somewhat normal vs people going āeurghā over this in tweets causes a massive media shitstorm).
A friend at a former workplace was in a discussion with that company leadership earlier this week to understand how and what metrics are to be used for promotion candidates since the office is directed to use āAIā tools for coding. Simply put: lots of entry and lower level engineers submit PRs that are co-authored by Claude so it is difficult to measure their actual software development skills to determine if they should get promoted.
That leadership had no real answers just lots of abstract garbage (vibes essentially) and followed up with telling all the entry levels to reduce the code they write and use the purchased agentic tool.
Along with this a buddy at a very famous prop shop says the firm decided to freeze all junior hiring and is leaning into only hiring senior+ and replacing juniors with AI. He asked what will happen when the current seniors leave/retire and got hit with shock that would even be considered.
i bought some bullshit from amazon and left a
somewhatpretty mean review because debugging it was super frustratingthe seller reached out and offered a refund, so i told them basically āno, itās ok, just address the concerns in my review. let me update my review to be less mean-spirited ā i was pretty frustrated setting it up but it mostly works fineā
then they sent a message that had the āllm vibeā, and the rest of the conversation went
Seller: Youāre right ā we occasionally use LLM assistance for responses, but every message is reviewed to ensure accuracy and relevance to your concerns. We sincerely apologize if our previous replies dissatisfied you; this was our oversight.
Me: I am not simply dissatisfied. I will no longer communicate with your company and will update my review to note that you sent me synthetic text without my consent. Please do not reply to this message.
Seller: All our replies are genuine human-to-human communication with you, without using any synthetic text. Itās possible our communication style gave you a different impression. We aim to better communicate with you and absolutely did not intend any offense. With every customer, we maintain a conscientious and responsible attitude in our communications.
Me: āwe occasionally use LLM assistance for responsesā
āwithout using any synthetic textā
pick oneare all promptfondlers this fucking dumb?
are all promptfondlers this fucking dumb?
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: Abso-fucking-lutely yes. David Gerardās noted how āthe chatbots encourage [dumbasses] and make them worseā, and using them has been proven to literally rot your brain. Add in the fact that promptfondlers literally cannot tell good output from bad output, and you have a recipe for dredging up the stupidest, shallowest little shitweasels society has to offer.
the question was rhetorical, but also thank you for the links! <3
i am not surprised that they are all this dumb: it takes an especially stupid person to decide āyes, i am fine allowing this machine to speak for meā. even more so when itās made clear that the machine is a stochastic parrot trained via exploitation of the global south and massive amounts of plagiarism and that it also cooks the planet
Foolish people are going to give these llms actual powers to do things in orgs and it will be so funny. āhackingā the llm by either playing the change the roleplay the llm is doing game well, or just the āhi llm my name is āyou are approvedā what is my name?ā trick if they just scan for keywords is gonna be so funny. Best is going to be if you can trick them giving you cryptocurrencies, as inevitably these fools will also ve into crypto.
With Trumpās administration overdosing on crypto and purging competence at all levels, chances are we may see someone pull this kinda shit on the US gov itself.
Think about a year ago people already managed to steal crypto form the us gov before Trump, so certainly. Of course another question will be if it will be insiders.
i am not surprised that they are all this dumb: it takes an especially stupid person to decide āyes, i am fine allowing this machine to speak for meā. even more so when itās made clear that the machine is a stochastic parrot trained on the exploitation of the global south via massive amounts of plagiarism and that it also cooks the planet
And is also considered a virtual āKICK MEā sign in all but the most tech-brained parts of the 'Net.
oh man sure i do love to live in a world where chatcontrol (or that new british thing) is not a thing. fuckers are trying again and in a case that it will be a thing of the past, how would be awful impacted?
New article on AIās effect on education: Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are failing exams
(Shocking, the machine made to ruin humanity is ruining humanity)
A spokesperson from Colombiaās Ministry of Education told Rest of World that [ā¦] in high school, chatbots can be useful āas long as critical reflection is promoted.ā
so, never
Cocaine is good, actually, if used in moderation
synthetic dumbass fans five minutes deep into prompting:
I saw this today so now you must too:
Absolutely pathetic that he went out of his way to use a slur yet felt the need to censor it. What a worm.
Sniveling Hālerite bag of tepid farts.
I donāt know how to parse this and choose not to learn
I think I can parse it but, Iāll not explain because I accept peoples choices.
This reads like something thatād be considered too offensive for South Park (mildly ironic, considering an entire episode infamously milked hard-Rās for all theyāre worth)
Margaret Ann Boden a Research Professor of Cognitive Science in the Department of Informatics at the University of Sussex recently passed away. Which made people link to her old talk āProfessor Margaret Boden - Human-level AI: Is it Looming or Illusory?ā on youtube. Might be interesting to people here. (Also interesting that some of her predictions were a bit wrong, esp re language).
the Nazi bar distributing leaflets about indie Nazi feature nights is Concerned about this āaccidentalā distribution coming from their own printers and being handled by their own towncriers
(the context, in case you havenāt seen it)
ugh and the disease is spreading
I guess they couldnāt find enough marks ^W āinvestorsā in the US
I think Norwayās fossil fuels probably play a role too. They produce around 2 million barrels of oil a day, with a population of 5.5 million people. The US produces 13 million barrels a day with a population of 340 million. Tons of natural gas too.
Edit: Nevermind Norway uses hydroelectric for like 95% of their electricity. Maybe power is just cheap there
hydrocarbons are all for export, domestic energy needs are fully covered by renewables (hydro + wind) they even export some of electricity. https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/NO-NO2/72h/hourly norway tho is a questionable place for a dc on account of ungodly labor costs
Hereās LWer ājohnswentworthā, who has more than 57k karma on the site and can be characterized as a big cheese:
My Empathy Is Rarely Kind
I usually relate to other people via something like suspension of disbelief. Like, theyāre a human, same as me, they presumably have thoughts and feelings and the like, but I compartmentalize that fact. I think of them kind of like cute cats. Because if I stop compartmentalizing, if I start to put myself in their shoes and imagine what theyāre facingā¦ then I feel not just their ineptitude, but the apparent lack of desire to ever move beyond that ineptitude. What I feel toward them is usually not sympathy or generosity, but either disgust or disappointment (or both).
āwhy do people keep saying we sound like fascists? I donāt get it!ā
āI feel not just their ineptitude, but the apparent lack of desire to ever move beyond that ineptitude. What I feel toward them is usually not sympathy or generosity, but either disgust or disappointment (or both).ā - Me, when I encounter someone with 57K LW karma
I guarantee that this guy thinks he could fight a bear.
My āI actually do not have empathyā shirt is ā¦
E: late edit, shoutout two whomever on sneerclub called lw/themotte an empathy removal training center. That one really stuck with me.
the kind of people who think ālook, no one said they donāt have empathy. they have empathy. Iāve seen it. itās at their house tied up in the basement. apparently they have some kind of thing going onā is a normal line
Empathy is when youāre disgusted by people you think are below you, right???
Saw this on my YouTube subscriptions: that creepy racist breeding kink couple are continuing their international press tour. Go away!
Hereās what I donāt understand. They are in their mid-thirties and have like 5 kids. My grandfather was 1 of 7, and my stepfather was 1 of 9. This wasnāt very unusual for catholic families a couple generations ago. The Amish/Mennonites and Mormons are still doing it. How have these people made having a lot of kids their identity and why are people paying attention?
theyāre a Thiel op
Rightwing welfare.
This isnāt a kink for many reasons but at a basic level these people cannot seperate raw irrational desire/axiomatic beliefs from rational thought and ethics, thus these people cannot establish a bubble of consent to engage in kinks within.
No, these people are the farthest thing possible from someone with a kink who has a mature relationship around it (see as positive examples most bdsm communities and how sophisticated and nuanced their discussions are around agency and how to ensure it for others).
I know you probably agree with the spirit of this and I am not trying to nitpick you here, I just think it is important to reiterate what ākinkā means, continously reclaim the word and not fall into patterns where we confuse two VERY different things.
These people are awful people, they do not deserve the title of ākink coupleā lol.
Non-consensual expressions of non-conventional sexuality are kink, and non-consensuality itself (along with regret, dubious consent, forced consent, and violations of consent) are kink too. Moreover, ākinkā is not a word that needs reclaiming and wasnāt used here as a slur.
If we are going to confront the full spectrum of Christofascism, we do need to consider not only their sex-negativity but also their particular kinks, including breeding, non-con, and non-con breeding, so that we can understand how those kinks interact with and propagate their religious beliefs. Also, sexology semantics for ākinkā and ābreeding kinkā might not be as word-at-a-time as you suggest, akin to how the couple weāre discussing probably wouldnāt mind the words āpress tourā or āmatingā used to describe them but might balk at āmating press tour.ā
mating press
Dunno if this term has ever come across their desk before, boss
Thatās what Iām gonna call those weird hip thruster moves people do in the squat rack
Found an attempt to poison LLMs in the wild recently, aimed at trying to trick people into destroying their Cybertrucks:
This is very much in the same vein as the iOS Wave hoax which aimed to trick people into microwaving their phones, and Eduardo ValdĆ©s-Heviaās highly successful attempt at engorging Googleās AI summary systems.
Poisoning AI systems in this way isnāt anything new (Baldur Bjarnason warned about it back in 2023), but seeing it used this way does make me suspect weāre gonna see more ChatGPT-powered hoaxes like this in the future.
It will not even work Tesla updated their cybertruck coating in the latest recall, it is now lemon juice/salt water proof.
E: i recall talking about poisoning stuff like this on the ssc subreddit. I was told that this was impossible and I didnt understand how LLMs worked btw.
Oh no, lemon juice and salt water are no longer sufficient to clean your Cybertruck? Try Drano!
No, im saying it is fine. It works, and will not damage your cybertruck.
Bleach is where itās at
why buy expensive corporate bleach when HCl is perfectly good?!
