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Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Can I delete the Chrome’s OptGuideOnDeviceModel safely? It’s taking up 4GB
. . .
I also founds mentions of bunch of various flags you can potentially disable to turn the whole feature off, e.g. chrome://flags/#optimization-guide-on-device-model - but I’ve seen at least 5 other ones mentioned in several sources, with various people claiming for each that they don’t work . . .
Now Chrome can hog your VRAM too. Yay
Don’t worry if you only have 8GB and need the other half for anything, Chrome will probably relinquish it. This is very intelligent, as all the browser has to do is simply load another 4GB file from disk the next time you do anything.
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Whitehouse AI czar (rightfully) imo pointing out that it’s pretty shit behavior to shout fire in a movie theatre and instead of admitting fault just typing ¯_(ツ)_/¯ in chat
PERHAPS WE SHOULD HAVE TITLED OUR PREDICTION AI 2027 DIFFERENTLY???
The bailey: AI 2027 😱 The motte: ahem actually we had a footnote that said AI 2030, so we don’t need feel the need to retract/apologize/or slightly edit our fearmongering website.
Let this be an albatross around scoots neck forever lmaou.
Paul Campos - The medium is the mob
Discusses the “reverse Flynn effect”, filter bubbles, and infopollution via GenAI
Somehow, HPMoR could have been even worse.
I ruled no intelligence enhancement magic in HPMOR because otherwise it turns into Project Lawful.
Ron reached into his bag and pulled out a bottle of instant death potion (known to muggles as cyanide) and force fed it to Harry Potter. He was rewarded with accolades, wealth and fame and lived happily ever after.
Ron reached into his bag and pulled out a bottle of potion that makes you talk like a conservative bullshit artist and said “Have you ever heard of Chesterton’s fence, Potter?” Harry, hearing a genetive case proper noun spoken as a part of two word noun phrase suddenly realized he was no longer talking to a strawman of a simpleton. “The burden of proof is in fact on you, the reformer, to first make a strong case for status quo to prove you understand why things are the way they are before you can even begin to challenge the state of things.” Harry was immediately convinced quidditch is good as is and voted Tory twice.
Harry takes a swig and immediately sees the truth: that he is the smartest specialest bestest boy in the universe. He spends the remaining 73 chapters celebrating and gloating about this fact while accomplishing nothing. So the story doesn’t meaningfully change at all.
Mozilla continues to double down on AI, promising to “do for AI what we did for the web” in their latest (probably AI-extruded) blogpost.
In related news, I found a toot thread attributing the current shitfest (and AI’s popularity in general) to “a strong majority of even the actually well-intentioned, smart leaders in tech [getting] their brains fully cooked by these heuristics machines”. Where the OP is finding those “well-intentioned, smart leaders”, I do not know.
Hijaking the Mozilla mention to point to https://tabstack.ai/ again, the upcoming Mozilla-branded scraper API for AIs that promises to “stealthily” (their words) bypass captchas. Cos I don’t think enough people have heard of it still.
PR for AI slop generated DWARF support for ocaml. Expectation: doesn’t work
Reality: replicates existing support from another project including attribution to the author.
The purpose of AI is theft, exhibit ∞
Wow highly recommend reading all his comments where he doubles down on how everyone else is in the wrong (for wanting maintainable code that isn’t a legal liability) while he is in the right (for being brave and bold enough to type prompts into an LLM to create code that he won’t stand behind).
It’s almost as if he went in there looking for a fight.
Lool, look at these two quotes next to eachother:
One caveat, though: even if I didn’t type the code myself, I own it — and it’s my responsibility now.
vs.
Beats me. AI decided to do so [write the copyright as someone else] and I didn’t question it.
Ah yes, the classic open source guy stance of “you get to praise me publicly but direct criticism or problems to [over there]”
It’s not where I obtained this PR but how.
the inability to follow a through b through c here is….something
Adam Mastroianni has the audacity to claim that people don’t seem to join phygs any more, gets clip art from Astral Codex Ten and hosts a vlog for Inkhaven guests https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-decline-of-deviance
Literally every trend he brings up to showcase this cultural stagnation is some combination of aesthetic, nonexistent, or driven by income inequality and a loss of economic security.
Checked back in on Framework’s rotting corpse.
The company’s retired their official Discord server (in the Blade Runner sense), about a month after the mod team jumped ship over the company’s fash turn. There’s discussion on the Framework forums about it, too.
Its not the only social media platform they’ve abandoned - they left Bluesky and Mastodon to court fascists on Twitter a while ago.
All the fash stuff is incredibly bad, but I cannot get over this:
I personally found a lot of enjoyment in the Framework discord. The format of a discord server is a lot more useful for chatting and discussion within a community than something like a forum (which seems a little more siloed).
WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT. EITHER YOU ARE INSANE OR I AM.
Super forecasters update timeline by 150% their og forecast.
Fucking dumbasses
Dont worry guys, the alien spaceships from Niburu are taking a bit longer to arrive.
second take from me. Here’s the full tweet:
one of Earth’s top scientists on sex and gender has published her latest work, open for all to read in a widely read venue on that science topic, where it will receive far more peer scrutiny than any lesser forum provides
I’m going to read this as a joke because he didn’t end it with a period, and he is secretly beefing with aella
Ah more anti-intellectualism from the proto cult leader.
This does mean, as the standards are so low, that we all have a phd on Rationalism.
After moving out at 17, Aella briefly attended college in northern Idaho but ran out of money after a semester.
Aella already has better credentials than EY
How briefly do you have to attend college to still be this clueless about how citations work?
well it’ll become apparent during first attempts at writing a paper that requires them, but it can be a very long time if subject is dense enough
Armin Ronacher, creator of the vastly popular Python Flask and Jinja framworks, comes out in defence of DHH, saying his racist diatribe about the ethnic make up of London was in fact not racist, and the state of Israel, that it’s apparently fine that it remains an oppressive ethnostate in order to ‘preserve its particular cultural identity’.
Yep, he’s been saying bad shit for a while (18~24mo I’m aware of), glad more people are seeing it though
also a massive massive promptfondler
time for me to learn something else, then; what do people use these days for microservices instead of flask? fastapi?
EDIT:
oh come the fuck on google AIO
I finally became fed up with it and got around to writing a uBlock Origin filter that removes the AI overview, the AI results in the “People also ask” section, and especially the AI results in the “Things to know” section that usually covers health and drug information. There is literally so much AI bloat taking up the search page it’s crazy.
