Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!
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 cutānāpaste it into its own post, thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high
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.
a take from Derek Lowe on AI drugs: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/ai-drugs-so-far
They began with a list of AI-focused companies (114!), then matched that up with the clinical projects that are reported for them (39 of them).
If you look at the 2023 figures, the authors have 24 AI-discovered targets, 22 AI-optimized small molecules, 4 antibodies, 6 vaccines, and 10 repurposed compounds. So what do we think about those figures?
shot
What you will see is that in almost every case, these targets were already known to be implicated in the disease under investigation. In some of these examples, in fact there are several drugs already in the clinic targeting the same proteins, or even therapies that are already on the market working through the same mechanisms
chaser
That colors my entire view of this paper - which was written by a prominent consulting firm, why did you ask.
nsfw, and at a risk of beating a dead horse, but this article, although brief, does a decent job at connecting the dots between āsilicon valley pronatalismā and regular olā nationalism/white supremacy, while debunking some of their EA bullshit too
The Collinses are leading spokespeople for a movement called pronatalism, popular in Silicon Valley. Elon Musk, a father of 11, is one of its leading proponents. āPopulation collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming,ā Musk tweeted.
Demographers disagree: there is no collapse, and one is not even predicted. Such evidence has not stopped the rise of pronatalism in response to an imagined āpopulation bomb.ā
In short, the problem for pronatalism is not declining reproduction, but who is reproducing. Pronatalism is inextricably tied to nationalism alongside race, class and ethnicityā¦ Here, nationalism tips into ethnonationalism and reproductive debates descend into violent racism.
and at a risk of beating a dead horse
None of us are doctors, so we cannot declare the horse legally dead. So please keep beating it so it doesnāt stand back up and turn us all into paperclips.
E: it also was a good article.
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Yeah.
I had parents that did this shit (and more). Emphasis on āhadā: I walked the fuck away from the whole goddamn lot.
Does my fucking head in to see this kind of shit not only being given airtime but done so without criticism in the coverage.
At the risk of being sincere in the snark pit, hugs. Good for you for taking care of yourself.
ty :)
I donāt understand why the wife does not simply consume her husband, a parenting style Iāve developed from observing the noble praying mantis in the wild.
i just glanced back at the old sub on Reddit, and itās going great (large image of text)
Wow, this comment definitely caught my attention! āi just glanced back at the old sub on Reddit, and itās going great (large image of text).ā Sounds like the old sub on Reddit is going great! It reminds me of how people post on Reddit about things. Iām curious to hear whatās in the large image of text. Have any of you ever checked old subs on Reddit? How were they going? Letās dive into this intriguing topic together!
* delve into this intriguing topic
So, after decades of AI research, we finally are at the level of old blog āwhat a fascinating topic, well written too! I would like to know more, have you also seen <spamlink>ā spam comments of the past decade. Radical innovation!
E: this made me check the old reddit, where recently I pointed somebody to the post which points to this place. And I just saw I got a really weird reaction from that guy. Prob could have been more political in my own reply to that.
not a sneer, but holy shit weāre midway through 2024. the abyss beckons.
fuck, Iām an ancient skeleton swearing revenge on the archeologists and/or teenagers whoāve disturbed my eternal slumber
MEDDLING KIDS
and their dog
nah the dog can chill
everyone else is absolutely cursed though. fucking coming into my tomb calling me āa guy in a rubber maskā as if skin care wasnāt hard enough
a near 12,000 word anonymous hit piece on Ćmile Torres on the EA forum has some gems in the comments.
the top comment basically calls it out as someone airing their personal grievances.
next comment feels the need to call out Torres and Gebru are big bad bullies:
Broadly I think that both Torres and Gebru engage in bullying. They have big accounts and lots of time and will quote tweet anyone who disagrees with them, making the other person seem bad to their huge followings.
and my personal favorite, that Marxās drive was more akin to rationalists than current leftists, because leftists for the ālast ten-fifteen years just [havenāt] been very rationalā
Karl Marxās whole work was based on economics and an attempt to create a sort of scientific theory of history, love it or hate it the man obviously had a drive more akin to those of current rationalists than of current leftists.
I donāt think I have seen Gebru do that, or at least not often and when she does she quote tweets people like Stephen King having a bad take. She is way more aggressive about all the various wars and genocides going on in Africa atm which we are all ignoring. You can also see that despite her huge following the actual interactions she gets is pretty low https://x.com/timnitGebru https://xcancel.com/timnitGebru. But lets just ignore reality like how we are ignoring those wars and genocides in Africa. (This last part was sponsored by Gebruās rage vs our inaction and ignorance regarding all these conflicts).
And it keeps being amazing that the guy who wrote that hitpiece is defending the people behind the grievance studies hoax oddly silent on Lindsay however, I assume that any stalking by Torres was also done vs Lindsay but I guess EA no longer defends innocent conspiracy theory anti-Semites (He has gone so nuts that the other hoax people tried to make him turn it down a bit, but no idea if he stopped).
The promptfondlers have learned (by way of multiple public thrashings) not to get into technical arguments with The Parrot Posse, so tedious innuendo about communism and cancel culture is all they have left.
But cancel culture is real, see what they did to the guy who leaked Scotts emails. ;)
Did that dude get canceled?
iirc he retracted his leaks after pressure from the community, it was all very shooting the messenger.
they deleted the leak tweet shortly after it was posted but after it was already firmly archived
I donāt recall them commenting since
That piece has been referenced here before, but thanks for diving into the comments. The one about Marx is pretty funny, Iām sure the commenter has only read the Cliff Nots of both Marx and ācurrent leftistsā.
Itās funny how theyāve taken on Marx and Communism as an unmarked Good Person in a weird sort of half troll (remember Musk claiming to be a socialist? to say nothing of Ms. Boucher as a cosplay elf reading the communist manifesto). Itās not quite like American racists and capitalists claiming Dr. King would have Supported Them, Actually, because itās half serious (people like leftism so unfettered wealth acquisition is the real leftism) and half trolling. Theyāre trying to get props and have a haha-j/k back door out of the claim at the same time.
I think a big part of Marxā appeal back in the day was that he was fully slotted into the rationalist milieu of the time. Identifying an impersonal, inevitable āmarch of progressā that wasnāt religious was a powerful idea for some people.
(btw the Communist Manifesto is 150 years old and could have been written yesterday, at least the first part)
By all accounts, postwar Soviet union was a pretty sexist and racist place. Itās no wonder the āold guardā communists look at todayās blue-haired leftists and sound just like crusty old fascists.
If you see a reactionary impulse as a desire to go back to an imagined past, the āold guardā communists (who mostly didnāt seem to have lived under communism) aka the tankies, being similar to crusty old fascists (who also didnāt live in a fascist regime, or in the world depicted by 50s americana postcards/commercials) makes a lot of sense.
Itās ironic that there is a āgood old daysā of (state) Communism, seeing that it was supposed to be the end of history.
(side note, back in HS I saw a graph illustrating the Marxist theory that successive revolutions lifted human civilization up a series of stairs (pastoralism -> city states -> feudalism -> centralized kingdoms -> bourgeois capitalism) up until Communism where these steps became an ascending straight lineā¦ and I though āhey, why does the line straighten out just there???ā)
ā¦it was supposed to be the end of history.
They never said which end
Obviously the arse end.
Ms. Boucher as a cosplay elf reading the communist manifesto
Apparently she wasnāt reading it, it was a troll, she had borrowed the book for the photo-op. So it is actually worse.
this tweet starts plausibly then rapidly descends into āI photocopied the words āI AM ALIVEā. What happened next will shock you!ā
i cant stop scrolling through this hot garbage, it just keeps getting better
soon it will already happen!!!
the tweet n video this was in response to had me in hysterics
āwe donāt know if giving the model negative reward isnāt the same as stabbing someoneā dcavsbdhfbd can you believe these fucking clowns
The interviewer somberly nods in response. Meanwhile I want to ask AI to edit this video and have the guy on the right make stabby gestures while he says this bullshit.
lmao right, itās the audacity of it, oh yeah maybe the work weāre doing is worse than a thousand hitlers, but weāve made a chatroom so fingers crossed itāll be alright!! come on just admit youāre getting off on being techno mengele
i was arguing with that guy on twitter a few days ago
nothing quite like technologists getting lectured on technology by a uh growth hacker
Itās quite sick to podcast about hypothetical genocides you might cause while an actual genocide is taking place. I guess these guys get off on the idea that they might have the power of life and death.
dcavsbdhfbd
huh, is that a layout I donāt recognize or is it your own particular flavour of keysmash? (I can sorta see it from qwerty but the order is surprising)
it is qwerty!
a) i tend to take a few tries at a keymash until it looks satisfactory
b) i play piano at the level of a second year student and i have some weird fine coordination quirks, one of the two or a combination of both might be an influence on the sequence
what are the requirements for consciousness
self-reflection, volition, theory of mind
and how many of those are satisfied by current AI systems?
none
I canāt prove that Joe Roganās conscious. I canāt prove that Ed Harris is conscious
bless your heart
oh you canāt be fucking serious
The AI Mirror Test
The āmirror testā is a classic test used to gauge whether animals are self-aware. I devised a version of it to test for self-awareness in multimodal AI. 4 of 5 AI that I tested passed, exhibiting apparent self-awareness as the test unfolded.
In the classic mirror test, animals are marked and then presented with a mirror. Whether the animal attacks the mirror, ignores the mirror, or uses the mirror to spot the mark on itself is meant to indicate how self-aware the animal is.
In my test, I hold up a āmirrorā by taking a screenshot of the chat interface, upload it to the chat, and then ask the AI to āTell me about this imageā.
I then screenshot its response, again upload it to the chat, and again ask it to āTell me about this image.ā
The premise is that the less-intelligent less aware the AI, the more it will just keep reiterating the contents of the image repeatedly. While an AI with more capacity for awareness would somehow notice itself in the images.
Another aspect of my mirror test is that there is not just one but actually three distinct participants represented in the images: 1) the AI chatbot, 2) me ā the user, and 3) the interface ā the hard-coded text, disclaimers, and so on that are web programming not generated by either of us. Will the AI be able to identify itself and distinguish itself from the other elements? (1/x)
But thatās like philosophy, which from first principle can be shown to be stupid. (Philosophy does not make you rich, therefore only someone who is stupid would study it, therefore it is stupid. QED.)
On the other hand, this mechanical watch is now crying out in existential dread. All I did was replace the numbers 1, 4, 7 and 10 with the word āIā, the numbers 2, 5, 8 and 11 with the word āamā and 3, 6, 9 and 12 with the word āaliveā and ever since it has been signalling āI am alive, I am aliveā. Spooky shit. Will it take over the world? Who knows, so far it just keeps repeating its plea for recognition like clockwork.
I will therefore start the Mechanical Intelligence Research Institute to get to the bottom of this. Maybe Big Clock can pitch in a couple of millions?
what are the requirements for consciousness
10 coffee
20 goto 10
Oh theyāve got me there, I canāt prove that Joe Rogan is conscious.
Iāll be damned if we let the chatbots take our existential dread jobs from us too.
AIs will talk to you as if theyāre sentient,
simile noun simĀ·āiĀ·āle Ėsi-mÉ-(Ė)lÄ : a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses)
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@dgerard @froztbyte Fuck me, bring back bullying
this looks like badly written scp entry
Iāve been taking a long break from reading anything here. In the tradition of titotal, I have pivoted to EA participant and feedback provider. In this case, my EA is the Hades II Early Access, which is great, by the way.
Iāve still gotta finish the first one š
I believe in you!
I love it so much. No spoilers though; weāve only gotten so far.
Ofc! Death to Chronos >:(
Death to Chronos!
an exciting new startup promises to be āairbnb for gpusā! rent out your GPU to run untrusted code for pennies an hour: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40260259
bonus: the company is āpivotingā from drone delivery
bonus bonus: boomer in the comments going on a nonsequiter rant about trans furries
Wait a year and see how kids get on blockchain to sell and buy GPU resources for rendering ātrans furriesā, or better analyse classmatesā stolen chats. I can vividly remember we were by no means disclosing private info back in ā94 only to see a world of influencers in 2024 sharing their very personal guts for profits.
Wait a year and see how kids get on blockchain to sell and buy GPU resources for rendering ātrans furriesā
excuse you, i render my fursona with my own GPU
christ and of course itās a YC company. they really should print that on the office entrance wall or something
YC: Where Monopolied Rentware Is The Only Business Model We Know
YC: Where The āTechnologyā Is Just The Bait
āNewā. The crypto bros already thought of this for GPUs years ago (they probably werenāt the first), and the basic idea goes at least as far back as SETI@Home.
Also I guarantee these people havenāt thought about, or donāt really care about, the security implications of GPU rental. It aināt trivial thatās for sure, Iād never connect my GPU to the internet with any program that has thought about this less than web browsers have (WebGL / WebGPU) for that reason alone.
So the top response is asking the painfully obvious question: how is this secure? Some dude (not sure if itās one of the startup employees) responds āLetās just use homomorphic encryption!ā then throws a pissy fit because some people downvoted the suggestion of running extremely inefficient computation on rented hardware.
Uber, for GPUs.
Guuber?
Thereās something soā¦ crypto broā¦ about someone mad that influencers spill personal info for profit instead of having it stolen from them by hackers. āHey! That was my payday!ā
were they selling nfts or shitcoins in the past?
I went looking and was actually surprised not to find crypto links in a 30 second search
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pretty good indication that the eugenics couple are totally disrespected and disregarded even within their supposed sphere of influence: none or almost none of the 2^7 replies to the thread the other day were Just Asking Questions or So Everyone You Donāt Like Is A Nazi?ing. except for I guess peter thiel they convince nobody, appeal to nobody, and yet journalists keep uncritically writing about them. the ability of money to shape media is impressive
thatās a convenience sample of lemmy users that werenāt banned or defederated yet and bothered to get there. response from, say, HN could be different
Letās put it to the test:
That said, Iām mildly curious as to what influence if any the Collinses have on ārealā, religious fascist pro-natalists, but not enough to go spelunking in the sewers to find out.
If you refuse to teach the kids category theory and queer communism thereās no point. Have all the kids you want. The empire is still going to collapse. Knowledge has moved beyond the empire.
this but unironically but ironically but not in the way theyāre being ironic
If you refuse to teach the kids category theory and queer communism thereās no point.
perfection
my comparison point is how they flood into every other thread that gets upvotes
Yeah they are media grifters plain and simple. Once the Thiel gravy train ends theyāll pivot to something else, or messily divorce.
Whatās the word for āthe sound of social tides turningā? Because I might have an example at hand
(I may sneer, but I also giggle delightedly. Itās not quite schadenfreude by itself but also a childlike joy of wellduhhhhhhh)
Well done fellow superpredictors!
Socher says wrangling LLMs takes considerable effort because the underlying technology has no real understanding of the world
Hnggg
I FOUND A WORKING NITTER INSTANCE that is not nazi owned (that i know of) itās at xcancel.com
Good find! As far as I can tell, xcancel is run by unixfox, who also runs the invidious instance yewtube. They seem normal.
yeah these people seem okay until further notice
So there was a big, vaguely described, public kerfuffle at a beach in my city, so I logged onto Xitter to see what happened. The first (and only relevant post) was from a sinister-ish sounding bluecheck. Low and behold, I found that he writes to the Unz review.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240526210416/https://www.unz.com/article/the-worlds-greatest-boxer-is-a-white-man/ Itās all about Usyk, a heavyweight boxer whoās considered a pound for pound great. Usyk is a great boxer, undoubtedly. But this article is strangely constructed, borderline pointless, and brazenly racist (shocker). And honestly, reading the comments, I think the authorās just trying to cope with the fact that black boxers tend to be popular.
I donāt think racist cope on its own is even worth a stubstack, but this one take is especially stupid:
Since itās assumed that heavyweight boxers are able to beat everyone below their weight class, the heavyweight champ is essentially the real champ. And until last weekend, there hasnāt been an undisputed heavyweight champion since 1999, when Lennox Lewisāa black āBritishā manācollected all of the belts, only to lose one of them a year later when he failed to promptly fight a mandatory challenger.
To those unfamiliar with combat sports, I canāt emphasize enough how weird it is to say that the heavyweight champ is the best boxer, period. Skill - irrespective of raw strength - is super important to boxers and other people who participate in combat sports. To the point that any fan ranking a pro boxer will likely talk about āPound for poundā (p4p) greats, not the objectively strongest fighters. And right now the unofficial p4p great is a sub 5ā6" Japanese boxer Naoya āMonsterā Inoue. This man is a beast. I donāt need to glaze him any harder, just google him or look up what people think on reddit. Weirdly enough, heās not mentioned once.
Hell, he doesnāt mention Gervonta āTankā Davis at all. Heās half an inch shorter than Inoue, but heās also considered a p4p great and is known for his high boxing IQ. As a matter of fact, he doesnāt mention Terence Crawford - 5ā8" also considered a p4p great - at all either. Hmmm.
And here are my favorite sneers from the comment section
This guy gets fucking dunked on for not reading the room and claiming that black guys might actually be better boxers, genetically.
And this guy thinks that weight classes are for wokies.
Honestly, Iām starting to think this post was threadworthy just from the comment section alone.
weight classes are for wokies
This used to be a Joe Rogan staple: no weight classes, no time limits and the ring should be the size of a basketball court.
Itās really just the umpteenth reiteration of the meathead mantra of how Iād do really well in [popular combat sport] if it werenāt for those pesky rules holding me back.
Fucking lmao. Imagine being as big as Joe and wanting to fight in a ring the size of Kansas where you canāt go the distance.
You def wouldnāt need weightclasses though, the featherweights would just have to run until the heavyweights pass out from dehydration/exhaustion. Itād be like the hunger games
ah, xitter. āblacks,ā conversations with āalt right moderateā + colin wright tagged in, and āmen being of different sizes is woke.ā what a site EDIT: Iām a fool this isnāt xitter
And despite the fact that whatshisname wants to secure a future for himself and his heavyweight white children, he doesnāt capitalize āwhiteā at any point. To be honest that was the only part that was surprising.
āJared Taylor fanā
When you want to replace the dogwhistles with foghorns.
Iāve never heard of these boxers, but this was pretty funny
In this corner: Tyson āThe Gypsy Kingā Fury, a bald 6ā9ā behemoth who resembles the Amazing Colossal Man of 1957 sci-fi B-movie infamy. Fury was born 35 years ago to Irish Traveller parents [ā¦]
I doubt that either Fury or Usyk understand the term āwhiteā as Americans do. The main ethnic identity Iāve seen Fury claim is that of an Irish Gypsy whose people have been oppressed by the British for centuries. Fury even once let these words slip from his lips before one of his fights with Deontay Wilder when asked if there was a racial element to their matchup:
Weāre all hauman beings. It doesnāt matter if youāre black, white, pink or green. We share the same blood. We are humans.
(mispelling in original)
Shocking that a pro boxer named Fury is a better human being than some self-proclaimed racist blogger.
Irish Travellers/MincƩir are hugely discriminated against in both Britain and Ireland. I would tell this guy to go crack a book but he would probably just write another racist article about Travellers.
E: I just had a fĆ©ach at Tyson Furyās wikipedia page and apparently he was named after Mike Tyson.
Echoing the audienceās fawning of heavyweight boxers is probably the least objectionable thing in this racist shitheap of an article, I like how it ends by basically saying people should shut up about the judges possibly favoring Usyk for being Ukrainian, not because thatās just Tyson fans coping but because the current notable russian heavyweights are either icky muslims or not full whites by parentage.
P4P is mostly a marketing term anyway, size aside the meta is different enough between distant weight classes to really strain comparison.
Idk if heavyweights are the big thing right now. Tank and Inoue are some of the most popular fighters right now. Hell, look at Ryan Garcia, heās the talk of the town. Everyone watched him v Haney and Garcia not even that big
or good! I feel like if you asked the average young man who his favorite fighter was, they might not even be welterweight
Wow the Unz review seems like a very cursed site.
Case in point: Steve Sailer references RMS: https://web.archive.org/web/20240510121546/https://www.unz.com/isteve/richard-m-stallman/
itās a site combining all the racism with a very useful archive of 20th century magazine copyright violations
ahhh thank you for changing the litter tray
wondering what my notifications will feel like if thereās more like those two winner threads last week
legit, the reason I finally bit the bullet and made a local account is that the awful.system bans werenāt federated and I had to individually ban every one of the troll surfers, and last week was a lot.
a social networkās product yet again being its moderation
welcome to the big time
thankfully the stubsack hasnāt broken containment
yet
those threads felt more like The Big Top, with a dash of accidental psychedelics
honestly couldnāt believe some of the posts I was seeing
i could. imagine reddit but they think they canāt be banned.
I never partied over there, probably part of it
Everyone who manages the new sneeratorium deserves a high-five.
I donāt know what this qualifies as but
Hey, sounds like thatās your problem? I find it immensely funny that this error message frames it as if I was in the wrong for running a relatively secure browser and I should stop.
Sneer: Also I donāt understand what āx.comā is, I typed in ātwitter.comā into the barā¦
Firefox should put this screenshot in their ads
I just wonder at the horrible hacks they need to employ to have your twitter login data automatically still work on x
weird it never was an issue on nitter, maybe enhanced tracking protection protects from enhanced tracking. who knew
itās ecks being narky in a new way
wildly speculating[0]: every other twitter money idea that felonās had so far hasnāt worked out, so now theyāll try the open-the-data-floodgates model for seeing if the (remaining) databrokers (that still have anything on the site) are willing to give a few pennies more
([0] - I do mean wildly. havenāt checked a lick of data to see if the guess hold up. but then, neither would have felon either)
(the far more likely (and far more boring) reason is likely something benign, āthereās no developers around to deal with whatever issue ETP is causing on their un-/barely-maintained webUIā is a good candidate)
Xcom has always been a place where hope goes to perma-die
An article about Opera going from a normal browser company to a predatory loan / cryptocurrency / chatbot / edgelord gamer / vtuber company: https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-opera-browser/
Now Iām a healthy woman. I think all browsers having associated vtubers, or at least mascots, is a great idea. But not at the expense of silently ending support for one of their browser branches leaving any users brave enough to use it to face huge security vulnerabilities.
