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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.)
transcript
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.
What the fuck
There’s base-level sneer as this is posted on LW, but I found this comparison of LLM in call centers to cheap human labor for the same interesting:
Just wanted to say that I’m thankful for all yall.
Crosslinking SRD: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1p88k7d/guys_were_gonna_be_okay_maybe_not_today_maybe_not/
Observing AI psychosis from a distance is so fascinating. “Valentine just got nerfed for me.” What???
people out there signing off shit like that with their online presence that wouldn’t be waterboarded out of anyone 15 years ago
The rise of social media has made people disturbingly willing to give out extremely personal info/secrets. Jesus.
I’m “LIne storee” babyee.
There’s a PubPeer thread.
idk what i have expected
The article’s abstract made me die a hundred times
hey siri can you write me a nothing paper that combines two popular topics that are easy to bullshit about
Good day to remember the rat dck pck.
And this is not the first time Scientific Reports has been sneered.
This artifact can bring bio med people on-side like nothing else.
I’m the left leg clipping through the table. Also, i like how x axis on lower left chart is out of order
“K9: scom”, just need to figure out what scom is.
But my favorite part is in the upper left, the brain that just says “Autism” and “Autism” around it.
these are autism particles
Wow. Quantum nature of autism confirmed. And people say the slop machines can’t do science…
… Autons?
Automs
kinda impressive that “Factor Fexcectorn” shows up twice, imagine how many credits were offered on the pyre of context management
Factor Fexcectorn sounds like a Roman centurion who tried to improve the army’s logistics by hitching multiple wagons together in sequence.
also what in the cursed fuck is going on with the glyphs over the “meter” bars
just found out about the incredibly dystopian US prison “ADX”
Inside the federal supermax tucked away in Colorado’s high desert, prisoners spend 22 to 24 hours a day locked alone inside concrete cells that are smaller than a standard parking space. The prison, formally called United States Penitentiary Florence Administrative Maximum Facility but better known as ADX, has earned the nickname “The Alcatraz of the Rockies” because of its harsh conditions.
Contact with others is extremely limited; programming, such as anger management or religious services, is broadcast over televisions in the cells, while psychological evaluations happen through the steel doors. Belongings are also strictly limited and prisoners aren’t allowed to hang photographs or drawings on their walls. Exercise time out the cell happens alone inside large cages called “dog runs”, where prisoners can only walk a few paces each direction. Prisoners are given virtual reality goggles to simulate the outdoors or community. A former warden once called ADX a “clean version of hell,” and said that living there was “far much worse than death.” Olympic Park bomber Eric Robert Rudolph and Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, are both incarcerated at ADX.
New York Times asks the question on everyone’s minds: Is ChatGPT Conscious?
The piece is, unsurprisingly, a complete pile of hot garbage, openly refusing to recognise the difference between lying machines and human beings. This is probably Pivot material.
New York Magazine, not NY Times.
Fixed that, thanks for catching
I’ve been nursing a grudge against New York Magazine for fifteen years.
2d6 psychic damage
Wow fuck them. All those courses sound fun and interesting.
I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that the authors are now working in Republican Congressional offices finding research grants and willfully misunderstanding what they’re doing.
Robot poop ruins a Nashville tradition:
https://old.reddit.com/r/nashville/comments/1p7e20t/so_zoolumination/
From the r/SunoAI subreddit: “Sick of having to come up with prompts”.
Hey y’all, looking for some tips here. I like what I’ve made so far with Suno but now I’m kind of hitting a wall with ideas for prompts. Why doesn’t Suno also have a feature to write prompts for you? Like just hit a button the says “new prompt” and then hit make song when it comes up with something that sounds interesting! Thoughts?
(Via Dan of the Year.)
Next step: “I’m sick of having to press the ‘new prompt’ button, why doesn’t …”
New sneer popped up lamenting AI’s intrusion into hacker spaces. Red site is having a normal one about it
FFS so many promptfondlers and gish-gallopers in there. Echoes of pro-crapto (can’t criticize if you don’t buy in, use case is coming bro, it’s actually decentralized)
Edit the worst thing isnt’t the number of fondlers, it’s the upvotes they’re getting.
back on my posting sorta off topic shit: well, we’ve talked a bit about anti-academia nutters, so here’s a developing story about (western) academia having a normal one.
Headline: Oxford’s Rafflesia Messaging Sparks Debate Over Representation, Scientific Credit, and Global South Visibility
My summary: in an announcement, oxford performs erasure by only really naming researchers from oxford amongst a team where most of the contributions were from southeast asian researchers.
Pastor Malabrigo Jr. and Adriane B. Tobias are listed as the first and second authors, while other authors are from the University of the Philippines Los Baños, Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Bogor Botanical Gardens, University of Bengkulu, and Forest Research Institute Malaysia. The Author Contributions section also shows that Southeast Asian researchers wrote most of the country-specific content, compiled distribution data, and produced scientific figures. Yet none of these appear in the Oxford press release as scientific authorities.
This article is by “scientific watchdog” with a “.id” domain, which is Indonesian. Seems a little bespoke for the article, but, hey, all the facts are verifiable.
I’m going to laugh if they try to spin it as “we’re not being racist, we just wanted to get as much institutional clout as possible and avoided prominently featuringanyone from other institutions!”
Ziz was arraigned on Monday, according to The Baltimore Banner. She apparently was not very cooperative:
As the judge asked basic questions such as whether she had read the indictment and understood the maximum possible penalties, [Ziz] LaSota chided the “mock proceedings” and said [US Magistrate Douglas R.] Miller was a “participant in an organized crime ring” led by the “states united in slavery.”
She pulled the Old Man from Scene 24 gag:
Please state your name for the record, the court clerk said. “Justice,” she replied. What is your age? “Timeless.” What year were you born? “I have been born many times.”
The lawyers have accepted that sometimes a defendant is uncooperative:
Prosecutors said the federal case would take about three days to try. Defense attorney Gary Proctor, in an apparent nod to how long what should have been a perfunctory appearance on Monday ended up taking, called the estimate “overly optimistic.”
Folks outside the USA should be reassured that this isn’t the first time that we’ve tried somebody with a loose grasp of reality and a found family of young violent women who constantly disrupt the trial; Ziz isn’t likely to walk away.
She wants to be a martyr so bad, doesn’t she? She desperately needs to be punished for the sake of her beliefs (and the things she did made others do). All for the great cause of… uh… y’know, the important thing she’s being silenced for. Things like that.
it happened again, I Posted. dash of thread to it too. some of y’all may enjoy
and yes that capital P is load bearing
I have some thoughts about this goober (Simon Willison) that I need to get out of my head:
First the positives:
- I think he’s actually an experienced software engineer.
- I think he care to check and test the LLM output.
But, by his own admission:
- He uses LLM for tasks he knows well (So easier to check and little negative impact on learning)
- He works mostly on hobby projects (so no obligation to actually maintain the stuff)
- He can choose to not use new libraries (which in a professional setting is not always a luxury you can afford)
Tl;dr: an experienced dev who uses clankers to churn out tons of technically functional hobby software and thinks this gives him right to speak for all software engineers.
i haven’t tried to spend thought on the why of his posting (I have better thoughts I can waste time on), but if you’re right about the points you guess on then I argue his position and actions are even more fucking dangerous (because those won’t shine through easily to those of lesser experience unless very specifically be made to show with care and forethought)
either way, he remains muted in my feed. for being interminably tiresome and annoying as fuck.
I have better thoughts I can waste time on
Me too. Unfortunately I don’t get to pick my intrusive thoughts.
Me too. Unfortunately I don’t get to pick my intrusive thoughts.
Heh
there’s one for the comeback vault
He’s also found a lucrative niche being the “serious” AI booster. No doubt he gets something from it, if nothing else consulting work.
I think he’s just a true believer (or very good at lying).
“Enjoy” this toxic stew of prediction markets, racism, and the objectifying of women:
https://protos.com/polymarket-criticized-for-racist-post-targeting-fake-baddies/
cryptobro on rationalist gambler on attention farmer violence
Twitter adds default country tags. Immediately finds a whole bunch of foreign bots agitating about US politics. Promptly ignores that in order to be racist.
Saw this quality nickname for prompt receivers: Chet Jippity
This bounced off of the earlier stub about LLM recipes to create a new cooking show: Chef Jippity. The contestants are all sous chefs at a new restaurant, with the head of the kitchen being some dumbass who blindly follows the instructions of an LLM. Can you work around the robot to create edible food or will Chef Jippity run this whole thing into the ground and lose everyone their jobs? Find out Thursday on Food Network!
Deceased: sous chefs
Increased: sue chefs
In French, ChatGPT sounds like « Chatte, j’ai pété » meaning “Pussy, I farted”.
