Because of course.

You know, just this once, I am willing to see the “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat” label and be content to leave the bag closed.

Or was it a consequence of the fact that capital-R Rationalists just don’t shut up?

I suppose you could explain that on the talk page, if only you expressed it in acronyms for the benefit of the most pedantic nerds on the planet.

There might be enough point-and-laugh material to merit a post (also this came in at the tail end of the week’s Stubsack).

The opening line of the “Beliefs” section of the Wikipedia article:

Rationalists are concerned with improving human reasoning, rationality, and decision-making.

No, they aren’t.

Anyone who still believes this in the year Two Thousand Twenty Five is a cultist.

I am too tired to invent a snappier and funnier way of saying this.

I’m the torture copy and so is my wife

In other news, I got an “Is your website AI ready” e-mail from my website host. I think I’m in the market for a new website host.

The lead author wrote a summary thread.

From p. 137:

The most consistent and significant behavioral divergence between the groups was observed in the ability to quote one’s own essay. LLM users significantly underperformed in this domain, with 83% of participants (15/18) reporting difficulty quoting in Session 1, and none providing correct quotes. This impairment persisted albeit attenuated in subsequent sessions, with 6 out of 18 participants still failing to quote correctly by Session 3. […] Search Engine and Brain-only participants did not display such impairments. By Session 2, both groups achieved near-perfect quoting ability, and by Session 3, 100% of both groups’ participants reported the ability to quote their essays, with only minor deviations in quoting accuracy.

Or you could read the entirety of the first comment in this thread and see how it was not saying that. Notice the part that begins, “However, I believe there is an important difference to chatbots…”

No Nut Neuravember

Does master own a Sawzall?

Fuck it, repeating my joke from the earlier thread: Inviting the most pedantic nerds on Earth to critique your chatbot slop is a level of begging to be pwned that’s on par with claiming the female orgasm is a myth.

My tax prep software definitely has a mode called “give me Deus Ex”

yes you need to read things to understand them

OK, here’s your free opportunity to spend more time doing that. Bye now.

The stubsack is the weekly thread of miscellaneous, low-to-mid-effort posts on awful.systems.

Obligatory cross-reference: This came up in the stubsack before 404media wrote about it.

“Cursor YOLO deleted everything in my computer”:

Hi everyone - as a previous context I’m an AI Program Manager at J&J and have been using Cursor for personal projects since March.

Yesterday I was migrating some of my back-end configuration from Express.js to Next.js and Cursor bugged hard after the migration - it tried to delete some old files, didn’t work at the first time and it decided to end up deleting everything on my computer, including itself. I had to use EaseUS to try to recover the data, but didn’t work very well also. Lucky I always have everything on my Google Drive and Github, but it still scared the hell out of me.

Now I’m allergic to YOLO mode and won’t try it anytime soon again. Does anyone had any issue similar than this or am I the first one to have everything deleted by AI?

The response:

Hi, this happens quite rarely but some users do report it occasionally.

My T-shirt is raising questions already answered, etc.

(via)

viral: Midjourney fucking up human hands

spiral: Midjourney somehow fucking up Simpsons hands

https://bsky.app/profile/blakestacey.bsky.social/post/3lrep72zj4c23

When the complaint gets to saying what Midjourney advertises in their “explore” feature, it features dead-eyed waifu Elsa and body-pillow-ready topless Ariel.