Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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 ā 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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Leopard nibbles at venture foundersā faces in a new way - OpenAI researcher canāt get green card
(will they reconsider their wholehearted support for trump tho? also no)
Apparently MIT is teaching a vibe coding class:
How will this yearās class differ from last yearās? There will be some major changes this year:
- Units down from 18 to 15, to reflect reduced load
- Grading that emphasizes mastery over volume
- More emphasis on design creativity (and less on ethics)
- Not just permission but encouragement to use LLMs
- A framework for exploiting LLMs in code generation
From the class guide:
We ask that students do not use laptops or phones in class. Research suggests that students who do so unwittingly spend much of the time surfing the internet leading to worse educational outcomes, and that taking notes by hand is much more effective. You may use laptops during class exercises, and you may also use a tablet to take notes.
lol
A tangent: the tablet.
Why is the tablet ok for taking notes? Is it banned from the wifi? Does it lack a browser? Or are todays students unaware that most sites can be visited without an app?
because if they try to ban accessibility they will get in trouble
A Reddit uses Grok to solve Baseball
I think this sub might be satirical and that this post is under that umbrella, investigating!
E: post is tagged as humor
Core Strategy: We define the probability of victory, PvictoryP_{\text{victory}}Pvictoryā, as: Pvictory=( C B A^2+āāĪØPāt)Ć(Ncā c2)P_{\text{victory}} = \left( C B A^2 + \hbar \frac{\partial \Psi_P}{\partial t} \right) \times (Nc \cdot c^2)Pvictoryā=(CBA2+āātāĪØPāā)Ć(Ncā c2). (Someone told me this is āLateXā? I think you need to copy it to ChatGPT to see the equation.)
Yeah itās time to delete LaTeX. Weāre done. We donāt deserve it anymore
Update on my comment from yesterday: it seems I fell for satire (?). (I donāt know the people involved, so no idea, but it seems plausible.)
Satire-brackets-questionmark is a whole industry now, isnāt it?
Looks like elon and the others fell for it tbh, not so much you. (Note his screenshot showed he liked and retweeted it).
More big āwe had to fund, enable, and sane wash fascism b.c. the leftist wanted trans people to be aliveā energy from the EA crowd. We really overplayed our hand with the extremist positions of Kamala fuckin Harris fellas, they had no choice but to vote for the nazis.
(repost since from that awkward time on Sunday before the new weekly thread)
I hate this position so much, claiming that itās because āthe leftā wanted ātoo muchā. Thatās not only morally bankrupt, itās factually wrong too. And also ignorant of historical examples. Itās lazy and rotten thinking all the way through.
25+ yearsā¦ i.e. Bush II instituted a new Golden Age but it was betrayed by (checks notes) radical Marxists??
At least set the start of āWestern society solidityā at 1989ā¦
I keep forgetting so many people online are very, very young.
Big chance this person is <25 and this is just the reactionary yearning for a better past that never was. Also interesting how they always blame the āLeftā, and not just somebody like Reagan who had actual power, actually caused a measurable shift etc. (Not saying it was great before him, I wasnt there in time and place) But nope popular culture controls the world. Thanks cartoon Obama.
I checked out their profile. the person is (one of?) the host(s?) of this trash
Ah yes one of those great ideas to change the world by changing nothing podcasts.
Zuck, who definitely knows how human friendships work, thinks AI can be your friend: https://bsky.app/profile/drewharwell.com/post/3lo4foide3s2g (someone probably already posted this interview here before but I wasnāt paying attention so if so here it is again)
In completely unrelated news: dealing with voices in your head can be hard, but with AI you can deal with voices outside of your head too! https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/
(No judgement. Having had a mental breakdown a long long time ago, I canāt imagine what it would have been like to also have had access to a sycophantic chat-bot at the same time.)
i retain a pretty dismal view of AI for just about any use case, but had some distant friends / people i follow on social media say they used it as a rubber duck for troubleshooting a problem they had, or a place to just dump emotions into. i figured this, at the very minimum, could and should be harmless. i guess i wasnāt cynical enough
I found this quote interesting (emphasis mine):
He knew that ChatGPT could not be sentient by any established definition of the term, but he continued to probe the matter because the characterās persistence across dozens of disparate chat threads āseemed so impossible.ā āAt worst, it looks like an AI that got caught in a self-referencing pattern that deepened its sense of selfhood and sucked me into it,ā Sem says. But, he observes, that would mean that OpenAI has not accurately represented the way that memory works for ChatGPT.
I would absolutely believe that this is the case, especially if like Sem you have a sufficiently uncommon name that the model doesnāt have a lot of context and connections to hang on it to begin with.
That couple have been in the white house to brief the president on their one thing ig
I knew the exact couple you were talking about before I read any additional comments. They seem to show up in the news like clockworkā¦ do they have a publicist or PR agent looking for newspapers in need of garbage filler puff pieces? If anything, going to the white house is a step up from there normal pattern of self promotion.
theyāre Thiel creatures. This is why (a) theyāre in all the papers all the fucking time (b) no other pronatalist couple is
Theyāre Internet Native/Terminally Online, so they can SEO their own appearances, plus now they are fully plugged-in to the right-wing hype machine so theyāre probably turning down appearances instead of chasing them.
they have billionaire bank rollers. since the reality of our media system is that you hear a lot about whatever billionaires want you to hear about, they are covered
Yeah. They are like midbosses of this side of the internet.
Iām annoyed they still have relevancy somehow.
What
I tried being too vague to avoid giving the pronatalist couple more clout, and I guess the bit bombed.
Also: I fact checked myself and it turns out I committed the grave sin of posting old news.
āGross thrice-married orange man wants you to bonk moreā is gonna be a hard sell but rest assured, his pals in tech will make sure their ad selection supports it.
shinzo abe but not assassinated yet
I donāt know anything about Abe apart from him being a right-winger. Was he also very very worried about Japanās birthrate (just like Hackernews is)?
Without going into too much detail (because I am not well read on this and am likely to be wrong about a lot of it), one of the many issues that Abe addressed during his leadership was Japanās declining birthrate. Thereās a bit of a conspiracy amongst many people who consume Japanese popular culture (at a deep-ish level) that Abe pushed pronatalist themes in pop culture, as well as tropes like NEETs/hikikomori escaping their isolation from society and entering romantic relationships. This has become a huge meme, where any time a romantic development happens in a manga or anime, many people are quick to say things along the lines of āAbe would be proudā.
E: From the knowyourmeme page on Abe:
Japan has seen a declining birthrate and population in recent years, which has been blamed on young people in Japan being uninterested in having sex. However, due to sexual content in many anime, including shows like Darling in the Franxx whose plots seem to encourage procreation, people have joked that Abe is using anime to encourage Japanese young people to have sex and start families. These are particularly popular on Tumblr. For example, Tumblr user justintaco posted a photoshopped image of Abe superimposed on a screenshot of Darling in the Franxx, gaining over 36,000 notes (shown below, left). User freyjaofthenorth made a similar post about the anime Conception, gaining over 2,900 notes (shown below, right). There is also a mock Tumblr for Shinzo Abe devoted to this joke.
Without going into too much detail (because I am not well read on this and am likely to be wrong about a lot of it), one of the many issues that Abe addressed during his leadership was Japanās declining birthrate.
Presumably, he didnāt address it by dealing with how Japanese work life makes starting a family damn-nigh impossible.
