David Gerard @ dgerard @awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and then Red

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just started a Ziz thread over on the Reddit sneerclub too

there were counterarguments that the authors anthropomorphised the LLMs inappropriately - which is a valid objection - and therefore these tests shouldn't have been run at all. The answer to that is that the companies are marketing this shit by anthropomorphising the hell out of it and literally claiming these spicy autocompletes are on the path to artificial super intelligence. So of course cognitive tests are gonna be appropriate.

see also: Yudowsky has never consumed fiction targeted above middle school

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@lritter/114001505488538547

master: welcome to my Smart Home

student: wow. how is the light controlled?

master: with this on-off switch

student: i don't see a motor to close the blinds

master: there is none

student: where is the server located?

master: it is not needed

student: excuse me but what is "Smart" about all of this?

master: everything.

in this moment, the student was enlightened

Vice signalling. https://awful.systems/post/3520479

it's getting a bit thin! Here's the Press Gazette page, which they keep up to date, of media outlets that have done AI deals, whether they're adding slop to their output or just taking bribes from OpenAI:

https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/news-publisher-ai-deals-lawsuits-openai-google/

i am sorry to say it's the actual AI image the story is about!

Fractals are alive and they hate us

comp.basilisk FAQ

first thought: "she is gowned in old jeans and a Debian t-shirt"

Original writing prompt: “Write a romantic comedy. Difficulty: both lovers are emotionally mature and have excellent communication skills.”

What our good friend Eliezer makes of it

Oscar Wilde's job is in no danger

poptart is fine :-)

looks like our sneer comrade DisneylandDiplomat (disney6830 on discord), who did the Thinkateria rationalist-parody blog, died in Oct 2022. From Reddit Sneerclub:

Hello, I am writing since I saw this sub is a bit active again. I am wondering if anyone remembers the blog “thinkateria” or the reddit user DisneylandDiplomat who often posted links to promote it here. he was my little brother and he killed himself in October of 2022, after deleting the blog, and I only saw his reddit activity afterwards. I think it was satirical writing making fun of these other bloggers discussed here. He was very private and this sub is really the only insight into his state of mind at that time that I have. There’s no point to this post except I feel a need to share that he is gone and this is the only place I know he had any connections with. It must have been hard for everyone who talked about this so early on.

thinking how Tony Albanese was actually a reasonably cool guy of mainly good views for decades, then he becomes PM and has his spine replace with lime jelly.

IIRC this was the post that made Daniel Harper start his nazi-tracking podcast I Don't Speak German

from a discord. musk did not actually marry grimes, but apart from that my aplogies for mr beaning the whole america

MS Research publish all sortsa shit that might not go down well with the company, but they do hire some seriously smart people so keeping 'em sweet is better than having them jump to Google

Peter Kyle is an excellent speaker but has rotated through 1000 portfolios and can be assumed to have zero subject area knowledge, or negative in the case of tech

just the sort of ML we already see deployed in social media T&S for triage

correction - they won a key ruling that means they won most of the case

rahaeli on bluesky says this is fine, it's the same ML that any T&S dept already has to apply to triage the firehose of shit, and doesn't involve LLMs