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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 2024
  • It's so embarrassing to watch upper-middle class (at best!) rationalists get their panties in a twist over Luigi. At least the right wing talking heads are getting paid, these guys are just mad he did things instead of tweeting about things.

  • Does AI startup Extropic actually … do anything?
  • Not just physics, but the physics of the world. Which makes it sound as if AI and physics are fundamentally separate somehow.

    Is BasedBeef aware that AI is already fundamentally merged with physics on the basis that it already physically exists? Just because your six finger, no light in her neon eyes gen AI waifu is 2D doesn't mean that the bits that comprise her are exempt from the physics of the universe. Really, what could that quote possibly even mean?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st December 2024
  • Oh man that is so grim

    Kronvold, 38, was given an FKU test in 2014 before the birth of her second child, a boy, and again recently while pregnant with her third child. Speaking through an intermediary, she told the Guardian that on this last occasion she was told it was to see if she was “civilised enough”.

  • The article in which Scott compares John Henry's mining capacity to the Machine's
  • Art's value is determined by two measurable factors: prettiness at a glance, and ungarbled signage, artist motivations be damned. With this in mind we can predict other advancements in entertainment (all art is entertainment!)

    For example, future pro boxing matches will be performed by rock'em sock'em robots in skin suits. They can score more points than humans. Soccer will be performed by restaurant server robots...in skin suits. Humans will still have a place in Olympic skiing and swimming so long as human pleather warps in water.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th November 2024
  • The worst part about Trump being president is Trump being president for a year. The second worst part is Vance being president for the next three (after Trump dies of heart failure). The third worst part is the fact that I've been owned in a way I can't even explain to my closest friends.

  • Whoops! Google's reached a new level of JAQing off and decided to answer the questions instead of just leading to them
  • so the short answer is the model most likely made the numbers up

    Right crime, wrong perp. The Google overview "correctly" sourced the IQ scores from one of Arthur Jensen's "studies" where he reports the IQ of every country in the world and fully makes up numbers for over a third of them

  • Whoops! Google's reached a new level of JAQing off and decided to answer the questions instead of just leading to them
    arstechnica.com Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity promote scientific racism in AI search results

    AI-powered search engines are surfacing deeply racist, debunked research.

    Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity promote scientific racism in AI search results

    > Hermansson logged in to Google and began looking up results for the IQs of different nations. When he typed in “Pakistan IQ,” rather than getting a typical list of links, Hermansson was presented with Google’s AI-powered Overviews tool, which, confusingly to him, was on by default. It gave him a definitive answer of 80.

    > When he typed in “Sierra Leone IQ,” Google’s AI tool was even more specific: 45.07. The result for “Kenya IQ” was equally exact: 75.2.

    Hmm, these numbers seem very low. I wonder how these scores were determined.

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    No, intelligence is not like height
    theinfinitesimal.substack.com No, intelligence is not like height

    ... and the reason is one of the most interesting findings from modern behavioral genetics

    No, intelligence is not like height

    It earned its "flagged off HN" badge in under 2 hours

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41366609

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    TP0 gets a mention in a frontpage Atlantic article - ‘Race Science’ Is Inching Its Way Across the American Right
    www.theatlantic.com ‘Race Science’ Is Inching Its Way Across the American Right

    The new attempt to shroud racism in a cloak of objectivity.

    ‘Race Science’ Is Inching Its Way Across the American Right

    Ali Breland has written some fantastic entry pieces on the new right, including right wing anons and maga tech; now he has an article about the nooticers

    > Other anonymous far-right accounts have accrued more than 100,000 followers by posting about the supposed links between race and intelligence. Elon Musk frequently responds to @cremieuxrecueil, which one far-right publication has praised as an account that “traces the genetic pathways of crime, explaining why poverty is not a good causal explanation.” Musk has also repeatedly engaged with @Eyeslasho, a self-proclaimed “data-driven” account that has posted about the genetic inferiority of Black people. Other tech elites such as Marc Andreessen, David Sacks, and Paul Graham follow one or both of these accounts. Whom someone follows in itself is not an indication of their own beliefs, but at the very least it signals the kind of influence and reach these race-science accounts now have.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20240820173451/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/08/race-science-far-right-charlie-kirk/679527/

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    TracingWoodgrains launches a defense of Manifest's controversial reputation, all without betraying a basic understanding of what the word "controversial" means.
    forum.effectivealtruism.org My experience at the controversial Manifest 2024 — EA Forum

    Comment by TracingWoodgrains - I'm not particularly happy to see people within this community immediately present and accept the framing that Manifest was controversial because people reacted harshly to an article explicitly aimed at smearing a community I belong to with reckless disregard for truth...

    ...And if it weren't for that one joke by Hannibal, Bill Cosby would be very uncontroversial.

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