[-] self@awful.systems 19 points 3 months ago

“endless drug-fueled prose about drugs” is an entire, unfortunate subgenre of Rationalist authorship. it takes them a surprisingly long time (usually a couple years or so) to spiral out and stop posting, but the posts usually get even less coherent as they approach burnout

[-] self@awful.systems 19 points 5 months ago

We know what’s happening here. It’s not a mystery. This weird antropomorphization is prevalent on both advocates and critics of the tech. Both seem to be convinced that they’re dealing with a person.

It’s genuinely fascinating and mind blowing that coherent language emerges from it, and there are probably profound things about exactly when and how.

uh huh

seeing as your entire post history is this same flavor of bad faith bullshit, I don’t think we need any more of it here

[-] self@awful.systems 18 points 5 months ago

nah we just don’t understand sneerclub. what we need is some random jackass whose post history is 2000 of the laziest posts I’ve ever fucking seen to come here and read the name of the community at us

and for those playing the awful.systems drinking game, that’s a shot

[-] self@awful.systems 19 points 6 months ago

is this… are these motherfuckers roleplaying a dril tweet

[-] self@awful.systems 18 points 6 months ago

ok so this is driving me crazy

am I weird for thinking the circle of candles in the fireplace (in a house that’s allegedly unbearably cold) is weird?

[-] self@awful.systems 18 points 8 months ago

at this point, multiple people involved in crypto have been famously caught with a crimes.txt file on their unencrypted desktop, in signal chats named some shit like financial crimes and real gamers clubhouse where they talk about the crimes and Fortnite they’re doing, or with toilet phones protected by ziplock bags with crime burner phone (with evidence of my crimes) written on the bag with a sharpie

[-] self@awful.systems 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

yours has a fuckton of right-wing dogwhistles including this fucking gem about brave:

look, I’m not defending bigotry….

But an aggressive homophobe seems like the type to be highly motivated to care deeply about working privacy tools these days

So who exactly do you trust?

also a ton of moronic AI takes, though the bigotry was more than bannable enough. so off you fuck

[-] self@awful.systems 18 points 8 months ago

is this post an extended retelling of the “I’m doing 1000 calculations per second and they’re all wrong” meme?

[-] self@awful.systems 19 points 10 months ago

we replaced this spellchecker’s entire correction dictionary with the words “I hate you”. you’ll never guess what happened next!

[-] self@awful.systems 19 points 1 year ago

Jezos has defined effective accelerationism as “a memetic optimism virus,” “a meta-religion,” “a hypercognitive biohack,” “a form of spirituality,” and “not a cult.”

“It’s like it was meta-ironic and then became post-ironic.”

Jezos described the company as an “AI Manhattan Project” and once quipped, “If you knew what I was building, you’d try to ban it.”

“Our goal is really to increase the scope and scale of civilization as measured in terms of its energy production and consumption,” he said. Of the Jezos persona, he said: “If you're going to create an ideology in the time of social media, you’ve got to engineer it to be viral.”

Guillaume “BasedBeffJezos” Verdon appears, by all accounts, to be an utterly insufferable shithead with no redeeming qualities

[-] self@awful.systems 20 points 1 year ago

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced early on Monday morning that Microsoft would be starting its own AI unit — with Sam at the helm. Microsoft would also hire Greg Brockman, the former OpenAI president who was also booted from the board and quit his job in solidarity with Sam.

yall remember all those fucking weirdos who appeared around when windows 10 released and couldn’t stop talking about how Microsoft isn’t evil anymore, it’s a different company now that they contribute code to linux and own GitHub? I wonder if any of those fuckers are even aware that this is Microsoft trying to own the entire open source theft and consent violation machine outright.

At OpenAI’s 2022 holiday party, held at the California Academy of Sciences, Sutskever led employees in a chant: “Feel the AGI! Feel the AGI!” The phrase itself was popular enough that OpenAI employees created a special “Feel the AGI” reaction emoji in Slack.

fucking cringe. my disappointment is only magnified by the fact that Sutskever seems to have gone back to bootlicking for Sam in record time. I want to see the worst people I know viciously fight until everything they’ve built is gone, for fuck’s sake

[-] self@awful.systems 19 points 1 year ago

I shouldn’t have to say this, but reporting an instance admin’s post for a joke you didn’t understand is incredibly bannable

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