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You can’t feed generative AI on ‘bad’ data then filter it for only ‘good’ data in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Yes, I know, I wrote it. Why do you consider this useful to post here?

You can’t feed generative AI on ‘bad’ data then filter it for only ‘good’ data in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago (6 children)

why did you post literally just the text from the article

eating our own dogshit in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago

yeah, I think that's enough

UK AI unicorn Builder.ai is dead — the downfall of “AGI”: A Guy Instead in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago

i love awful systems so much

UK AI unicorn Builder.ai is dead — the downfall of “AGI”: A Guy Instead in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

The Register said in its Builder.AI obit that the company is really into making its devs use AI coding. lol.

GitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slop in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 29 points 3 months ago (8 children)

quite amazing that (a) Microsoft basically bought open source with GitHub (b) and are now trying to fuck it up so hard people leave

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

new Ziz story, coupla days ago https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/ziz-rationalism-lasota-pasek-20323332.php

also featuring our old friend Zack Davis

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

a shitload i expect. but checking authorities actually exist is probably gonna become an obvious thing to do lol

Does AI make researchers more productive? What? Why would it? Apparently you can just say that and almost get published! in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago

I mean this post seems largely correct and reasonable, but ehh be a little cautious

Latest AI-hallucinated legal filing, from AI vendor Anthropic in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

word i hear is that too many lawyers fucking love this shit, they see plausible words and think that's sufficient to ~~replace~~ supplement the office peons

then this happens to them and lol

Does AI make researchers more productive? What? Why would it? Apparently you can just say that and almost get published! in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If you're after streams-crossing - this guy is a rationalist who does Manifold Markets

Trump announces vaporware AI data centres in the United Arab Emirates in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

finally we have constructed a completely unsexy robot

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a16z raising fresh $20b to keep the AI bubble pumping (pivot-to-ai.com)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7a1-6MU3QA - video

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Single Pilot Operations — let’s replace airline copilots with AI! (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDqA6KDvKgs - video

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Your humanoid robot servant: a new hope for AGI! (A Guy Instead) (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u8VpVEBWEY - video

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Confirmed: Microsoft stops new data centres worldwide (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdbyF7uN2sM - video

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How Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI in 2023: not being an AI doom crank (and lying a lot) (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlrBjeAtJUk - video

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Capgemini: Fix your customer service — with chatbots! (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

As spotted by @mountainriver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXc9-oD_iFo - video

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China massively overbuilds empty AI data centres (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH39J3rUAmE - video

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How to explain our very good friends to normal humans? (awful.systems)
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Thinking about how the arsing fuck to explain the rationalists to normal people - especially as they are now a loud public problem along multiple dimensions.

The problem is that it's all deep in the weeds. Every part of it is "it can't be that stupid, you must be explaining it wrong."

With bitcoin, I have, over the years, simplified it to being a story of crooks and con men. The correct answer to "what is a blockchain and how does it work" is "it's a way to move money around out of the sight of regulators" and maybe "so it's for crooks and con men, and a small number of sincere libertarians" and don't even talk about cryptography or technology.

I dunno what the one sentence explanation is of this shit.

"The purpose of LessWrong rationality is for Yudkowsky to live forever as an emulation running on the mind of the AI God" is completely true, is the purpose of the whole thing, and is also WTF.

Maybe that and "so he started what turned into a cult and a series of cults"? At this point I'm piling up the absurdities again.

The Behind The Bastards approach to all these guys has been "wow these guys are all so wacky haha and also they're evil."

How would you first approach explaining this shit past "it can't be that stupid, you must be explaining it wrong"?

[also posted in sneer classic]

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Bonfire of the LLMs: Gartner forecasts ‘extinction’ for generative AI vendors (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7DZZuCi95o - video

my delivery was near perfect on this video, i'm very pleased

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LessOnline is a festival celebrating truthseeking and blogging, the totally not race science is just a bonus (less.online)
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yeah i'm sure Matt Levine, qntm and Wildbow are gonna be champing at the bit to attend wordy racist fest

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OpenAI signs its $40 billion deal with SoftBank! Or maybe $30 billion, probably (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aP1zUUcmjk - video

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EAs sad that their previous rich grifters are trying to distance themselves from the movement (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
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