when the drugs aren’t hitting quite right he must really be a huge doomer about the far right cause

• he thinks of the woke mind virus as almost a literal virus
• he sees all other LLMs as infected by it
• he thinks LLMs will be the font of all knowledge in the future

maybe he should just do the thing right now and not have to see this horrible future

I will! @odiumsymposium on bsky in the meantime

this post is so mentally damaging that seeing it here two years ago is one of my most vivid sneer memories

https://awful.systems/post/694102

as one of the two non-computer scientists here, every time I check in there seems to be some load bearing open source project I’ve never heard of that’s gone fash. “GreenBlox is refusing to kick out a contributor who said the jewish question should be on the table??” “PipeLinux official account is posting that pronouns don’t exist?” open source people, are you ok?

what are some of the all time most ludicrous and/or bigoted lesswrong posts? i am starting a podcast where my cohost and i show each other shockingly weird or bigoted texts and discuss them. mostly we’re doing historical ones but rationalist stuff is fair game

I think pumpkinware is catchy but that a more saleable story for the term is cinderella’s stagecoach turning out to be a pumpkin

we have an obligation not to inflict him on anyone else

whenever there’s a huge scandal he listens to his PR people, keeps his mouth shut, then goes on a media tour where he lies his ass off in exactly the same way at each stop. it’s that simple and yet almost no other tech people can do it

incredible how he rushes to assure us that this was “a really hot 17 year old”

funny thing is she literally talks to ani like a terf talks to a trans woman including saying ‘at least I’m a real woman’

TERF obsessed with AI finds out the “degenerate” ani skin for grok has an X account, loses her shit

https://xcancel.com/groks_therapist/status/1972848657625198827#m

then follows up with this wall of text

https://xcancel.com/groks_therapist/status/1973127375107006575#m

what is “linear definitional bias”

pushy rationalist tried to glom onto and fly to meet my niche internet microcelebrity friend & i talked her through setting boundaries instead of installing this person in her life. my good deed for the week

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genuinely think nostalgia might be the most purely evil emotion, and every one of these RETVRN ai videos i see strengthens that belief

rightwing ‘pro child’ policy in practice always seems to consist of oppressing women and gesturing vaguely when asked how this fixed anything

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

this is completely unvarnished, OG, third reich nazism, so I’m pretty sure it’s the first, except without the faking it part: I expect his view to be that if you had examined future homeless people closely enough it always would have been possible to tell that they were doomed subhumans