Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youā€™ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

Last weekā€™s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

  • Soyweiser@awful.systems
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    I think I see a possible future here. Just as the promptfondlers are now trying to talk down human accomplishments to make the LLMs sound more impressive (ā€˜it learns just like a child!ā€™ (no, it doesnā€™t)). As when you are trying to reach a deal on a car, you either need the buyer to raise the price, or the seller to lower theirs. This will lead to a lawsuit where they are going to drop down the theoretical capabilities of an AGI just to trigger this clause.

    And as the judge thinks that emojiā€™s are a form of novelty pasta, any potential jury canā€™t spell stattistical, there is a 50% chance that they will be convinced it is AGI because humans like the AGI also make mistakes.

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      Still unclear how OpenAI declaring theyā€™ve created an AGI (and getting this adjudicated as ā€œtrueā€) and thus being released from their MSFT partnership helps OpenAI. Theyā€™re just lost all their compute, and will have a worse negotiating position from which to get more compute. Whatā€™s the upside?

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        They can sell out to someone else instead? Amazon seems to want to be an AI company, for example, and their current offering isnā€™t great even by the relaxed standards of LLMs.