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arbitraryidentifier@awful.systemsto
SneerClub@awful.systems•At the forefront of AI thought thought leadership leadership: the Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment CentersEnglish
6·5 months agoyeah i wasn’t sure until i saw that
arbitraryidentifier@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish
1·5 months agoWas it the “Hyperreal Simulacrum” from the joe rogan takedown videos you linked in last weeks stubsack?
arbitraryidentifier@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Excel COPILOT: make up spreadsheet numbers with AI!English
2·5 months agoi like how the “summary” just crammed everything together in one big sentence.
arbitraryidentifier@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th August 2025English
9·5 months agoSaw this in an anthropic presentation:

arbitraryidentifier@awful.systemsto
SneerClub@awful.systems•Sarah Lyons on AI doom crankeryEnglish
4·6 months agoI heard if you learn the AI God’s true name and say it in front of a mirror three times you’ll be spared from the Torment Nexus!
arbitraryidentifier@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•DEFRA says: delete your emails to … save water?!English
8·6 months agoMissed opportunity for “It’s a cruel, cruel summer.”
arbitraryidentifier@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Wear Meta’s AI creepshot glasses — or be left behind!English
7·6 months agoThis is all about the surveillance state isn’t it?
arbitraryidentifier@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025English
1·6 months agoVery similar situation to mine, but i went into electronics engineering instead of CS because i didn’t think i would like to write software for a living. I now write software for a living, go figure.
Also agreed on the “doing it” thing. I hear people around the office talk about letting AI write things for them and i’m like no, i want to write it myself. i like doing things.
arbitraryidentifier@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish
2·6 months agough, why would i want a summary of a pull request? the whole point of reviewing a pull request is checking the details to make sure it’s not missing something important or doing something wrong.
arbitraryidentifier@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025English
1·7 months agolate, but reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB1X4o-MV6o
arbitraryidentifier@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Google Veo 3 fails, week 3 — fail harder with a vengeance (video)English
6·7 months agoIgnoring the lack of direction following, everything looks so plastic. Probably video game cutscene training showing through.
arbitraryidentifier@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Microsoft lays off the staff who make the money to fund AI that doesn’tEnglish
3·7 months agoFrom the perspective of the company I work for (not a tech company, but has a pretty large development center) they truly believe that AI will 10x productivity. Not so much the FOOM stuff. Just typical Capitalism.
arbitraryidentifier@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•The rise of WhateverEnglish
6·7 months agoThey would like to describe what they want and receive Whatever — some beige sludge that vaguely resembles it. That isn’t programming, though. That’s management, a fairly different job. I’m not interested in managing. I’m certainly not interested in managing this bizarre polite lying daydream machine.
This is where I am right now. They are pushing AI hard at work, even shaming people that haven’t signed up for copilot. They brought in some MS rep to tell us how the future of work was going to be wrangling AI agents. This is not the future that I want.
arbitraryidentifier@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•$219 Springer Nature AI textbook was written with a chatbotEnglish
8·7 months agoI’m reminded of that Folding Ideas video where he writes a book for some get rich quick book mill scheme. I bet that stuff is all AI now.
arbitraryidentifier@awful.systemsto
SneerClub@awful.systems•Wake up babe, new "in this moment I am enlightened" copypasta just droppedEnglish
5·8 months agoIt’s this. He doesn’t care about the details, he just wants the trivia. He’s not interested in understanding anything, he just wants the power point version of reality. Cliff’s notes for reading assignments in school.
arbitraryidentifier@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Theranos: First Blood Part IIEnglish
1·9 months agoyeah it’s going to be the same scam only this time without those pesky regulators checking to see if it actually works and spooking the investors
arbitraryidentifier@awful.systemsto
SneerClub@awful.systems•Sneerquence classics: Eliezer on GOFAI (half serious half sneering effort post)English
9·9 months agoit’s interesting that Yud doesn’t realize that Cyc is basically what he thought Lenat should have done with Eurisko
arbitraryidentifier@awful.systemsto
SneerClub@awful.systems•Scoots hot new AGI goss just dropped, Trump loses 3rd election to Grok in stunning upsetEnglish
2·10 months ago~100 snake oil salesmen agree that this here elixir will cure all your ills!

the proof of the art is in the tasting