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TinyTimmyTokyo

@ TinyTimmyTokyo @awful.systems

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  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems

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  • I'd be lying if I said the randomly generated narrative the LLM is stringing together isn't hilarious.

    "I panicked and ran database commands without permission."

    "I destroyed all production data."

    "You immediately said 'No', ''Stop', 'You didn't even ask.'"

    "But it was already too late."

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Daniel Koko's trying to figure out how to stop the AGI apocalypse.

    How might this work? Install TTRPG afficionados at the chip fabs and tell them to roll a saving throw.

    Similarly, at the chip production facilities, a committee of representatives stands at the end of the production line basically and rolls a ten-sided die for each chip; chips that don't roll a 1 are destroyed on the spot.

    And if that doesn't work? Koko ultimately ends up pretty much where Big Yud did: bombing the fuck out of the fabs and the data centers.

    "For example, if a country turns out to have a hidden datacenter somewhere, the datacenter gets hit by ballistic missiles and the country gets heavy sanctions and demands to allow inspectors to pore over other suspicious locations, which if refused will lead to more missile strikes."

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems

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  • It's not that weird when you understand the sharks he swims with. Race pseudoscientists routinely peddle the idea that Ashkenazi Jews have higher IQs than any other ethnic or racial group. Scoot Alexander and Big Yud have made this claim numerous times. Lasker pretending to be a Jew makes more sense once you realize this.

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Oof, that Hollywood guest (Brian Koppelman) is a dunderhead. "These AI layoffs actually make sense because of complexity theory". "You gotta take Eliezer Yudkowsky seriously. He predicted everything perfectly."

    I looked up his background, and it turns out he's the guy behind the TV show "Billions". That immediately made him make sense to me. The show attempts to lionize billionaires and is ultimately undermined not just by its offensive premise but by the world's most block-headed and cringe-inducing dialog.

    Terrible choice of guest, Ed.

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Sex pest billionaire Travis Kalanick says AI is great for more than just vibe coding. It's also great for vibe physics.

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems

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  • When you look at METR's web site and review the credentials of its staff, you find that almost none of them has any sort of academic research background. No doctorates as far as I can tell, and lots of rationalist junk affiliations.

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems

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  • I like his new framing of the accelerationists and transhumanists as pro-extinctionists.

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025

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  • HN commenters are slobbering all over the new Grok. Virtually every commenter bringing up Grok's recent full-tilt Nazism gets flagged into oblivion.

  • Cursor tries setting less money on fire — AI vibe coders outraged

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  • Not gonna lie, it's fun reading those reddit posts from vibe coders, squealing like stuck pigs because their heavily subsidized code extruder stopped working.

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025

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  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025

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  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025

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  • What I don't understand is how these people didn't think they would be caught, with potentially career-ending consequences? What is the series of steps that leads someone to do this, and how stupid do you need to be?

  • Venture capital is lending money against video cards

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  • What makes this worse than the financial crisis of 2008 is that you can't live in a GPU once the crash happens.

  • $219 Springer Nature AI textbook was written with a chatbot

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  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025

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  • I call bullshit on Daniel K. That backtracking is so obviously ex-post-facto cover-your-ass woopsie-doopsie. Expect more of it as we get closer to whatever new "median" he has suddenly claimed. It's going to be fun to watch.

  • ‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work

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  • I have no doubt that a chatbot would be just as effective at doing Liuson's job, if not moreso. Not because chatbots are good, but because Liuson is so bad at her job.

  • People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"

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  • People are often overly confident about their imperviousness to mental illness. In fact I think that --given the right cues -- we're all more vulnerable to mental illness than we'd like to think.

    Baldur Bjarnason wrote about this recently. He talked about how chatbots are incentivizing and encouraging a sort of "self-experimentation" that exposes us to psychological risks we aren't even aware of. Risks that no amount of willpower or intelligence will help you avoid. In fact, the more intelligent you are, the more likely you may be to fall into the traps laid in front of you, because your intelligence helps you rationalize your experiences.