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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 28 July 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] hrrrngh@awful.systems 22 points 4 months ago (7 children)

I think some people are from hell

Here is the worst thing I didn't have to read today from a transhumanist:

Yes but laws are often outpaced, presumably having your dog walk in and say he liked it is a pretty good reason to have your bestiality charge thrown out and perhaps move on to the discrimination countersuit.

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Also this may have historic reasons, as the first futa was drawn centuries ago, long before the technology that enabled transgenderism, with breasts being the key difference.

Bonus round:

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What percentage of homeless people do you think would be worthwhile having as slaves? Many of them are broken people who can't reasonably support themselves in their current state, nor do anything to fix it.

This is vaguely similar to my idea for how to fix homelessness, build a community for them on a large scale, either state or national, where property is cheap and low skill jobs are abundant. Then you build a prison there, and everyone guilty of a 'crime of homelessness' such as trespassing, illegal camping, stealing food, etc. Then they get put in jail for a few days, probably put through some level of rehab, given basic medical care, and eventually a job for the massive debt they've just wracked up. What work it would be is the hard question, but the benefits to everyone else would pay for them to dig holes to fill back in if needed. Maybe have them sort recycling or something.

That tracing woodgrains peice on David Gerard is out in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[–] hrrrngh@awful.systems 19 points 4 months ago

I've seen people say that /uj is essential to keeping communities healthy. If you only allow 'reasonable discussion', you allow all kinds of awful people in as long as they're not too obvious, while regular people get reprimanded for responding to it. But if you only allow shitposting and no genuine discussion, it's going to become genuine whether you want it to or not (see: Gamers Rise Up or similar)

On here, you can see people write earnestly on a bunch of different topics, but you can also see them just tell a promptfan "you can't get it up unless the fingers are wrong, can you" and ban them. It's great

Actual comedians try to use LLM in a writing room. Result: “cruise ship comedy material from the 1950s, but a bit less racist” in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] hrrrngh@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, I've gotten more laughs out of messing with markov chains with my friends than anything ChatGPT could put out

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 14 July 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] hrrrngh@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago

This released today: https://www.ic3.gov/Media/News/2024/240709.pdf

Cool (horrifying) look into one of the active Russian bot farms and their use of generative AI

Jason Rohrer’s Project December: AI seances at $10 a pop in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] hrrrngh@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I suddenly feel a lot less bad about him having his game copied and re-sold because he released it under public domain. Maybe the 'left' in copyleft scared him

Hateful and stupid 🤝

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 30 June 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] hrrrngh@awful.systems 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I hate that I saw that same post earlier today

Here's a quote from the book:

AI already transcends human perception — in a sense, through chronological compression or “time travel”: enabled by algorithms and computing power, it analyzes and learns through processes that would take human minds decades or even centuries to complete.

Glad to know the calculators I had in school were capable of time travel

IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[–] hrrrngh@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

I don't even want to watch that video because I know I'm going to get annoyed by it. Veritasium's video on self-driving cars was so awful, it was enough for me to just sort them into the Sketchy Pop-Sci YouTube Channels bucket for good. I've heard that their videos on electricity and that one physics bet were also pretty shaky.