Starting August 13th, YouTube will detect underage users in the US based on their activity and the age of their account, allowing the platform to automatically apply restrictions.
Welp, I guess I have two weeks to download all the YouTube videos I will ever want to watch again.
(pauses, thinks)
The once-lost Evangelion AIDS PSA it is, then
All the cited URLS in the footnotes end with “utm_source=chatgpt.com”.
I just do not understand these people. There is something dead inside them, something necrotic.
DO NOT, MY FRIENDS, BECOME ADDICTED TO TOKENS
So, the chatter over on Reddit sneerclub is that the author is a transphobic sex pest
https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/1maslci/sam_krissagainst_truth_also_against_rationalism/
I only know about the latter
People wanting to do physics without any math, or with only math half-remembered from high school, has been a whole thing for ages. See item 15 on the Crackpot Index, for example. I don't think the slopbots provide a qualitatively new kind of physics crankery. I think they supercharge what already existed. Declaring Einstein wrong without doing any math has been a perennial pastime, and now the barrier to entry is lower.
When Devereaux writes,
without an esoteric language in which a field must operate, the plain language works to conceal that and encourages the bystander to hold the field in contempt [...] But because there's no giant 'history formula,' no tables of strange symbols (well, amusingly, there are but you don't work with them until you are much deeper in the field), folks assume that history is easy, does not require special skills and so contemptible.
I think he misses an angle. Yes, physics is armored with jargon and equations and tables of symbols. But for a certain audience, these themselves provoke contempt. They prefer an "explanation" which uses none of that. They see equations as fancy, highfalutin, somehow morally degenerate.
That long review of HMPoR identified a Type of Guy who would later be very into slopbot physics:
I used to teach undergraduates, and I would often have some enterprising college freshman (who coincidentally was not doing well in basic mechanics) approach me to talk about why string theory was wrong. It always felt like talking to a physics madlibs book. This chapter let me relive those awkward moments.
River crossing puzzles are a genre of logic problems that go back to the olden days. AI slop bots can act like they can solve them, because many solutions appear in their training data. But push the bot a little harder, and funny things happen.
Nobody wants to join a cult founded on the Daria/Hellraiser crossover I wrote while emotionally processing chronic pain. I feel very mid-status.
I found this because Greg Egan shared it elsewhere on fedi:
I am now being required by my day job to use an AI assistant to write code. I have also been informed that my usage of AI assistants will be monitored and decisions about my career will be based on those metrics.
There's an "I am no man" joke in here somewhere that I am too tired to figure out.
Hey, I haven't seen this going around yet, but itchio is also taking books down with no erotic content that are just labeled as lgbtqia+
So that's super cool and totally not what I thought they were going to do next 🙃
https://bsky.app/profile/marsadler.bsky.social/post/3luov7rkles2u
And a relevant petition from the ACLU:
https://action.aclu.org/petition/mastercard-sex-work-work-end-your-unjust-policy
Oh no, lemon juice and salt water are no longer sufficient to clean your Cybertruck? Try Drano!