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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

the talking point about disparaging terms for AI users by choice "I came up with a racist-sounding term for AI users, so if you say 'clanker' you must be a racist" is so fucking stupid it's gotta be some sort of op

(esp when the made-up racist-sounding term turns out to have originated with Warren fucking Ellis)

i am extremely disappointed that awful systems users have fallen for it for a moment

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is my stance on ... fascism

both-sidesing Nazis, you're not smart enough for this ride.

programming.dev, eh

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 2 days ago

not defining a person by the community they relate to

u wot m8? they're hanging out with active racists recruiting people to racism and their response is to stop taking those guys to parties? you fuckin bet i'm gonna judge them by relating to that community

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 23 points 2 days ago (35 children)

source: a reblog of the original

first time i spoke to a rationalist about the AI doom thing in 2010, he tried to sell me on scientific racism

yudkowsky was making posts literally of race scientist talking points in 2007

 

invertebrateinvert

amazing how much shittier it is to be in the rat community now that the racists won. before at least they were kinda coy about it and pretended to still have remotely good values instead of it all being yarvinslop.

invertebrateinvert

it would be nice to be able to ever invite rat friends to anything but half the time when I've done this in the last year they try selling people they just met on scientific racism!

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 3 days ago

the historical record shows Thiel has literally always been like this

tried reading his '90s book once, managed a few pages

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago

I have no hope. The guy who introduced me to LessWrong included what I later realised was a race science pitch. Yudkowsky was pushing this shit in 2007. This sucker just realised a coupla decades late.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

nah. Sam's a monorail salesman who knows how to say the AI doomer buzzwords.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

Is there any detail on any of this, beyond an announcement?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

look, that sounds like a "this afternoon" problem

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

enterprise code is already shit and vibe coding has made it worse, if they train on this the model collapse should be glorious

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