This was a enjoyable read. Talking about internet dipshits can quickly turn boring, but you frequently took a moment to analyse his place within the wider sphere of productivity-obsessed people. Your selection of quotes from others is quite nice too.

To have a tool that can take away the fear of the empty page at the click of a button?

"fear of the empty page" is a bit oddly named. It's not that the page is empty that makes you unable to write, it's that you don't have any more open ends within your text to expand upon. And that can happen when you're on 0 words but it can also happen when you're halfway through, it's easier to start writing again in that case though. Having an AI vomit 1000 words at you definitely doesn't help, first you have to go through the chore of reading AI, then you realize that the style of the generator doesn't permit you to have any further thoughts about the topic.

A lemmy-specific coiner today: https://awful.systems/post/2417754

The dilema of charging the users and a solution by integrating blockchain to fediverse

First, there will be a blockchain. There will be these cryptocurrencies:

This guy is speaking like he is in Genesis 1

I guess it would be better that only the instances can own instance-specific coins.

You guess alright? You mean that you have no idea what you're saying.

if a user on lemmy.ee want to post on lemmy.world, then lemmy.ee have to pay 10 lemmy.world coin to lemmy.world

What will this solve? If 2 people respond to each other's comments, the instance with the most valuable coin will win. What does that have to do with who caused the interaction?

From the second reddit post

But when I say that being told that everything I’d set up didn’t count, that broke me. I had worked so hard, literally from the fucking hospital, to be told that it didn’t count. That the thing that I had set up as an accommodation for disabled or immunocompromised didn’t count

The current Executive Director is the board member that works under a pen name and an AI picture. ... had signed tax documents under said pen name.

Moderator Y starts parroting on the forums that they have it on "good authority" that Letitia (who is Black) is a diversity hire

All very ironic

The paper is so bad...

the agent's policy π ... the environment ε

What is up with AI papers using fancy symbols to notate abstract concepts when there isn't a single other instance of the concept to be referred to

They offer a bunch of tables with numbers in a metric that isn't explained, showing that they are exactly the same for "random" and "agent" policy, in other words, inputs don't actually matter! And they say they want to use these metrics for training future versions. Good luck.

For the sample size they are using 60% seems like a statistically significant rate, and they only tested at most 3 seconds after real gameplay footage.

Sidenote: Auto-regressive models for much shorter periods are really useful for when audio is cutting out. Those use really simple math, they aren't burning any rainforests

I'm willing to retract my statement that these guys don't have any ulterior motives.

Even if it was waste, the sellers would notice and start charging for it. Libertarians have a fucked up definition of what 'waste' also with bitcoin mining.

HOW does he seriously use the phrase 'acausal blackmail'. I assumed the majority of word combinations for 'acausal' + noun were just jokes from people on here but apparently not.

That review that he links to is not even very fond of Yudkowsky. They say they have a sort of "yes, and" response to Sandifer's book but TW probably interpreted it as "yes, but" and slurped it up to have some sort of criticism to the book. Makes me wonder how many posts that elaborate a bit on their opinions he even read. Or maybe he got confused whose book was being talked about.

I spoke with Anissimov

When I asked Yiannopolous and Bokhari for comment

Very good job on contacting the most neutral and dispassionate sources as well as both sides.

The Hill, Reason, Quillette, Vox co-founder Matthew Yglesias, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, journalist Cathy Young [links bolded]

Very careful use of links there, can't be linking anything with an edit by Gerard.

Wugapodes’ righteous fury

The large wikipedia screenshot is extremely unhinged, in a sea of what I presume are votes saying "Oppose. He cited NYT for this claim and an opinion is not a conflict of interest"

Aaaand, there it is.

I remember I used to watch this guy's videos, and the icon for the image viewer in serenity was pepe the frog. And he also admitted to browsing 4chan. And he changed his twitter link to x.com before even twitter changed it. Also it was kinda weird that he had some private discord channels whose contents he was very secretive of. Now that he's making a nonprofit with github's former CEO, there is absolutely zero barriers to the exact same bullshit from all the companies he complains about.

I love how you can see people rushing in to buy the prediction right after the correction happened and before the author called it. This system is very secure totally.

Most of the reports are unfounded in these apps. The EFF wrote about them: https://sls.eff.org/technologies/community-surveillance-apps