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@ gerikson @awful.systems

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026

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  • Le Guin deserves credit for responding to her earlier work without denigrating it.

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  • comedy gold

  • New UK PM Andy Burnham puts AI Britain into the Cabinet

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  • Was probably too much to hope for that he'd make any sort of break with current neoliberal-pilled Labour.

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  • The Earthsea novels are not to be missed either. Maybe pass on the fifth.

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  • If the queer experience on the 90s island of Harris intrigues you, we're halfway through Douglas Stuart's John of John and really enjoy it. Narrator has a Scots accent though, if you find that hard to deal with.

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026

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  • even his AI-generated profile pic is punchable

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  • If you want to re-litigate the New Deal, rehabilitating Hoover is a good first step.

    The American far-right has the New Deal as its foundational Dolchstosslegende.

  • Terrorists are using AI — and the chatbot is killing them

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  • adding ”uplift” to the list of EA shibboleths

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th July 2026

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  • Sam Altman movie blocked by AI partner distributors

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  • being "banned by Amazon" is probably good for PR

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th July 2026

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  • Consider me well and truly milkshake-ducked now

    phew, the comments on the slobstack...

    https://benthams.substack.com/p/the-epstein-hysteria/comment/219672502

    edit I guess this is also an example of "Rationalist Brain" - reflexively contrarian, overly literal interpretations of wordings, the defense of one venerable old white man over multiple anonymous female victims, etc. You can have principled views on how Epstein was treated when he was alive and how his case has been handled after he died, but you can also choose the keep those views to yourself, or publish them on your substack for all to point and mock.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th July 2026

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  • Slave revolts were basically constant, and I think it would have been easy for contemporary British to blame the success of the Haitian revolt on the uselessness of the French, not that slavery was doomed because the slaves now had a "win".

    Brazil had horrific slave revolts and didn't abolish slavery until the late 1880s.

  • Mythos is just too powerful? OK, we’ll ban it then

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  • Amodei is the definition of "book smart" vs "street smart".

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th July 2026

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  • Thanks! Does every LLM vendor publish them, or is it an Anthropic thing only?

    And of course it's self-published by the vendor, so basically just PR.

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  • officially out of the loop here:

    What is an LLM "system card", does it have any sort of scientific/technical validity, or is it just performance theater by the LLM vendor?

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  • LWer: slavery was bad and abolishing the slave trade was a net good

    LW commenters: really?

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yDZcsojmRXo5qKNBm/surprising-facts-about-the-slave-trade

    (I can kind of understand that intellectual honesty can prompt people to question a narrative, and in some ways I respect it, but there comes a time when you need to ask yourself "am I being the best person I can be by defending slavery" and back away from the keyboard)

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    Why do many rationalists like cryptocurrency?

    www.lesswrong.com /posts/KAyttPTh7bnfPoxsb/why-do-many-rationalists-like-cryptocurrency
  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
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    Advent of Code 2024 - the home stretch - it's been an aMAZEing year

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    Advent of Code Week 3 - you're lost in a maze of twisty mazes, all alike

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    Advent of Code 2024 Week 2: this time it's all grids, all the time

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 1 September 2024

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    Person who exercises her free association rights at conferences incites ire in Jameson Lopp

    protos.com /bitfinex-hacker-razzlekhan-was-job-hunting-at-bitcoin-2024/
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    Butters do a 180 regarding statism as Daddy Trump promises to use filthy Fed FIAT to buy and hodl BTC

    www.marketwatch.com /story/trump-vows-to-build-bitcoin-reserve-crypto-community-is-cheering-b9751f76
  • Buttcoin @awful.systems
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    Martin Shkreli claims to have been behind a Donald Trump memecoin

    www.web3isgoinggreat.com
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    In an attempt to secure the libertarian vote, Trump promises to pardon Dread Pirate Roberts (while calling for the death penalty for other drug dealers)

    www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com /2024/05/ross-ulbricht
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher

    www.404media.co /bards-and-sages-closing-ai-generated-writing/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Turns out that the basic mistakes spider runners fixed in the late 90s are arcane forgotten knowledge to our current "AI" overlords

    mailman.nanog.org /pipermail/nanog/2024-April/225407.html
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    AI grifters con the US gov that AGI poses "existential risk"

    time.com /6898967/ai-extinction-national-security-risks-report/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    "The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I." - hackernews discussion

    news.ycombinator.com /item
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    Elon Musk’s legal case against OpenAI is hilariously bad

    www.theverge.com /2024/3/1/24087937/elon-musk-suing-openai-nightmare-1l-contracts-exam
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    Some interesting tidbits in this ElReg story about "AI Dean Phillips"

    www.theregister.com /2024/01/22/openai_presidential_candidate_bot/
  • bless this jank @awful.systems
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    SOLVED

    cannot login using mobile Firefox

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    Looking for: random raytracing program

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    The official awful.systems Advent of Code 2023 thread

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    Any interest in an Advent of Code thread?

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    ScottA is annoyed EA has a bad name now

    www.astralcodexten.com /p/in-continued-defense-of-effective