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Sam Bankman-Fried funded a group with racist ties ( archive.ph )
It's the Guardian, but it's still a good read. All of Sneerclub's favorite people were involved....
Yud let's us know that we just don't get it :( ( xcancel.com )
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 16 June 2024
Need to make a primal scream without gathering footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!...
New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC ( arstechnica.com )
somehow I managed to miss this until now...
we're not Nazis btw ( awful.systems )
18+ here's a great and useful rundown of Scott Alexander Siskind's actual awful beliefs, from a centrist who found it difficult to accept until that email leaked ( miniver.blogspot.com )
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 19 May 2024
Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!...
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 12 May 2024
Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!...
"Going Infinite": Michael Lewis Takes On Sam Bankman-Fried - If Books Could Kill ( www.buzzsprout.com )
As is tradition I am sharing this link without having listened yet.
Generating (often non-con) porn is the new crypto mining ( www.pcgamer.com )
An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards...
oh no, the organisation founded by a Swedish EA with a racism scandal is defunct! No, not that one, the other one ( www.futureofhumanityinstitute.org )
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 21 April 2024
Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!...
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 14 April 2024
Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!...
Bubble Trouble ( www.wheresyoured.at )
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 7 April 2024
Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!...
SBF's effective altruism and rationalism considered an aggravating circumstance in sentencing ( www.citationneeded.news )
For thursday's sentencing the us government indicated they would be happy with a 40-50 prison sentence, and in the list of reasons they cite there's this gem:...
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 31 March 2024
Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!...
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 24 March 2024
Feel like you want to sneer about something but you don't quite have a snappy post in you? Go forth and be mid!...
A tale of well-designed systems ( boehs.org )
Not entirely the usual fare, but i figured some here would appreciate it...
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 17 March 2024
As suggested at this thread to general "yeah sounds cool". Let's see if this goes anywhere....
OK doomer ( www.newyorker.com )
The New Yorker has a piece on the Bay Area AI doomer and e/acc scenes....
Rationalist org bets random substack poster $100K that he can't disprove their covid lab leak hypothesis, you'll never guess what happens next
rootclaim appears to be yet another group of people who, having stumbled upon the idea of the Bayes rule as a good enough alternative to critical thinking, decided to try their luck in becoming a Serious and Important Arbiter of Truth in a Post-Mainstream-Journalism World....
Turns out Altman is a lab-leak covid truther, calls virus 'synthetic' according to Spectator piece on AI risk. ( archive.is )
Sam Altman, the recently fired (and rehired) chief executive of Open AI, was asked earlier this year by his fellow tech billionaire Patrick Collison what he thought of the risks of synthetic biology. ‘I would like to not have another synthetic pathogen cause a global pandemic. I think we can all agree that wasn’t a great...