Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025
Aella popped up on doomscroll - https://youtu.be/r7WL6kaTJnw
E: oh man the comments are great
E2:
1:08:02 There's a lot of discussions among the rationalist community about the uneven distribution of IQ and its correlation with race. Why is this a topic that people fixate on if they're also convinced that this ultra intelligence an AGI that's like smarter than every human on the planet why are these marginal differences so important to people?
Sure, done.
The common ideological kernel of all of this behaviour is a deeply embedded trope in anglosphere societies: a contempt for materiality, or the idea that the material world that we eat, sleep, drink, fuck and die in is somehow beneath the notice or the care of sufficiently important people.
Another response to Ptacek.
Another response to Ptacek. "Vibe coding as contempt for materiality" part is particularly good.
AI powered lie detectors spotted in the wild - https://pimagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/100.png => https://eyecanknow.com/
Brought to you by researchers at the University of Utah. smh.
Nihilism on the part of Alphabet's CEO explains Google's willingness to risk its search business and the open web itself to chase OpenAI.
“You can’t be a serious critic,” New York Times technology reporter Kevin Roose wrote on Tuesday, on Bluesky, about artificial intelligence, “if you’re in denial about how useful it is.” Narrowly, in strict terms, this is true: You can’t be a serious critic of anything if you are in denial about any...
Manifest, the conference for the prediction market website Manifold, got in hot water for inviting racists and eugenicists in previous years. Not much has changed in 2025.
Confronting the Crises of AI Through Research | UCLA
I found this seminar for spring quarter, does anyone have some suggested / related readings? Especially deep cuts or articles from the first AI winter.
In the spirit of "worse is better", here is a ublock filter I just threw together to highlight all the comments less than a day old:
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! Jul 31, 2024 https://awful.systems
awful.systems##.comment article.comment-node :has-text("hours ago"):style(background-color:#7700AA)
EDIT: fix bug with 1 hour and 20 minutes ago. regex is even worse is better.
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! Jul 31, 2024 https://awful.systems awful.systems##.comment article.comment-node :has-text(/(hour|minute)s? ago/):style(background-color:#7700AA)
I have LLMs translate novels, I can tell when they run over the window because they forget characters' gender half way through, things like that. Lots of legal documents are even longer, maybe.
https://less.online/ - they couldn't be bothered to write the 5 lines of js to do their karma discount automatically