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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
more on the nsfw side but this is a kinda interesting finding/use of existing tech
niche because only some types of slop, but still!
after all this time, TIL that Roko pronounces his name “Rocko” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIwJDnej7pg
Quick, someone file the copyright for “Roko’s Postmodern Life”
One step closer to Doctor Rockso the clown.
I’m not a native english speaker, how else was he supposed to pronounce it?
I think the most common would be “roh-koh”, I could also see a front-o accentuated form being used
that flat “rocko” as in the vid was one I wouldn’t have thought to hear
That just sounds incredibly British to me.
When I clicked the video I fully expected Rocko with a c to mean Rosko.
it’s amazing how he continues to provide fresh reasons to want to boop him on the nose
man, all these old transhumanist videos https://www.youtube.com/@Transentience/videos you could waste hours of your life on old and pointless bs
“Genes vs Memes”
okay, I checked, it’s after midday. definitely okay to start drinking.
I’m pretty sure you’re only allowed to have that discussion if you’re a Metal Gear villain. Which despite his best efforts Roko does not have enough dramatic presence or raw drip for.
drip vs drool
https://bsky.app/profile/jonpennington.bsky.social/post/3kxqkmezcwe2o
I went to college with him. Yarvin is curdled nerd rage personified. He also lies about his age. He’s older than me & claims a birth date that would make him younger than me.
I was on a Quiz Bowl team with him & whenever he would buzz in for an answer, he would jerk his body spasmodically, which the other people on the team called “Yarvinating.”
He’s the kind of player that other Quiz Bowl players hate, known in the subculture as a “pickoff lord.” That is to say, he’s the kind of guy who would pad his stats by diving in to buzz on easy questions, make wild guesses on intros so he could get more points than teammates, etc.
Hand to God. If anybody disputes me, I’ve got at least one other person who would remember the “Yarvinating” anecdote. I’ve got legit Quiz Bowl cred. I used to play against Ken Jennings before he was even a Jeopardy! contestant, let alone host.
I connected on Facebook with a former classmate, somebody else from that team who once appeared in a College Jeopardy! tournament. We’re both kind of just gobsmacked that we were there for somebody else’s Lex Luthor origin story.
Another bit of tea… He lies about his age. He was an upperclassman at Brown when I was a freshman & he claims to be younger than me.
see also https://www.qbwiki.com/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin
Yarvin played on the College Bowl-only team for Brown from 1989 to 1992. In 2021 he published a poem[2] stating that “No one can fucking touch me / In College Bowl.” Brown failed to advance out of the Region 1 tournament for all four years of Yarvin’s participation, making his lifetime record at intercollegiate tournaments 0-4 and demonstrating that, at a minimum, the Brandeis, MIT, and Williams teams were capable of “touching” his performance.
I’d never looked into how old the clown is, but
He also lies about his age. He’s older than me & claims a birth date that would make him younger than me.
wait what? what does he claim? is the indicated year on wikipedia accurate? why the hell?
wikipedia date is 25 June 1973, presumably that’s the false one
huh, just showed year here. did you get that from talk?
A funny coincidence: https://gameshows.fandom.com/wiki/Curtis_Warren Another guy named Curtis that buzzes in early at game shows. And he’s from CATHEDRAL City. It’s all connected
He also lies about his age.
I also knew somebody who did that, but it was done as a joke, he obv picked an age much much younger and everybody new he was older, it was just a funny joke. (With a small layer of disliking getting older, which is understandable) From the way this is written, it seems to me this isn’t like that at all.
I like answering ludicrously old whenever this stupid shit comes up
or picking timestamps that make devs wonder whether they had a value handling bug (such as 1/1/1970, the asp.net default 0, etc ec)
Just be careful you never pick very young. iirc Twitter permbans you if you ever pick a date which means you were under 13 when you registered.
I’m 12 years old and what is this?
Don’t worry if you get banned just tell them you were banned for expressing your conservative ideas.
I’ve only been on the internet a year, that mistake will happen quite soon ;)
https://xcancel.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1816925777377788295#m
Yud requires calories for his massive brain.
https://xcancel.com/mitchandodger/status/1816936244892565939#m
asking the important questions
Unfortunately the Joe Rogan case study shows that the answer is probably quite a bit more.
Looks like he’s in the process of killing himself
And he insists exercise doesn’t help him lose weight which means it doesn’t have any benefit.
Poor fuck’s going to get done in by vanity.
Isn’t this what happened to that creepy bloke on Tumblr. Maybe all rationalist-adjacent bloggers eventually shit themselves to death after trying to fix their health problems with punishing exercise regimes and dodgy supplements.
which one?
huh, this was last August
Yeah, I’d seen one or two of his popular posts but I only became familiar with him and his whole deal after he died.
For the people not in the know 500kcal a day is very unwise. Not only very unhealthy, also a sign of looking for a quick fix mindset, which is not a thing that works well for long term weightloss.
Oh man I need to up my caloric intake (ozempic makes this really hard).
Try not to go under 1000kcal (and even that is a bit low and prob unhealthy on the long term, assuming somewhat average male height, a middle age, and computertoucher lifestyle).
Yeah, and he does this one in every two months (+ 1 bonus week of fasting because water weight because the only thing he’s interested in is number go down).
Mein gott
I can’t really feel sorry for him but this is somehow still depressing
Don’t forget the chaser!
Ah, by “chaser”, you mean “emetic”
An olive oil chaser - classic.
The reactions to that are also quite something, not only does Musk bring out the worst people (bluechecks, all even less informed than him, or worse just people wanting to spread crypto/insult fat people/took over the weird posting style from Jordan B Peterson (the one with all the linebreaks at strange places, Musk also did it once in the same period he did the interview), but Yudkowsky reacted with a very gentle [citation needed], while we all know the truth.
Maintaining my weight still requires fasting 1 month for every 2 months that I eat enough for my brain to work.
… his brain works?
Objection! Facts not in evidence!
Jeremy Keith on the bullshit “privacy sandbox” in chrome and firefox: https://adactio.com/journal/21285
I like Jeremy because he is an OG, but I think his requirement for proof that targeted advertising “works” before the browsers implement these features is off the mark for me. He’s an agency guy, a bit like Andy Budd, so they tend to have these really visceral takes about the state of the web but with this skewed perspective of best interests
Google just announced they’re not getting rid of third party cookies after all. They announced this in a wordy blog post with so much spin as to be confusing (as is tradition): https://privacysandbox.com/news/privacy-sandbox-update/
We developed the Privacy Sandbox with the goal of finding innovative solutions that meaningfully improve online privacy while preserving an ad-supported internet that supports a vibrant ecosystem of publishers, connects businesses with customers, and offers all of us free access to a wide range of content.
god, the opening paragraph made my head spin with tech pr copy
could you imagine what web development would be like in a world where browser standards, features, and sandboxes weren’t firmly in the grips of these marketing chucklefucks?
like, I’ve mentioned to coworkers “hey isn’t the browser sandbox kind of bullshit? there’s so many parts of it that don’t do anything for security, but they make things harder for developers and easier for advertisers” and I don’t think a single one knew what I was talking about, because web development as a field has been captured by ad agencies. shit, find me one web development reference that isn’t owned by an ad agency.
and now they’re secure enough in that control that they do this fully mask-off shit, confident they’ll get away with it, cause who’s gonna stop them? bets on Mozilla reversing course on blocking third-party cookies now that google’s gone in this direction
“And now they’re secure enough in that control that they do this fully mask-off shit …”
That whole DRM-the-web attestation thing Google proposed last year was eye opening. Sure, they had been evil for a while, but the fact that they knew they could start proposing stuff like that at all is just so bleak. In a sane world, that behaviour would instantly result in serious antitrust lawsuits.
There was no technical reason why we couldn’t have web fonts. The reason why we didn’t get web fonts for years and years was because browser makers were concerned about piracy and type foundries.
I was a bit surprised when I learned fonts are CORSd at least party as a sort of primitive DRM so that font companies would buy into the webfont spec (that’s how I remember it anyway, it’s been awhile since I dug up the relevant mailing list messages)
How do people do this without dying of anxiety?
BTW, that last comment on RetractionWatch was grim:
I recently saw a presentation by a job candidate (a PhD with many years experience) who used figures that were clearly AI-generated. They weren’t as funny as this example or the giant rat penis, but certainly fictional and unreal. In and of itself, troubling enough. Worse was that my colleagues involved in the interview didn’t care when I pointed it out.
it’s easier if you are a shameless fraud without a shred of integrity
This is also probably why MBAs like it
ai use case: you can pump out pseudoscience promoting fluff disguised as papers in predatory journals with less effort
Okay but this is about alkaline water so it’s garbage even without the genAI imagery.
It’s even by Wu et al., come on, low hanging fruit
2 Giant 2 Rat Penis
Just found out from a screenshot in a tweet that Marc Aandreesen considers Nick Land to be some kind of patron saint of “techno-optimism”. Setting aside Land’s ugly views about everything… I didn’t think optimism was what he was known for. More like grasping, desperate, disgusted embrace of the onward march of capital.
Nick Land (…) “techno-optimism”
His thing is literally called DARK ENLIGHTENMENT, fucking Final Fantasy villain level of grandiose menacing naming, how on earth would that be “optimism”.
Marcee do you even like know who your idols are?
“Nothing human makes it out of the near-future.” - Nick Land.
The Pinhead we have at home.
Let’s see how long HN takes to ban yet another literal Nazi.
I’m pretty sure that if the community “takes out the trash” (i.e. downvotes to dead status[1]) the mods won’t bother to ban the user.
[1] I happen to believe thta this is not sufficient to get rid of bad actors
Butters and Trump are ruining my ability to get anything done in town today. Not a big fan of this dumb shit inconveniencing me IRL.
Here’s a tweet of Winklevoss feeling snubbed by VP Harris (twitter.com)
The Biden-Harris Administration wages all-out war on the crypto industry for 4 years. Despite all of this, Kamala is still invited to the @TheBitcoinConf in Nashville and given a chance to speak to our industry and reset the relationship. What does she do? She declines. She can’t even take the first step and show up to start mending fences. Our industry won’t forget this. We will show no mercy in November.
My hope is that in the not-too-distant future there are no politicians at any Bitcoin or crypto conferences. Not because they are not welcome, but because crypto is so universally accepted that it is no longer a campaign issue and therefore would be a waste of their time. Like going to a conference on whether or not email or the Internet should be legal or allowed.
Ooh, Like the internet! I got Bingo!
Bitcoin bros: more of this self-aggrandizing rage please. It’s so entertaining to read.
Ooh, Like the internet!
Considering the history of legislation and the internet (and the recent KOSA thing) being treated like the internet is the last thing you would want.
They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We’re a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We’ll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it’s fun.
We’ll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We’re already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren’t shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We’ve been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that’s already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they’ve threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can’t is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You’re not special, you’re not original, you’re not the first; this is just another boss fight.
This pasta will never die.
@sailor_sega_saturn @techtakes
NO SLURP JUICES FOR KAMALA
None of you seem to understand. I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with multiple slurp juices on a single ape!
Ow god. This is the acasaul torture simulation!
Regarding that claimed breakthrough about AI winning the International Mathematical Olympiad: a reminder that a proof which hangs together logically is not necessarily a proof that makes sense.
Those formalized proofs are so incredibly ugly, it’s amazing. Of course it doesn’t much of a sensible indentation, but then there are single proof steps where I have no idea what it’s even doing. […] And then there are nonsense mathematical steps. The solution of problem 2 starts with induction, before introducing any variables. It applies induction to the number 12. And it write 12 as
(10)+2. Then it proceeds to do the whole proof in the base case of the induction, and notices that the induction step is trivial, since the goal is the same as the induction hypothesis (but instead of theassumptiontactic it usescongr 26).
‘manual translation’ undoubtably doing some heavy lifting here
Spending an unknown but potentially long amount of time to maybe get a solution of potentially minimal legibility is definitely AI’s killer app.
movie announcer voice aaaaaand now, from the org structures that brought you Teams Doing Standup Poker, an announcement!
heeeeeeere’s Promptfondling!
the org structures that brought you Teams Doing Standup Poker
which must be destroyed. find me who’s responsible for this (it’s the Google OKR people, isn’t it?)
listen buddy if you’re not arguing about the definition of done for design phase and overspending your meeting windows by 2 hours because of points quibbling, are you even SAFe
Also, choice sneer in the comments:
AlphaProof is more “AlphaZero doing self play against Lean” and less “Gemeni reading human proofs”
Libertarian nerds run straight into actual California, not the AI-generated dreamland they imagine
Mercury news: “Billionaires’ utopia company California Forever scraps plan for ballot initiative in wake of damning report”
The report released late last week by Solano County said the proposed new city of 50,000 — possibly up to 400,000 decades from now — would likely cost the county billions of dollars and create substantial annual financial deficits, while slashing agricultural production, damaging climate-change resilience, and potentially threatening local water supplies. The project, according to the report, “may not be financially feasible.”
HN shows what they think of the 3 people with actual thoughts on the issue by downvoting them to death
Who could have predicted this except for everybody ! There’s a reason none of these galt gulches ever get built.
which spent more than $800 million buying more than 60,000 acres of mostly agricultural land near Fairfield
Marc Andreessen and Reid Hoffman, just in case anyone thought there was a difference
Was the stumbling point when they explained to the county the part about the perpetually tortured child?
Turns out that load-bearing children are out of code.
Whatever shambling corpse of Toys “R” Us still exists has released “the first OpenAI SORA generated brand commercial.”
It looks absolutely dire, particularly in motion, but posters are still falling over themselves to call it “cool” and “exciting” or claim that people “might not notice” that it’s complete and utter arse.
I see Sora still hasn’t cracked the nut of having longer output windows. or at producing things that aren’t deathly boring.
and what the fuck is up with that music? it sounds like a medical commercial selling hope
AI or not this is an incredibly depressing advert, what the fuck. They went for whimsy and produced an elegy.
the thing is, people are again taking this as direct output of the regurgitating machine. i wouldn’t be at all surprised if there was a ton of editing going on to fix all of the most glaring issues, just like when sora was first announced.
Yes you can very clearly see what they’ve added in, there’s tons of matte stuff going on and cliparts of floating toys and whatever
If you look at the bottom right that’s exactly the case. They didn’t just type a prompt in SORA and call it a day.
“Positive is that if you didn’t tell someone it was GenAI, they might not notice!”
Nah, they’d be able to immediately tell from just how fucking garbage it is
It makes me wonder if these people have ever seen a moving picture before, because being caught up in the slack-jawed astonishment of a novel experience seems the only plausible explanation for thinking this looks good.
Has someone tried generating a train running at the camera and seeing if one of the AI bros dies of a heart attack?
That picture… Harry Potter and the Hole of Ketamine.
Oh my fucking god I know that video
this is the entire pitch of genAI, this is beat for beat a perfect analysis 4 years before all of this bullshit actually happened
Not everyone wants ai for their search tools
@BlueMonday1984 @dgerard The completely open ‘I’m scamming the elderly’ at the end is kinda chilling
Its a surprisingly good complement to OP Chris Paxton’s Tweet about “normie opinion on AI”, given it shows why said “normie opinion” is so resoundingly negative.
I’ve made some brief nods to how the AI bubble is rapidly souring public perception of tech (here and here), but it really feels like AI has, to quote @datarama, “made tech synonymous with “monstrous assholes” in a non-trivial chunk of public consciousness”.
I feel like I should collect my thoughts on that front - I could probably make an interesting post out of it.
new EA hangout found, a snip at £3.5m
“sold by the Society of the Precious Blood” paging peter thiel
Not stately enough.
