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Soyweiser@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•"AI" agents "can" build consensus on a scale humans "can't"English
8·2 days agoIt used to be that it was hard to get 200 people to agree im awesome, but with openAI, I can just spin up as many AIs as I need to call me a genius. Eat shit Dunbarcells!
Soyweiser@awful.systemsto
Buttcoin@awful.systems•good thing bitcoin is anonymous and donating to Ukraine is a use caseEnglish
5·2 days agoCryptography is all about secret, obscured communication
Cryptography can be about those things, but people who know about the field also know it can do a lot more like for example help with non-repudiation.
(Sorry having higher edu flashbacks about the wonders of cryptography)
Soyweiser@awful.systemsto
SneerClub@awful.systems•bluesky is horrified to discover Harry Potter and the Methods of RationalityEnglish
8·2 days agoThere are so many connections between all these people and big events/culture war stuff that I jokingly start calling myself a conspiracy theorist when I start explaining these things.
(See how you can go from Jason Arday to LW in 3 steps. Arday to the racist Cofnas, who is in a picture with Moldbug who was popularized using lesswrong).
Soyweiser@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
3·4 days agoIt got me as well before.
Doesnt help that i saw overgreebled food advertisements like that irl. I did ‘boycot’ that food place.
Soyweiser@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
5·4 days agoI heard the image is likely to be totally ai generated and might not be real
Soyweiser@awful.systemsto
Buttcoin@awful.systems•what Craig Wright's been doing since not inventing bitcoinEnglish
5·5 days agoFreed from the bounds of corporate responsibility, and now equipped with a University of Exeter library card
Lol
Soyweiser@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
3·5 days agoI picked a bit randomly where a walking stick changes shape, disappears, appears, the guys hair changes color etc.
Soyweiser@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
7·6 days agoIt still cant keep scenes consistent for more than 5 seconds amazing.
Soyweiser@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
7·8 days agoHow likely is it also that it didnt write this to memory at all, and it might do it again next weekend. (Clearly that agent is going to be a weekend binge drinker).
Soyweiser@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
13·8 days agoAlternative title: Adam No! Bonk
Soyweiser@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•xAI data centre contractors file liens for non-paymentEnglish
6·13 days agoHe has been doing this specific trick for ages now
Soyweiser@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
5·14 days agoI assume it is a “im a trumpist” thing
Soyweiser@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
4·14 days agoAny reason why?
Soyweiser@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Time Magazine Now Running Ads Meant Specifically to Influence AI AgentsEnglish
9·16 days agoWell Idiocracy was an utopian movie. USA living standard keeps going for 500 years, no real climate change or wars, and one average intelligence person fixes some big problems that do occur.
Hell the president actually listens to somebody smarter than him. (And is a poc, so Obama wasnt a one off (I know it predates him)).
Soyweiser@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Time Magazine Now Running Ads Meant Specifically to Influence AI AgentsEnglish
2·16 days agoWasnt there a song or a commercial that directly tried to make siri order something?
Soyweiser@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
6·16 days agoMy new high tech idea. Im offering artisinal reverse coffee enemas, 150 dollars per cup. The specific type of coffee is selected by my advanced Artificial intelligence system:
(Just generate a random name for a plain cup of coffee for them to drink).
Soyweiser@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
10·16 days agoAI companies prob now bulk ordering books to destructively upload from second hand stores.
(Apologies for the strange wording, I was reminded of an Reynolds book where they destroy peoples bodies to upload them and then the uploads all fail).

Going to be esp fun when the chatbots start to get ads