While I like it, I wish there were more people pushing back and it not just being people involved with van Rooij. Makes it to easy to dismiss the concerns as just her being a crank. (Which I don’t think she is obviously, just wish there were more people in academia pushing harder back).

There are ‘user uses AI/has AI profile’ lists to they really are objecting to the word ‘slop’.

‘slop is a slur’ discourse incoming in T minus -100.

Could also just be accidental stuff. I mean if you google and you get an AI reply, does that count for example? How many of it is ‘my boss said I should use it, so I tossed some questions in there for the stats’.

Stuff like this has been coming for a while now, and I hate it. See also how your windows login screen can have ads on it.

Considering the rate of return on advertisements, I don’t think this is a financially good sigh.

And interestingly a friend of mine who basically only games switched to Linux, and it seemed to have been rather painless. And most of his games work with minimal fiddling. (And there are even tools to help you with ‘which games of my library will not run well’. Which did surprisingly well on his large library. So linux on the desktop might be closer than we think).

Amusing just how basic his insults and ideas about the left are. This is generic drunken bar patron shit. Lot of projection there. You lost it Moldy, you need to add more obscure references so you don’t come off so reactionary/reactive mid.

E: DakotaVAdams‬ wrote:

I think he’s imagining cool Antifa street fighters as a replacement for the popular kids he was jealous of in childhood. Netd-Jock [sic] seething, but ideological.

It is not just us.

i wonder what else he had go wrong the last period he needed a distraction like this

Going on the Grok output, I saw: Conservapedia with more uses of the word fuck (it can now use the word fuck), extremely verbose mid insults and weird flirting.

Or add a rocket booster.

the site didn’t have an ssl cert, since that was a way “modern browsers control you”.

I feel attacked. Not in the ‘I agree with this person’ way, but in a way that this feels like nerd sniping people like me. So stupid you have to react.

Java 8

See! That is what I mean!

But as somebody who values old cultures, I will not throw stones. ;)

Also the guy is an eugenicist wannabe cult leader.

‘some of the most bigoted things’

You mean stuff like ‘no this is stupid, wtf is wrong with you’ or ‘lol, look they really think LLMs are alive’ stuff like that? The worst I saw (granted I didn’t look very hard) was ‘ok boomer’.

Of course actual meanings of words mean nothing to AI fans.

(Also, thing which is a personal gripe, the skeet before the ‘bigotry neuron’ has 2 images in it, without alt text. If you are going to pretend to value progressive values, at least put in some effort).

And to think all this could have been solved by bsky simply hiring some communication specialists and treating the current events like a crisis, and acting like their users are the police.

Lol at that soj site just being the same anti vax misinformation pushed by one account every 3 minutes.

Indeed, and I think defense spending is not stopped when the gov shuts down right?

And all this because she simply could not shut up. Which seems to be one of the oldest, modding a large community rules.

the defense contractor Anduril

Interesting to note that apparently Anduril is very bad at their job. Their shit doesn’t even work properly. Source: https://bsky.app/profile/hypervisible.blacksky.app/post/3m2bzp4r4es2n

Brave

You are downplaying the shittyness of that one here as well. (Not blaming you or anything, I get the need for not dumping everything in one post. Just adding to the pile). And source, www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1j1pq7b/list_of_brave_browser_controversies/ esp note the wikipedia clone, it was the one by Vox Day

It wouldn’t be so bad if they just didn’t care and stopped maintaining, but their site is one of the first ones you get. Which is a regular problem with these things.

Nope. And tbh, did some dd2 recently, and for a very short while I was tempted to push the edit button, but then I remembered that fextralife just tries to profit off my wiki editing labor. (I still like the idea of wikis, but do not have the fortitude and social calm to edit a mainstream one like wikipedia). (I did a quick check, and yeah I also really hate the license fextralife/valnet uses “All contributions to any Fextralife.com Wiki fall under the below Contribution Agreement and become the exclusive copyrighted property of Valnet.”, and their editor sucks ass (show me the actual code not this wysiwyg shit)).

Like Clinton starting a go fund me for a coworker with cancer, the rich and their money are not voluntarily parted.

See also how youtube tutorials have mostly killed (*) text based tutorials/wikis and are just inferior to good wikis/text based ones. Both because listening to a person talk is a linear experience, and a text one allows for easy scrolling, but also because most people are just bad at yt tutorials. (shoutout to the one which had annoyingly long random pauses in/between sentences even at 2x speed).

This is not helped because now youtube is a source of revenue, and updating a wiki/tutorial often is not. So the incentives are all wrong. A good example of this is the gaming wiki fextralife: See this page on dragons dogma 2 npcs. https://dragonsdogma2.wiki.fextralife.com/NPCs (the game has been out for over a year, if the weirdness doesn’t jump out at you). But the big thing for fextralife is their youtube tutorials and it used to have an autoplaying link to their streams. This isn’t a wiki, it is an advertisement for their youtube and livestreams. And while this is a big example the problem persists with smaller youtubers, who suffer from extreme publish, do not deviate from your niche or perish. They can’t put in the time to update things, because they need to publish a new video (on their niche, branching out is punished) soon or not pay rent. (for people who play videogames and or watch youtube out there, this is also why somebody like the spiffing brit is has long ago went from ‘I exploit games’ to ‘I grind and if you grind enough in this single player game you become op’, the content must flow, but eventually you will run out of good new ideas (also why he tried to push his followers into doing risky cryptocurrency related ‘cheats’ (follow Elon, if he posts a word that can be cryptocoined, pump and dump it for a half hour))).

*: They still exist but tend to be very bad quality, even worse now people are using genAI to seed/update them.

Sealions is a bit more specific, as they do not stop, and demand way more evidence than is normal, Scott had a term for this, forgot it already (one of those more useful Rationalist ideas, which they only employ themselves asymmetrically). Noticed it recently on reddit, some person was mad I didn’t properly counter Yuds arguments, while misrepresenting my position (which wasn’t that strong tbh, I just quickly typed them up before I had other things to do). But it is very important to take Yuds arguments seriously for some reason, reminds me of creationists.

Think just calling them AI concern trolls works.