blakestacey

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Because, Lana, I care about the fluffiness of my baked goods."

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 16 points 2 years ago (26 children)

Wouldn't a Hallmark movie be about a young woman from the big city who finds love and fulfillment when she has to return to her small hometown and manage the local bakery, including the wacky antics of its mixed-sex staff?

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

progressives’ desire to shift control to the big banks

[citation needed]

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 2 years ago (6 children)

First woks, now flour sifters? What is the man's obsession with kitchen implements?!!!

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Makery: The bakery ... for straight men! Now with scones in monster truck and shark testosterone flavors! GRAAARRR

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I just can't get over the "struggling with a flour sifter" bit. Like ... what's there to struggle with? What accessory would help a person locked in combat with a flour sifter? Another flour sifter, to intimidate the first with the knowledge that it can be replaced?

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 2 years ago

Probably unrelated to the Eudaemons, the UC Santa Cruz grad students in the '70s who built hidden wearable computers to beat roulette.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago

(taking notes while talking in Zoidberg voice) "Don't ... let ... acid ... on job"

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

They did.

The issue here is that the web is full of ChatGPT outputs, so we accidentally picked up some of them when we trained Grok on a large amount of web data. This was a huge surprise to us when we first noticed it.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

LessWrongers don't have a sense of a "vaguely plausible normie" that is calibrated in a grounded way (by trying to teach the Intro for Non-Majors courses, trying to explain to relatives and high-school friends what you do for a living, etc.). Instead, they have a concept constructed to set them apart and above. The normie is the ideal rube, the complete inverse of the sophisticate that the LessWronger aspires to be or believes themselves to have become.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's like he heard the phrase "flesh-eating bacteria" and decided they would be more scarier if they had tiny knives and forks.

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