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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 13 points 6 months ago

A dimly flickering light in the darkness: lobste.rs has added a new tag, "vibecoding", for submissions related to use "AI" in software development. The existing tag "ai" is reserved for "real" AI research and machine learning.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 15 points 6 months ago (7 children)

An hackernews responds to the call for "more optimistic science fiction" with a plan to deport the homeless to outer space

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43840786

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 13 points 6 months ago

"The millenials were so well paid in tech jobs during the boom that they nevered bothered to invest in homes" is ... a take

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 6 months ago

letthemfight.gif

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 13 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Just a standard story about a lawyer using GenAI and fucking up, but included for the nice list of services available

https://www.loweringthebar.net/2025/04/counsel-would-you-be-surprised.html

This is not by any means the first time ChatGPT, or Gemini, or Bard, or Copilot, or Claude, or Jasper, or Perplexity, or Steve, or Frodo, or El Braino Grande, or whatever stupid thing it is people are using, has embarrassed a lawyer by just completely making things up.

El Braino Grande is the name of my next ~~band~~ GenAI startup

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 6 months ago

We have that already, it's called ads.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"The CCP is worse than Hitler because at least Hitler was elected" is... a take

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MKS4tJqLWmRXgXzgY/why-should-i-assume-ccp-agi-is-worse-than-usg-agi-1?commentId=wLB2LFnJnHA8cJWuC

Gonna put that down to really really bad historical knowledge

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 19 points 6 months ago

when people do stuff like dismissing x-risk because their top Google search result pointed them at RationalWiki, what exactly was the proper non-free-speech-limiting solution to this problem?

How can we leverage the monopoly of violence of the state to promote our religious views?

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Inside baseball, and I don't really have a dog in this fight, but LW is crowing over a legal loss for RationalWiki

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KW5tjMmTqsoRa6zrd/pablo-s-shortform?commentId=wB9jcCPrXzNCLCQXL

They link to a TracingWoodgrain(!) tweet which is basically just a screenshot of a talk page

https://xcancel.com/tracewoodgrains/status/1913717061626347642

I don't know the significance of this, if any. I don't recognize the names of any of the plaintiffs(?) in the screenshot, so I find it a bit amusing that probably the only google juice they had were RW.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago

YIL there was a right-wing antisemitic US general called Moseley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Van_Horn_Moseley

Nominative determinism?

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago

You still can't be an outright Nazi without people getting mad at you. Obviously unacceptable.

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