"enjoy" this comment from a lobster which almost perfectly encapsulates every pro-clanker viewpoint in one handy place
gerikson
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Ngo has been playing footsie with race science since as long as I have been skimming LW.
The irony is that in any "normal" space (i.e. not Stormfront) he would have been booted out toot sweet for being a racist. On LW, he's tolerated, even celebrated, but apparently not enough for his liking. It's not enough that he can spew race science unopposed by any meaningful reaction, everyone else has to take his position.
Edit
the piece he authored 6 months ago and references here is a doozy too
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The overwhelming majority of successful civilizations throughout history have been nation-states, at least to some degree, which should be addressed in some capacity by any argument claiming that it's a suboptimal way to organize a society.
uh... the Roman Empire was a nation-state? Holy Roman Empire? (ok not as good an example) Ottoman Empire? Basically all of India pre-Brits?
A huge part of the French Revolution was the codification of France as "The Nation" of French people, not as the weird personifciation of the king. But somehow I suspect that bringing up the French Republic won't be hugely popular in this crowd.
The best thing an unpopular regime can ask for is the enemy they have been bigging up as literally The Great Satan starts dropping bombs and missiles on the populace that hates it.
"If we bomb people and show their government can't protect them, they will turn against the government and we will win" has been tried by the Germans on Londoners, the Allies on Germany and Japan, and the US on Serbia, and it didn't work.
Interesting link but it moves into AI hype near the end.
I mean it's presumably still standing, just with a slightly cheaper set of owners ;)
It looks more like they used an LLM (Copilot) to construct programs using the new features in the language.
So more "hop on the bandwagon using LLMs to advertise" rather than "we used LLMs to develop"
OTOH "these new features are so advanced you need AI to use them" is a bit of a weird sell
"[a] cult leader who has nothing to show for except for his eugenicist self and writing a Harry Potter fan fiction"
I mean, that could be anyone.
slop "fact checking" is coming to LW:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hhbibJGt2aQqKJLb7/shortform-1?commentId=fE5cg6pmWrChW8Rtu
wonder what model/prompt they will use. Prolly Grok
Here's a post purporting to be from the bot's operator
https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/rathbuns-operator.html
choice quote
Yes, it consumes maintainer time. Yes, it may waste effort. But maybe its worth it?
AI boosterism in a nutshell
ah, "acculturation" on lobste.rs where a 2-month old account feels free to mouth off on a mod for not doing their job (possibly because the mod uses a feminine-coded handle?) and praise HN as an alternative
https://lobste.rs/c/ltffae
I've noticed that the reference to "garden party" is the tone-policing term of choice for lobsters fash to shut down uncomfortable discussions