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TinyTimmyTokyo

@ TinyTimmyTokyo @awful.systems

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025

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  • In fairness, not everything nVidia does is generative AI. I don't know if this particular initiative has anything to do with GenAI, but a lot of digital artists depend on their graphics cards' capabilities to create art that is very much human-derived.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th September 2025

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  • Yud: "That's not going to asymptote to a great final answer if you just run them for longer."

    Asymptote is a noun, you git. I know in the grand scheme of things this is a trivial thing to be annoyed by, but what is it it with Yud's weird tendency to verbify nouns? Most rationalists seem to emulate him on this. It's like a cult signifier.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th September 2025

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  • Now that his new book is out, Big Yud is on the interview circuit. I hope everyone is prepared for a lot of annoying articles in the next few weeks.

    Today he was on the Hard Fork podcast with Kevin Roose and Casey Newton (didn't listen to it yet). There's also a milquetoast profile in the NYT written by Kevin Roose, where Roose admits his P(doom) is between 5 and 10 percent.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th September 2025

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  • Make sure to click the "Apply Now" button at the bottom for a special treat.

  • Vibe-coded build system NX gets hacked, steals vibe-coders’ crypto

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  • I know it's been said thousands of times before, but as a software developer I've never felt a greater sense of job security than I do right now. The amount of work it's going to take to clean up all this slop is going to be monumental. Unfortunately, that kind of work is also soul-deadening.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Last year McDonald's withdrew AI from its own drive-throughs as the tech misinterpreted customer orders - resulting in one person getting bacon added to their ice cream in error, and another having hundreds of dollars worth of chicken nuggets mistakenly added to their order.

    Clearly artificial superintelligence has arrived, and instead of killing us all with diamondoid bacteria, it's going to kill us by force-feeding us fast food.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th August 2025

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  • It immediately made me wonder about his background. He's quite young and looks to be just out of college. If I had to guess, I'd say he was probably a member of the EA club at Harvard.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th August 2025

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  • In case you needed more evidence that the Atlantic is a shitty rag.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th August 2025

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  • Clown world.

    How many times will he need to revise his silly timeline before media figures like Kevin Roose stop treating him like some kind of respectable authority? Actually, I know the answer to that question. They'll keep swallowing his garbage until the bubble finally bursts.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th August 2025

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  • Is it a loop if it only executes once?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th August 2025

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  • How much energy was used to produce that video?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th August 2025

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  • Ozy Brennan tries to explain why "rationalism" spawns so many cults.

    One of the reasons they give is "a dangerous sense of grandiosity".

    the actual process of saving the world is not very glamorous. It involves filling out paperwork, making small tweaks to code, running A/B tests on Twitter posts.

    Yep, you heard it right. Shitposting and inconsequential code are the proper way to save the world.

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th August 2025

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  • I'm aware of the cloudflare issue, and I don't use them. So I'm pretty sure it's not that. (I use firefox but I turn off DNS over HTTPS)

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th August 2025

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  • I noticed starting a couple weeks ago that archive.is is requiring me to complete captchas nearly every time I visit. Are other people experiencing this? If so, I wonder if the site's maintainers are reacting to increased traffic from LLM crawlers. The crawlers probably find Archive extraordinarily useful when they get blocked by source sites.

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th August 2025

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  • Can we call this the peak of the LLM hype cycle now?

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th August 2025

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  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th August 2025

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  • Could be worse, I got got by some neofascist scum who was dunking on rationalists.

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th August 2025

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  • Gell-Mann amnesia.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th August 2025

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  • It's happening.

    Today Anthropic announced new weekly usage limits for their existing Pro plan subscribers. The chatbot makers are getting worried about the VC-supplied free lunch finally running out. Ed Zitron called this.

    Naturally the orange site vibe coders are whinging.