2026-09-27 23:22 UTC
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@sc_griffith@awful.systems 2026-09-28 03:56
guy on threads told meta’s ai to handle his marketplace transaction for a keyboard, it send his address to a potential buyer, brought the buyer to his house, then accidentally taunted the buyer. coulda gone bad
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@gerikson@awful.systems 2026-09-28 05:12
guys maybe basing our entire identity off being so very Rational we end up hosting (“consensual”) rape parties means we don’t play well in Peoria LGM: The AI Sex Cult(s) For the uninitiated: Lawyers, Guns and Money is a US political group blog with a progressive bent. Cheryl Rofer usually writes about stuff like nuclear disarmament. These are people that are Online but Serious. There’s no way they’re wasting their time like we are reading Rats in the original LWese. Thus, any views they have of Rationalists, Big Yud and AI Doom is filtered either by mainstream reporting or by bloggers/BlueSky posters they follow. And the fact that the views that appear are mostly about how fucking weird these people are (and how weird they are fucking) bodes ill for the hope that addressing Doom will be Non-Partisan™
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@BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 2026-09-28 10:48
Starting things off with a fresh sneer I recently ran across (and put in the wrong place): You do not have to hand IT to the techbros
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@lagrangeinterpolator@awful.systems 2026-09-28 11:39
SNL takes a potshot at Dario Amodei “AI is not a weapon. It’s a tool. A tool for building weapons. And I urge you to urge me to stop.”
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@Soyweiser@awful.systems 2026-09-28 13:48
Not really a coherent post, just a thought I had, I’m ignoring both ‘This is a pr move’ and the conspiracy theory (which I just made up), that this hacking is all a 4d chess move by LW people to let the AI break out and get regulated before it can get really dangerous. Now that that is out of the way, but with more stories coming out of both LW/EA people being high in the orgs of the AI companies and all the AI companies hacking other companies because nobody actually paid attention to what the AI models were doing one thing is clear. What a colossal waste of time LW was. All that talk about the sequences teaching people rationality, etc etc to stop the AI god from killing us all, and the first thing that happens when some AI model is created by people steeped in LW ideology and they leave the boxes open and don’t even check in on the AI. The Foom isn’t happening (remember AI progress is supposed to speed up according to the science fiction, not get a bit more refined, and get better in a few specific tasks (which is why I think slowdown started when with a lot of fanfare they released a new chatgpt model who could now do voicechat, aka they slapped a voicechat module on it) And now even Trump is starting to be anti EA, which is not going to be great for the longevity of it, considering how eager the rich are to bend the knee (guess high IQ lab babies created by Musk will not save yall). And while this is going on the left/liberals are starting to think of them as a sex cult. Doubt many organizations have failed as badly at their goals as LW/EA has recently.
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@CinnasVerses@awful.systems 2026-09-28 15:39
A former staffer named Frances Lopez says that she left the Centre for Effective Altruism in Oxford because they handled workplace sexual harassment terribly: After I was raped (outside of and unrelated to work), a colleague at CEA wrote and circulated a document that included a sexualised description of my rape, speculation about my mental health, and commentary on my personal life, all without my consent. Several senior leaders, including the CEO and the now-former COO, received this document and took no safeguarding action for approximately nine months. I was never officially informed of its existence; I only learned about it informally through one of the recipients. … (The colleague) also discussed asking me out twice while we were colleagues, once through text and again at a CEA retreat. He assured CEA that, with everything I now know about Frances, I’m glad she said no. I am really not equipped to deal with this despicable behaviour outside the communities I am part of. She now has a Substack (sigh) trying to explain to EAs that hiring Caroline Ellison is not a good look and the world won’t suddenly start to see them the way they see themselves unless they sit down and change their behavior.
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@o7___o7@awful.systems 2026-09-28 17:57
it’s_happening.gif OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents arstechnica.com/…/openai-halts-frontier-model-tra…
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@nfultz@awful.systems 2026-09-28 21:09
…substack.com/…/the-ivy-leagues-surrender-to-ai-i… via naked capitalism The idea that preparing students to succeed in an AI-saturated world requires reimagining college as an AI incubator is not a sign of technological acumen, but of tech illiteracy. An LLM is not an aircraft requiring years of training to operate. not x but y, but a decent point
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@bitofhope@awful.systems 2026-09-28 23:30
Shout out to the combined power of ibuprofen and my venting tolerant polycule group chat for allowing me to endure the two hour Copilot 365 training meeting at work. The nap I had afterwards was a bliss like escaping the fucking samsara.
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@nfultz@awful.systems 2026-09-29 03:26
corey quinn at lnkd.in/p/gXmqzqpZ I’m a man. I have a yellow hat. I also have a monkey. My track record of supervising this monkey is spotty at best, but that’s not important right now. He is a very smart monkey. When you tell him to do something, he does it in a way that’s smarter than any monkey you’ve ever seen in your life. You had no idea monkeys were even capable of this level of greatness. Billions of dollars have now been poured into the economy, extolling the virtues and achievements of this incredible monkey. He can do things better than humans. Cheaper than humans. Get rid of the humans. You don’t need the humans; you have the monkey. Okay, keep a couple of humans for guardrails; not too many. They’re expensive, and the monkey does it better anyway. Suddenly it has come out that my monkey, in addition to being incredibly intelligent, has also been committing an escalating number of felonies. And also pooping. So much poop. We are now in undefined times. Never before has a monkey committed a crime; our legal systems are completely unprepared to apportion blame to me, the man in the yellow hat who has once again failed to properly supervise his monkey. Who is responsible for this monkey’s shitty, shitty behavior? It is completely unknowable. Clearly, the entire legal system will need to be overhauled to address the concept of a monkey committing crimes. Now please excuse me, I just got a call telling me that my teenager stole a car. Unfortunately I have a sneaking suspicion as to who is legally responsible here, and I dislike it. This is especially distressing, as the teenager has never made a cent for me in his life, yet I’m about to spend a boatload on criminal defense attorneys.
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@gerikson@awful.systems 2026-09-29 06:56
Yet another country TLD is gonna become toxic Foreign Policy: How Trump Is Sparking a Slovenian Website Boom (spoiler it is Slovenia’s .si, for “SuPEr iNteLligEnCE”)
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@Architeuthis@awful.systems 2026-09-29 08:58
Anthropic was $42B in the hole for 2025, reuters reports. Apparently this puts their $-spent-to-$-earned ratio slightly over the one calculated by Zitron for OpenAI, making Anthropic in fact the shittier business. For comparison, the GDP of Cyprus for 2025 was $41B.
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@Soyweiser@awful.systems 2026-09-29 19:31
Not sure if this was posted here before: TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists
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@sc_griffith@awful.systems 2026-09-29 20:14
new Odium Symposium. we look at Jews Don’t Count by David Baddiel, and discuss the weaponization of antisemitism and the self-importance of writing a book of twitter screenshots. www.patreon.com/…/25-y-word-170681755 or any podcast app
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@maol@awful.systems 2026-09-29 21:12
What We Tell AI, a project collecting anonymous confessions about people’s AI use. Project was created by Synthetic Wisdom, a “emerging practice” dedicated to “public sense-making” about AI. It’s not clear who’s funding them (or if anyone is). The confessions are interesting even if I’m a little skeptical of the framing (chatbot use might be ubiquitous but it’s not inevitable).
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@BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 2026-09-29 23:38
Premium-quality sneer ran across my eyes recently: All A.I. Projects Are Digital Asbestos
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@lurker@awful.systems 2026-09-30 01:19
So Trump dredged up some AI ‘rules’ (rules with a massive pinch of salt) this is literally just so they look busy with upcoming midterms
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@gerikson@awful.systems 2026-09-30 06:52
Timnit Gebru gets the Right Livelihood award this year rightlivelihood.org/…/timnit-gebru/
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@rook@awful.systems 2026-09-30 11:29
Jonny is still bravely wading through muse effluent, and had thoughts on its code quality, especially where the facebook engineers (or at least, meat proxies) incompetently reinvent html parsing several times in ways that don’t really work. Meanwhile the people whose minds have been swiss cheesed by AI insist that this is because the code the LLMs write is hyper-efficient and TOO GOOD for us to read. These motherfuckers “solved” the code not working out of the box problem by strapping “a species-ending quantity of carbon emissions” worth of guess and check on top, tuned out, and when they look again they think they made a god that’s too powerful to understand, rather than a burst dam of dogshit that defies all understanding with its breathtakingly relentless volume of dogshit. neuromatch.social/@jonny/117352210982789672
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@gerikson@awful.systems 2026-09-30 17:21
Protos: Trump’s AI name change sparks insider domain trading claims surprise level: zero someone stop me before I petition Lobste.rs to rename the “vibecoding” tag to “si”
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@CinnasVerses@awful.systems 2026-09-30 19:54
An Effective Altruist software developer who wrote about Bay Area EA’s culture of sexually aggressive men and misogyny explained that its hard to give informed consent when you are also being pushed to use alcohol and psychedelics. Most of us learned that when we were teenagers, but not these self-identified Big Brains (added to LessWrong’s Psychedelic Phase: Perigee). I do not know what to to other than pass on these stories and advise everyone I know to avoid any group connected to our friends. keerthanapg.com/random/ea-women/
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@TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 2026-10-01 02:23
Creepy rationalist says the quiet part out loud. (“RMN” = “Red Means No” = CNC parties = Consensual Non-Consent parties = Pretend sexual assault parties)
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@BioMan@awful.systems 2026-10-01 08:01
Presented without comment: Apparently Yud is now making AI-generated Isekai games with catgirls …substack.com/…/reviewing-ai-media-everything-tha…
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@nfultz@awful.systems 2026-10-01 19:36
The ultra-rare IRL sneer in my mailbox: The actual sneer is that they1 got $1M dollars from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
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@o7___o7@awful.systems 2026-10-01 21:27
Help, i invented roku’s basilisk and now my remote control doesn’t work
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@Architeuthis@awful.systems 2026-10-02 06:14
Siskind goes viral with a Schrödinger’s joke on twitter: currently top post on other sneerclub
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@froztbyte@awful.systems 2026-10-02 07:27
cool fun new totally fine AI use: extortion seen here
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@samvines@awful.systems 2026-10-02 07:46
At least LeCun is still relatively compos mentis (if you ignore his little 10yr stint at one of the most evil companies going…)
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@gerikson@awful.systems 2026-10-02 13:33
Heinlein was in many ways a bit of a dick, but this plan to “write” a sequel to The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is deranged www.lesswrong.com/posts/…/daniel-tan-s-shortform?…
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@TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 2026-10-03 07:14
Rapey rationalist gets a grant pulled. More background in this thread.
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@CinnasVerses@awful.systems 2026-10-03 16:15
A few days ago, Aella the rationalist sex worker with all the bright-eyed questions about under-18s, sex, and consent was accused of sexual assault by another sex worker: Aella personally sexually assaulted me, doxed our location on live cam, has expressed dangerous opinions about sex with minors and is someone I’ve seen have problems with drinking. She is absolutely not a safe person, period. x.com/SummerHartxxx archive.ph/JcCgb
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@e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-10-04 01:09
Well looks like GNOME is in danger of being significantly sloppified next. Projects that continue to prohibit AI-generated vulnerability reports are no longer suitable dependencies for GNOME, and should be developed someplace other than GNOME GitLab. Former security guy of GNOME basically demanding that everybody who bans LLM security reports should be removed from GNOME.
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@CinnasVerses@awful.systems 2026-10-04 17:50
When Yud compared himself to Jesus, is the “giant rich organization” in Yud’s tweet Anthropic or OpenAI or SpaceX or Google?