Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
OAI announced their shiny new toy: DeepResearch (still waiting on DeeperSeek). A bot built off O3 which can crawl the web and synthesize information into expert level reports!
Noam is coming after you @dgerard, but donāt worry he thinks itās fine. Iām sure his new bot is a reliable replacement for a decentralized repository of all human knowledge freely accessible to all. Iām sure this new system doesnāt fail in any embarrassing wa-
After posting multiple examples of the model failing to understand which player is on which team (if only this information was on some sort of Internet Encyclopedia, alas), Professional AI bully Colin continues: āI assume that in order to cure all disease, it will be necessary to discover and keep track of previously unknown facts about the world. The discovery of these facts might be a little bit analogous to NBA players getting traded from team to team, or aging into new roles. OpenAIās āDeep Researchā agent thinks that Harrison Barnes (who is no longer on the Sacramento Kings) is the Kingsā best choice to guard LeBron James because he guarded LeBron in the finals ten years ago. Itās not well-equipped to reason about a changing worldā¦ But if it canāt even deal with these super well-behaved easy facts when they change over time, you want me to believe that it can keep track of the state of the system of facts which makes up our collective knowledge about how to cure all diseases?ā
xcancel link if anyone wants to see some more glorious failure cases:
https://xcancel.com/colin_fraser/status/1886506507157585978#m
āAligning people is hard tooā a thing that only a literal sociopath would think and only a special kind of sociopath would utter publicly
Remember when Scott wrote the ādont talk like robots ya nerdsā article? Good times.
itās amazing how intensely these assholes want to end Wikipedia and pollute all other community information sources beyond repair. it feels like itās all part of the same strategy: