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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like how quoting Grimes lyrics makes the banality of these people thuddingly clear.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Yud:

ChatGPT has already broken marriages, and hot AI girls are on track to remove a lot of men from the mating pool.

And suddenly I realized that I never want to hear a Rationalist say the words "mating pool".

(I fired up xcancel to see if any of the usual suspects were saying anything eminently sneerable. Yudkowsky is re-xitting Hanania and some random guy who believes in g. Maybe he should see if the Pioneer Fund will bankroll publicity for his new book....)

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago

Previously sneered:

The context for this essay is serious, high-stakes communication: papers, technical blog posts, and tweet threads.

More recently, in the comments:

After reading your comments and @Jiro 's below, and discussing with LLMs on various settings, I think I was too strong in saying....

It's like watching people volunteer for a lobotomy.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago

Kaneda just scooting to the side at the 14:05 mark like a Looney Tunes character caught with their pants down is comedy gold. I want to loop it with a MIDI rendition of Joplin's "The Entertainer".

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago

The top comment begins thusly:

I think you make a reasonably compelling case, but when I think about the practicality of this in my own life it's pretty hard to imagine not spending any time talking to chatbots. ChatGPT, Claude and others are extremely useful.

I didn't think it was possible, but the perfection continues! Still, no notes!

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This N is too small: ~N~

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Paragraph 2:

METR funded 16 experienced open-source developers with “moderate AI experience” to do what they do.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.

womp, hold on let me finish, womp

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JspxcjkvBmye4cW4v/asking-for-a-friend-ai-research-protocols

Multiple people are quietly wondering if their AI systems might be conscious. What's the standard advice to give them?

Touch grass. Touch all the grass.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago

Dorkus malorkus alert:

When my grandmother quit being a nurse to become a stay at home mother, it was seen like a great thing. She gained status over her sisters, who stayed single and in their careers.

Fitting into your societal pigeonhole is not the same as gaining status, ya doofus.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Another comment that has been getting downvotes and tut-tuts begins,

The only thing that will raise fertility rates is to make it more affordable to have a child.

(Robot Santa voice) Wanting all women to be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen? Evil! Not providing footnotes in your reply to a blog post? EXACTLY AS EVIL

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago

Any time somebody edits a post to talk about the downvotes, it's cursed gold.

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