A fact-generative AI, you say? https://aphyr.com/posts/398-the-future-of-fact-checking-is-lies-i-guess
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I reiterate the hope that AI slop, will eventually push us towards better sourcing of resources/articles as a society going forwards, but yikes in the meantime.
Via Reddit!SneerClub: "Investors’ ‘dumb transhumanist ideas’ setting back neurotech progress, say experts"
Some Chat-GPT user queries were leaked via some Google Search Analytics owned by websites that ranked on the search result pages that Chat-GPT saw when searching: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/oddest-chatgpt-leaks-yet-cringey-chat-logs-found-in-google-analytics-tool/
Or something like that. It's a little confusing.
Eurogamer has opinions about genai voices in games.
Arc Raiders is set in a world where humanity has been driven underground by a race of hostile robots. The contradiction here between Arc Raiders' themes and the manner of its creation is so glaring that it makes me want to scream. You made a game about the tragedy of humans being replaced by robots while replacing humans with robots, Embark!
Not a scream just a nice thing people might enjoy. Somebody made a funny comic about what we all are thinking about
Random screenshot which I found particularly funny (Zijn rant klopt):
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Two people talking to each other, one a bald heavily bespectacled man in the distance, and the other a well dressed skullfaced man with a big mustache. Conversation goes as follows:
"It could be the work of the French!"
"Or the Dutch"
"Could even be the British!"
"Filthy pseudo German apes, The Dutch!"
"The Russ..."
"Scum of the earth marsh dwelling Dutch"
you know, if those ASML folks in dutchland weren't quite so busy what with their EUV lasers and all that, we might not be in quite this same pickle right now,
You flatter me, I haven't thought about any shit as cool as this in a while.
Geweldig!
I was told repeatedly growing up that they like Canadians over there because of the whole liberation thing. Is this true?
New singularity dropped and I'd missed it: https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/economics-transformative-ai/coasean-singularity-demand-supply-and-market-design-ai-agents
I don't really see AI getting rid of ticketmaster or other transaction costs in the real world, so this is just some econ theory crafting.
users trade off decision quality against effort reduction
They should put that on the species' gravestone.
Link back to last week: https://awful.systems/post/6153095
thanks! I tried to link it in the usual way, but I think a bug might have blanked the url box before I hit post.
Just so we all know, not liking AI slop code is xenophobic.
Definitely been seeing the pattern of: “if you don’t like AI, you are being x-phobic” where “x” is a marginalised group that the person is using the name of as a cudgel. They probably never cared about this group before, but what’s important to this person is that they glaze AI over any sort of principle or ethics. Usually it’s ableist, as is basically any form of marginalisation/discrimination.
E: read the link. Lmao that’s… not xenophobia. What a piece of shit
Beff Jezos and friends have produced something other than tweets. Possibly. Maybe.
What's the elevator pitch for Extropic again? There's no human description in the video and I'm not turning sound on for that.
What if quantum but magically more achievable at nearly current technology levels. Instead of qbits they have pbits (probabilistic bits, apparently) and this is supposed to help you fit more compute in the same data center.
Also they like to use the word thermodynamic a lot to describe the (proposed) hardware.
"what if computation was more wrong but on the other hand was faster and used less power"?
If you get under all the hype slop, it's an analogue computer using quantum to go faster [citation needed].
This can allegedly be used to do AI computations (so matrix math?) with lower energy.
At least they don't claim to be doing qubits.
If you're having yield problems, talk to that dude with his nose uncovered in the clean room @4:18
Everything about this screams vaporware.
Extropic have been burning their runway, this is 100% an investor pitch. "We have a thing! please give us more money? we swear we're still Nazis"
is one of the source texts for the markov chain text generator our old favorite Harry Potter fan-fic?
oh you fucking know it
also all 3 parts of Das Kapital and the full text of My Immortal
On this topic I've been seeing more 503 lately, are the servers running into issue, or am i getting caught in anti-scraper cross-fire?
nope, you’ve been getting caught in the fallout from us not having this yet. the scrapers have been so intense they’ve been crashing the instance repeatedly.
when you get this working i am totally copying this for rationalwiki
i nearly installed caddy just to get iocaine
I saw that! fortunately once iocaine is configured it seems to just work, but it's also very much software that kicks and screams the entire way there. in my case the problem wasn't even nginx-related, I just typoed the config section for the request handler and it silently defaulted to the mode where it returns garbage for every incoming request.
Just saw this post on DHH, it’s really good: https://okayfail.com/2025/in-praise-of-dhh.html
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