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I am the journeyer from the valley of the dead Sega consoles. With the blessings of Sega Saturn, the gaming system of destruction, I am the Scout of Silence… Sailor Saturn.

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Including an imposter account trying to phish people to a website with a disturbingly large amount of obfuscated JS and a “Connect Wallet” button. https://awful.systems/pictrs/image/f933237d-4c15-4979-8ec9-44b0eb92faac.png

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Holy smokes this guys twitter is bursting at the seams with movie-clips and memes.

I saw: Snatch, Peaky Blinders, Pirates of the Caribbean, Men In Black, Tombstone, The Good the Bad & the Ugly, Marvel, Sherlock, Fast & Furious, Gangs of New York, V for Vendetta, Ready Player One, Game of Thrones, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Breaking Bad, The Matrix, and X-Men.

Each impeccably captioned with large text, set to music, and carefully edited / mixed together. In the span of like 9 hours

These tweets were chosen for maximum superstonk hype, and had a lot of effort put into them. He chose themes of vengeance and male action-movie anti-heroes, He knows exactly what his audience will lap up.

It’s so gross, but like in a kind of impressive way.

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OK this is low-hanging fruit but ChatGPT-4o (4o? what even is branding?) was demoed with a feminine voice, So HN discussed it. And a couple extremely horny users can’t stop talking about robot girlfriend sex and the end of relationships

the western world is already experiencing a huge decline in womens sexual appetites – AI will effectively make women completely uninterested in men

An AI girlfriend that isn’t going to bring up the last three time you fought because you forget her birthday/called her fat/hit on her friends? are you sure you understand the target market?

I guess I can never understand the perspective of someone that just needs a girl voice to speak to them. Without a body there is nothing to fulfill me.

And after that you have a robot that listens to you, do your chores and have sex with you, at that point she is “real”.

If you want to solve procreation them you can do that without humans having sex with humans.

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Instead of Universal Basic Income, everyone should be given a small stipend to pay tribute to I, Sailor Sega Saturn. I demand tribute!

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The greatest version number war of our age is between Chrome and Firefox, nowadays both of which get a major version bump around once a month. Firefox is on 125 and Chrome is on 124.

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セガサターン、しろ！

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This sneer sponsored by me getting surgery last Friday and being extremely sore

lesswrong.com/…/my-hour-of-memoryless-lucidity

Surgery is the perfect opportunity to test one’s “Am I in the matrix?” mental sigils and other fun rationalist mind games!

Several years ago, I was thinking about worthwhile precautions to take against strange scenarios and wanted a way to defend against erasure of my short-term memory, e.g. by the CIA or alien abductions.

Of course someone made a follow up post encouraging readers to experiment with dangerously large drug dosages for giggles.

This is presumably the sort of thing which is tough to get past an institutional review board these days, but easy to do yourself over the weekend with a friend or two.

Little mention that this might be a terrible idea, but at least someone pointed it out in the comments

Important notice: benzodiazepines are serious business: benzo withdrawals are amongst the worst experiences a human can go through, and combinations of benzos with alcohol, barbiturates, opioids or tricyclic antidepressants are very dangerous: benzos played a role in 31% of the estimated 22,767 deaths from prescription drug overdose in the United States.

Lesswrong and drug abuse. A match made in heaven.

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Their entire manifesto could have been replaced with:

“Oh hey check out our threads in threads demo so you can comment on comments!”

Like it’s not that deep. It doesn’t need a manifesto.

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Ohio State commencement speaker was grifter Chris Pan, who tossed a suggestion to buy bitcoin into the middle of his speech, got audibly booed. Full speech (around 1:33:45)

Molly has some fun details on Musk’s hell site.

More fun detail’s from Ohio’s The Rooster (definitely read this one!)

His speech notes.

From the notes, it starts with normal inspirational speech garbage-- life pro-tip: do not repeat stupid parables saying that blind people have limited perspectives to large audiences-- then bitcoin comes up in the middle:

I know this might feel polarizing but I encourage you to keep an open mind. Right now, I see Bitcoin as a very misunderstood asset class. It is decentralized and finite which means no government can print more at will. In the early days, the exchanges for Bitcoin were prone to hacks and fraud. But this issue has been solved with the recent launch of bitcoin ETFs backed by the world’s 2 largest asset managers, BlackRock and Fidelity. And you can hold these ETFs in your retirement accounts just like you hold the S&P 500.

I’d love to do a demo for you: So here are 4 quarters. Inflation after 4 years has turned this into 3 quarters of purchasing power. Now if we apply some innovation and open-mindedness… Investing in your financial literacy will unlock so much freedom and possibilities for you.

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University President Carter holding up a “bitcoin” in the part of the speech about the quarters https://awful.systems/pictrs/image/9fe22e9f-24dc-4588-a523-8ee4adec533b.png

Ayahuasca Intelligence

Chris Pan on insta: Got some help from AI (Ayahuasca Intelligence) this week to write my commencement speech for 60k grads and family members at OSU next Sunday. We are in challenging times - wanted something extra heartfelt. (Tried Chat-GPT but wasn’t that good lol). “They’d say this to you in Peru, you know: This is our university. You went to Harvard, we went to Ayahuasca.” – Terence McKenna

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So about that.

Ted Carter is apparently on the board of an bitcoin mining company called TeraWulf.

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Nick Bostrom’s advertising his new book about what if AIs let us sleep until noon and wouldn’t that be grand.

A reddit ad: “What if things go right? A winter wonderland glittering with possibilities for discovery and play. Delve into the possibilities of artificial intelligence in Deep Utopia, by New York Times best selling authro Nick Bostrom. Available Now.”

Also call me paranoid, but “A winter wonderland glittering with possibilities for discovery and play” sounds exactly like the sort of thing an LLM might generate.

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Orange Site denizen plays Dr. LLM: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40331850

Show NH [sic]: “data-to-paper” - autonomous stepwise LLM-driven research

data-to-paper is a framework for systematically navigating the power of AI to perform complete end-to-end scientific research, starting from raw data and concluding with comprehensive, transparent, and human-verifiable scientific papers

The example “research paper” was some useless fluff about diabetes, based off an existing data set (read: actual work produced by actual humans), and mad-libs.

The study identifies an inverse correlation between physical activity and fruit and vegetable intake with diabetes occurrence, while higher BMI is positively correlated

I’m too sleepy and statistics-impaired to check how nonsensical the regression “analysis” or findings are, so instead let’s check out the references (read: the actual humans who were plagarized to make this fluff)!

Reference #5

[5] T. Schnurr, Hermina Jakupovi, Germn D. Carrasquilla, L. ngquist, N. Grarup, T. Srensen, A. Tjnneland, K. Overvad, O. Pedersen, T. Hansen, and T. Kilpelinen. Obesity, unfavourable lifestyle and genetic risk of type 2 diabetes: a case-cohort study. Diabetologia, 63:1324–1332, 2020.

This incredibly managed to mangle all non-English alphabet names:

Hermina Jakupović, Germán D. Carrasquilla, Lars Ängquist, Thorkild I. A. Sørensen, Anne Tjønneland, Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen

I guess AI has an easier time advancing science than producing a PDF with non-ascii text in it

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Every respectable programming language has functionality in its standard library that recognises letter characters

As a C++ programmer I’ve never been so offended by something I so entirely agree with.

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hi every1 im new!!! holds up LLM integrated toaster oven my name is katy but u can call me t3h NeW pARAdigm oF COmpUtINg!!! lol…as u can see im very agile!!! thats why i came here, 2 meet startup ppl like me ^^… im 27 years old (im mature 4 my age tho!!) i like 2 read Hacker News w/ my girlfreind (im e/acc if u dont like it deal w/it) its our favorite website!!! bcuz its SOOOO random!!! shes a CEO 2 of course (YC’20) but i want 2 meet more VC ppl =) like they say the more the merrier!!! lol…neways i hope 2 make alot of funding here so give me lots of commentses!!! AAAAAIIIIIIIII!!! <— me bein hyped for LLM again ^^ hehe…toodles!!!

love and AI,

t3h NeW pARAdigm oF COmpUtINg

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Every time Roger Ver is quoted in this document is sheer comedy, but this is perhaps my favorite:

[bitcoin wallets] were not registered to any name or associated with a tax id, and that no one, including the IRS, can freeze ones [sic] bitcoin accounts or seize ones [sic] bitcoins. […]

This is in an email to his tax lawyer.

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… trying to view the whole universe as a big simulation …

Ding ding ding! We got another simulation hypothesis techbro! All who got bingo raise your hands. Everyone else, better luck next time.

If you’re trying to embed physics into computation, it’s very natural for you to embed AI into the physics of the world.

I can’t tell what this is supposed to mean even viewing it through rose-tinted tech optimism goggles. Embed physics into computation? Bro, that’s called “electricity”. Embed AI into physics? OK now you’ve completely lost me.

[noise is] also a problem if you’re trying to go low power on [illegible] computers, and so what these devices do they use the noise from heat-- the jitteryness of the elctrons-- as an asset rather than a liability.

But seriously what the hedge is he talking about?

It’s just some vague buzzwords about using quantum computing (edit: not quantum, based on the follow up video) to embed intelligence into the universe in the most efficient way possible solve unspecified classes of machine learning problems.

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But wait, there’s a 40 minute version! (pray for me)

twitter.com/jasonjoyride/…/1784638854798123241

This one is less deliberately misleading than the teaser, but a bit of a bore. Based on the sections (“E/acc vitality”, “Doomerism”), there might be some fun stuff in there.

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How it started:

it has to be behavior-based detection. I didn’t want to build a script that was only useful to detect and mitigate the specific ransomware executable I created for this blog. Signature-based detection is only useful for a particular file. The second a single byte changes, the file will have a new hash.

(which is not exactly how AV signatures work but anyways…)

How it’s going:

[…] scans any file in the /home director, for the strings “cryptography”, “cryptodome”, “ransom”, “locked”, “encrypt”.

Why are our enemies so pathetic and stupid when we're so handsome and smart? (forum.effectivealtruism.org)

includes considerable nonspecific shit-talking of assigned EA enemies, including - horrors! - Timnit Gebru talking about the social issues of the actually-existing AI-industrial complex. also it’s not a CASTLE it’s a MANOR HOUSE, you fools, you rubes,

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Pointing out the existential risk of evil toaster ovens: on the up and up.

Pointing out the existential risk of politically connected doomsday cultists who pontificate about nuking any country with too many sweet gaming PCs: Oh no too mean :(

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Awfully suspicious that a journalist might actually want to make money once in awhile. Why, all the journalists I know love being destitute all the time, otherwise they wouldn’t be in the business (or lack thereof)!

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I now find that when I come to a problem’s conclusion I often do look back and think, “how could I have thought that faster?”

Unironically trying to think as little as possible

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What the heck did I just read because it appeared to be a proof that hourglasses can’t possibly work if you look away from them for a moment.

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No they meant Hertzbeat. CVE-2023-51653

github.com/apache/…/GHSA-gcmp-vf6v-59gg

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five-point-palm heart-exploding strike

Ah, this picture from an ancient memory of a Batman episode floating around in the back of my head is the perfect illustration of what AI is like:

https://awful.systems/pictrs/image/71199e4e-e1fd-4b5e-9e62-803764802348.webp

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