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lurker@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026English
8·17 hours agoWe entered the Singularity and all I got was a bunch of fucking annoying and delusional businessmen
lurker@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•The AI 2040 "not how this works" supercutEnglish
2·1 day agoKinda? They’ve posted an update about it and I suspect there’s gonna be another one soon with august around the corner
lurker@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026English
4·2 days agothis Diary of a CEO channel has always struck me as the kind to fall for any kind of bs hook line and sinker
lurker@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026English
5·2 days agoA recent two hour interview with Kokotajlo I do not have the time to go through all this but if anyone does feel free to go ahead.
What I will say tho is that the thumbnail is definitely some kind of clickbait, because of the “uhm actually we were never confident in 2027” thing
lurker@awful.systemsto
SneerClub@awful.systems•Emile Torres deep-sneers Nick Bostrom, the smartest man in SwedenEnglish
0·2 days agoBostrom’s conclusion is that we should colonize the universe as soon as possible
because colonialism has never caused any damage to any kind of ethnic group or environment whatsoever and has never resulted in any kind of horrific crime such as genocide and slavery. no sirree!
lurker@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•OpenAI hacks HuggingFace with an AI — allegedlyEnglish
7·5 days agoIts truly astounding that they put a marketing spin on committing a crime but thats the AI industry for ya
lurker@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026English
3·5 days agoI know it was a zero day exploit but what specific exploit i have no idea
lurker@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026English
4·5 days agoFull here but TLDR:
OpenAI downloaded a public benchmark to test their newest AI model against. They asked the model to “find the answers” so it hacked into the system of the people who made the benchmark to find the answers
lurker@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026English
5·6 days agoDean Ball’s name rings a bell to me. Emile Torres wrote an article on him its pretty standard OpenAI exec stuff (that is being a wacko high off his own tech)
lurker@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026English
10·8 days ago“please forgive me for spreading sinophobic propaganda for bailouts i have a baby :((“
lurker@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026English
7·9 days agoOh no every day sneerclub teaches me about a new guy.
I’ve been aware of Faggella for a while (entirely against my will) he’s got an interview with Yud on his podcast which contains this all-timer quote:
”If sacrificing all of humanity were the only way, and a reliable way, to get … godlike things out there — superintelligences who still care about each other, who are still aware of the world and having fun — I would ultimately make that trade-off.”
lurker@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026English
5·9 days agofull AI communism
LMFAOOOOOO
lurker@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026English
5·10 days agofor frame of reference, this is the kind of stuff he tweets
lurker@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026English
6·10 days agoah sweet horrors that are perfectly in my comprehension. what the fuck



never thought id see r/moralityscaling and r/whowouldcirclejerk here ever lol. but christ alive why would you ever conceive of this