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BlueMonday1984

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  • Former Reddit CEO

    wants humanity to "perish with dignity"

    The fuck does a former Reddit CEO know about dignity

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  • Rat-adjacent coder Scott Shambaugh has continued blogging on the PR disaster turned AI-generated pissy blog post.

    TL;DR: Ars Technica AI-generated an article with fabricated quotes (which got taken down after backlash), and Scott has reported a quarter of the comments he read taking the clanker's side in the entire debacle.

    Personally, I'm willing to take Scott at his word on that last part - between being a programmer and being a rat/rat-adjacent, chances are his circles are (were?) highly vulnerable to being hit by the LLM rot.

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  • So AI is a parasite that takes from Wikipedia, contributes nothing in return, and in fact actively chokes it out? And you think the solution is for Wikipedia to just surrender and implement AI features?

    Given how thoroughly tech bought into the AI hype, that is probably the exact "solution" he's thinking of.

    (Exactly why tech fell for the slop machines so hard, I'll probably never know.)

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  • some nimrod suggested skilled machinists be outfitted with pressure sensing gloves and cameras and patiently explain eahc machining step so the LLMs could take their jobs

    I expected a willingness from HN users to backstab the working class, but I didn't expect something this blatantly half-baked.

    10x developers, 0.1x proletariat.

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  • The whole thing's worth reading, but this snippet in particular deserves attention:

    Tech companies have done everything they can to maximise the potential harms of generative models because in doing so they think they’re maximising their own personal benefit.

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  • The first issue filed is called “Hello world does not compile” so you can tell it’s off to a good start.

    The comments are a hoot, at least.

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  • you completely skipped past one if not the most important theme in the novel which is language and the way people talk and write and the various ways they conduct themselves in different times and places

    I don't think the LWer even realised those themes were there. This whole review screams "failed high school English" to me.

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  • Found another website doing a good job keeping eye on the slop machines and their promoters: The AI Dirty List.

    It also lists those who have fought against the bullshit fountains as well.

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  • It gets worse:

    One of the great tragedies of AI and science is that the proliferation of garbage papers and journals is creating pressure to return to more closed systems based on interpersonal connections and established prestige hierarchies that had only recently been opened up somewhat to greater diversity.

  • Insurers don’t want to cover AI

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    insurers rely on the world being predictable in actuarial tables that allow them to ensure profiting from quantifiable risks. Non-deterministic AI is impossible to predict outcomes for. For an insurer, that is terrifying: they could potentially lose unlimited amounts of money. But I'm sure they're thrilled about genAI proliferation giving them sweeping new ways to exclude most business activities with a single discreet sentence, while maintaining the same premiums as before. In the next couple of years, AI adopters are going to find out their liability coverage has become utterly worthless because their activities are so contaminated by non-determinism which no one wants to cover.

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    Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th September 2025 - awful.systems

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025

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    The melancholy of history rhyming - Baldur Bjarnason on the fallout of AI

    www.baldurbjarnason.com /2025/the-melancholy-of-history-rhyming/
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systems

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th August 2025

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    Rolling the ladder up behind us - Xe Iaso on the LLM bubble

    xeiaso.net /blog/2025/rolling-ladder-behind-us/
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