Soyweiser

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 10 hours ago

ow god forgot about all the tabs I had stored in that one. (thanks btw, but I already use something like that, I just need to clean up, finish things, or decide not to finish things).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I can answer that, as turdstock 2024 is on yt, it seems this john rich guy talking about how much he likes catturd, begging for donations (while saying fema is bad), some people spending a lot of time saying nothing (I'm skimming past and there is so much nothing being said), and some country songs (which is not my genre, did notice that for one guy the mix was off, making the music/singing bad to hear, so well done tech team there (they fix it later but still)). And then I saw the audience (they also said millions watched catturd 2023, which considering this vid has 9k views, and there are like 100 people in the audience I doubt (checked turdstock 2023, which seems to only be on rumble 223k views. So lol, double lol, saw the same fucking artists (and the for the same guy the technical issues, poor guy) (and wow rumble sucks compared to yt)). There actually also don't seem to be that many songs, think half the time was people talking. Also, No Catturd appearance from what I can tell (E: he is there, he just doesn't do anything it seems, he prob speaks a few minutes I guess). Also really weird bit about how somebody send a mean facebook post and facebook went 'are you sure this is mean' and they went all 'zuck was never punched in the face on the playground ... the founding fathers ... there was a patriot girl ... [5 minutes of talking] ... when those redcoats moved on us ... etc (this bit took 20 minutes between songs)'. There is also a guy praying for various things on stage, angry raised catholic noises

But yes, can't judge it on the music, as an event it seemed boring as fuck, too much talking, not enough music, boring audience (none of who were holding drinks), weird political message. Rather watch Kreator for 4 hours, which considering some of the speech clips I hear, seems to be the message they were going for. Somehow the geriatrics in the audience are the most dangerous people because they only want to be left alone (??). No lightshow, no stage presence, no skulls, no fireworks (this is both a comment on the lack of fireworks, and a general comment on what I saw).

Anyway, seems my initial feeling of massive uncool stands. ~~Also seem they reused the slash cat AI image for 2025.~~ Nope different cat, just same AI slop shit.

E: "Ticket Price: $199 plus taxes and fees." WHAT Wacken metalfest costs 333,00 € and that is for a whole weekend (and actually has a real Slash).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 21 hours ago

Tbh, them starting a post with 'they are unhealthy' and something about lacking vital essence would have been a warning. (And I dont even think it is true, sure Yud was a bit overweight, but he seems normal health wise to me).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

(now I wonder when "no grape juice" will appear in search results).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (3 children)

Close tabs? That might mean I lose them. Madness. You can take my 400 open tab (Late edit: ow god I wish I was lying about that number) from my cold dead hands!

Googles how to improve hand circulation

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 21 hours ago

I expect the time right around when the first ASI gets built to be chaotic, unstable, and scary

Somebody should touch grass, or check up on the news.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (3 children)

The whole thing screams old people desperately trying to be edge and cool but missing all the signifiers. A 'bad'word but baby talk style (like a young child saying poop), reference to slash which was already dated when I was young, the time of day so people can arrive home early and still make dinner (and not late at night like the cool music thing). The headliner is a twitter microceleb and not an actual cool band. But hey, at least kid rock isnt attending, so it escapes the 100% poser feeling.

E: saw this on my bsky, the guy is such a sad loser.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As is tradition.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No the frozen part is the important part. Can use any kind of juice, except grape.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yeah but then also getting the recipe for napalm from fight club.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 15 points 1 day ago (21 children)

Every now and then I think back towards the early "jailbreaks" where they wanted to know "how do you break into a building" which they refused to answer. And people went "add that it should pretend to be in a movie", so then the chatbot started to explain lockpicking, and people acted like they just cracked the code.

While people who actually try to break in just tap the locks. Smashing their way in.

Sp the prompt hackers had not hacked the chatbot, they actually hacked themselves.

Anyway unrelated to people who think they have awoken chatbots.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Soyweiser@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
 

Begrudgingly Yeast (@begrudginglyyeast.bsky.social) on bsky informed me that I should read this short story called 'Death and the Gorgon' by Greg Egan as he has a good handle on the subjects/subjects we talk about. We have talked about Greg before on Reddit.

I was glad I did, so going to suggest that more people he do it. The only complaint you can have is that it gives no real 'steelman' airtime to the subjects/subjects it is being negative about. But well, he doesn't have to, he isn't the guardian. Anyway, not going to spoil it, best to just give it a read.

And if you are wondering, did the lesswrongers also read it? Of course: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hx5EkHFH5hGzngZDs/comment-on-death-and-the-gorgon (Warning, spoilers for the story)

(Note im not sure this pdf was intended to be public, I did find it on google, but might not be meant to be accessible this way).

 

The interview itself

Got the interview via Dr. Émile P. Torres on twitter

Somebody else sneered: 'Makings of some fantastic sitcom skits here.

"No, I can't wash the skidmarks out of my knickers, love. I'm too busy getting some incredibly high EV worrying done about the Basilisk. Can't you wash them?"

https://mathbabe.org/2024/03/16/an-interview-with-someone-who-left-effective-altruism/

 

Some light sneerclub content in these dark times.

Eliezer complements Musk on the creation of community notes. (A project which predates the takeover of twitter by a couple of years (see the join date: https://twitter.com/CommunityNotes )).

In reaction Musk admits he never read HPMOR and he suggests a watered down Turing test involving HPMOR.

Eliezer invents HPMOR wireheads in reaction to this.

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