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Cake day: September 7th, 2023

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  • The first part of that sentence is such a great example of what is wrong with Slatestarcodex style rationalism. It instantly fails the "Victorian Sufi Buddha Lite” comment policy (it is neither kind, charitable, nor backed up by evidence, also it is culture war). But that is only if think SSC is grey tribe, and these rules are rules. It is more rules in the way of how conservatism has rules. “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” (quote is by a Frank Wilhoit, just not the one people attribute it too). (I know it isn’t directly posted in the ssc comments, but isn’t that a nice way to get around the comment policy).


  • The culture war far right has an extreme hateboner for Taylor Lorenz, it is one of those really crazy things (they have a lot of hateboners for random people, which they keep for decades, and as you said almost always women).

    E: on that note, apparently culture warrior rightwingers are still mad about the ‘choose man or bear’ thing, and in a way that justifies the points made by the org thought experiment on how men are more likely to be malicious and unpredictable. Holy shit we suck so much at listening to people when we think the source is a woman.


  • I don’t know how new it is, but it first dropped on my radar about a year ago due to listening to the Risky Business cybersecurity podcast, not to be confused with the recent (and baffingly named (*)) podcast called ‘Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova’ (**) by dweeb Nate Silver. So I don’t know how long it was going on the wild, and im talking about the windows button + r attack method and not the github comments, no idea how long they used comments as a vector. And yes that part is also good, like the addition of trust of github + quite an effective attack is clever. Shouldn’t work on Real Nerds however.

    *: The name means that at least one of they didn’t [know|care|google] about the decades old cybersecurity podcast before naming their podcast that is true. Any of those is odd.

    **: addition to above, the tagline of the podcast is ‘a weekly podcast about making better decisions’ Look inwards Nate, look inwards.


  • For a while now I jave wondered how much of those “the llms all fail at this very basic task” problems that suddenly get fixed are not fixed by the model getting better but just a bandaid solution which solves that specific problem. (Putting another llm in front of the input to detect the problem and then sending it to the llm that is trained on that specific problem would be a bandaid solution btw, it is just adding more under the trenchcoat). And even if somebody were to answer this question, the well is so poisoned im not sure if I could believe them.