gerikson

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 4 weeks ago

you know why people use reddit and lemmy because they don’t have to read the articles because people summarize the source material accurately in the title and summary

this is the funniest thing I've read all week, thanks for the LOL my dude

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for expanding. I think every company that has a biggish community has to deal with nazi entryism.

This was the story I remembered about this

https://kotaku.com/the-struggle-over-gamers-who-use-mods-to-create-racist-1826606138

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Isn't there a huge neo-nazi subculture around Paradox games, with weird mods and stuff?

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

To be fair there are lots of forests one can be on other side of in Eurasia...

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

There is no Poland, which unfortunately tracks, historically.

I can see Denmark having Scania now, which is what a lot of the more racist Scanians have wanted since forever. But you can't just split Sweden (Sverige, Svea Rike) into Sweden and Svealand, which isn't even historically correct (it's way too big).

Also Ulster being 50% of the island of Eire is gonna work out great.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Dude discovers that one LLM model is not entirely shit at chess, spends time and tokens proving that other models are actually also not shit at chess.

The irony? He's comparing it against Stockfish, a computer chess engine. Computers playing chess at a superhuman level is a solved problem. LLMs have now slightly approached that level.

For one, gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct rarely suggests illegal moves,

Writeup https://dynomight.net/more-chess/

HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42206817

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Anyone here read "World War Z"? There's a section there about how the health authorities in basically all countries supress and deny the incipient zombie outbreak. I think about that a lot nowadays.

Anyway the COVID response, while ultimately better than the worst case scenario (Spanish Flu 2.0) has made me really unconvinced we will do anything about climate change. We had a clear danger of death for millions of people, and the news was dominated by skeptics. Maybe if it had targetted kids instead of the very old it would have been different.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago (20 children)

HN runs smack into end-stage Effective Altruism and exhibit confusion

Title "The shrimp welfare project " is editorialized, the original is "The Best Charity Isn't What You Think".

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The SH is catnip to "scientific types" who don't recognize it as a rebrand of classical metaphysics. After all, they know how computers work, and it can't be that hard to simulate the entire workings of a universe down to the quark level, can it? So surely someone just a bit smarter than themselves have already done it and are running a simulation with them in it. It's basically elementary!

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Shorter HN: wasting gigawatts of power to increase VC valuations - fine. Discarding 80k pounds of butter because of missing allergen information is the worst thing to happen since the burning of the library of Alexandria

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42150991

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Some techbro proposes "HumaneRank" as a distribution system in the post-AI era and while HN finds it disturbingly like a global popularity system at least "it's better than Communism":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42140664

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Running for office is just a stunt for these people. More unearned publicity.

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