Wrong thread, buddy?
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- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Coding in a material world | deadSimpleTechEnglish1·20 hours ago
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025English10·6 days ago
I think they’re different people but may be in communication out of band.
edit a search for “HandofLixue” on Google only gives one hit, an old profile on LessWrong now renamed to “The Dao of Bayes”:
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025English9·7 days ago
Maybe instead of worrying about obscure wiki pages, Habryka should reflect why a linkpost titled Racial Dating Preferences and Sexual Racism is on the front page of his precious community now, with 48 karma and 22 comments.
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Iyo vs. Io — OpenAI and Jony Ive get suedEnglish6·7 days ago
Pretty sure Altman is gonna get away with settling with Iyo. Hopefully they demand cold hard cash and not weird-ass OpenAI company scrip.
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025English11·7 days ago
Following up on the thread that spawned from my comment yesterday:
https://awful.systems/comment/7777035
(I’m in vacation mode and forgot it was late on Sunday)
I wonder if Habryka, the LWer who posted both there and on Xhitter that “someone should do something about this troublesome page” realized that there would be less pushback if he’d simply coordinated in the background and got the edits in place without forewarning others. Was it intentional to try to pick a fight with Wikipedians?
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd June 2025English10·8 days ago
Re-begun, the edit wars over EA have:
it’s circled back to LW so expect a bunch of people showing up going ACTUALLY
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EhE2jsiMcqGPRjd9a/papetoast-s-shortforms?commentId=AgG8ZM8kP98TKoW7J
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•OpenAI needs its $40 billion funding deal — so it’s threatening Microsoft!English7·13 days ago
I’m no fan of MSFT but in this case I hope they squeeze Saltman for everything he has.
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd June 2025English11·13 days ago
They have a badge now, JFC
- gerikson@awful.systemstoSneerClub@awful.systems•Wake up babe, new "in this moment I am enlightened" copypasta just droppedEnglish7·14 days ago
pls let me know who thinks Ringworld is ”hard SF” so I can punch them
- gerikson@awful.systemstoSneerClub@awful.systems•Wake up babe, new "in this moment I am enlightened" copypasta just droppedEnglish10·14 days ago
spoilers for a number of works follow
Hyperion - mankind lives in uneasy competition with semi-hostile AIs. Wars between human factions have already killed billions. The Earth is destroyed by a science experiment dropping a black hole into the core. The farcaster (teleportation) network causes ecological disasters on multiple planets.
Dune - after catastrophic wars between humans and AIs, computers are forbidden. The only way to travel interstellar distances are via the monopoly of the Guild navigators. Society is explicitely feudal. Our hero protagonist disrupts this, establishing a theocracy in a war that kills billions. His successor holds humanity in societal stasis for millenia, to induce the Scattering that will preserve it from similar societies in the future. Of course, billions die during this period.
Foundation - humanity collapses into a new Dark Age. Presumably, trillions die.
Ringworld - I read it long ago but it was so 70s I’ve basically blotted it out. The wiki summary indicates it’s not so bad unless you’re stranded on the Ringworld itself.
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th June 2025English7·17 days ago
Except my feeling is it’s mostly people who have grown up with Linux as a settled fact of computing life, not Unix greybeards.
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th June 2025English13·19 days ago
Don’t have much to add, other than I first became aware of this connection when Freenode imploded. I wrote in a short essay that
[the] dominant ideology of new Freenode is free speech, anti-LGBT, and adherence to fringe Unix shibboleths such as anti-systemd, anti-Codes of Conduct, and anti anti-RMS.
(src)
Maybe it’s connected to the phenomenon of old counter-cultural activist become massive racists.
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2025! Don’t expect much — it still doesn’t workEnglish17·21 days ago
As an Apple customer I am entirely unmoved by their utter failure to shoehorn an LLM into their gadgets. I’m starting to think they might have dodged a bullet by missing the hype train.
- gerikson@awful.systemstoSneerClub@awful.systems•Steven Pinker in race-science podcast shockerEnglish13·23 days ago
“Shocker”, yeah right. Least surprising appearance ever.
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th June 2025English13·24 days ago
This FT post about the VC ghouls getting blindsided by daddies Elon and Trump fighting is pretty entertaining
https://www.ft.com/content/df15f13d-310f-47a5-89ed-330a6a379068
David Friedberg, a co-host of the All-In podcast that often features Musk and that has become a sounding board for the Trump-aligned tech world, suggested there was a broader cost to America from the spat between the US president and the Tesla boss. “China just won,” he posted.
Behind the scenes, prominent Silicon Valley figures were desperately trying to prevent Musk from appearing on an emergency episode of the podcast, according to two people familiar with the matter, out of concern that the billionaire would make the dispute even worse and poison the relationship with tech’s most powerful ally in Washington, vice-president JD Vance.
L. O. L.
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th June 2025English12·24 days ago
I wonder if the US is closing in on the “imprison inconvenient billionaires for tax evasion” stage of managed democracy
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th June 2025English11·25 days ago
there’s no anime avatar, how do we know it’s really Elon?
LW was pushing this book hard - multiple posts by Habryka, custom color scheme on the front page. Granted, it’s perfectly in line with the site’s “mission” but several people commented on it.
In the meantime, I hope Nate finds happiness as an author b/c he doesn’t seem to find it by trying to use DOOM as a pretext to get laid:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dqSwccGTWyBgxrR58/turntrout-s-shortform-feed?commentId=9tK6DiFxk7bGqNMdT