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Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025

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    • Google Veo 3 fails, week 3 — fail harder with a vengeance (video)

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  • Ignoring the lack of direction following, everything looks so plastic. Probably video game cutscene training showing through.

    • Microsoft lays off the staff who make the money to fund AI that doesn’t

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  • From the perspective of the company I work for (not a tech company, but has a pretty large development center) they truly believe that AI will 10x productivity. Not so much the FOOM stuff. Just typical Capitalism.

    • The rise of Whatever

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  • They would like to describe what they want and receive Whatever — some beige sludge that vaguely resembles it. That isn’t programming, though. That’s management, a fairly different job. I’m not interested in managing. I’m certainly not interested in managing this bizarre polite lying daydream machine.

    This is where I am right now. They are pushing AI hard at work, even shaming people that haven't signed up for copilot. They brought in some MS rep to tell us how the future of work was going to be wrangling AI agents. This is not the future that I want.

    • $219 Springer Nature AI textbook was written with a chatbot

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  • I'm reminded of that Folding Ideas video where he writes a book for some get rich quick book mill scheme. I bet that stuff is all AI now.

    • Wake up babe, new "in this moment I am enlightened" copypasta just dropped

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  • It's this. He doesn't care about the details, he just wants the trivia. He's not interested in understanding anything, he just wants the power point version of reality. Cliff's notes for reading assignments in school.

    • Theranos: First Blood Part II

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  • yeah it's going to be the same scam only this time without those pesky regulators checking to see if it actually works and spooking the investors

    • Sneerquence classics: Eliezer on GOFAI (half serious half sneering effort post)

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  • it's interesting that Yud doesn't realize that Cyc is basically what he thought Lenat should have done with Eurisko

    • Scoots hot new AGI goss just dropped, Trump loses 3rd election to Grok in stunning upset

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  • ~100 snake oil salesmen agree that this here elixir will cure all your ills!

    • EAs sad that their previous rich grifters are trying to distance themselves from the movement

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  • “a journalist goes through your public statements looking for the most damning or hypocritical things you’ve ever said out of context” is an incredibly tricky situation to come out of looking good

    only if, you know, your public statements contain lots of damning things

    • Elon Musk’s DOGE turns to AI to accelerate its destructive incompetence

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  • they're going to try to write COBOL with AI. let's see how that works out

    • The Origins of Totalitarianism Wokeness by Paul "Chodejuggler" Graham

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  • god damn couldn't even get past the first paragraph where he describes himself, while trying to attribute it to others

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th January 2025

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    • OpenAI whistleblower found dead at 26 in San Francisco apartment | TechCrunch

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  • AIfu

    That's gold. I like it.

    • your Bayesian yacht is an outlier adn should not be counted

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  • Damn, HP doesn't mess around. I'm going to stop trashing them around the office.

    • Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves

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    • AI hot air at ‘Davos in the Desert’ with Elon Musk and SoftBank

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  • And by costlier he means power consumption. Ten thousand times more powerful! Still can't do basic math without handing it off to a calculator.

    • the enshittification of magic: the gathering

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  • I was about to laugh about 2020 being cyberpunk, but come to think about it 2020 was the most cyberpunk year so far with everyone stuck inside doing everything on the internet.

    • OpenAI’s Whisper audio transcriber makes up hospital treatments and medications

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  • I will never get tired of that saltman pic.

    • Elon Musk gets his AI ideas from whatever sci-fi movie he saw last

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  • I think he would probably identify more with a different character.