David Gerard
the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
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David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Single Pilot Operations — let’s replace airline copilots with AI!English2·2 days agoI understand this post is technically illegal in the US
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Crypto being the solution to the bot problem is the most techbro take I have seen so far.English7·2 days agothis user is far too informed and knowledgeable to lower himself to educating us peons, and has been guided elsewhere
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Your humanoid robot servant: a new hope for AGI! (A Guy Instead)English2·4 days agoholy shit
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto Buttcoin@awful.systems•U.S. Housing Agency Considers Launching Crypto ExperimentEnglish5·6 days agoMaxine Waters hates crypto bullshit with the fire of a thousand suns, she’s not in power any more but she can help jam this up
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025English6·6 days agowhen you say “made it”, i think FUCKING ROOSE
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025English9·6 days agothat’s CFAR cult jargon right?
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025English9·6 days agoapparently a complete archive of scott siskind’s old livejournal. found on the EA forum no less. https://archive.fo/fCFQx
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•LLMs average <5% on 2025 Math Olympiad; award each other 20x pointsEnglish14·6 days agothe user who cannot read has been guided to go not read elsewhere
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AGI Escapes Containment; Trump Admin: "Hold My Beer" — Tariff TerathreadEnglish3·7 days agoit’s all fallout from the tariffs yeah
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025English5·7 days agostill holds - it’s still a bunch that needs a label and that’s the label
even as TREACLES was right there
(i asked emile, they said it was TESCREAL is very searchable. i mean fine)
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Yet another rant about the state of the modern webEnglish9·7 days agoThe commenter has been directed elsewhere.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto SneerClub@awful.systems•How Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI in 2023: not being an AI doom crank (and lying a lot)English12·7 days agoI finished and realised Yudkowsky was the good guy in my story here. Because the other guy is fuckin’ Sam.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AGI Escapes Containment; Trump Admin: "Hold My Beer" — Tariff TerathreadEnglish2·7 days agoyeah, Nvidia is gonna be fine. They make a useful thing that people want and is the best in its field. I’ve spoken to Nvidia people, they know damn well this is a bubble and they’re making hay while the sun shines, but also NVDA has always been volatile as hell and they tend to assume Mr. Market is just on crack again.
The AI bubble takes out tech and thus the S&P 500. US stocks are fucked. Buuuut, I expect to see in about six hours that they’re fucked already. Edit: it’s coming up 08:00 UTC. Asia and Europe markets open, down about 10%. Yyyyeeeahhhh boyeeeeeeeeee
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025English15·7 days agoIn the late 2000s, rationalists were squarely in the middle of transhumanism. They were into the Singularity, but also the cryonics and a whole pile of stuff they got from the Extropians. It was very much the thing.
These days they’re most interested in Effective Altruism (loudly -the label at least) and race science (used to be quiet, now a bit louder). I hardly ever hear them even mention transhumanism as it was back then.
Did rationalists abandon transhumanism?
Is it just me? What happened?
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Customer service sucks, chatbots must be the solutionEnglish3·8 days agonow writing up for pivot. this is fucking inane.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th April 2025English4·8 days agoI did two Intelligence Squared debates in the UK. The best bit was I got paid. The second best was the people running it were actually very nice and quite competent. Recommend to all.
As for content, the first one featured the guy behind Liberland, so lol
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th April 2025English5·8 days agoCurtis Yarvin being into lizards is the most endearing thing I’ve ever heard about him
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AGI Escapes Containment; Trump Admin: "Hold My Beer" — Tariff TerathreadEnglish6·9 days agoso I previously predicted the AI bubble would pop on Trump’s watch and crash the stock market. Never did I envision Trump doing it to himself, in a manner so stupid I’m not sure anyone anticipated it.
I’m wondering what this does to the AI bubble. I think the bubble is led by trillions of dollars desperate for lottery-sized returns. There’s so much family, pension and sovereign wealth money that can’t get returns on sane investments that they’re left only with insane ones.
This is not about tech at all. If they thought they could do a tech bubble with ELIZA chatbots, we’d have number power plants being restarted to power hyperscale data centres running billions of copies of ELIZA.
What would it take for this crash to affect the AI bubble materially?
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•China massively overbuilds empty AI data centresEnglish7·9 days agoBy the same fuckin people! A perfect Pivot to AI
you saw nothing
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