Announcing my sneerclub follow up to MAPLE: “Man, All These Losers Are Bonkers” aka MATLAB

sick reference. I don’t even know how I knew this.

Ah thanks! On mobile the main page gets redirected to spam, but the site is navigable from the archive.

has only a few minor credits[…], he always came off as a bit of a weirdly combative nerd who thought he was right and the smartest in the room and didn’t get that people didn’t agree with his definitions/assumptions. He is a big idea guy for example.

gosh i’m sure glad that these kinds of people disappeared from the internet /s

Never read AMD (and shan’t). The author’s site appears to be live.

8BF’s site has been taken over by bots, and I can’t be bothered to find an alternate source. Dead internet go brrrrr. Otherwise, the creator, Brian Clevinger, appears to have had a long career in comics, and has written many things for Marvel.

obligatory reminder that “dath ilan” is misspelled “thailand” and I still don’t know why. Working theory is Yud wants to recolonise thailand

also: The int-maxxing and overinflated ego of it all reminds me of the red mage from 8-bit theater, a webcomic based on final fantasy about the LW (light warriors) that ran from 2001-2010

E: thinking back on it, reading this webcomic and seeing this character probably in some part inoculated me against people like yud without me knowing

calling this shit “AI”

I blame Paul Simon /s

ah no they are in a totalitarian state ruled by the literal forces of hell, places that totally praise merit based upwards mobility.

Hey, write what you know

and what’s at the center of race realism? Cereal. Guys. Big Grain is behind all this. /s

Anyone found with a non-cube platonic solid will be lockerized indefinitely

Skip the unobtainium I say, let’s just implement the human instrumentality project and tangify us all into a collective goo.

DAE remember when neel armstrong invented nasa and said his famous quote “That’s one small step for man, ok let’s fill this motherfucker up with GPUs”

Can’t wait for them to start publishing chapters of the KP coauthored glowfic!

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E: we didn’t fucking know

We’ve definitely sneered at this before, i do not recall if it was known that KP was the cowriter in this weird forum RP fic

E: googling “lintamande kelsey piper” and looking at a reddit post digs up the inactive since 2018 AO3. A total just shy of 130k words, a little marvel stuff, most of it LOTR based, and some of it tagged “Vladmir Putin/Sauron”. How fun!

No judgement from me, tbh. Fanfic be fanficking. I aint gonna read that shit tho.

Everyone agrees that the release of GPT-5 was botched. Everyone can also agree that the direct jump from GPT-4o and o3 to GPT-5 was not of similar size to the jump from GPT-3 to GPT-4, that it was not the direct quantum leap we were hoping for, and that the release was overhyped quite a bit.

a quantum leap might actually be accurate

I believe that Cade knows perfectly well what everyone has been saying for years; he’s being disingenuous because purging engrams through auditing doesn’t matter to him, and the only important thing is ensuring that these thetans don’t get clear. He’s never once engaged on operating level 1 with this community.

ZMD: […] What is the word “near-religious” doing in that sentence? You could have just cut the word and just said, “their concerns about AI”, and it would be a perfectly informative sentence.

CM: My job is to explain to people what is going on. These are laypeople. They don’t necessarily have any experience with the tech industry or with your community or with what’s going on here. You have to make a lot of decisions in order to do that, right? The job is to take information from lots and lots and lots of people who each bring something to the article, and then you consolidate that into a piece that tries to convey all that information. If you write a article about Google, Google is not necessarily going to agree with every word in the article.

ZMD: Right, I definitely understand that part.

What’s fun is that ZMD doesn’t understand how someone could boil down the entire worldview of the rats from millions of words to just “near religious”, not only at the conceptual level of it being culty but also just on the level of efficiency of language.

Pronounced ruh-nine-presentationalism