don’t kinkshame

Spring is in the air, and someone presenting themselves as interested in fucking rationalist males has authored a piece about how said men can dress a bit better and maybe, just maybe, get laid:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vHtouRBd8JNm2tNLH/basic-principles-for-dressing-better

as usual, the real comedy is in the comments

• I dress like a schlub specifically to avoid advertising my sexual availability - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vHtouRBd8JNm2tNLH/basic-principles-for-dressing-better?commentId=RLdXtcStz9wdAvb4d
• “The item that I currently wear that expresses the most about me is my Oura ring followed by barefoot shoes.” - strangely not the same as the commenter above
• “When it comes to slim fit jeans I have the impression that fashion changed. Five years ago they were seen as great and now they don’t? Is that accurate?”
• “Overall, I think it makes the most sense to go to the pareto frontier here. You can spend 300-400 total getting some nice looking earth tone button-ups, well-fitting pants that aren’t blue jeans, trim your beard, get regular haircuts from an actual salon, shower daily, and make sure you smell decent.”
• “[…] when I look at the examples, what occurs to me is that dressing like the example would cause me to stick out and make it obvious to others I am making a special effort, and I’d rather not do that.”
• "I was hoping for more fashion theory; the why. "
• “It is fascinating to receive such communiqués of strange news from another star. I would not know, without your saying so, that the set of 10 pictures are intended to be good examples and not bad examples.”
• “[…] it is far more important that whatever my spouse wears be a pleasant texture to put my face on, most buttondown material fails this criterion but linen passes” - actually this is just cute

I’m sure he’ll enjoy being deported back to la République populaire démocratique de Quebec and spending a short time in the reeducations camps before being set to work installing solar panels

can’t wait for the inevitable livestreamed freakout/cannibalism scene

xheet is deleted, was is Beff Jezoz who wrote that? background? though he was as American as apple piethe Ku Klux Klan

depressing datapoint, this comment was downvoted to the point where it was auto-collapsed yesterday, today it’s “only” on -2

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bB5EDwcYH3GwoRWZf/women-should-be-able-to-open-things?commentId=jZdghN2N6ZopkzwzT

Here’s Florida settling for almost half a million Ameros for firing someone for posting on a private Instagram that Kirk was a giant douche who got what was coming to him (paraphrased)

https://www.aclufl.org/press-releases/civil-rights-lawyers-secure-485000-settlement-for-fwc-biologist-fired-over-charlie-kirk-social-media-post/

several other people have commented on the tone, and I believe it’s just because it’s massaged to be more marketing-ly

same with the local LLM crap, it’s to appeal to investors

I have seen nerds be mad at them for using Discord and GitHub too, some people are really hard to please

doubt this will ever see the light of day anyway

A LWer of the female persuasion makes the entirely reasonable point that most screw-top openings are probably constructed by looking at median male grip strength, not female. But the real fun is in the comments, where people who can post comments on a blog are seemingly unfamiliar with opening jam jars.

Women should be able to open things

spending way too much on GPUs is the spending way to much on mining rigs

at least dude didn’t burn his house down

It’s not a typical umlaut, (we have those in Swedish too), it’s like 2 sharp bunny ears

edit LOL it’s literally “double acute accent” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_acute_accent#Unicode

name in Hungarian: Erdős Pál

Apparently Hungarian has 4 different Os: O, Ó, Ö, Ő

HN, lobste.rs and LW are jizzing themselves over the newspress release that ChatGPT[1] has disproven an Erdos[2] conjecture.

no-one pauses to think this is a transparent attempt to goose interest in OpenAI before they commit an IPO

[1] I know it’s not literally ChatGPT, it’s an “internal model”

[2] fuck trying to find the double acute accent or w/e it’s called over the o

this is a good way of getting rid of hyperactive deadwood

Just wait until investors demand the satellites be powered by diesel instead of solar panels

At least the retiree who was jailed for 37 days for posting a meme has gotten a settlement:

https://www.fire.org/news/victory-tennessee-man-jailed-37-days-trump-meme-wins-835000-settlement-after-first-amendment

Here’s a story about a douchebag who lost because AI:

Wonkette: Creep Who Sued Women Who Warned Others Not To Date Him Loses Case Due To AI-Reliant Lawyer - “Finally, a good use for AI!”

The brief included no citation to any legislative findings, let alone any including the statute’s targets as the brief asserted. We could not find any reference to the phrases “amplified exposure and endangerment” or “cyber vigilantism” within the Doxing Act. There also are no legislative findings included in the codification of the Doxing Act, the session law, or any publicly available version of the bill. These mistakes and fictitious quotations bear the hallmarks of the misuse of generative artificial intelligence.

those golf greens aren’t gonna be green otherwise!

well yeah, the “debunking” takes a very high level view that the “average citizen” in the US or wherever shouldn’t care about data center water usage because “on average” the US has plenty of water. But if your local water rates are going through the roof because a DC is built next to your house, you’re not average.

I realize water legislation in esp the Western states of the US is kinda fucked up but in the end growing food and basic hygeine is more important than generating spam, so I don’t think these projects are gonna make it

Rationalists: we should always incorporate new data into our worldview

Also rationalists: I found some anthropology study of Australian First nations from 1899 and found it fascinating

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QZM6pErzL7JwE3pkv/shortplav?commentId=zn2bXx2WmLmyGiefm

Of course they measured skulls.

presented without context, because it’s funnier that way: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YiRsCfkJ2ERGpRpen/leogao-s-shortform?commentId=yE4Y2AoMPXGcTZw8B