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maol 10 points 5 days ago

Everything written by AI boosters tracks much more clearly if you simply replace "AI" with "cocaine". I shall demonstrate! (Not linking to OP, because it's trash.)

"Let's pretend you're the only person at your company using cocaine. You decide you're going to impress your employer, and work for 8 hours a day at 10x productivity. You knock it out of the park and make everyone else look terrible by comparison. [...] In this scenario, you capture 100% of the value from your adopting cocaine."

JWZ.org, February 2026

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maol 7 points 5 days ago

Hmmm...

  • Reaction Watch (like retraction watch but, you know. reactionaries)

  • Mad At Reactionary Techies

  • Action Against Computer Cults

  • Computer Users Against Reactionary Losers

  • Silicon Valley Antifa

  • ???

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maol 7 points 5 days ago

I think anything with language about advocacy, speaking out, justice, fairness etc. is good because it contrasts with the EA belief that public policy must only be discussed in a totally values neutral way with any personal standpoints optimized out.

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maol 3 points 5 days ago path: 0 26213377 26214650, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0
maol 43 points 2 years ago

They bought this house and the one next door for $575,000; they allow their neighbours to live in the second house rent free, in exchange for childcare.

Seems normal !

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maol 38 points 2 years ago

OH WOW WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS

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maol 27 points 2 years ago

She's entitled to a "default mode of victimhood"! She is your victim!

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maol 27 points 2 years ago

"poor people have had it too good for too long and slavery is the only answer. I consider myself a pragmatic centrist"

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maol 26 points 5 months ago

Darren Cullen: "I'm being left behind by the AI revolution in the same way that I was left behind when Heaven's Gate ascended to join the spaceship that was hiding behind a comet"

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maol 26 points 2 years ago path: 0 11847206 11849495, hotness: undefined, score: 26, children: 0
maol 24 points 2 years ago

That's because there is no "movement" and the whole thing is a stunt to promote the ideas of the least thoughtful of all the unthoughtful people who nonetheless consider themselves intellectuals.

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maol 22 points 2 years ago

Eugenics in action:

Danish parenting tests under fire after baby removed from Greenlandic mother

Psychometric tests are widely used in Denmark as part of child protection investigations into new parents, and have long been criticised by human rights bodies as culturally unsuitable for Greenlandic people and other minorities.

In a 2022 report, the institute said that because the tests were not adapted to take cultural differences into account, Greenlandic parents ran “the risk of obtaining low test scores, so that it is concluded, for example, that they have reduced cognitive abilities, without there being actual evidence for this."

Psychological assessments of her were made by a Danish-speaking psychologist. Kronvold, whose first language is Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic), is not fluent in Danish.

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maol 22 points 4 months ago

Some good news for once: Dublin punk bar the Thomas House have had enough of AI slop.

alt text

A picture of a "no AI" symbol next to the Thomas House logo.

"So for the future (literally) we're not accepting AI posters or flyers for the pub.

We're right next to Ireland's biggest Art College, lads. It's not a good look.

We understand bands can be skint but relying on some earth killing app from some paedo Island billionaire is not the way. We got by without it and we'll get by again. If you're stuck, we'll help.

Yes it has been used here before but consider this the start of the end of it. Thanks, humans."

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maol 22 points a year ago

We wanted to be able to hold a job without reciting DEI shibboleths or filling in multiple-choice exams about how white people cause earthquakes. Instead we got a thousand scientific studies cancelled because they used the string “trans-” in a sentence on transmembrane proteins.

If you were too racist to see the wood for the trees, that's your problem comrade! Well, actually it's everyone's problem now.

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maol 21 points 2 years ago

Slate says: "For the Love of God, Stop Profiling This Couple!"

The Collinses are ineffective, abusive industry plants from Peter Thiel’s extended circle. They know they’re entirely media creations. They play off that fact to ensure that journalists never follow up on how many initiatives they’ve started and abandoned, neglect to interrogate their contradictory stances on issues like abortion and “race science,” and even seem to accept that they’re openly being taken for a ride by these dorks. Yet in spite of it all, no one listens to their podcast, they don’t really have much of a following, and their specific appeal is concentrated to a few far-right circuits.

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maol 21 points 2 years ago

He looks like younger, bow-tie era Tucker Carlson. Twat.

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maol 21 points 2 years ago

Eric Schmidt, genocidaire

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maol 20 points 2 years ago

I don't make the rules, so you'd have to consult whoever does make the rules. I'm not really sure who that is though

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maol 20 points 2 years ago

It's mad that we have an actual existential crisis in climate change (temperature records broken across the world this year) but these cunts are driving themselves into a frenzy over something that is nowhere near as pressing or dangerous. Oh, people dying of heatstroke isn't as glamorous? Fuck off

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maol 18 points 2 years ago

Forced to endure an episode of an Irish tv programme about the environment in which a guest sincerely listed carbon capture & storage and small nuclear reactor as potential energy solutions. As mentioned above, the earth is our coffin, hope is a mistake, etc

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