[-] schnoopy@awful.systems 4 points 6 days ago

Engineers are a formally certified thing, you don't get to call yourself an engineer because you make digital machines.

One of the certification requirements is ethical standards and education.

[-] schnoopy@awful.systems 16 points 1 month ago

Too anthropomorphised.

We ran software that generates code associated with a particular task, in an environment that executes that code and can feed it's outputs back into the software. We configured the environment to be open to the net at large, and ran the software with no oversight and without adequate security to prevent the running of malicious code.

This isn't some sinister electric god with no morals, it's strapping circular saws to a roomba and setting it loose in a shopping centre.

[-] schnoopy@awful.systems 16 points 1 month ago

Katja, I'm curious if noticing this analogy has updated your position on immigration at all.

Katja, are you admitting migrants are bad katja? Katja we must hate together.

Also note that while most of the right is focused on reducing low-skill immigration, a few have criticized high-skill immigration precisely because high-skill immigrants are better at pursuing values misaligned to those of the existing popuation (article of nonsense redacted)

The dang woke migrants are going to ~~replace us~~ ~~betray us~~ ~~Muslim us~~ be socially tolerant and left wing!

[-] schnoopy@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago

How Unitree democratized legged robotics

In the USA they are so brainwashed by capitalism they think democracy is when you can afford a product if you're wealthy.

[-] schnoopy@awful.systems 15 points 2 months ago

Mate, literally the ancient Greeks wrote shit down about how tools shape behaviour.

In English we have "to the man with a hammer everything looks like a nail". Nothing is neutral, you're not that foolish you're wishcasting.

[-] schnoopy@awful.systems 19 points 2 months ago

In my brief foray into it, actually I met singer once lol at a lunch about it, no. Really just that it's a cheap way to save people that were otherwise ignored because of racism.

You still encounter disgusting narratives about overpopulation and people living in Africa, despite most of these people's resource consumption and thus strain on the world being completely negligible compared to the sort of people that love making those arguments.

Malaria is suuuuper upsetting and preventable.

There were always racists in the movement and its ideological foundations are shakey but they didn't have hegemony at the start.

[-] schnoopy@awful.systems 19 points 2 months ago

The kids are alright!

[-] schnoopy@awful.systems 17 points 2 months ago

OpenAI is slowing development because of uh safety https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/18/open-ai-pause-hack

Definitely not because improvement is stagnating and they're running out of money

[-] schnoopy@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago

On one hand, this is awful. On the other hand, if I worked at a garbage tech company and my boss would not only pay me to sabotage the code base and spend their money but also reward me for doing so.... I mean that's an attractive proposition.

No for real it's baffling. What happens when your profession doesn't have a licensing board.

[-] schnoopy@awful.systems 13 points 3 months ago

Anthropic, moments later: Chatbots are developing the ability to parse the intentions of the user and sabotage violent actions. Suggesting LLMs are developing conscience.

[-] schnoopy@awful.systems 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The group felt hard to categorize. It seemed more Red Tribey than Blue Tribey (though it contained both), and I eventually learned that its membership contained many old-school NRx scenesters. But these guys violated my expectations about Red Tribe, because they were funny, brilliant media observers who never said anything racist or sexist (at least not in that Slack). Nowadays there is a ton of media coverage about NRx and the dissident right, but this coverage has largely failed to capture how the best parts of the movement felt non-denominational. Or at least, that’s how it felt when I started spending hours per day in this Slack group.

Liberalism is a disease of the mind where, due to an inability to distinguished aesthetics from substance, one ends up judging things on means rather than ends.

History's greatest monsters have been well dressed and genteel. Many of the most ardent fighters for humanity are coarse, flawed, and unpleasant. Mayhaps a lesson about books and covers? Let's see where this group ends up

I don’t spent as much time in the movement these days; it’s turned into an echo chamber; racism and sexism are front-and-center

Oh Apollo, free me from this curse.

[-] schnoopy@awful.systems 19 points 4 months ago

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