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aio@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th October 2026English
4·1 month agoWhat are you doing now? I feel like after I graduate I’m gonna have to find a new field.
aio@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th October 2026English
5·1 month agoIf it’s actually exploiting a bug in a formal system, no. If it’s a natural-language (unformalized) document which no one can understand, no. On the other hand a formal proof not using bugs which can’t be understood, is still considered a proof, though its value is lower than an understandable proof (because as you said in another comment, the real value is in understanding rather than theorems). The prototypical example before LLMs was the proof of the four-color theorem which relied on computer-checked casework.
aio@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
8·3 months agothey pronouns
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aio@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th August 2026English
8·3 months agoIt’s also vibe coded.
aio@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026English
3·4 months agoarticle is llm-generated
aio@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026English
6·4 months agodan olson jumpscare
aio@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th July 2026English
9·5 months agorationality is when i spend hours arguing on the internet about whether Omega could defeat Super Saiyan Goku
aio@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th June 2026English
4·5 months agoIrulan is an acronym of “urinal”
✍️🔥 thank you i will never be able to un-see it
aio@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026English
1·6 months agodeleted by creator
aio@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th May 2026English
4·6 months agoserial killer
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aio@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papersEnglish
6·6 months agoAh okay, I didn’t realize that.
aio@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papersEnglish
51·6 months agoIt’s not quite clear to me that
We rely on some standard LLM detectors to focus our attention on papers that need to be checked.
implies they are using LLMs themselves. The phrase “LLM detector” is a bit ambiguous and could mean “LLM being used as a detector” or just “classifier program designed to detect LLM output”.
aio@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026English
10·6 months agoim smarter than everyone else around me, especially those whiny feminists. why hasn’t society granted me a female to be my mate yet?
aio@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026English
1·7 months agoAs I explained elsewhere, my comment was just about the inapplicability of mathematics to this question. But also, is that really what morality always says? What if polls predict 1% will vote blue? What if they predict only one other person will vote blue? Are you always obligated to martyr yourself?
aio@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026English
1·7 months agoYou’re the one who mentioned “game theory” in the first place, I was just directly quoting you. My sentence was of the form “game theory doesn’t say X”, not “game theory does say Y”. I added quotation marks to clarify.
My point here is that you can make whatever philosophical and ethical arguments about the situation you want, but none of game theory, Arrow’s theorem, nor the concept of a dictator have any bearing on it. It is an ethics question rather than a mathematical question, and it is an error to claim that your argument is a mathematical one.
aio@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026English
2·7 months agoIf polls predict 40% blue you should not vote blue “as a matter of game theory”, because that is suicide.
aio@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026English
4·7 months agoI don’t understand the relevance of Arrow’s theorem. Why is your phrasing the correct way of analyzing the situation?
aio@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th April 2026English
16·7 months agorationalism is when i pull five numbers out of my ass and multiply them together
not muse pls