David Gerard
the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
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David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•You can’t feed generative AI on ‘bad’ data then filter it for only ‘good’ dataEnglish0·4 hours agoright right, but we only see these bozos when they show up locally
mind you there’s been more than one illustrious poster I’ve banned preemptively
but frankly life is too short in most cases
David Gerard@awful.systemsto Programming@programming.dev•If AI is so good at coding - where are the open source contributions?English12·2 days agoBaldur Bjarnason (who hates AI slop) has posited precisely this:
My current theory is that the main difference between open source and closed source when it comes to the adoption of “AI” tools is that open source projects generally have to ship working code, whereas closed source only needs to ship code that runs.
David Gerard@awful.systemsto Programming@programming.dev•If AI is so good at coding - where are the open source contributions?English101·2 days agoI asked Github Copilot and it added
import wreak
to .NET, so we’ll get back to you.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•You can’t feed generative AI on ‘bad’ data then filter it for only ‘good’ dataEnglish0·2 days agoYes, I know, I wrote it. Why do you consider this useful to post here?
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•You can’t feed generative AI on ‘bad’ data then filter it for only ‘good’ dataEnglish0·2 days agowhy did you post literally just the text from the article
yeah, I think that’s enough
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•UK AI unicorn Builder.ai is dead — the downfall of “AGI”: A Guy InsteadEnglish0·3 days agoi love awful systems so much
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•UK AI unicorn Builder.ai is dead — the downfall of “AGI”: A Guy InsteadEnglish0·3 days agoThe Register said in its Builder.AI obit that the company is really into making its devs use AI coding. lol.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto SneerClub@awful.systems•Is Effective Altruism Neocolonial?English0·4 days agoahem Little Big
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•GitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slopEnglish0·4 days agoquite amazing that (a) Microsoft basically bought open source with GitHub (b) and are now trying to fuck it up so hard people leave
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025English0·5 days agonew Ziz story, coupla days ago https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/ziz-rationalism-lasota-pasek-20323332.php
also featuring our old friend Zack Davis
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025English0·5 days agoa shitload i expect. but checking authorities actually exist is probably gonna become an obvious thing to do lol
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Does AI make researchers more productive? What? Why would it? Apparently you can just say that and almost get published!English0·5 days agoI mean this post seems largely correct and reasonable, but ehh be a little cautious
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Latest AI-hallucinated legal filing, from AI vendor AnthropicEnglish0·5 days agoword i hear is that too many lawyers fucking love this shit, they see plausible words and think that’s sufficient to
replacesupplement the office peonsthen this happens to them and lol
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Does AI make researchers more productive? What? Why would it? Apparently you can just say that and almost get published!English0·6 days agoIf you’re after streams-crossing - this guy is a rationalist who does Manifold Markets
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Trump announces vaporware AI data centres in the United Arab EmiratesEnglish0·8 days agofinally we have constructed a completely unsexy robot
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Even Elon Musk can’t make Grok claim a ‘white genocide’ in South AfricaEnglish0·8 days agosomeone said it was Kendrick and Drake, i thought it was two Drakes pointing at each other
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Even Elon Musk can’t make Grok claim a ‘white genocide’ in South AfricaEnglish0·9 days agoit will explain its position with interpretive twerking
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto SneerClub@awful.systems•Death and the Gorgon - Greg EganEnglish0·9 days agoEgan already told Hanson to fuck off in a previous story, Zendegi:
“My IQ is one hundred and sixty … You can always reach me through my blog, Overpowering Falsehood dot com, the number one site for rational thinking about the future —”
my god