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 SneerClub@awful.systems•AI doomsday and AI heaven: live forever in AI GodEnglish8·2 天前American fascism: run by atheists who fear God and evangelists who don’t
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto SneerClub@awful.systems•the "left" gets a new publication, if the "left" is Kelsey Piper and OpenPhilEnglish11·2 天前that’s center as in race realist
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto SneerClub@awful.systems•AI doomsday and AI heaven: live forever in AI GodEnglish9·3 天前The bit in the video showing the cites to the race scientist in the race science pseudojournal is from Shane Legg’s 2008 paper. He just happened to reach for the race scientist first, you see.
I have someone else’s draft here of a writeup nailing a zillion examples of this shit from the wider field of AI since the 1990s, eager for that to finally come out some time.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•DEFRA says: delete your emails to … save water?!English6·6 天前got the wrong song stuck in my head
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th August 2025English6·12 天前this guy actually lost a bundle in NFTs a few years ago
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•OpenAI announces GPT-5! Please Microsoft, don’t kill usEnglish8·12 天前I’ve tested Gemini on this stuff. Sometimes it spots the syntax error and even suggests a more elegant rewrite. Sometimes it just completely shits itself.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Microsoft’s 2030 Vision: no mouse, no keyboard — just the AI!English4·13 天前Kai Lentit: Senior Engineer Uses vim Via Voice Control
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Wear Meta’s AI creepshot glasses — or be left behind!English8·15 天前Augmented reality for the Google Glass. Not, it turns out, for the Meta Raybans, cos they don’t even have screens or projectors!
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Wear Meta’s AI creepshot glasses — or be left behind!English20·15 天前just found out these glasses are not even Augmented Reality. They have neither screens nor projectors. Just cameras, a mic, and bone conduction earphones. The interface is voice control. They are literally only for taking creepshots. So Zuckerberg is staying on-brand.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Figure AI’s BotQ humanoid robot is an investor demo, not a productEnglish2·17 天前the interesting thing is i looked and that isn’t actually a big enough market to sustain itself
I should not be surprised that the author of HPRick and Morty also wrote SCP-8008.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open sourceEnglish9·17 天前Nikolai Durov has two Ph.Ds in maths, and is convinced he is the smartest man in the world, and Telegram’s cryptography follows directly
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Figure AI’s BotQ humanoid robot is an investor demo, not a productEnglish8·19 天前a lot of companies are chasing the humanoid form because they’ll be able to immediately adapt to existing infrastructure (to replace human workers).
that’s the story, but this doesn’t work, like, at all, with just a moment’s thought.
if humanoid was a good shape we’d have humanoid robots already.
the reason is they’re selling sci fi dreams of robot servants even though these dreams are lies.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto SneerClub@awful.systems•Kelsey Piper Decides DOGE Dipshits Deserve The Benefit Of The Doubt In Long-Winded ThreadEnglish61·21 天前what the
no that isn’t a request to elaborate
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th August 2025English5·21 天前That’s Yudkowsky and Piper’s “glowfic”
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th August 2025English20·21 天前they’re a Thiel op
plz ping me in email dgerard@gmail.com as I have so many questions for an article on this