At least the retiree who was jailed for 37 days for posting a meme has gotten a settlement:

https://www.fire.org/news/victory-tennessee-man-jailed-37-days-trump-meme-wins-835000-settlement-after-first-amendment

Here’s a story about a douchebag who lost because AI:

Wonkette: Creep Who Sued Women Who Warned Others Not To Date Him Loses Case Due To AI-Reliant Lawyer - “Finally, a good use for AI!”

The brief included no citation to any legislative findings, let alone any including the statute’s targets as the brief asserted. We could not find any reference to the phrases “amplified exposure and endangerment” or “cyber vigilantism” within the Doxing Act. There also are no legislative findings included in the codification of the Doxing Act, the session law, or any publicly available version of the bill. These mistakes and fictitious quotations bear the hallmarks of the misuse of generative artificial intelligence.

those golf greens aren’t gonna be green otherwise!

well yeah, the “debunking” takes a very high level view that the “average citizen” in the US or wherever shouldn’t care about data center water usage because “on average” the US has plenty of water. But if your local water rates are going through the roof because a DC is built next to your house, you’re not average.

I realize water legislation in esp the Western states of the US is kinda fucked up but in the end growing food and basic hygeine is more important than generating spam, so I don’t think these projects are gonna make it

Rationalists: we should always incorporate new data into our worldview

Also rationalists: I found some anthropology study of Australian First nations from 1899 and found it fascinating

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QZM6pErzL7JwE3pkv/shortplav?commentId=zn2bXx2WmLmyGiefm

Of course they measured skulls.

presented without context, because it’s funnier that way: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YiRsCfkJ2ERGpRpen/leogao-s-shortform?commentId=yE4Y2AoMPXGcTZw8B

this kind of story puts the lie to the popular “debunking” of data center water use that’s trotted out by promptfondlers and rats every so often[1] - water isn’t this pervasive resource, evenly distributed around the world. it’s not a fungible resource, because it’s fucking heavy and hard to move, and it’s quite possible to have both way too much and way too little at the same time (flash floods in a desert).

[1] I think the dude’s name is Andy Masley, he’s all over the infosphere with his cod Adam-Smithery

same sl0bslack author has this piece (complete with punchy LLMisms)

https://thecycle.substack.com/p/please-stop-trying-to-murder-trump

Before his murder, Kirk was influential, sure. After his murder, he became something much bigger. A symbol. A martyr. Turning Point exploded with energy, attention, emotional intensity, and recruitment after his death. In death, Kirk became more powerful than he was alive. Now multiply that effect by a million and attach it to Donald Trump.

Uh didn’t I recently read how TPUSA has basically imploded just half a year since this dipshit got his head blown off (sorry “destroyed at a debate”)? Everyone with eyes to see could tell that the right jumped on this as a Reichstag fire analog, prepared to usher in a new consensus, but it fizzled out after a couple of weeks (unfortunately not before a number of people lost their jobs)

Trump is sui generis. He’s not a person universally beloved. He’s a deeply polarizing chaos agent who has twisted the right into his weird image, but the point is, that image is incoherent and changes with his moods daily. There’s no Trump ideology other than what’s in his Truth social feed at the moment.

Would he being assassinated bring peace and order to the land? No. Would it usher in a new thousand year Republican age? Also no. Would it be bad. Yes, but not as bad as this pseudo-leftist believes.

Also it goes without saying, don’t assassinate people.

y’all will be pleased to know that a new LWer has a fresh take on looksmaxxing!!

basically if you look like a Greek god you can convince the sheeple that the AI is gonna kill us all (and bang hot chicks as a bonus)

as of writing there’s one comment suggesting OP should read:

Aella: Has a few posts on male attractiveness, that inform a bunch of thinking on this. But she is a canon Rationalist blog, so you should default to reading her work.

Also recommends Zvi, who, no offense, is the literal epitome of a scrawny nerd, but who has managed to find a female to reproduce with. All hope is not lost, friend!

yeah, I dunno much about space engineering but let’s say you use solar panel (which OP acknowledges is probably needed in much higher mass to simply power the stuff) to shadow the radiators, you’re looking at a hell of a large structure, with significant stresses as it orbits.

Surely someone can vibecode a finite-element model of a simple construction and estimate both the mass and the forces involved?

“When someone offers you a seat on the rocket ship, you do not ask which seat. You just get on.”

obviously didn’t watch that Treehouse of Horror ep where Bart and Homer are placed on the rocket ship headed directly towards the sun , along with that time period’s analogs to Eric Schmidt

Despite the promise of being uploaded to the computer would free men from the shackles of the flesh, LW still finds time to debate the fine points of what makes a woman want to fuck a man:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/w3y9G4ybNb3rmTgev/why-physical-attractiveness-matters-for-men-s-dating

A month ago, I went to a sex club for the first time. One big thing I noticed: the classic “your eyes meet” trope absolutely did not happen at that club. And I don’t just mean it didn’t happen to me - every single woman there avoided meeting the eyes of anyone.

gee I wonder why

The promise of physical attractiveness, for men, is that you can pay an upfront cost to get in good shape, dress well, etc. You do it basically once. And then, connecting with new women doesn’t take an enormous amount of time. And you don’t need the absolutely miserable skill of trying to build attraction from scratch. […] It’s all about making that very first contact easier, because the very first contact is the biggest pain point for guys.

hear me out here, this is just off the top of my head, how about treating women like human beings instead of mysterious creatures who must be seduced into liking you

1 comment, essentially saying if you’re not above average height you might as well die alone

Here’s a galaxy-brained take: AI datacenters in space do not have a cooling problem

After discussing radiative cooling and how much launches are required (" between 100-500 Starship launches"), the conclusion is

It’s still wildly impractical to build AI datacenters in space. But it’s not impossible, and it’s certainly not impossible because of the cooling, which is a relatively minor component of the total mass that would have to be launched into space.

It’s not impossible to build a triumphal arch entirely in solid gold either. After a certain point, what’s economically impractical shades entirely into impossible.

And here’s someone saying that “clanker” is a slur (they misread “crank”)

https://lobste.rs/c/2ugxop

I don’t wanna sound paranoid but is there something about this cute catgirl persona that feels a bit fake?

Mild nit: “frontrunning” was a term (and practice) in use before crapto trading.

here’s another commenter saying being against LLMs is being against the otherly abled:

https://lobste.rs/c/rn9mo4

(commenter is a notorious promptfondler)

Here’s a nice example of LW brain (albeit heavily downvoted, so might be hard to get to):

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YiRsCfkJ2ERGpRpen/leogao-s-shortform?commentId=EJs4reRGEni73dxfC

Essentially, certain hereditary diseases are very rare, leading to less resources to find a cure, so the Big Brain Rationalist solution is to breed more people with the disease so it gets profitable to cure.

OK here’s a followup, which I’m putting out here as there’s probably a higher proportion of neurodivergent people here than in other fora I frequent

A commenter on lobste.rs states that being anti-LLM is effectively being against neurodivergent individuals, because many such individuals express themselves in prose in a way that’s indistinguishable from LLM output.

Is this a widespread viewpoint?

https://lobste.rs/s/wee21u/this_is_written_by_llm_comments_should_be#c_nadrad

There’s a… robust debate about LLM slop submissions on everyone’s favorite boiled crustacean site.

First shot fired: a promptfondler suggest suppressing all comments pointing out that a submission reeks of slop by flagging them as “off-topic” [1]

“This is written by an LLM” comments should be flagged as off-topic (80 net upvotes, 139 comments)

Riposte: a suggestion that posing LLM generated content should be a bannable offence:

LLM generated submissions should be disallowed (274 net upvotes, 108 comments)

So far it looks as if the anti-slop forces have opinion on their side.

[1] short explanation of how flagging of comments work on lobste.rs - it’s sort of a downvote, but the flagger has to chose from a list of reasons. If a commenter accrues enough flags they’ll get a red warning banner, and might possibly be banned as disruptive.

Ladies, this Wrong’un is available (assuming you can meet his exacting standards (spoiler: you can’t))

(for the record this is downvoted by the community, and the one helpful comment is slammed by OP)