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.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
7·3 天前lisp went big in the leadup to the AI winter, which followed a lot of fraudulent nonsense that even the DoD would only buy for so long
so in that sense it’s in character
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•UK gov org AISI is functionally an EA frontEnglish
4·3 天前yep, it’s “us too!” on those
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
5·4 天前worse yet, Amazon actually has uses for that much data centre
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•Gwern: I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch **Guardian Angel Inc** and bring GAs to life.English
2·8 天前well, somewhat. about as readable.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•The AI doomsday cult recruits social media influencersEnglish
5·9 天前this should really be sneerclub i guess, pretend i put it there too
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Aschenbrenner bet everything on AI — and lostEnglish
11·11 天前youtube comments:
Couldnt happen to a nicer slender man
Are we entering the “identifying who will be going to prison” stage of this scam now? I’d love it as this is my favorite part.
“Situational Awareness”?, what’s the next of the next company, “Object Permanence”?
How on earth could that kid walk and talk without forgetting to breathe. I assume he’s writing a fucking book. Sorry. ‘Writing’ a fucking ‘book’
When I was 24, guys like that were just that weirdo from school who you met once on the street in Dublin and asked him what he was up to and he told you he was working somewhere you’d never heard of and you never heard of him again. Now these gobshites are in charge of serious things and serious money, as well as being famous.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•Our friends open brokerage accountsEnglish
3·14 天前Mitchell, you’ve been around rationalism long enough.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•When AI Literacy Becomes the New Fault Line In Global InequalityEnglish
1·14 天前what’s good about this article to be worth posting?
probably time for a new thread!
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026English
12·14 天前https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mm5ebihpjvtrdunomulbls5m/post/3mrx2xflgp22d
ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity!
OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission.
ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026English
9·14 天前Apparently it was a fuckup when they rewrote the codebase so they could move it from GPL to source-available.
This is currently an utter, utter disaster scenario over in bitcoinland, the coiners are screaming. lol.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Let’s palm off humanoid robot teachers onto the poor kids!English
5·17 天前it was “fob off” until I discovered merkins don’t understand that one
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Sam Altman: Guys, we’re in the Singularity nowEnglish
4·17 天前AI Overview special cased it, booooo
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026English
6·21 天前and covid vaccine denier
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026English
10·22 天前Debian has a new general resolution to ban LLM use in Debian packaging: https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026English
10·22 天前my god, you found the good HN comment


















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