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o7___o7Mar 1

Chatbot was used in war planning

https://awful.systems/post/7449888

o7___o7Dec 11

Kicking Robots, by James Vincent

https://awful.systems/post/6557502

Kicking Robots, by James Vincent - awful.systems

A reporter attempts to strangle the next hype bubble in the crib.

o7___o7Dec 5

‘Atoms for Algorithms:’ The Trump Administration’s Top Nuclear Scientists Think AI Can Replace Humans in Power Plants

https://awful.systems/post/6493296

‘Atoms for Algorithms:’ The Trump Administration’s Top Nuclear Scientists Think AI Can Replace Humans in Power Plants - awful.systems

Peak bubble lunacy on display

o7___o7May 20, 2025

Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books

https://awful.systems/post/4401119

Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books - awful.systems

This is peak laziness. It seems that the author used autoplag to extrude an entire 60 page supplemental insert. The author also super-promises this has never happened before.

o7___o7Apr 10, 2025

Greenland 'Freedom City'? Rich donors push Trump for a tech hub up north

https://awful.systems/post/4000463

Greenland 'Freedom City'? Rich donors push Trump for a tech hub up north - awful.systems

Absolutely delusional wishcasting on the part of our very good friends.

o7___o7Mar 12, 2025

The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence

https://awful.systems/post/3745325

The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence - awful.systems

By Timnit Gebru and Emile P. Torres Pro-tier sneers by seasoned veterans, get em while they’re hot!

o7___o7Feb 11, 2025

rpg.net gets caught being unfathomably based

https://awful.systems/post/3505245

rpg.net gets caught being unfathomably based - awful.systems

Brought to our attention by Wandering.shop [http://Wandering.shop] member David Croyle: According to the administrators of rpg.net [http://rpg.net], their website is officially a No Nazis Bar. No follow-up questions: https://wandering.shop/@croyle/113980700961699526 [https://wandering.shop/@croyle/113980700961699526]

o7___o7Nov 13, 2024

Nashville Developer Makes RealPage, but for Renters

https://awful.systems/post/2840869

Nashville Developer Makes RealPage, but for Renters - awful.systems

Looks like a local boy did good. I linked the /r/nashville post since it has a good description of the website. Users can see a history of rent prices for a given property and its neighbors, which gives some leverage in negotiations. For more context, local rent prices are down 6% from highs. I’m curious to see if it takes off, and how robust it is against adversarial tactics like bogus reports and nuisance lawsuits.

o7___o7Nov 7, 2024

The System is Borked, We Need an Upgrade

https://awful.systems/post/2796954

The System is Borked, We Need an Upgrade - awful.systems

Rojava has built what seems like a robust, equitable, bullshit-resistant mutual aid system in the face of incredible resistance. I’m having a hard time understanding how the underlying system works, though. Any recommendations for Bookchin/Öcalan type reading? I’ve procrastinated on it because I hate reading theory (and it’s always embarrassing to need hand holding at my age), but needs must. I haven’t had much luck turning up English language stuff that lays out how the system works in a way I could share with a casual observer.

o7___o7Sep 29, 2024

Salesforce invites a horse into the hospital

https://awful.systems/post/2497184

Salesforce invites a horse into the hospital - awful.systems

John Mulaney gets paid by prompt fondlers to tell jokes at a party. He spends 45 minutes telling them that they are idiots, which is nice.

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o7___o7Mar 1

Chatbot was used in war planning

https://awful.systems/post/7449888

Show threadscruiserMar 1

This really is the dumbest timeline.

simulating battle scenarios

Regurgitating reddit armchair generals on /r/noncredibledefense

Show threadfrankMar 1

Maybe it has a bunch of leaked files from the WarThunder forums as well!

Simulating battle scenarios is absolutely hilarious, adults standing around the magic 8 ball

Show threadwonderingwandererMar 1

Simulated battle scenarios is a common component of wargaming. That doesn’t mean an LLM is the right tool for it, but it’s been a thing for a long time.

The bigger concern here is using it for intelligence assessments and target acquisition, because LLMs hallucinate a lot.

Show threadfullsquareMar 1
as a side effect, it’s a phenomenal accountability sink. people almost forget that usaf can make entirely human-made fuckups en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiriyah_shelter_bombing
Amiriyah shelter bombing - Wikipedia

Show threadwonderingwandererMar 2
Yeah, now when your autonomous weapon systems target your own fighter jets, no one gets court martialled!
Show threadNymnympseudonymMar 2
@wonderingwanderer @fullsquare TBF, fighter jets should have been unmanned drones
Show threadBlueMonday1984Mar 2

TBF, fighter jets should have been unmanned drones

On the one hand, an autonomous fighter jet would be immune to G-LOC, letting them perform maneuvers that would incapacitate/kill a human pilot. On the other hand, air-to-air combat is a complex affair, and the enemy will be probing for any weaknesses in your drones’ programming to exploit.

Autonomous bombers seem easier to pull off - bombing missions are (relatively) straightforward compared to air-to-air combat.

g-LOC - Wikipedia

Show threadMirsheMar 2
Don’t forget that time we leveled a clearly-marked hospital that we were in radio contact with the entire time.
Show threadwonderingwandererMar 2
What about the time the US carpet bombed an entire company of Canadian soldiers in iraq?
Show threadfrankMar 2
That’s fair, I only meant it to poke fun at the LLM simulating battle scenarios, I know it’s useful in general to simulate and wargame
Show threadwonderingwandererMar 2
Yeah, an LLM is not designed for those kinds of simulations. It can write you a choose-your-own adventure story, but it can’t realistically model dynamic kinetic operations with any degree of applicability.
Show threadSoyweiserMar 1
Wonder how hard it was to filter out the HOI4 results.
Show threadscruiserMar 1
Bold of you to assume they would bother filtering them out.
Show threadwizardbeardMar 1

If they were talking about some complex simulation engine utilizing ML and research carefully collated and constructed, this would be at least interesting.

But they aren’t. We shoved the entirety of text produced by the human race in a big pot, mixed it up, and extrude it by most likely connections. It is predictive of words and phrases, not of human behavior, physics of munitions, or anything actually useful for modeling warfare.

They’re fucking generating war fanfic and using it to make stratgic decisions. Just hire Clancy, Crichton, Card, and/or whoever’s ghost writing for them now. It’d be cheaper.

Show threadwonderingwandererMar 1

Yeah, the fact that the nation’s highest military command no longer understands the difference between machine learning and an LLM is gravely concerning…

They fired all the professionals in 2025. All that’s left are the sycophants.

Show threadlurkerMar 1
Incredibly ballsy move to keep using their tech after you literally branded them a supply chain threat and implied you would take legal action against them, but that’s this administration for ya
Show threadTar_AlcaranMar 1

They want anthropic to drop the guardrails because they’re literally using Claude for their strategic planning…

The US went to war with Iran because Pete Kegsbreath asked an LLM. Jesus fucking Christ.

Show threadlurkerMar 1
this truly is the dumbest timeline huh
Show threadSoyweiserMar 1
Military planners in Taiwan, SK and Japan are prob shitting bricks right now.
Show threadEcho DotMar 1

How does Claude help with any of those things, it’s a chatbot.

I’m sure there are actual physics-based simulation systems that can be used to simulate target damage.

Show threadfodorMar 1
So after bombing the school they’ll blame it on AI instead of charge the generals for fucking war crimes. Yeah, I think we predicted this one.
Show threadetherphonMar 1
I don’t even trust these things with basic medical questions and they are using it for military operations? People are just so god damn stupid. I suppose the upside is (for them) anything at all goes wrong and they just blame the computers, and we all know how much the US military loves unaccountability.
Show threadIkonMar 2
So thats why we bombed a school.