Its like the old joke about Software Engineers having a degree in Googling.

It’s not strictly wrong in the sense that there are good results and bad results and you can sorta tweak things, but it was only ever just coincidence that you happened to be looking up the same approximate subject matter as what the people who maintained Google were working on, so the search results tended to be better than average.

“10% chance the moon will kill humanity in the next 10 years.”, says NASA space exploration lead.

Part of the deal you took when you got the billion trillion dollars is that we get to make fun of you for being a sellout, why are they trying to renegotiate now?

OpenAI wasn’t doing it for this person, they’re going to work on telepathy?

I believe in about:config it’s mostly under browser.ml.

browser.ml.chat.enabled => False, browser.ml.enable => False and extensions.ml.enabled => False I think are the minimum changes?

To what extent should one trust a statement that a program is free of Trojan horses? Perhaps it is more important to trust the people who wrote the software.

Ken Thompson, Reflections on Trusting Trust

I know this outcome was inevitable after software became a mass market thing, but it’s still rather depressing.

Trump likes AI and they like Trump too much to dislike something he likes.

As long as the offer’s open, it will be irresistible. So we need to close the offer. Only another god can kill Moloch. We have one on our side, but he needs our help. We should give it to him.

I’d write something here, but there’s nothing funnier I can say.

Removing the profit motive of gambling is exactly prohibition, what???

Polymarket when faced with the oracle problem: “What if we threaten to shoot the oracle?”

A worldview where one’s worth is measured by the balance in their bank account makes it really easy to flatten out morality.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46994169 As with bitcoin before it, LLM dev cycles are now tied with the phases of the moon.

The real damning thing is the speed that the true believers abandoned this garbage fire. You used to be able to string these guys along for years, and now they can barely keep the trend going for a week. Gonna be real weird when the scammers realize they’ve finally burnt out all the good will.

We’ve been begging people for 17 years to understand that reality matters.

Crosslinking SRD: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1p88k7d/guys_were_gonna_be_okay_maybe_not_today_maybe_not/

Observing AI psychosis from a distance is so fascinating. “Valentine just got nerfed for me.” What???

Hank Green has been one of my barometers for the moderate opinion and he’s sounding worryingly like Zitron in his last video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0TpWitfxPk

The attention black hole around nvidia and AI is so insane, I guess it’s because there’s everyone knows there’s no next thing to jump onto.

if there isn’t, I’m calling it muskware, its conceptually close enough to vaporware.

The truth is that we feel shame to a much greater degree than the other side, which makes it pretty easy to divide us on these annoying trivialities.

My personal hatred of tone policing is greater than my sense of shame, but I imagine that isnt something to expect for most.

I guess keeping in theme, “vibe replying”

Go off, Alsup.