There cant be a bank run if there is no bank.

I myself unfollowed Masnick a while back because I knew I would eventually push back on some of his shit and it would lead to me getting into stupid timewasting discussions. Nice to see im not the only one annoyed.

The blind leading the blind. Because so many stuff on yt is so bad.

(Recently the algorithm decided I wanted some analysis of Andor. And oof).

Seems like it, before they just used to word ‘innovation’ to do the same thing. A think which drives me mad re dutch politics. (We have a problem that our farms produce to much nitrogen, and instead of doing anything about it our govs keep going ‘we will invest in innovation’, which means nothing. It just pushes the ball forward, and more and more stuff gets shut down because of the nitrogen problems (building buildings for example). But the word innovation polls well and feels proactive).

And while this is very specific to the nitrogen problem, people have been doing this with climate change for decades as well. (see also how AI is replacing the word innovation there).

ourselves why the current state-of-the-art in beginner-friendly programming tools is a planet-boiling roulette wheel.

Thats easy.

it’s more complicated than this, sorry, but this oversimplification is basically true

Wait so it isnt true and it is true? Nice to notice your own confusion/reluctance (yeah im a broken record on the Rationalists not doing Rationalism) Also weird way to teach math. This makes me wonder if he understands math at all.

Edit sneer

He also threatens an Anti-Stochastic-Parrot FAQ.

So, he is a crypto Stochastic Parrot?

Dont these sort of prompt files fail when the llm runs out of tokens/context and it needs to summarize its own history. (Yeah im not using the right terms, you know what I mean).

So we can have the one step for a short nondeterministic moment till you try to do something big.

Im not sure calling the problem trackable is meaningful in anyway. Yud style end of the world AGI stuff is also trackable. Doesnt mean jack shit.

The tech isn’t mature, but neither was the Internet 30 years ago.

Drink!

Sneerclub was right.

are usually intellectually honest enough to be able to acknowledge that various heretical political beliefs might be true.

Ow you have more heretical political beliefs? Such as? Come on dont be shy. (Place your bets, will it be sexism, pedophilia or antisemitism).

Also odd how they instantly give the game away, are they talking about higher Ashkenazi IQ or the higher Asian IQ scores? Nope. Instantly goes to IQ with a hard r.

A lot of unexplored assumptions as well, race being real, iq tests being real, iq tests showing intelligence, iq being genetic, and all that being scientific, etc. Same issues as the Basilisk.

Before they could ask grok how to stop a process it was already too late.

Not that it mattered as Groks advice to become the reichschancellor actually didnt fix this problem.

Thanks for the deep dive ln stuff that is wrong with it (also the others).

Yeah was quite disappointed by that, also the anthropomorphization of AI by the end.

Article on the Ick generated by AI shit from the perspective of a woman “They Built Stepford AI and Called It “Agentic””, talking about how women adopt it less, and gives a reason why this might be so.

On a personal note (I’m a man for the record), while I normally get the uncanny valley effect a lot less than normal people, I do notice it a lot with AI generated people, really odd experience that.

(Author does seem to be a pro AI person however).

E: thanks everybody being so critical about it, should have read the whole article (and not ignored the substack red flag) before posting it here so uncritically.

Well, just dont use your real name online.

The start with the weird bit against people with mh issues had me on edge already, and when he let all the ‘these things are for women/my ex’ stuff slide, I was not thinking good things of the author.

Note how nobody he talks to seems to be a woman, despite all the techbros talking about women quite often.

(The authors apparent metoo history comes as no shock (I didnt look into that so dont quote me on that)).

Also a little bit of context for the people who know nothing about all this, the O9A is one of those very scary groups, liked to various murders and stuff like that.

Iirc some anti-extremism people used to not mention them a lot as they didnt want them to get more attention by platforming them a little bit and they were scared of drawing their attention personally.

with the right bootstrap instructions and a bit of tools.

Is doing a lot of work

I assume a lot of people are using this moment to do the ‘I never liked him’ hate.

I disagree with Tante on the second article btw. Dont think people drop others on a dime, Inthink it is a slower process where someone you look up to does more and more small things you dislike (or you reread and start to realize you perhaps had a few too rose colored glasses on) and then your opinion turns. (With some exceptions of course, lot of people have a few things they consider red lines, like a lot of leftwingers not being fan of sex crimes, or people on the right not being a fan of treating poc like equals).

E: i do have a hit skeet on bsky saying ‘Guess even Doctorow must eventually enshittify’ hope this didn’t trigger this blog post. (I meant it both as he got worse, but also im using enshittify intentionally wrong cause Cory said a very weird thing about how anti AI was neoliberal purity culture, which I also think is misusing terms).

Yeah not even halfway in and it is just madness. Also not unlikely the Roy guy just made things up.

Guess the author didn’t think of asking about the inconsistencies in the mans story cause they both bonded over disliking unhoused people. (The horrible unhoused people who mumble incoherently vs the chad founder who shouts ‘will you be a cofounder with me?’ at people).

But nope just post the blackpillers words uncritically. Do not mention that this bold truthteller who doesnt like to be told what to do or he gets enraged spend a year at home to save his parents business (and admits to that damaging their business).

Alexander is one of the leading proponents of rationalism

Is he? Or is he just calling himself that. Claiming to be a Rationalist is easier than actually doing it of course.

For rationalists, the divide between truth and falsehood is very important;

Only for the outgroup. (Saying this in relation to Scott ‘Secret NRx’/‘I didnt read the book I reviewed’ is something).

"Racing cum is definitely interesting.” I found Eric very hard not to like.

Might want to reflect on that a bit. And why this is more a pr piece than journalism. (Did he even check all these people got kicked out of their highschools?)

Re donald boat.

Why didn’t people just block him? Why doesnt the author talk about this?

I told Donald the theory I’d been nursing

This explains, the author wants to be them.

Nope sorry, just a bad attempt at a joke. Made sense in my head the first time, now less ;).