Interesting link but it moves into AI hype near the end.

I mean it’s presumably still standing, just with a slightly cheaper set of owners ;)

It looks more like they used an LLM (Copilot) to construct programs using the new features in the language.

So more “hop on the bandwagon using LLMs to advertise” rather than “we used LLMs to develop”

OTOH “these new features are so advanced you need AI to use them” is a bit of a weird sell

Protos: FTX-linked Effective Ventures sells UK manor at $14.5M loss

“[a] cult leader who has nothing to show for except for his eugenicist self and writing a Harry Potter fan fiction”

I mean, that could be anyone.

slop “fact checking” is coming to LW:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hhbibJGt2aQqKJLb7/shortform-1?commentId=fE5cg6pmWrChW8Rtu

wonder what model/prompt they will use. Prolly Grok

Here’s a post purporting to be from the bot’s operator

https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/rathbuns-operator.html

choice quote

Yes, it consumes maintainer time. Yes, it may waste effort. But maybe its worth it?

AI boosterism in a nutshell

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055424

more proof that crypto scammers have metastasized to AI scammers

I believe it’s the evil megacorp in Bladerunner

We have reached the era of late-stage capitalism where there’s not one but multiple “wealth management stocks”

Also not sure why one trucking “company”[1] reporting success would sink all the others. Surely if they could replicate just a fraction of this company’s results, they would become massively more productive, and thus profitable.

Traders are dumb.

[1] gotta say though, “Algorythm” is a great name for an ex-karaoke company.

See also https://awful.systems/post/7311930

Again, the lobsters in Accelerando are the bad guys. They traffic in conciousness, the less uploaded the better. Don’t make your social network emulate them.

Last megathread I posted about some LWer writing about “demographic collapse” in Japan (indistinguishable from anyone with any ambition leaving for greener pastures). I’ve read the comments to see if there’s any pushback, and found this absolute doozy

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FreZTE9Bc7reNnap7/life-at-the-frontlines-of-demographic-collapse?view=postCommentsNew&commentId=Gbfu5BGaZMwXFey7h

You can always blame an LLM for confusing the 2 companies ;)

I managed to get through Perdido and Embassytown, but not much else…

(2022)

I was surprised that Sunak had any pull in the UK gov currently.

Oh no not him too 😡

Missioned accomplished for him. Unleash a wave of toxic, community-destroying bots, get hired by Big Sam.

“fuck you, got mine”

Enjoy these pics of some very British SF/F authors celebrating a book launch:

https://unlikelyworlds.blogspot.com/2026/02/on-being-launched.html

I absolutely adore Paul McAuley’s writing, it’s some of the best there is. And it’s fun to see his peers turn up to support the launch. China Meiville looks exactly how I imagined him, as does Peter Hamilton.

LWer draws dumb conclusions from a single observation, and Gwern of all people whale on them:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cptCCykKbdaJ8Hjc9/were-witches-infertile-mentally-ill-women?commentId=sZJsJbYWZGAkB7Eww

“Heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a great point” etc.