

It immediately made me wonder about his background. Heās quite young and looks to be just out of college. If I had to guess, Iād say he was probably a member of the EA club at Harvard.
It immediately made me wonder about his background. Heās quite young and looks to be just out of college. If I had to guess, Iād say he was probably a member of the EA club at Harvard.
In case you needed more evidence that the Atlantic is a shitty rag.
Clown world.
How many times will he need to revise his silly timeline before media figures like Kevin Roose stop treating him like some kind of respectable authority? Actually, I know the answer to that question. Theyāll keep swallowing his garbage until the bubble finally bursts.
You donāt hear too many leftists saying things like this:
I think that the Democratic Party has two factions; they disagree on a ton of important stuff. I think that the neoliberals are right on nearly all of those disagreements, and the progressives are wrong on nearly all of the disagreements.
Is it a loop if it only executes once?
How much energy was used to produce that video?
Ozy Brennan tries to explain why ārationalismā spawns so many cults.
One of the reasons they give is āa dangerous sense of grandiosityā.
the actual process of saving the world is not very glamorous. It involves filling out paperwork, making small tweaks to code, running A/B tests on Twitter posts.
Yep, you heard it right. Shitposting and inconsequential code are the proper way to save the world.
Iām aware of the cloudflare issue, and I donāt use them. So Iām pretty sure itās not that. (I use firefox but I turn off DNS over HTTPS)
I noticed starting a couple weeks ago that archive.is is requiring me to complete captchas nearly every time I visit. Are other people experiencing this? If so, I wonder if the siteās maintainers are reacting to increased traffic from LLM crawlers. The crawlers probably find Archive extraordinarily useful when they get blocked by source sites.
Can we call this the peak of the LLM hype cycle now?
Itās reminiscent of the freakout among some of the rationalists when Rokoās basilisk first appeared. And they wonder why people keep calling them an apocalyptic cult.
Itās a really good article. This part stuck out to me:
If you are seriously, legitimately concerned that an emergent technology is about to exterminate humanity within the next three years, wouldnāt you find yourself compelled to do more than argue with the converted about the particular elements of your end times scenario? Some folks were involved in pushing for SB 1047, but that stalled out; now what? Arenāt you starting an all-out effort to pressure those companies to shut down their operations ASAP? That all these folks are under the same roof for three days, and no oneās being confronted, or being made uncomfortable, or being protestedānot even a little bitāis some of the best evidence Iāve seen that all the handwringing over AI Safety and x-risk really is just the sort of amped-up cosplaying its critics accuse it of being.
Could be worse, I got got by some neofascist scum who was dunking on rationalists.
Gell-Mann amnesia.
Itās happening.
Today Anthropic announced new weekly usage limits for their existing Pro plan subscribers. The chatbot makers are getting worried about the VC-supplied free lunch finally running out. Ed Zitron called this.
Naturally the orange site vibe coders are whinging.
Thatās a question I ask myself sometimes. It usually ends with āI focused too much on trying to make easy cashā.
I studied computer science because I was a huge computer nerd growing up. I always loved programming and learning everything I could about how computers worked. Learning new programming languages felt like uncovering a new universe of knowledge ā knowledge I could use to create things. I spent endless hours studying computers and learning to do amazing things with them. It was fun. It still is.
So when I see people using LLMs to create things instead of doing it themselves, I canāt relate. Why do that when you can get the pleasure from doing it yourself? I guess if making money is the primary motivating factor, then it makes sense. But for me it is totally self-defeating.
In the case of OāConnor and people like him, I think itās about much more than his philosophy background. Heās a YouTube creator who creates content on a regular schedule and makes a living off it. Once you start doing that, youāre exposed to all the horrible incentives of the YouTube engagement algorithm, which inevitably leads you to start seeking out other controversial YouTubers to platform and become friendly with. Itās an āIāll scratch your back if you scratch mineā situation dialed up to 11.
The same thing has happened to Sabine herself. Sheās been captured by the algorithm, which has naturally shifted her audience to the right, and now sheās been fully captured by that new audience.
I fully expect Alex OāConnor to remain on this treadmill. <remind me in 12months>
The Lasker/Mamdani/NYT sham of a story just gets worse and worse. It turns out that the ultimate source of Cremieuxās (Jordan Laskerās) hacked Columbia University data is a hardcore racist hacker who uses a slur for their name on X. The NYT reporter who wrote the Mamdani piece, Benjamin Ryan, turns out to have been a follower of this hackerās X account. Ryan essentially used Lasker as a cutout for the blatantly racist hacker.
lol