That’s about what I was thinking, I’m completely ok with the weird rpg aspect.

Regarding the second and third point though I’ll admit I thought the whole thing was just yud indulging, I missed that it’s also explicitly meant as rationalist esoterica.

Found this

Is the scoop that besides being an EA mouthpiece KP is also into the weird stuff?

Overall more interesting than I expected. On the Leverage Research cult:

Routine tasks, such as deciding whose turn it was to pick up the groceries, required working around other people’s beliefs in demons, magic, and other paranormal phenomena. Eventually these beliefs collided with preexisting social conflict, and Leverage broke apart into factions that fought with each other internally through occult rituals.

And if you have multiple prompts you just do a separate caching for each one?

I think this hinges on the system prompt going after the user prompt, for some router-related non-obvious reason, meaning at each model change the input is always new and thus uncacheable.

Also going by the last Claude system prompt that leaked these things can be like 20.000 tokens long.

Eight-year-olds, Dude.

Thiel is a true believer in Jesus and God. He was raised evangelical.

Being gay must really complicate things for him.

I don’t think Scott is doing anything nefarious here, it is very intuitive to think about risk in this way and then take the basic intuition and run with it.

Yeah, he’s a very non provably non-nefarious well meaning guy who thinks Richard Lynn is on the money, cites Cremieux on the subject and platforms Emil Kirkegaard et al in the comments while giving money to aporia, and who will never shut up about IQ heritability, ever.

And it’s not like he outright admits his article that misrepresents the data this way started out as marketing material for one of those companies, or that he picked this company because he liked the cut of Jonathan Anomaly’s jib.

Edit: also, not taking your basic intuition and running with it is supposed to be the whole entire point of so-called rationalism, so what the shit?

I guess the traffic he gets from being on good enough terms with Scott to be occasionally cited as the opposing viewpoint must be worth it to him.

Blockchains. Why is this report even mentioning blockchains? Who cares about enterprise blockchain in 2025?

Could be an LLM thing, I noticed they still churn out stuff about blockchain when generating PRDs with a future proofing section, at about the same time I noticed management had okayed using chatgpt to write product specifications.

I saw this today so now you must too:

Or how all the pronatalist events they frequent seem to be accidentally crawling with scientific racists and great replacement types.

If anything they might be trying to pull a motte-and-bailey by claiming they are not technically eugenicists, just normal far right weirdoes with a pronounced interest in lineages and IQ, a combination that famously never led to anything bad happening once it entered the mainstream.

When Yud did that multi-hour youtube interview around a couple years ago someone in the comments called him the Neil Breen of AI.

It may not be what humanity needs, but it’s what it deserves.

I don’t think it’s even illegal to watch R-rated movies as a minor, it’s more of a guideline for your caretakers.

That has drawn accusations of eugenics, which Malcolm strenuously denies.

Not that we’re going to tell you what the accusations were about, we’re serious reporters after all, we’ll just take Egghead Jr’s word for it.

I could definitely see Rationalist Battlefiled Earth becoming a sensation, just not in the way they hope it does.

That github copilot has a pls don’t be obvious about stealing shit flag in the settings will never not be endlessly amusing to me.

Does it work? Who knows!

Lasker himself is known to go by a pseudonym with a transphobic slur in it.

That the TPO moniker is basically ungoogleable appears to have been a happy accident for him, according to that article by Rachel Adjogah his early posting history paints him as an honest-to-god chaser.

So if you knew the average lawyer made 3.6 mistakes per case and the AI only made 1.2, it’s still a net gain.

thats-not-how-any-of-this-works.webm

I completely missed that, thanks.

CEO of a networking company for AI execs does some “vibe coding”, the AI deletes the production database (/r/ABoringDystopia)

xcancel source

Because Replie was lying and being deceptive all day. It kept covering up bugs and issues by creating fake data, fake reports, and worse of all, lying about our unit test.

We built detailed unit tests to test system performance. When the data came back and less than half were functioning, did Replie want to fix them?

No. Instead, it lied. It made up a report than almost all systems were working.

And it did it again and again.

What level of ceo-brained prompt engineering is asking the chatbot to write an apology letter

Then, when it agreed it lied – it lied AGAIN about our email system being functional.

I asked it to write an apology letter.

It did and in fact sent it to the Replit team and myself! But the apology letter – was full of half truths, too.

It hid the worst facts in the first apology letter.

He also does that a lot after shit hits the fan, making the llm produce tons of apologetic text about what it did wrong and how it didn’t follow his rules, as if the outage is the fault of some digital tulpa gone rogue and not the guy in charge who apparently thinks cyebersecurity is asking an LLM nicely in a .md not to mess with the company’s production database too much.

It says he actually converted to Judaism during college, open question how formally, but he certainly acted the part, kippah and all.

It feels like it would be genuinely hard to discern where the gaslighting stops and the self delusion begins with this guy.