First comment: “the world is bottlenecked by people who just don’t get the simple and obvious fact that we should sort everyone by IQ and decide their future with it”

No, the world is bottlenecked by idiots who treat everything as an optimization problem.

wait this isn’t a joke this is a yc funded startup

Ugh. Hank Green just posted a 1-hour interview with Nate Soares about That Book. I’m halfway through on 2x speed and so far zero skepticism of That Book’s ridiculous premises. I know it’s not his field but I still expected a bit more from Hank.

A YouTube comment says it better than I could:

Yudkowsky and his ilk are cranks.

I can understand being concerned about the problems with the technology that exist now, but hyper-fixating on an unfalsifiable existential threat is stupid as it often obfuscates from the real problems that exist and are harming people now.

Nothing screams “celebration of creativity” like a nice heaping tablespoon of AI slop images.

Foxboron (arch maintainer dude) seems pretty good about rejecting fascism, he’s in the framework thread linked from the post above expressing discontent.

I just wanted to lob a sneer at this article fawning over Sora 2: https://spyglass.org/soras-slop-hits-different/

And again, a lot of this stuff — slop or not — is funny. Really, truly funny. Sora is scaling comedy in a way that we’ve never seen.

did this motherfucker just try to say “scaling comedy”? If you ever wondered why techbros are so unfunny, here’s something to point at.

ask me about Urbit, I have so many notes

Has anything interesting happened since Yarvis Curtin took the reigns of Tlon?

So this looks and sounds 100% AI generated, but

Possible performance idea: A “kata of doubt,” mixing martial arts stances with expressions of deep confusion.

might be the first time AI slop made me laugh (not out loud, but still)

getting 10:1 ratioed by my own profile picture would probably make me leave civilization and become an ascetic

This role is responsible for the creation of a virtual AI Centre of Excellence that will drive the creation of an Enterprise-wide Autonomous AI platform. The platform will connect to all Ice Cream technology solutions providing an AI capability that can provide [blah blah blah…]

it’s satire right? brilliantly placed satire by a disgruntled hiring manager having one last laugh out the door right? no one would seriously write this right?

it’s basically yet another form of Pascal’s wager (which is a dumb argument)

ok chatgpt, thanks for the tips

hold the fucking phone. The secretary of education is the wife of VINCE FUCKING MCMAHON? I thought this was a “no relation” situation but no, it’s real.

I was going to post a reply similar to this, but as a joke. Fuck you for doing it in earnest instead.

The ad sounded extremely … off. The voices had the shitty mic scratchiness that I’d come to expect from a fresh 2010 YouTuber. The scene was abysmally acted, sounding like if someone with zero training was told to “speak with emotion”… wait is it autoplag?

Asahi Lina posts about not feeling safe anymore. Orange site immediately kills discussion around post.

For personal reasons, I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the Linux graphics ecosystem. I’ve paused work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely.

I can’t share any more information at this time, so please don’t ask for more details. Thank you.

stop invading lmao

The grad student survives [torturing rats] by compartmentalizing, focusing their thoughts on the scientific benefits of the research, and leaning on their support network. I’m doing the same thing, and so far it’s going fine.

printf("HELP I AM IN SUCH PAIN")

guys I need someone to talk to, am I justified in causing my computer pain?

their browser vanadium seems like a good chromium fork and a fine webview implementation but lacks an effective ad blocker, which makes it unsafe to use if your threat model includes, you know, the fucking obvious. the graphene devs will shame you for using anything but it or brave though, and officially recommend using either a VPN with ad blocking or a service like NextDNS since they don’t seem to acknowledge that network-level blocking isn’t sufficient

No firefox with ublock origin? Seems like that would be the obvious choice here (or maybe not due to Mozilla’s recent antics)

Machine translation was the original purpose of the transformer architecture, and I guess it was unreasonably good at it compared to the existing state-of-the-art RNNs or whatever they were doing before.