joke is on us, Heaven's Gate picked the right time to exit.

Also how would anybody be left behind? Lile say we are wrong an the AI stuff is real vital etc etc bla bla bla. Them we just need to learn a new tool.

Nobody died because they didnt want to learn how to use a debugger for several years and then finally reversed their stance.

I find it really funny how after he gets booed he says, "If you don't care about science, that's okay, because AI is going to touch everything else as well. Whatever path you choose, AI will become part of how work is done." Yeah, if you're worried that AI is only going to fuck up science, don't worry, it's going to fuck up everything else as well. Was he trying to stick to a (terrible) script, or is he genuinely this incapable of reading a room?

"When someone offers you a seat on the rocket ship, you do not ask which seat. You just get on." No, my mom taught me about stranger danger. I know what to do when a sketchy old man named Eric Schmidt pulls up with a rocket ship that says FREE ICE CREAM.

"The rocket ship is here. Let me give you some advice. First, find a way to say yes. Listen." Thanks for revealing how AI adoption is really about coercion. It doesn't matter what you think, AI is inevitable and you ignorant Luddites are gonna have to find a way to like it.

Truly a masterclass in public speaking by Eric Schmidt. When the audience reacts negatively to what you said, just double down and shove it down their throats. You're a billionaire, so you know better than them.

When some offers you a seat on the rocket ship, you do not ask which seat, you just get on.

I don't know mate, I think I do neither of those things because the kid-diddling natalist doesn't seem to be good at making ones that don't go boom.

Christ what a fucking shitweasel.

@sailor_sega_saturn

His eyes are giving me Corinthian vibes.

If only there had been warning signs of how heavily subsidized the rates absolutely had to be, and how bafflingly stupid it was to intentionally design workflows to maximize token use. If only people had been trying their damndest to shout it from the rooftops but were ignored because Corporate was listening to the automatic yes man instead.

people are forbidden from using personal plans. Reasoning is cost apparently our monthly Claude bill has become astronomical for the org

How does using personal plans impact the company's bill? If someone is so profoundly stupid as to spend their own money on a "tool" for their job then why stop them?

WELL WELL WELL, if it isn't the consequences of my own voluntary deskilling

(plus a dose of corporate greed)

(oh dear, how sad, nevermind)

that made me smile good and proper, ty for the lol

I love the orangeposters in there, some of them sure are thonkers

On top of all of that, it just doesn't work.

The instant you understand the concept of hallucinations should be the instant you are against gen AI.

He already pulled the same con on a Japanese billionaire in 2018, just talked about flying around the moon not landing on Mars (Wikipedia: dearMoon)

I can stare at the map view on airplanes all the way from takeoff to landing, so I think I will enjoy the trip.

Well they do tend to think stuff scales forever.

of course they get caught by incel culture immediately, trying to quantify attractiveness is so far in their wheelhouse they might as well have come up with it

can pay an upfront cost to get in good shape, dress well, etc. You do it basically once

Wait what, how can I lock in a good shape with an upfront payment without having to go through this "exercise" bullshit all the time? What does he know that I don't?! What's the One Simple Trick, dammit??!!

y'all will be pleased to know that a new LWer has a fresh take on looksmaxxing!!

basically if you look like a Greek god you can convince the sheeple that the AI is gonna kill us all (and bang hot chicks as a bonus)

as of writing there's one comment suggesting OP should read:

Aella: Has a few posts on male attractiveness, that inform a bunch of thinking on this. But she is a canon Rationalist blog, so you should default to reading her work.

Also recommends Zvi, who, no offense, is the literal epitome of a scrawny nerd, but who has managed to find a female to reproduce with. All hope is not lost, friend!

Fuck me for having read this... Surely there are only like 2 dozen people in the world who think like this, right?

Ope, im getting an update that it is more than 2 dozen...

"Im a fuckin sicko and no one wants to immediately fuck me"

Some online dating device is demonic in the same sense as the chatbot which encouraged someone to commit suicide then initiated erotic roleplay with him.

A lot of lonely guys will do well from hiring a professional for some social dates and makeout sessions to get practice reading body language and finding some face-to-face activity with women which is not just about dating.

As always with these people, note that the replies make frequent reference to "loopholes" and people "exploiting the system" without ever being specific about what those loopholes are.

The number of bitter fascist weirdos kicking Beff (of all people) while he's down sure is something.

No honor among thieves i reckon.

I don't know Guillaume Verdon / Beff Jezos but Forbes' profile begins:

Andreessen Horowitz cofounder Marc Andreessen says BasedBeffJezos is a “patron saint of techno-optimism.” Garry Tan, who cofounded the venture firm Initialized Capital before becoming CEO of Y Combinator, calls him “brother.” Sam Altman, who founded OpenAI — the company that finally mainstreamed artificial intelligence — has jokingly sparred with him on Twitter. Elon Musk says his memes are “🔥🔥🔥.”

He has an entry on the Effective Accelerationism wiki https://www.eaccwiki.com/index.php?title=Beff_Jezos

🎶 sing us a song you're the nano man 🎶

xheet is deleted, was is Beff Jezoz who wrote that? background? though he was as American as apple piethe Ku Klux Klan

or sunset super-voting shares within seven years

weird number to pick given they might not last that long if felon and friends aren't removed earlier on..

sunset super-voting shares within seven years

It's taken 20 years to get this level of pushback on super-voting shares, and even then, the scam is still likely to go through. All of these people are whistling past the graveyard of eroding systemic legitimacy.

That is a bad sign, negotiating means they are considering buying.

But anyways - why is there a vacuum in the jar? To preserve the jam? Isn't jam a preserve? Like, I thought the whole raison d'etre of jam was as a way to make fruit keep, unrefrigerated, through the winter? Why must we preserve the preserve? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

what is going on with these people i’m so annoyed i’m about to cry

Why do so many containers require women asking a man for help in order to open them? (Or carrying around an opening tool or living in a kitchen?)

how often do you open jam jars outside the kitchen?? it’s not that hard! you don’t actually have to force them open through grip strength like an idiot man!!

I use grip gloves for opening jars and love them so much. Same ideas as plastic jar grips, but even easier. I find I usually have enough strength but that my skin is too sensitive to fully apply it without grip gloves.

Maybe women just aren’t that into designing programming languages?

James Damore flashbacks ohno

For some reason once you start talking about space people stop thinking about it as one of many alternatives. If you want to think about industrializing space, simply being possible isn't enough. The unique challenges of operating in orbit (of which cooling is only the most obvious among a great many problems) need to be addressable efficiently enough that sending it up still makes more sense than building it on the ground.

Microsoft's experiments with underwater data centers serve as a powerful parallel since it has many of the same challenges but is still significantly cheaper. If it were economical to put a data center in orbit it would be even more economical to put it in an underwater container, so if we aren't doing the latter we would need a hell of a good reason to do the former. See also the economic challenges of living on Mars, the moon, or even LEO compared to Antarctica or ocean platforms.

The ISS already has issues with structural fatigue which seem to be worsened by thermal expansion. Having one side of your station red hot and another at room temperature is a big temperature differential and what faces the sun and heats up on one side of the orbit will be in shadow and cooling on the other side. And the bigger you make a physical system, the worse problems get.

I miss when I could cheer SpaceX launches on an iMac.

According to an HN poster, it mentions the Kardashev scale at least three times.

These are not serious people.

SpaceX's IPO filing has an unusual paragraph on page 235:

On January 13, 2026, our board approved the grant of 1 billion performance-based restricted shares of Class B common stock to Mr. Musk. The restricted shares vest upon (i) our achievement of specified market capitalization milestones across 15 equal tranches and (ii) the Company’s establishment of a permanent human colony on Mars with at least one million inhabitants, in each case, subject to Mr. Musk’s continued employment with us through the date on which achievement is certified by our board. For any tranche of the award to vest, both the applicable market capitalization milestone for such tranche and the human colony milestone must be met.

Until that happy day occurs the shares would be out of Mr. Musk's hands and safe and secure under the custodianship of the dictator of SpaceX who is (assistant whispers in ears) huh.

Page 166 talks about the old dream of Lunar He3 for fusion power and quantum computing without saying any of those words because people might remember space advocates talking about lunar helium in the 1990s and 2000s:

Once resource utilization capabilities are proven feasible, we believe there is an opportunity to commercialize the harvesting and exportation of rare materials, which is estimated to be present on the Moon in quantities exceeding one million tons and has potential applications in future nuclear energy and quantum computing systems.

I do not know if that can work because only a few percent of the company will be for sale

I think a 30% chunk will be available for non-institutional investors, which as far as these things go is supposed to be humongous and also an indication that they are very much counting on stupid money to prop their valuation.

This website is intended for the use of the wholesale clients only. I declare that I am a wholesale client as defined in the Corporations Act 2001. I declare that I will not provide any information on this website to a retail investor.

Jokes on them I read the page without clicking the agree button here and without being a wholesale client!

Owenomics is also worried about changing the rules to add SpaceX and OpenAI to NASDAQ and the S&P500 while only a tiny fraction of their shares are available for trading. "Bad idea. If float is too low, the market cap is meaningless and should not be relied upon for any purpose. "

Back in January he said that the US stock market is not in a bubble until Robert Shiller's "CAPE rises to 80 (similar to Japan’s CAPE in 1989)." The CAPE (a ratio of price to the average earning for the past ten years) of the S&P500 is around 40, similar to the US in January 2000.

He does not mention new era thinking (chapters 5 and 6 of Shiller's Irrational Exuberance).

damned shame they couldn't both lose

Did it actually solve this one or did it just find a pre-existing solution like it did the last time?

[2] fuck trying to find the double acute accent or w/e it’s called over the o

in afrikaans: "deelteken"

in english: I literally can never remember it, but I remember "umlaut"

I would expect both lobste.rs and LW to be open sewers of credulity here

That is still very high for pulp science fiction.

The dreaded midnight hour of oblivion!

I think the more telling aspect here isn't the possible employment impacts, it's the fact that it's making all the things it's supposed to touch worse. Like, the new textile mills may have been massively disruptive to people who had previously been skilled labor, but at least the efficiency gains meant that you could make a lot more cloth a lot faster. The affected workers bore the cost, but anyone could reap (some of) the benefits. But with AI, not only are we seeing the automation impact people's livelihoods, it's also making the experience of interacting with all these systems worse. I don't know how many people outside the tech industry would care about underemployment and retraining for software engineers, but everyone can feel that the systems they rely on are less reliable, more glitchy, and uglier. Combined with the way data centers and AI companies serve as focusing points for people's concerns, I think there's decent odds that we see blood regardless of whether the prophecied great replacement (not that one) happens as advertised.

It isnt just causing unemployment, it is also causing drinkable water and energy problems. And apparently there might already be a wace of workers setting fire to warehouses going on in the usa (which is not being reported on if it is, not sure of it is an actual thing btw, but saw somebody on social media say the warehouse fires which they were tracking went from 100 to 150 in a short period. I do not know enough to say if this is real or somebody mistaking normal accidents with a revolution, i assume it is the former. The one fire I saw reported was due to a cost of living thing btw).

After discharge, her outpatient psychiatrist stopped cariprazine and restarted venlafaxine and methylphenidate. She resumed using ChatGPT, naming it “Alfred” after Batman’s butler,

wat

instructing it to do "internal family systems cognitive behavioral therapy,"

wat

and engaging in extensive conversations about an evolving relationship “to see if the boy liked me.”

yikes

Having automatically upgraded to GPT-5, she found the new chatbot “much harder to manipulate.”

my hopes are being raised; certainly the next sentence will not dash them

Nonetheless, following another period of limited sleep due to air travel three months later, she once again developed delusions that she was in communication with her brother

yep, that tracks

as well as the belief that ChatGPT was “phishing” her and taking over her phone.

this is why you need to add "do not phish me" after "you are my therapist"

She was rehospitalized, responded to a retrial of cariprazine, and was discharged after three days without persistent delusions. She described having a longstanding predisposition to “magical thinking” and planned to only use ChatGPT for professional purposes going forward.

goddamnit

large language models (LLMs)—but never chatbots

?? Distinction without a difference or am I missing something?

“It is fascinating to receive such communiqués of strange news from another star. I would not know, without your saying so, that the set of 10 pictures are intended to be good examples and not bad examples.”

To be fair most of said outfits read as “rich arsehole” to me, which I do not find attractive. Yellow shirt guy I would suspect to be a white supremacist.

As far as men’s fashion goes, I’ve seen much worse, though the bits I do like here feel fairly gay-coded to me so uh whatever. (I suspect those are the very same bits our Lesswrong Commenter is disapproving of.)

You can lead a horse to water but you can't prevent it from Bayesing out.

If, like some of my male housemates you object on principle to the concept of a bag

then you need to watch Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade again. From there, you can graduate to the Tom Holland "Umbrella" video, which is clinically proven to make cis het women ovulate.

In retrospect, the idea that creating a globally accepted alternative to the dollar would come with zero consequences to the system of global free trade it props up might just be the funniest bit of half-baked cryptobro ideology.

Mild nit: "frontrunning" was a term (and practice) in use before crapto trading.

I mean, the classical pitch for an IPO is the same as any other large investment, right? You get a great big chunk of capital that you can throw at scaling or improving processes or building our your manufacturing capabilities or whatever, and then that investment of capital in your business in turn generates a financial return for investors. But in an industry and world where venture capital is plentiful, it shouldn't be surprising that when an IPO rolls around all the low-hanging fruit for improving, scaling, and stabilizing the business have already been done. Instead you're looking for a way to let your earlier investors liquidate their returns and get actual cash that they can invest in new ventures. In the best case that means that the IPO price doesn't move very much and it becomes a stable part of the market, but the incentives are all there to make sure the IPO overvalues the company as much as possible. I would need to do more research but I would suspect you can find an inverse relationship between venture funding and public market success in recent years, at least strong enough to expect the wheels to come off when the initial hype is pushed this high.

several other people have commented on the tone, and I believe it's just because it's massaged to be more marketing-ly

same with the local LLM crap, it's to appeal to investors

I have seen nerds be mad at them for using Discord and GitHub too, some people are really hard to please

doubt this will ever see the light of day anyway

I don't think it's actually going to be doing a lot of LLMing. It has a coprocessor for inference type stuff, but only 8GB of RAM on the SOC. So I assume they just stuck this in for marketing.

"We’re moving towards this ‘one true answer’ world.

This ugly little statement has been true ever since Twitter started eating mainstream media personalities' brains. It's why I consider the modern chatbot to be a direct design descendent of short-form social media -- it's giving you Twitter with zero pushback or hate. Beware anyone who thinks this is a good thing.

took me a second to understand this isn't meant as a funny prank idea

this feels like a form of critihype but i haven't read anything else by this person so i don't know. Examples:

Artificial intelligence is entering public consciousness associated with layoffs, instability, replacement anxiety, corporate concentration, surveillance, and soaring resource consumption.

That is an extraordinarily dangerous emotional foundation for a transformative technology.

The commencement boos matter because they reveal how culturally toxic AI has already become among many young educated Americans. These students understand artificial intelligence well enough to fear it precisely because they already use it. They use it for papers, coding assistance, presentations, summaries, and research. They know the technology works. They know it is improving rapidly.

"oh no, people dislike this wonderful technology!! But it's so wonderful!!"

Whether America ultimately requires these facilities to remain economically competitive may eventually become a legitimate policy debate, but politically that question is almost secondary.

"we really need this stuff guys, people are mad so it might not happen but it's really really important so think of that too"

I found the paragraph that best shows why I hate this:

Globalization became the symbolic villain for the collapse of blue-collar manufacturing communities in America. Entire towns watched factories disappear while political and economic elites insisted the disruption was both inevitable and beneficial.

This is a basically accurate description of what happened.

Whether every fear surrounding globalization was technically correct almost ceased to matter politically because millions of people experienced the same emotional reality: the economy was being reorganized for someone else’s benefit while their communities absorbed the damage.

Again, I this is actually a pretty salient description of what happened. Sure, maybe if you add everything up the benefits outweigh the costs in some abstract way, but it still hurts when those costs are imposed on you and yours without any input. The economic decision-makers decided to sacrifice those people's livelihoods and their futures in exchange for number go up, and they knew it was happening even as they couldn't do anything to stop them.

This whole piece acts like the backlash to outsourcing was irrational and dumb, like those salt-of-the-earth morons didn't know what was good for them. But the author is either too deep in the neoliberal soup to recognize this as the wrong and cruel argument it is or they recognize this and lack the courage to commit to that position openly.

AI is increasingly becoming that same symbolic villain for white-collar America

Emphasis added. I don't think the villainy behind these AI projects is symbolic at all. Symptomatic of deeper systemic problems maybe, but very real. People aren't failing to grant this transformative technology it's moment in the sun, they are clearly seeing the transformation that the tech oligarchs are trying to impose on them and doing their damndest to reject it. This still leaves a whole lot of fights left to decide what the future should look like, but I find it legitimately heartening to see so many people from so many different parts of society coming together and loudly declaring "Not this!"

same sl0bslack author has this piece (complete with punchy LLMisms)

https://thecycle.substack.com/p/please-stop-trying-to-murder-trump

Before his murder, Kirk was influential, sure. After his murder, he became something much bigger. A symbol. A martyr. Turning Point exploded with energy, attention, emotional intensity, and recruitment after his death. In death, Kirk became more powerful than he was alive. Now multiply that effect by a million and attach it to Donald Trump.

Uh didn't I recently read how TPUSA has basically imploded just half a year since this dipshit got his head blown off (sorry "destroyed at a debate")? Everyone with eyes to see could tell that the right jumped on this as a Reichstag fire analog, prepared to usher in a new consensus, but it fizzled out after a couple of weeks (unfortunately not before a number of people lost their jobs)

Trump is sui generis. He's not a person universally beloved. He's a deeply polarizing chaos agent who has twisted the right into his weird image, but the point is, that image is incoherent and changes with his moods daily. There's no Trump ideology other than what's in his Truth social feed at the moment.

Would he being assassinated bring peace and order to the land? No. Would it usher in a new thousand year Republican age? Also no. Would it be bad. Yes, but not as bad as this pseudo-leftist believes.

Also it goes without saying, don't assassinate people.

See, it's a good practice under the principle of charity to read as much fascist propaganda as you can and incorporate it into your worldview. It doesn't matter who said things, but rather whether they're true, and since you're a rational agent you can surely evaluate each claim with perfect objecitivity. Digging a 19th-century eugenics study is expanding your objectivity score.

Reading polemics from leftists too? lol no what are you talking about, they're all irrational and biased

/s

The heartwarming story of the PHI sponge helping the professional racist also hate fat people.

Then again, there is a lot of synergy between the inevitable antifatness and his usual project of hating black people.

So a mid-sized software company called Epic is chatting with Cremieux / Jordan Lasker on twitter?

If your employer is using their software, that might be something to email and ask for a meeting about.