I also question the degree to which "the other 99% of readers" actually don't care about AI slop. Even outside the awful bubble here I see AI images get met with at best a weary sigh of "I guess this is the world now" rather than actual acceptance. And I know we've talked at some length about how gell-mann amnesia isn't a very useful model, but I think most people are much less tolerant of slop in areas that the know more about. Maybe I can't tell an slopware history paper from a real one, but historians certainly can, and they hate that shit. In that sense the "median reader" statistic is misleading because the median reader isn't particularly invested in most of what gets written anyways, and it's the lack of investment that makes slop seem plausible. Even the concerns about deep fakes seem like they're not separate from this general problem, since the same disconnection that makes people uncritically accept deep fakes makes them uncritically accept fake news without an accompanying video, or with a context-stripped video from an unrelated event, or whatever.

the original GMO crops

The original GMO crops would be like, broccoli existing and bananas not sucking ass. Monsanto are villains but they didn't invent genetics or selection.

I'm sorry are you telling me that there people's social circle includes the same like 50 oligarchs and apparatchiks and they're making a dating site for themselves? I know they lost Epstein but this is just pathetic.

I checked the image which says December last year.

tbf i expected that ed got openai's s1 at that point. anything more detailed would be nice to see. that also suggests that saltman knows that leak occurred, and maybe who leaker is

Well yeah. Just because they call their crypto scheme an Oracle doesn't mean they've actually solved the oracle problem.

but that would cut down openai costs

Wait anthropic are admitting that their model is basically the same as gpt 5.5 and the hype was undeserved?

Has it been 2 months already? I was wondering when they would turn up in the news again.

E: I'm not serious, I came across this video on yt which fulfilled my 'every 2 months' thing already. It was actually a bit interesting, as it turns out both of them have a long mostly unscrubbed online history which they tracked down and analyzed, turns out she has a history of being a weird quirky person, and they both have an air of 'want to become internet famous/create an internet scam' sort of thing.

The comments on that vid are great as well (wait for it) check this one out:

It is rich for you to skewer anything Simone and Malcolm miss with their podcast when they post 5 days a week (you neglected to mention) and you can’t even maintain your schedule or throw up a post on bluesky when you are off schedule. Also, because you two are genetic dead ends you don’t know that a mother of 5 cannot be a night person, she was up with a baby when she emailed. Malcolm and Simone talk in different rooms because she always is looking after a baby, and babies can randomly make noise so Simone can mute and Malcolm can take over. Maybe you can meet a baby one day and learn how they work. But I will say this episode is better researched than the usual “read article titles and giggle” podcasts you put out.

This comment was left by none other than "Diana Fleischman" Yes, that one, the evolutionary psychologist, and partner of Primal "I'm no longer allowed near students" Poly (For those who remember sneerclub from reddit, he was a regular subject. For example).

Amazing how small this nazi nerd world is. And how bad they are at defending their own. Feel free to leave 'ad hominem' reactions to that. (I will not as my yt profile links back to my real life).

I am out of the loop, what settings do I gotta change?

Did you see the Brent Dill stuff today?

No, it seems to be on the Nazi bar? So Brent Dill now has a YouTube channel and gave a talk about sasquatch.

Some Vibecamp organizer tweeted that he organized a weekend event with young women and Brent Dill. He agrees with Scott Alexander that figures like Curtis Yarvin are sexy and attract women to your events!

(ProTip: if you aren't getting enough feminine energy at your events, advertising it as an opportunity to meet a reputedly DANGEROUS man is a fantastic way to fix that ... Like wait...this guy who's rumored to be <every_bad_male_coded_thing> is the same guy holding space generously and openly with no 'grabby' or fearful / aversive energy towards anyone? When was the last time a rationalist guy showed aptitude at THAT?! (For those who don't know, rat-adjacent women tolerate --or, darkly, cultivate-- bizarre behavior from men as a matter of course, so it was startling that the supposed exemplar of rat-man badness was so far from that energy).

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I love my friends, of course. But many live in this bubble, have never meaningfully connected outside the bubble, and don't know how: highly unskilled at basic normie relational skills. In a way that reads as very rude if you're not accustomed to the norms (rather, the lack thereof) in the ffgk bubble. And they have better visibility into the OUTRAGEOUS behavior of the truly danger characters in the scene --the sexual violence, the fraud, the lying, more lying...so much lying.

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AND TO BE ABUNDANTLY CLEAR: sometimes Brent still says he needs outrageous amounts of power and control that no sane person should ever give a person so wounded. To which I say...DON'T DO THAT. THAT WAS REALLY STUPID WHEN BLACK LOTUS DID IT, AND IT WOULD BE BEYOND PROFOUNDLY STUPID TO REPEAT.

A vibecamp peson replied with screenshots of a chat with with Dill where he claimed that during 2014-2018 he was living in a rationalist group home and had his expenses paid in exchange for serving as an "emotional support dom" for a barely-legal person who had had sex with housemates while under 18, and that drama inside the house lead to the accusations against him (reminder, Dill confessed to doing some very disturbing things to much younger partners on his blog).

Yuan tweeted in response:

i was heavily involved with brent dill for a substantial chunk of 2018, when he was embedded in the bay area rationality community. based on those experiences i never want to get involved with him ever again and i highly recommend none of you ever do so either. please note that this is the strongest condemnation i have ever written publicly about anybody

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when this is happening to you, from the inside it feels like finally you've found someone who's saying things that make sense, that matter, who's bravely pointing out the elephants in the room nobody else is willing to, who is being unfairly persecuted by the popular monkeys, who's showing you all the social rot and promising in so many words that maybe, just maybe, you and him can fix it together, because you get it, right? you're not like the others. you see the truth. you're so special. or whatever. he will tailor different versions of this pitch to different people based on what he's figured out about you. the pitch includes, among other things, a sophisticated defense against any attempts to warn you about him, which look like confirmation of his persecution thesis

There is a 2 hour 39 minute YouTube video called "The Legend of Brent Dill: An Outsider's Perspective on the Human Sacrifice Rituals of the Rationalist Cult." I ain't watching that.

Can we just take off and drop a small asteroid on Oakland?

Yeah. I'm not gonna spring for the paid subscription to read the whole thing, but if we're gonna be angry at reasonable general-purpose life advice being melded to a toxic and hateful and then put forward as a revolution in human thought and relationships, then I have bad news about the whole rationalist community.

I used strawpoll.com which, well, works