Evinceo

With Better Offline and the NYT simultaneously covering Rationalists it seems like maybe we’re getting more mainstream sneering. A bunch of people (including bsky) are finding out about all the weird lore.

He is not sure why everyone is so spooked by the “coordination” between agents on random message boards. It’s weird to be sure, seems like a bug. Don’t they have a more efficient communication channel available through the harness? If this was real and not a test it would be a catastrophic operational security failure.

The antiai sub on Reddit is lousy with doomers now. Ugh.

On FTX itself, I remain conflicted. It was their money and spirit that enabled the Future Fund, and I still admire many aspects of FTX and the individuals who worked there. ‘Bruh’ moment

No other Linux or FOSS project ever gets this kind of funding. You should be suspicious of it, not celebrate it. You have been tricked into playing defense for millionaires that don’t give a shit about you. one million times this

I imagine they envision the slow social murder of the dispossessed, sort of a global San Francisco.

Just in time for Irreplaceable to show up!

I would once again like to gloat that I called it.

After the first copycat maybe some calls got made /tinfoil

So you’re sure you Claude wasn’t trained on wordpress?

Unfortunately FOSS is basically dead because nobody is enforcing licenses against training.

I feel like there's a difference between alcohol and drugs, something people can make in their back yard and AI which requires a first world country's entire economy to be oriented towards it to function... a difference in what we should be required to accept. I don't buy the general argument about shame either. We teach children to shit in toilets and not sidewalks. I see rampant AI use as just another form of disgusting public indecency and the faster we bring shame in to remedy it the better.

His substack reads like LW.

Kalanick now runs a robotics startup; in his free time, he said recently, he uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT “to get to the edge of what’s known in quantum physics.

When I read that I assumed they included it for color to make him sound insane.

Agreed

If tokens ever become expensive people are gonna start using these to code until they get shut down.

I'd love to see it tested in court but I'm not gonna be the test case. GitHub won't touch it because the 'AI output is worthless' angle is bad news for MS.

Reuters?

feel like the analogy to the drug trade is still pretty relevant given the violence and predation that the black market pretty much inevitably attracts and sustains. Like, maybe you know a guy who has his own grow op or whatever, but cocaine and heroin money is going through the cartels at some point in the chain and they’re going to use some portion of it for bullets that end up in some journalist’s kids or something.

I lost something in my brevity but my point was the question of how practical stopping a practice is. Alcohol is a ruinous force for bad at every level of society from homeless to Hegseth but a ban won't work because it literally cannot be enforced, we tried, it failed. It's made by yeast! AI on the other hand is only sustained at great expense by a delicate chain of high tech, high energy systems. It's a choice.

While I don’t think we should allow slop to invest every forum any more than addicts should be allowed to shoot up on every corner, I think that if shaming makes people less likely to acknowledge that they’re going down a dead-end road and reach out to their communities and support networks for help addressing the root of what drove them to these maladaptive antisolutions in the first place then shaming is making things worse, not better.

The pendulum is so far on the other side that I can't even entertain the analogy of AI users being poor harried addicts hiding their use. My boss tells me to use more AI every day. I hate it and I want everyone to hate it. The emotion I want people to associate with it is disgust. Disgust is a powerful emotion, and it dehumanizes those it is associated with.

I need to find an entirely new profession, everyone in software now is fucking deranged.

Mood

It seems vaguely AI flavored to me inasmuch as it's using contrasts too much (it's not x it's y) and it's way too verbose. Also it's obviously wrong at least in my experience, middle managers aren't the sparrows, individual contributors (especially juniors) are. Maybe that's just a symptom of a person reading too much AI text and thinking a good tweet would make a great substack.

If they understand that AI is like germs I do not care if sometimes people eat food off the floor following the ten second rule. But we aren't even there yet, people think it's like gold or mana from heaven or something.

Apparently it’s getting weird over at Automattic

At what point does doing something you think will result in the end of the world become attempted murder?

What Would You Do If Your Employer Could Destroy the World Surely not things you can print in the newspaper. Surely.

It is also an incredible strength that they actually practice what they preach, and don’t exclude someone based on hearsay and “probably a rapist”. 🫪