David Gerard

‘Some bad things’ may happen to you, but that’s a sacrifice Sam Altman is willing to make ‘in the meantime, uh, there will be great companies created with serious machine learning’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfLoCXTSRJc&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20261006-but-thats-a-sacrifice-sam-al… - podcast time: 4 min 47 sec

Anthropic: Could AI be conscious? Pope Leo: lol, no ‘Algorithms lack the spark of humanity’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VCWgoIrRCo&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20261005-anthropic-could-ai-be-consci… - podcast time: 7 min 58 sec

Microsoft Vibe Gaming: an AI to play your games for you Microsoft literally titled the blog post ‘Vibe Gaming’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIsARMEsZg&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260909-microsoft-vibe-gaming-an-ai-… - podcast time: 5 min 32 sec

Jacob Coxon: how to run an AI doomsday media campaign to keep you talking about Skynet — not the data centre down the road www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3IoTZNN6iM&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260910-jacob-coxon-how-to-run-an-ai… - podcast time: 6 min 20 sec

ChatGPT ads: media agencies are ‘underwhelmed’ ads for people who block ads www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0PsTnLVL0I&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260916-chatgpt-ads-media-agencies-a… - podcast time: 4 min 50 sec

if you’re in the US and have too much time on your hands, the comments on this one need attention, cos PBS leave comments on then just don’t moderate them. please do stop by in “new comments” mode and upvote the good top-level comments, downvote the bad, and report the racists and straight up Nazis. the upvotes/downvotes determine the default “Top comments” view, and it takes multiple reports for any given racist

AI slowdown: The only AI guardrails you need are Trump, apparently we’re not running out of money, no no www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y5SpNLoRsY&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260914-ai-slowdown-the-only-ai-guar… - podcast time: 7 min 55 sec

Kat Jones: how Scotland is winning against the data centres (video) APRS and helping local communities fight back …libsyn.com/20261002-kat-jones-how-scotland-is-wi… - podcast time: 41 min 10 sec Transcript for patrons coming shortly

psst you can see it on an Invidious instance that’s set to a US backend

Anthropic IPO filing: the disaster in numbers when you can’t fiddle the numbers any more www.youtube.com/watch?v=20VYK0-Q-3o&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20261001-anthropic-ipo-filing-the-dis… - podcast time: 6 min 56 sec

it’s the best, and i’m not just saying that cos i’m in it

specifically, me

this is an attempt at the camel’s nose, in the standard AI playbook

it really does

you may want to read the rest of the comments

New AI jailbreak: get your chatbot drunk what if we made a computer you just couldn’t rely on www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D5_no4quNQ&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260930-new-ai-jailbreak-get-your-ch… - podcast time: 7 min 02 sec

OpenAI were originally selling the ads at premium prices, this is the ad guys saying “these perform like trash mate”

i am assuming the fix is in, esp with the hit dog hollering response

AI police surveillance trial costs £320k, catches zero crooks even the AI that works doesn’t work www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QEMoNIuamg&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260929-ai-surveillance-trial-costs-… - podcast time: 4 min 10 sec

excuse me sir, you cannot defame VolksBot1488 with these outrageous claims it was not just stretching its arm due to a cramp

most popular sci fi of 1993, how dare a philosopher name mind-body dualism after such a classic

Meta’s Muse AI agent: a hilarious security disaster ‘the only form that this kind of product can take is a botnet factory’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=HytNZfilDJs&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260928-metas-muse-ai-agent-a-hilari… - podcast time: 6 min 59 sec

Oracle invokes ‘force majeure’ on OpenAI data centre contract Oracle and Blue Owl are going just great www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj3MYXaR4nA&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260925-oracle-invokes-force-majeure… - podcast time: 4 min 50 sec

OpenAI hacks Australian government health data Sam Altman: ‘whoops sorry lol’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5dnkwAjuPs&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260924-openai-hacks-australian-gove… - podcast time: 4 min 45 sec

Trump decrees: Artificial Intelligence is now Super Intelligence Wile E. Basilisk, Super Intelligence www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuMYQkadVbw&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260923-trump-decrees-artificial-int… - podcast time: 4 min 49 sec

US nearly attacks Chinese ship based on AI hallucination the existential risk from AI: stupid people www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfvH8vHoMX4&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260922-us-nearly-attacks-chinese-sh… - podcast time: 4 min 48 sec

Tobias Lütke, Shopify: when the AI slop is bad enough the AI CEO notices Tobias Lütke from Shopify blames the humans in the loop www.youtube.com/watch?v=2weIKnLSmIU&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260921-when-the-ai-slop-is-bad-enou… - podcast time: 4 min 21 sec

Scottish Parliament passes AI data centre pause No to a full moratorium www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlqRKNkXVrg&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260918-scottish-parliament-passes-a… - podcast time: 3 min 50 sec

AI data centre fires overwhelm emergency responders Keep the home fires from burning www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0ZzwvnNi2U&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260917-ai-data-centre-fires-overwhe… - podcast time: 3 min 44 sec

Jensen claims 100× returns on Nvidia’s circular financing Not a Ponzi scheme www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfJ1gdMm17E&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260915-jensen-claims-100-returns-on… - podcast time: 7 min 15 sec

AGI Benchmarks: Eugenic Origins — by Valerie Veatch

Valerie Veatch: Ghost in the Machine — AI as eugenics (video) Coming to PBS Monday 14 September! …libsyn.com/20260911-valerie-veatch-ghost-in-the-… - podcast time: 41 min 02 sec

muwahaha

I’ve been keeping extensive notes on these bozos but I don’t quite have a story yet. Not even the US VCs are going big into “biocomputing”. I’m trying to work out what the fuck Cortical Labs think they’re on about.

and the right situation is work that should not be done

Jacob Coxon turns out to be solid EA all the way down, since his student days at Cambridge his Goodreads is a fucking delight. You can tell he’s a rationalist because his top books are E. T. Jaynes and Scott Aaronson. He tried Mishima and couldn’t hack the distance, and I’m going to go so far as to say he didn’t read Mishima because he was looking for a good writer, but because he heard Mishima was a reactionary.

gyges is a LW regular who believes in the AI doomsday and speaks fluent rationalist but totally is not one, how dare you

they tried so hard to fluff the AI

what were the other two?

yor mums a tool

tooled and died

Yud: this is all because Dario is a commie

urgh. which pod host was it?

they’re a fucking plage on the fedi right now, bots asking for masto accounts there’s also a ryptocurrency hooked to it

oh yeah i remember I use zencastr for recording (works so far?) and never ever for hosting (I use libsyn for audio and youtube for video)

yeah “I didn’t do the thing but I must post” doesn’t play here

are you sure you’re tall enough for this ride

my first guess is some sort of weird sci fi eugenics

posting before lifting a finger is not welcome here