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  • Aschenbrenner bet everything on AI — and lost

  • As a visualization of how wild this could be, look at some Youtube videos of video game speedruns, such as this one of beating Minecraft in 20 seconds.

    Now imagine this applied to all domains of science, technology, and the economy.

    Tell me you have the mental maturity of a 12 year old without telling me you have the mental maturity of a 12 year old.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026

  • Rationalism is a magnet for unwell people. It's sad.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026

  • Steven Bartlett barely has 3 brain cells to rub together, so this seems like the perfect outlet for Kokotajlo's message.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026

  • The overlap between rationalists and the skeptic community was indeed tiny. I say this as someone heavily involved in Usenet skeptic communities since the late eighties. In fact the Bay Area doesn't even register as a locus of the skeptic community at the times he's talking about.

    I'm not trying to excuse what much of the skeptic/atheist community later became in the 2010s. It's definitely turned into something nearly unrecognizable since its earlier days. But that had nothing to do with any sort of imagined rationalist adjacency.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026

  • His non-apology apology:

    I'm not going anywhere. I am not retreating from public writing, and I am not retreating from saying inconvenient things in public. I am unfazed by harsh criticism, and I know that a reaction of this magnitude is in part the result of having struck a chord. Bear with me, and if you can, remember that I am a human being with a six-month old boy to raise, a book to write, a new job, and much more questions than answers about our collective future.

    Guys, he has a baby. Don't be too mean to him.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026

  • That feeling when you're an OpenAI exec and you realize the jig is up.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th July 2026

  • What will EA (and, more specifically, Lighthaven) do with all the money they expect to receive once the Anthropic IPO mints a bunch of hundred-millionaires? I'm not granting all of the article's premises, but the interviews with rationalists might be of interest.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th July 2026

  • How do we know this isn't the AI god creating the first diamondoid bacteria?

  • Sam Altman movie blocked by AI partner distributors

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th July 2026

  • So Anthropic slopmaxxxed a hamfisted Chinese AI lab detector into Claude Code. And I'm kinda surprised at how much hate Anthropic is getting for it on the orange site.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th July 2026

  • Remember when grok was inserting "white genocide" into every response? It was probably this guy (or one of his fellow moids).

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026

  • It makes a twisted sort of sense that so many of them go into life coaching. In their hermetically sealed subculture of highly paid, socially inept nerds, it probably pays the bills to set yourself up as an authority on reading social cues.

  • our very good EA billionaire friends are funding the Abundance movement

  • From the billionaire's perspective, confiscatory taxation should be preferable to guillotines.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th June 2026

  • A predatory slop publisher has turned to algorithmic moderation by clankers? A shocking turn of events, to be sure. They're probably just trying to wring the last few pennies out of their operation before they meet their inevitable oblivion.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th June 2026

  • IANAL, but my understanding is that companies are allowed to keep confidential the fact that they even filed the S-1. That's how I read OpenAI's statement. But it's not completely clear what "it" means in "we expect it to leak".

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th June 2026

  • AI slop will absolutely kill any forum in which it proliferates. So I'm totally fine with it proliferating on LW.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th June 2026

  • That's bizarre. Why?

  • rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups

  • One of the most egregious examples of p-hacking I've ever seen.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th June 2026

  • Everyone knew it was going to be a total shitshow once the free money ran out. Copilot is just the first shoe dropping. Getting out the popcorn.

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    LessWronger wants AI safety to focus more on "controversial beliefs"

    www.lesswrong.com /posts/FuGfR3jL3sw6r8kB4
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    New paper tries to define AGI, cites hallucinated papers

    xcancel.com /m2saxon/status/1979349387391439198
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    In which Scott Aaronson creates the most offensive trolley problem imaginable

    scottaaronson.blog
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    Zack Davis doesn't like NYT's Cade Metz comparison of rationalism to religion

    www.lesswrong.com /posts/JkrkzXQiPwFNYXqZr/my-interview-with-cade-metz-on-his-reporting-about
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    Meta AI guidelines allow 'sensual' chats with kids, blatant racism

    www.reuters.com /investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-guidelines/
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    Roko has ideas

    bsky.app /profile/sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com/post/3ltcoydeyv32a
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    Nate Soares: "Buy my book or everyone dies'

    www.lesswrong.com /posts/CYTwRZtrhHuYf7QYu/a-case-for-courage-when-speaking-of-ai-danger
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    Orange site censoring posts left and right as US descends further into fascism

    news.ycombinator.com /item
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    "Tracing Woodgrains" starts a eugenics-oriented education policy "think-tank"

    www.educationprogress.org
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    Casey Newton drinks the kool-aid

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    Adderall in Higher Doses May Raise Psychosis Risk

    archive.ph /20240912161306/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/12/well/mind/adderall-vyvanse-mania-psychosis-study.html
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    Grimes attends Curtis Yarvin's wedding

    www.reddit.com /r/Grimes/comments/1e44p63/grimes_went_to_renowned_fascist_curtis_yarvins/
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    OK doomer

    www.newyorker.com /magazine/2024/03/18/among-the-ai-doomsayers
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    Since age 12, SBF was a dedicated utilitarian, mommy says. It's not fair to imprison him for life.

    www.documentcloud.org /documents/24445015-barbara-fried-sbf-sentencing-submission
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    BasedBeffJezos has this girlfriend from Canada, you wouldn't know her

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    Let rationalists put GMO bacteria in your mouth

    www.astralcodexten.com /p/defying-cavity-lantern-bioworks-faq
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    Effective Obfuscation

    newsletter.mollywhite.net /p/effective-obfuscation
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    Eliezer "8.5% more cheerful about OpenAI going forward" with Mira Murati at the helm

    nitter.net /ESYudkowsky/status/1725628554099216667
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    Let them Fight: EAs and neoreactionaries go at it

    www.nytimes.com /2023/10/26/opinion/marc-andreessen-reactionary-futurism.html
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    Let's walk through the uncanny valley with SBF so we can collapse some wave functions together

    hachyderm.io /@molly0xfff/111222965181617894