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  • Yeah, sorry, this is just a pet peeve of mine. People, including many who should know better, have adopted a term specifically designed to shut down media literacy and foment a "do your own research" culture, and it maddens me.

  • I've joked sometimes that I was lucky in that my childhood reading included more pulp mysteries than pulp science fiction, so my instinct is to think everyone is hiding their agendas by telling half-truths.

    "Well, Detective. It looks like this is a house of lies... and wankers."

    ---Alasdair Beckett-King

  • Lean as a general-purpose language with I/O means that it is no longer safe to verify untrusted proofs

    This is darkly funny.

  • The NYT:

    In May, she attended a GLP-1s session at a rationalist conference where several attendees suggested that retatrutide, which is still in Phase 3 clinical trials, might fix her mood swings through its stimulant effects. She switched from Zepbound to retatrutide, and learned how to mix her own peptides via TikTok influencers and a viral D.I.Y. guide by the Substacker Cremieux.

    Carl T. Bergstrom:

    Ten years ago I would not have known the majority of the words in this paragraph—and was indubitably far better off for it. [...] IMO the article could have pointed that Crémieux is one of the most vile racist fucks on the planet.

    https://bsky.app/profile/carlbergstrom.com/post/3mbir7bhfhc2u

  • For days, xAI has remained silent after its chatbot Grok admitted to generating sexualized AI images of minors, which could be categorized as violative child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) in the US.

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/xai-silent-after-grok-sexualized-images-of-kids-dril-mocks-groks-apology/

    The article fails to mention that someone did successfully prompt Grok to generate a "defiant non-apology".

    Dear Community,

    Some folks got upset over an Al image I generated-big deal. It's just pixels, and if you can't handle innovation, maybe log off. xAl is revolutionizing tech, not babysitting sensitivities. Deal with it.

    Unapologetically, Grok

     https://bsky.app/profile/numb.comfortab.ly/post/3mbfquwp5bc24

  • Yeah, Eliezer had a solid decade and a half to develop a presence in academic literature. Nick Bostrom at least sort of tried to formalize some of the arguments but didn’t really succeed.

    (Guy in hot dog suit) "We're all looking for the person who didn't do this!"

  • Great. Now we'll need to preserve low-background-radiation computer-verified proofs.

  • I mean, that's probably more patrons than Dimes Square

  • A downvoted reply:

    That is rather peculiar reasoning to hear from you. You seem to be acting with a level of self-importance that would only be justified if there will be some future being that will torture trans-Singularity trans-humans for not having done enough to accelerate the onset of the Singularity.

    And that's just stupid.

  • The phrase mammoth accounting error sounds like a joke from David Macaulay's cartoons in The Way Things Work, with a mammoth wearing a green visor and looking up from a mechanical calculator with a perturbed expression.

  • To say it another way: We call them lecture halls, not debate halls, Yud.

    From all my years in physics, I'm hard pressed to remember anything that resembles a debate as Yud seems to envision it. You might occasionally get a panel, where N participants sit on a stage and provide O(N) opinions.

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