o7___o7 @ o7___o7 @awful.systems

[redacted] enthusiast, robot combat enjoyer, distressingly Appalachian, fat

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Going to youtube for the posts is the perfect inverse of reading playboy for the articles.

AI Singularity Fantasies : Tracing Mythinformation from Erewhon to Spiritual Machines

That title is a banger

A cursed idea:

North Koreans futzing around and trying to train a model on Juche Thought.

Out of all the robo-cult grifters, Kurzweil is an authentically tragic figure

It's always Miller(ite) Time

A prompt enjoyer does eschatology. Along the way he abuses mathematics, Ohio, and a chinchilla.

https://campedersen.com/singularity

Sorry this is tiktok but it feels very relevant: https://www.tiktok.com/@keegantindall/video/7324804303376436526

Do you reckon it was a net negaive for them? It's heartening (to me) that it was such a damp squib, and it's always entertaining to witness the civillians' reaction to their first taste of TPOT.

Seeing these dingdongs in the sunlight helps observers get over the "It cant be that stupid" barrier, in my experience.

Btw, been appreciating your posts lately!

AAaas: Arthur Anderson as a Service.

patio11 and tptacek are experts on daycares in Minnesota. This is very on topic for a technology website that eschews politics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46915587

It's a real fuckin scum scrum over there(1). Between these dorks and Mozilla Jake, it seems like every nerd-ass fash clown in tech got the memo to talk like an emotionally abusive ex with dying wizard characteristics.

(1) even more so than ususal

Are you a bird watcher?

In Great Depression 2 news...

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic’s Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles:

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/anthropic-goldman-sachs-ai-model-accounting.html

This could be its own post. Very nice!

I hear ya. I mean, Stross's George Clooney stood and fought the horrors, while ours ran away to France. (The book really captured the unique American flavor of High Weirdness and the stickiness of Amerca's belief in its own mythos, didnt it though?)

In the here and now, I try to remind myself that they're the ones who suck and that they should hide.

When Woke 2 comes we're going to be insuffferable.

Hero!

Here's a screenshot in case it vanishes:

Opus 4.6 is More Corn (ft. Dr Weird and Steve)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6TMOMTtAMBI

It does seem kind of vulnerable to a determined gonzo journalist, doesnt it?

Axios publishes an ad for Anthropic. tptacek bravely defends a corporation from unimpressed fellow hackers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902909

Edit: tptacek implies that Ludic no longer stands behind Contra Ptacek's Terrible Article On AI, which I don't believe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906403

tptacek explains that the one armed bandit addiction loop is good actually:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46905142

Edit2: He took off to his Xafe space. Getting Mozilla Jake vibes. lol at tptacek calling it the orange site:

https://xcancel.com/tqbf/status/2019493645888462993

Imagining an LW enjoyer attempting to tackle Proust and getting straight armed into the Shadow Realm.