[redacted] enthusiast, robot combat enjoyer, distressingly Appalachian, father of ninjas
Ugh, *yes. *
And I really do sympathise with the urge to avoid being seen as extreme (imagine being percieved! by people!) but that urge leads so many clued-in folks to pose the problem of bullshit engines as a halved-loaf problem when it’s a halved-baby situation, and the opposition isnt going to give anyone credit for being nice in the newspaper.
Semiotic voids.
You really nailed it here; they’re human slop chefs.
If you place your head in the beam line, that’s updating your pions
Doctorow says that we have to believe people when they say that LLMs are helpful for their work. Do we also have to believe people who say that alcohol makes them better drivers?
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/how-to-burst-the-ai-bubble-strike-at-its-roots/
A nice person develops a digital version of the Little Free Library for banned books. Hackernews spends a hundred (edit: three hundred) comments arguing over whether it would be better to share Nazi shit instead.
I mean, Perseus is right there for dudes who want to be manly space cowboy kinglets.
The AI hype wave is the Dancing Plague for people who can’t dance.
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Anything to avoid paying people for their time.
I wanted to give you a high five for telling APS where to go. That was rad as hell.
Old: AI Winter
Bold: AI Ragnarok
“You’re holding it wrong” as official policy
It’s pretty good! The kids want to be influenza for dragoncon lol
It’s on netflix in the states
Mythos with extra safety dust sprinkled on top and they listened to The Safety Dance while writing the system prompt. Also a hand painted sign on the front that says “no chinese were serius”
Hope you get to feeling better fast!
lol
Time is a dumb circle
Anthropic insists that you should use their demon-as-a-service. Hackernews debates the finer points of pentangle construction.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463808
Edit: a hackernews is tired of simonw:
High-theta in-ethics a+ sneer