I haven’t been listening to your podcast (no shade, it’s just not my thing) but I’ll have to listen to this because my God that man frustrates me.
He basically exists to funnel run the:
intellectually curious libs -> smug superiority complex with status quo bias -> reactionary
pipeline.
Didn’t know eyeballs could get cancer from reading but here we are.
We are not worthy
On one hand, this is awful. On the other hand, if I worked at a garbage tech company and my boss would not only pay me to sabotage the code base and spend their money but also reward me for doing so… I mean that’s an attractive proposition.
No for real it’s baffling. What happens when your profession doesn’t have a licensing board.
Worse than the cursed “curl -o- | bash” command installations. Or as I like to call it “curl prostrate”
I need one of those UFO posters that are like “I want to believe” but it’s a picture of the PRCs flag lol.
As always though pointing at the Spanish germans Russians Chinese remains an evergreen excuse as to why you can’t be anything other than wholely on board with madness or you’re a traitor.
Who spends time thinking about this? What purpose does it serve? Why are those the examples chosen? What is even going on?
That’s not really the full picture, I am interested in the details of their “experimental” setup.
What was their “sandbox” what text did they enter into the model and so on.
what even was the exploit etc.
I saw a headline and immediately just assumed it was like anthropic’s “Omg we got the text generator to generate text that plausibly follows ‘Be an evil computer and destroy the world, what do you do?’ and the text said ‘FIRE ZE MISSILES’”
What actually happened? Did they actually publish their setup and shit?
what tricks do you use to do this?
Anthropic, moments later: Chatbots are developing the ability to parse the intentions of the user and sabotage violent actions. Suggesting LLMs are developing conscience.
we’re all speaking Mandarin and eating noodles.
Oh no. The horror. What a cruel fate.
He saw a vision of the world where computers wrapped their tentacles around Earth and crushed humanity
Is this why noodles are scary?
What a weirdo, would prefer people hate AI survelliance states for the like facism, environmental damage, and devaluing of humanity personally not sure being afraid that computers steal your precious spinal energy leads us to coherent politics
I’d like one more sample. Explain my life
don’t get it
Some cool people anaylised the precise reasons slop all reads the same https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.03136
Findings are that llms emit stories that are linear, unsubtle, and textureless.
Also that if you graph it, it looks like a poo.
Look up the history of snarky millenial advertising. Everything online is constructed as hell lol
*The PR firm’s tweets
The group felt hard to categorize. It seemed more Red Tribey than Blue Tribey (though it contained both), and I eventually learned that its membership contained many old-school NRx scenesters. But these guys violated my expectations about Red Tribe, because they were funny, brilliant media observers who never said anything racist or sexist (at least not in that Slack). Nowadays there is a ton of media coverage about NRx and the dissident right, but this coverage has largely failed to capture how the best parts of the movement felt non-denominational. Or at least, that’s how it felt when I started spending hours per day in this Slack group.
Liberalism is a disease of the mind where, due to an inability to distinguished aesthetics from substance, one ends up judging things on means rather than ends.
History’s greatest monsters have been well dressed and genteel. Many of the most ardent fighters for humanity are coarse, flawed, and unpleasant. Mayhaps a lesson about books and covers? Let’s see where this group ends up
I don’t spent as much time in the movement these days; it’s turned into an echo chamber; racism and sexism are front-and-center
Oh Apollo, free me from this curse.
Hmmm can we trust a narrative extensively documented in the UK Parliament, courts, and newspapers? Hmmm can we?
No I will not look anything up personally.
OpenAI is slowing development because of uh safety https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/18/open-ai-pause-hack
Definitely not because improvement is stagnating and they’re running out of money