TechTakes

shocked that scorpions in a scorpion's nest funded by their scorpion mates might have fallen into stinging

oh hey its that reoccurring thought I have about the "AI Safety" criti-hype popping back into my head

Expanding on that, part of me feels Altman is gonna find all the rhetoric he made about "AI doom" being used against him in the future - man's given the true believers reason to believe he'd commit omnicide-via-spicy-autocomplete for a quick buck.

Hell, the true believers who made this pretty explicitly pointed out Altman's made arguing for regulation a lot easier:

I'm feeling a weird mix of emotions about this. It's not the cash grab by ol' salty dog; capitalism is doing its thing. I'm both elated that these idiot liberals feel betrayed by this turn of events and enraged that these liberal idiots exist to launder the reputation of techbros in the first place.

this is so fucking funny. bro nobody but you is surprised

a most shockedpikachu article, I love it

there's a thread too

barron: shows ivanka the minecraft speedrun

ivanka: I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT, BROTHER

edit: accidentally read ivanka as melania, now corrected

From that blog post:

You can see the future first in San Francisco.

"And that, I think, was the handle - that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of old and evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."

Twitter — Elon Musk’s X — may be the most fruitful platform for this kind of search thanks to its sub-competent moderation services.

Zing.

This was the woman who took over during Sam Altman's temporary removal as CEO, which we're pretty sure happened because the AI doom cultists weren't satisfied that Altman was enough of an AI doom cultist.

Yudkowsky was solidly in favor of her ascension. I take no joy in saying this as someone who wants this AI nonsense to stop soon, but OpenAI is probably better off financially with fewer AI doom cultists in high positions.

Do you think they still say all that bullshit even when they're not screenshooting it for twitter? Probably, right

I might not be a huge fan of his work, but I'll take it any day over AI slop. At least it's a creative vision.

I mean there are definitely some brain rotted crypto bros who would buy shares at face value because it's totally gonna go to the moon guys

The question (which doesn't matter) now is, does he really understand crypto? Or did he get at the right conclusion because he thinks that everybody else, like him, is just scamming all the time?

anything that makes yglesias have a bad day is generally a good thing

but it sounds like the orange man understands the crypto market perfectly: the numbers are all made up and everyone's lying

Ah yes the advertisement which causes T&S people (who have seen some things) to go on long rants on why you should never put pictures of your kids online publically.

fuck that's gross

where'd you find/run across that? can't tell if it's a normal ad or some gig-site thing or what