dgerard

current thesis is A Guy Instead in the Philippines, dressing up wireframes

Leopard nibbles at venture founders' faces in a new way - OpenAI researcher can't get green card

(will they reconsider their wholehearted support for trump tho? also no)

because if they try to ban accessibility they will get in trouble

oh yeah, none of this is new observation - but now it's the VCs admitting the 2+2 that we can then add to make 4

looking into this, but as far as i can tell the AI here is entirely fake

need more to declare it such

looks like a billionaire group chat collective delusion, see also return-to-office

they're Thiel creatures. This is why (a) they're in all the papers all the fucking time (b) no other pronatalist couple is

I've emailed Microsoft Investor Relations to clarify what they meant and why they didn't just say "percent" if they meant "percent". But if it had been 16 percent, they'd have been yelling it from the rooftops, and they haven't been.

if you look through the "venture capital" category, you'll see a few where I start going off on this topic. I blame the AI bubble on these bozos specifically.

I have been corrected - this is a coding unit in an engineering degree. Vibe bridge-building.

I think that LW post is the example I remember, Veedrac insisting that mathematics holds even in the face of a "sufficiently intelligent" AGI

tho i think there was also discussion on rat-tumblr

i'm not digging for cites, but i recall it was extremely hard to convince rationalists that even the ASI couldn't just break cryptography, because they don't understand maths either