When I was at computer toucher school at about the start of the century, under the moniker AI were taught (I think) fuzzy logic, incremental optimization and graph algorithms, and neural networks.

AI is a sci-fi trope far more than it ever was a well-defined research topic.

Anyone who said this about their product would almost certainly by lying, but these guys are extra lying.

For sure, blockchain based agentic LLM that learns as it goes is sounds like someone describing a flying elephant wearing an inflatable life jacket.

Nobody’s using datasets made of copyrighted literature and 4chan to teach robots how to move, what are you even on about.

@dgerard is never going to run out of content for pivot, is he:

£2bn Deal to get ChatGPT Plus for whole of UK discussed by Sam Altman and technology secretary Peter Kyle

Elon Musk wants to use imaginary future chatbot technology to brainwash (white) people into turning their vaginas into clown cars

“AI is obviously gonna one-shot the human limbic system,” referring to the part of the brain responsible for human emotions. “That said, I predict — counter-intuitively — that it will increase the birth rate!” he continued without explanation. “Mark my words. Also, we’re gonna program it that way.”

Risk checks for financial services: $1M saved annually on outsourced risk management

Since I doubt they had time to use the tools for a full year, this is probably just the month they saved ~85K$ from firing/ending partnership with humans involved in risk assessment multiplied by twelve.

In the long run I’m betting that exclusively using software that not only can’t do basic math but actually treats numbers as words for risk assessment isn’t going to be a net positive for their bottom line, especially if it their customers also get it in their heads that they could ditch the middleman and directly use a chatbot themselves.

Meanwhile on /r/programmingcirclejerk sneering hn:

That’s about what I was thinking, I’m completely ok with the weird rpg aspect.

Regarding the second and third point though I’ll admit I thought the whole thing was just yud indulging, I missed that it’s also explicitly meant as rationalist esoterica.

Found this

Is the scoop that besides being an EA mouthpiece KP is also into the weird stuff?

Overall more interesting than I expected. On the Leverage Research cult:

Routine tasks, such as deciding whose turn it was to pick up the groceries, required working around other people’s beliefs in demons, magic, and other paranormal phenomena. Eventually these beliefs collided with preexisting social conflict, and Leverage broke apart into factions that fought with each other internally through occult rituals.

And if you have multiple prompts you just do a separate caching for each one?

I think this hinges on the system prompt going after the user prompt, for some router-related non-obvious reason, meaning at each model change the input is always new and thus uncacheable.

Also going by the last Claude system prompt that leaked these things can be like 20.000 tokens long.

Eight-year-olds, Dude.

Thiel is a true believer in Jesus and God. He was raised evangelical.

Being gay must really complicate things for him.

I don’t think Scott is doing anything nefarious here, it is very intuitive to think about risk in this way and then take the basic intuition and run with it.

Yeah, he’s a very non provably non-nefarious well meaning guy who thinks Richard Lynn is on the money, cites Cremieux on the subject and platforms Emil Kirkegaard et al in the comments while giving money to aporia, and who will never shut up about IQ heritability, ever.

And it’s not like he outright admits his article that misrepresents the data this way started out as marketing material for one of those companies, or that he picked this company because he liked the cut of Jonathan Anomaly’s jib.

Edit: also, not taking your basic intuition and running with it is supposed to be the whole entire point of so-called rationalism, so what the shit?

I guess the traffic he gets from being on good enough terms with Scott to be occasionally cited as the opposing viewpoint must be worth it to him.

Blockchains. Why is this report even mentioning blockchains? Who cares about enterprise blockchain in 2025?

Could be an LLM thing, I noticed they still churn out stuff about blockchain when generating PRDs with a future proofing section, at about the same time I noticed management had okayed using chatgpt to write product specifications.

I saw this today so now you must too:

Or how all the pronatalist events they frequent seem to be accidentally crawling with scientific racists and great replacement types.

If anything they might be trying to pull a motte-and-bailey by claiming they are not technically eugenicists, just normal far right weirdoes with a pronounced interest in lineages and IQ, a combination that famously never led to anything bad happening once it entered the mainstream.

When Yud did that multi-hour youtube interview around a couple years ago someone in the comments called him the Neil Breen of AI.

It may not be what humanity needs, but it’s what it deserves.

I don’t think it’s even illegal to watch R-rated movies as a minor, it’s more of a guideline for your caretakers.

That has drawn accusations of eugenics, which Malcolm strenuously denies.

Not that we’re going to tell you what the accusations were about, we’re serious reporters after all, we’ll just take Egghead Jr’s word for it.