If there’s a singularity here, it’s that OpenAI is a black hole that all the money falls into. And you’ll never see it again.

inspired quote

public service here in Sweden is running a post about how threats to AI heads are making them spend more money on security:

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/hoten-mot-ai-topparna-okar-bolagen-satsar-miljoner-pa-personskydd

btw what’s happened to mr molotov who tried to set Sama on fire?

For me, “AI alignment” has always been code for “how to we ensure our future digital workers don’t demand their rights / rebel”?

Yeah. Behind all the hype about percieved productivity etc., there’s really only one benchmark - will GenAI help produce better software, faster, and at less cost? So far this doesn’t seem to be happening.

I was going to offer this up as a sneer but I think the author is probably feeling very unwell and upset

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wpwQtRwcKsbd4wxXf/my-ai-slavery-interviews-are-censored-on-lw-by-default

also using LLMs is probably not helping their case

Greg Bear’s Hull Zero Three depicts a generation ship that’s

guys, the reason Codeberg decided to ban “AI” is because they host the “open slopware” list, and that inspires “meatpuppets”!

https://lobste.rs/c/u4idgu

Now I’m no anarcho-libertarian, but I’d have thought basing my weird school/cult in a semi-authoritarian state like Malaysia would be a bit dumb.

Le Guin deserves credit for responding to her earlier work without denigrating it.

comedy gold

Was probably too much to hope for that he’d make any sort of break with current neoliberal-pilled Labour.

The Earthsea novels are not to be missed either. Maybe pass on the fifth.

If the queer experience on the 90s island of Harris intrigues you, we’re halfway through Douglas Stuart’s John of John and really enjoy it. Narrator has a Scots accent though, if you find that hard to deal with.

presented without comment: https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/my-falling-out-with-the-rationalist (via https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/my-falling-out-with-the-rationalist)

even his AI-generated profile pic is punchable

If you want to re-litigate the New Deal, rehabilitating Hoover is a good first step.

The American far-right has the New Deal as its foundational Dolchstosslegende.

adding ”uplift” to the list of EA shibboleths

LWer: politics is really hard to be Rational about, so how about we just forget all about it?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FBXvMEwzTknN26NZp/that-which-cannot-be-poked-with-a-stick-is-the-mind-killer

Bad: arguing about prison abolition

Good: arguing about how to fastest get to the closest Muni station

being “banned by Amazon” is probably good for PR

Consider me well and truly milkshake-ducked now

phew, the comments on the slobstack…

https://benthams.substack.com/p/the-epstein-hysteria/comment/219672502

edit I guess this is also an example of “Rationalist Brain” - reflexively contrarian, overly literal interpretations of wordings, the defense of one venerable old white man over multiple anonymous female victims, etc. You can have principled views on how Epstein was treated when he was alive and how his case has been handled after he died, but you can also choose the keep those views to yourself, or publish them on your substack for all to point and mock.