noted internet blowhard John Gruber complains that the stochastic parrot output is now less stochastic, because EU
Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
hard to tell if he’s madder that EU is trying to enforce a minimum of accountability for slop usage, or Anthropic for bowing the knee to Brussel mandarins
oh well there’s always Grok
pretty sure David is on some very cursed mailing lists
user has previously decried bans against genAI assisted writing by stating that every neuro-atypical person writes like that so it would discrimination to ban
Comments are utterly mired in jargon
Humanity should count as actual AGI, but it remains slow.
It’s a weird middle ground, where it is fooming but pretty slowly. (I mean, as a human, I would think that, i.e. I would experience time on a scale that’s somewhat faster than humanity’s foom.)
I don’t think the term “FOOM” as ever been explicitely defined, it’s just verbal tic/shorthand for “intelligence explosion”. How can something explode slowly???
also nice save defining “AGI == humanity” => goal reached
glad to hear there’s still a career as a rent-a-cop once software eats my job
wait so this is a separate “AI hacked and escaped” than the ones already hyped by OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta???
“monument to the first 500” or something, really fun concept - rich people pay a massive amount for essentiially suicide, get a monunment for their pains
I kinda like the Revelation Space universe, but I am literally stuck at 85% on book 4 or 5
Good luck with your novel!
nominative determinism strikes again
it gets better. Godier (the guy who misled Gruber) admits to using genAI to create a website that just to happened to almost exactly duplicate an existing website:
https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html
no mention of the submission of an astrology app to the App store and getting rejected
Noted Apple blowhard John Gruber makes a mistake, is naturally a performative dick about apologizing for it
https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/retraction_app_store_rejection_of_the_week
(nothing to do with AI or crypto, I just think Gruber is a dick. And the subject of the story - an app developer who apparently felt so secure in his indie rep he could do some light fraud for clicks - is a recognizable figure)
the orifice will pulse invitingly
gonna be the biggest flop since that facehugger apple made
could be a legacy admittant
enjoy ur hypertopical vibecoded website du jour
we’re up to 51 replies to the post, which has 198 karma points. I guess it’s hard to distinguish between those that are in support of the racist, in support of a fellow rationalist, or some other reason.
JFC it’s already been 2 years
if Gwern is not a pasty white dude with a degree from a top-level US university I will eat my hat
also the probability we can match their now-revealed identity to past far-right/racist content that’s not been scrubbed is very close to 1
the move to Kazakhstan is news to me
at least there shouldn’t be any problems with Israeli students attending as Kazakhstan and Israel have normal diplomatic relationships … but downtown Almaty in midwinter isn’t that balmy