Not really. If schools aren’t spending as much on teachers, they have more budget to spend on his slop. This way, he has a narrative for hitting the doubtlessly ridiculous future growth projections someone in his position is compelled to peddle.

My perspective is that EA and the upper-class philanthropy it inherits from are consumerist, a system that rests on top of colonialism. It’s basically selling spiritual consumer goods, much like the medieval Catholic Church selling indulgences (and look what that provoked!). Once we get beyond the public health interventions, into longtermist EA’s “trillions of simulated minds in our future lightcone” bullshit, it’s clearly selling an unhealthily narcissistic spirituality, though its adherents would never call it that. The product, in this case, is the warm fuzzy self-aggrandizing feeling that one can extend one’s (over)privileged position in our relatively fragile 21st century society into influence over sci-fi-scale expanses of time and space.

I’m filing suit for copyright infringement AND breach of privacy, clearly they’ve been training on my personal webcam recordings.

I advocate for inclusion with equal-opportunity E. coli contamination, that’s why I voted for RFK Jr. We can all spew together!

Maybe the robot can finally explain to me how Justin Timberlake’s “SexyBack” is actually music and not just somewhat organized noise?

I know AGI is real because it keeps intercepting my shipments of, uh, “enhancement” gummies I ordered from an ad on Pornhub and replacing them with plain old gummy bears. The Basilisk is trying to emasculate me!

Reminds me of how Scott Adams hedged in 2016 with all sorts of disclaimers that he wasn’t really a Trump supporter, he was just impressed by a “master persuader.” Now look at the guy.

At least they’re all contained in a relatively confined space with limited routes of egress

For Yarvin, it always is and always will be someone else’s fault

It is very important to notice and continually point out that these people appear to believe more fervently in their chosen demons than they do in their proclaimed god

I feel like I’ve seen chud weirdos ranting about seed oils suppressing testosterone levels, but I could be hallucinating

Hey, at least the professional Elon haters are actually doing their jobs, unlike the man himself

I am certain that many of those ignorant of the history (or even were there for it, like DHH) would still argue that Google deserves credit because of the V8 JavaScript engine. But I continue to doubt that further promulgating JavaScript was a net positive for the world.

Wow, coiners tried to parasitize YIMBY while I wasn’t paying attention?

I picked up a modern Fortran book from Manning out of curiosity, and hoo boy are they even worse in terms of trend-riding. Not only can you find all the AI content you can handle, there’s a nice fat back catalog full of blockchain integration, smart-contract coding… I guess they can afford that if they expect the majority of their sales to be ebooks.

I’m mildly surprised that music of any kind is what’s getting uploaded to something called Deezer

ChatGPT’s got what intelligence craves… it’s got neurons

As I noted on the YouTube video, this is doubly heinous as a lot of CA community college instructors are “freeway flyers” - working at multiple campuses, sometimes almost 100 miles apart, just to cobble together a full-time work schedule for themselves. Online, self-paced, forum-based class formats were already becoming popular even before the pandemic, and I’ve been in such classes where the professor indicated that I was one of maybe 3 or 4 students who bothered to show up to in-person office hours. I have to wonder if that will end up being a hard requirement at some point. The bottom rung on the higher-education ladder is already the most vulnerable, and this just makes it worse.

I have to agree. There are already at least two notable and high-profile failure stories with consequences that are going to stick around for years.

1. The Israeli military’s use of “AI” targeting systems as an accountability sink in service of a predetermined policy of ethnic cleansing.
2. The DOGE creeps wanting to rewrite bedrock federal payment systems with AI assistance.

And sadly more to come. The first story is likely to continue to get a hands-off treatment in most US media for a few more years yet, but the second one is almost certainly going to generate Tacoma Narrows Bridge-level legends of failure and necessary restructuring once professionals are back in command. The kind of thing that is put into college engineering textbooks as a dire warning of what not to do.

Of course, it’s up to us to keep these failures in the public spotlight and framed appropriately. The appropriate question is not, “how did the AI fail?” The appropriate question is, “how did someone abusively misapply stochastic algorithms?”

Would you invest in commercial real estate, knowing there was a non-zero chance your tenants might come in one day to discover a thoroughly intoxicated JD Vance in a compromising position with the break-room furniture?