The usual suspects are mad about college hill’s expose of the yud/kelsey piper eugenics sex rp. Or something, I’m in bed and can’t be bothered to link at the moment.

In case you needed more evidence that the Atlantic is a shitty rag.

got sent this image

wonder how many more of these things we'll see before people start having a real bileful response to this (over and above the fact that a number of people have been warning about exactly this outcome for a while now)

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Meanwhile on /r/programmingcirclejerk sneering hn:

New piece from the Financial Times: Tech utterly dominates markets. Should we worry?

Pulling out a specific point, the article's noted how market concentration is higher now than it was in the dot-com bubble back in 2000:

You want my overall take, I'm with Zitron - this is quite a narrative shift.

Ai scrapers have managed to bypass anubis on codeberg: https://programming.dev/post/35852706

New edition of AI Killed My Job, focusing on how translators got fucked over by the AI bubble.

Ed Zitron's planning to hold AI boosters to account:

Our Very Good Friends are often likened to Scientology, but have we considered Happy Science and Aum Shinrikyo?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum_Shinrikyo

New Atlantic article regarding AI, titled "AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event". Its primarily about the author's feelings of confusion and anxiety about the general clusterfuck that is the bubble.

so it's been observed by many that github's been getting worse for a while as they keep shoving copilot into every corner

with the upgrade diff review, I wanted to quickly fold closed the 485 files in the diff. I could've sworn github's diff view used[0] to have a button for this, and I know bitbucket does[1], but nope. so of course I open browser inspector to dig at elements (then quickly iterate over them with .click() in the js console)

which is when I noticed that even the elements are renamed for copilot:

<copilot-diff-entry data-file-path=".cargo/config.toml">

which both makes me wonder my memory is right and this did used to have a button that was just overlooked in the rush for terrible chatbot shit, and makes me boggle at how astoundingly far the org is deepthroating this nonsense

[0] it's been a few years of no longer actively using github

[1] fairly recently for client work

Gary asks the doomers, are you “feeling the agi” now kids?

To which Daniel K, our favorite guru lets us know that he has officially moved his goal posts updated his timeline so now the robogod doesnt wipe us out until the year of our lorde 2029.

It takes a big brain superforecaster to have to admit your four month old rapture prophecy was already off by at least 2 years omegalul

Also, love: updating towards my teammate (lmaou) who cowrote the manifesto but is now saying he never believed it. “The forecasts that don’t come true were just pranks bro, check my manifold score bro, im def capable of future sight, trust”

gemini isn't even trying now

El Reg: NIMBYs threaten to sink Project Sail, a $17B datacenter development in Georgia

A story in two Skeets - one from a TV writer, one from a software dev:

On a personal sidenote, part of me suspects the AI bubble is gonna turn tech as a whole into a pop-culture punchline - the bubble's all-consuming nature and wide-ranging harms, plus the industry's relentless hype campaign, have already built a heavy amount of resentment against the industry, and the general public is gonna experience a colossal amount of schadenfreude once it bursts,

Not sure why this "member of technical staff at METR" felt the need to post about the lowered productivity of Black people in the southern US states after slavery was abolished. I'm sure it's nothing.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Zr37dY5YPRT6s56jY/thomas-kwa-s-shortform?commentId=iwGgqsmpY6Tcex5je

imagine how fucking terrible it must be to be in this room

(and I won't lie: there's definitely a moment that Inglorious Basterds briefly flashed to mind)

Here's a blog post I found via HN:

Physics Grifters: Eric Weinstein, Sabine Hossenfelder, and a Crisis of Credibility

Author works on ML for DeepMind but doesn't seem to be an out and out promptfondler.

gwern: It's not "AI slop" if I wasted hours dicking around with MidJourney to make it.

rsaarelm: People don't appreciate the beauty of Substack's built-in slop generator.

gwern: "I refuse to submit to the tyranny of the lowest common denominator and dumb down my writings or illustrations." Have you appreciated the depth of my artist's statement?

There is a problem where well-endowed men will go to public places, drop trou, and do the helicopter dance.

This is called an indiscreet log-a-rhythm, and can be solved with quantum computers (or so I'm told).

Okay so I know GPT-5 had a bad launch and has been getting raked over the coals, but AGI is totally still on, guys!

Why? Because trust me it's definitely getting better behind the scenes in ways that we can't see. Also China is still scary and we need to make sure we make the AI God that will kill us all before China does because reasons.

Also despite talking about a how much of the lack of progress is due to the consumer model and this is a cost-saving there's no reference to the work of folks like Ed Zitron on how unprofitable these models are, much less the recent discussions on whether GPT-5 as a whole is actually cheaper to operate than earlier models given the changes it necessitates in caching.

Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use Three Times as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the Entire City Of New Orleans, every year.

https://bsky.app/profile/wolvendamien.bsky.social/post/3lwyxhchxos2g

TIL some rats have started a literal monastery to try to defeat the robot god with good ole religion (well, Zen buddhism)

here's a mildly critical view that apparently still believes the approach has legs

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ENCNHyNEgvz9oo9rr/briefly-on-maple-and-the-broader-community

I note in passing that there seems to be a mild upsurge in religious-friendly posts on LW lately.

Saw this in an anthropic presentation: