Gay people I respect:
I can pretend they're straight
Gay people I don't:
I can't pretend they aren't gay and I've decided this is a 'them problem'
This feels like yet another case of "what no postmodernism does to a mf". Because I can kind of agree they ASD is a bit of a weird diagnosis in some respects, but that's entirely because of an ongoing discussion between different social models of mental diversity. On one hand, much of the autistic community has embraced a model rooted in neurodiversity. The associated behaviors aren't "abnormal" and happen to nearly everyone to some degree, but some people experience them in different ways that impact how they interact with other people and the world. In this model, we need to emphasize empathy and support to help everyone find a place in the world where they can be happy and fulfilled.
But Scott as a practicing psychiatrist is strongly invested in the older model of mental illness or mental disability, where some people have mental and behavioral problems that make life more difficult and dangerous for them and those around them, and those people need help to mitigate those problems so they can exist in society. This is obviously a less kind and more authoritarian model than neurodiversity, but it's easy enough to understand the appeal in circumstances where the challenge of "how do I help people be happy and successful" necessitates asking "how do I reduce or eliminate the risk of physical violence from this person." Hell, compared to the other model that gets invoked to deal with that question, criminality, it still at least acknowledges that people with high support needs are people whose well-being deserves consideration. A patient is a human being at least to the same degree that a child is, effectively.
But Scott, being afraid of postmodernism, can't really allow himself to recognize these as separate models that are valuable in different circumstances, not the least of which is because he's a fashy little bastard who would have to give up the authority of being a capital-D Doctor in favor of just being an expert on certain elements of the human mind and body. So instead he and his friends are totally neurotypical, yes. Don't listen to them describe their own experiences, listen to the Doctor Man.
As I recall the impetus for this was that the team working on grok's code generation ability was preferring to use cursor. Imagine making a model so shitty that even the kind of ai-brained buffoons who want to work on fucking grok don't want to use it. Now consider that apparently that model is grok itself.
Shit piles up at the bottom of the hill
Bottom of the hill elevates until it reaches the enshittifiers
Dinosaur eats man
Woman inherits the earth
I'm sorry are you telling me that there people's social circle includes the same like 50 oligarchs and apparatchiks and they're making a dating site for themselves? I know they lost Epstein but this is just pathetic.
How is it that whenever I learn something new about this family it's always a new way for them to be awful to each other or their kids?
Well yeah. Just because they call their crypto scheme an Oracle doesn't mean they've actually solved the oracle problem.
Yeah. I'm not gonna spring for the paid subscription to read the whole thing, but if we're gonna be angry at reasonable general-purpose life advice being melded to a toxic and hateful ideology and then put forward as a revolution in human thought and relationships, then I have bad news about the whole rationalist community.
Maybe I've reached a unique and terrifying level of terminally online goblinhood, but I wonder if part of the issue is also that people are already using basically 100% of the apps they care to use. Like, I don't think there's much in terms of entertainment, productivity, social engagement, or whatever that can be replaced or augmented by new apps, so depending on how we're measuring total usage we shouldn't expect to see dramatic increases just because there are more apps. This doesn't change the fact that vibe coding isn't actually making things people want to use, and in fact I would say that this dramatically increases the chance that any slopware that does do something legitimately useful is going to quickly find itself competing with more well-designed and well-constructed versions of itself that was created by an actual mind.
According to a later post from them there's a chance this is more of a list of attendees at a past or upcoming event, but tbh I don't think there's much of a difference between "member of the nu-money illuminati" and "accepted an invite to hang out with the nu-money illuminati at their clubhouse." I can only assume it has the same statue of a hand clutching a globe as the Deus Ex opening cinematic.
Anthropic: Oh no! Our new model is too powerful! It's dangerously good!
US Government: okay then you can't export it or allow foreign nationals to access it
Anthropic: Wait not like that
We have reviewed a report that we believe is the basis of the government's directive and validated that the level of capability displayed there is widely available from other models (including OpenAI’s GPT-5.5), and is used every day by the defenders who keep systems safe.
Of course this has less to do with the actual capabilities of any model and more to do with Anthropic openly telling the Trump administration "no" on exactly one occasion, but we can still roast some marshmallows over this dumpster fire, right?
Assuming 30s down and 30s up, this platform will lower you a total of 60 inches, or 5 feet. So even in the magical fantasy land where this works at all you're going to have a great tool to detect what's happening in the body as long as it's below the average person's heart, an organ that is famously unnecessary and irrelevant.