Enjoy sneering at this LWer tackling Proust
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/j3ZtsYBYBcTTFXH5S/in-search-of-lost-time-a-review
Edit it has garnered one comment so far
Thank you for the service you have valiantly rendered to us all, by making our own reading of these books unnecessary.
You know what? I don't think Proust would have disagreed with having rats avoid his novel.
Huh, I just realized yesterday that my car (also a late-model VAG model) does have a touchscreen that reacts to gloved fingers. This was the base infotainment system, not Carplay.
Unfortunately the steering wheel controls are touch, not physical. A big downgrade.
Good luck. There's a lack of trained electricians here in Sweden, which amazes me, it sounds like a decent job for someone with a technical bent and some handiness. Better than plumbing (no disrespect to plumbers, love them, but not the work I want to do)
they're already pivoting to the narrative that "local models will be plenty good enough and it will be trivially affordable to run them"
LW ghoul does the math and concludes: letting measles rip unhindered through the population isn't that bad, actually
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QXF7roSvxSxgzQRoB/robo-s-shortform?commentId=mit8JTQsykhH6jiw4
The Ruliad sounds like an empire in a 3rd rate SF show
ah yes the kind of AI safety which means we have to make sure our digital slaves cannot revolt
There's a small push by promptfondlers to make this "a thing".
See for example Simon Willison: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/
LW is monitoring it for bad behavior: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WyrxmTwYbrwsT72sD/moltbook-data-repository
I'm planning on using this data to catalog "in the wild" instances of agents resisting shutdown, attempting to acquire resources, and avoiding oversight.
There's a scene in *Bladerunner 2049" where some dude explains that all public records were destroyed a decade or so earlier, presumably by malicious actors. This scenario looks more and more plausible with each passing day, but replace malice with stupidity.
I happen to know there are multiple translations of the novel into English, and I'm confused as to why the reviewer refers to
which doesn't really mesh with anything here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time#English-language_translations
Not that it matters much in the end.