Continuing on the Resident Evil talk, the T-Virus itself was the product of an eugenics program called Project W (aka: the Wesker Program), an eugenics program set on creating A Superior Breed of Man™, which would line up real nicely with the rats’ beliefs.

(They’d need to ignore Umbrella and its associates being complicit in over a dozen zombie outbreaks/apocalypses, but they can always rely on longtermism for that)

Zero advice on how to resist the siren song of a rogue AI trying to escape it’s box and zero insight on how OR WHY it might try to achieve that.

The best advice probably boils down to “Don’t be a rat in the first place”. As Soyweiser’s already mentioned, the AI only escapes if Yud’s playing against LW insiders.

Premium-quality sneer ran across my eyes recently: All A.I. Projects Are Digital Asbestos

Starting things off with a fresh sneer I recently ran across (and put in the wrong place):

You do not have to hand IT to the techbros

I’m thinking an LLM that tries to suggest meth for every goddamn problem you come to it with.

Starting things off with a fresh sneer I recently ran across:

You do not have to hand IT to the techbros

Using AI is a skill issue in and of itself, adding some accidental irony to the title

Wherever they are, I hope they’re doing well, and I hope they can find somewhere where they won’t be betrayed like this.

Niccolò “Ice the Immigrants” Venerandi is doing a real good job keeping me away from KDE.

(Why did I have to jump into Linux when its going through shit like this?)

Have all pro llm people lost their minds?

Short answer, yes.

Long answer, yes, they’ve all fried their brains with the slop machines by this point, and some of them probably never had any.

It honestly bewilders me how badly tech has failed to resist the slop machines.

Basically everyone else has recognised LLMs for the attack on labour they are and fought back against them, whilst a shocking number of coders and FOSS projects have thrown themselves headfirst into the deskilling machines, all-but forcing the foxes into the henhouse and shouting down anyone who tries to keep them out.

When this bubble finally blows, we need to work out just how we got to this point, and how to ensure it never happens again.

At this point, I’d say calling it a Nazi bar is fully reasonable.

Looks to be a spinoff of the red-top tabloid the Daily Star. So, hardly a solid source of info.

Still, good to show what kinda shit LLMs spew out on a constant basis

people have noted that the writing style unfortunately appears to be ai-generated

Fittingly ironic, in my opinion.

And not just from AI getting fed into the AI:

404 Media spoke to a fourth contractor who has worked on training models for various AI companies. They said they sometimes purposefully chose the worst responses because they wanted to actively sabotage the models’ training.

“I did feel guilty about doing this kind of work at the start,” they said. “I either pay zero attention to the results and choose randomly or purposely choose the [worst] output. I’m not sure how much of a difference it actually makes since there are hundreds of other people also rating prompt results, but it does feel like I’m getting paid to make AI worse.”

Mat​hia⁠s S​chäf⁠er has penned a follow-up to Baldur’s lament on webdev, bringing a degree of hope to the convo on webdev’s future.

Reading this, I get the feeling writers are gonna get a lot of mileage out of the rats and their ideology.

These people have spent years attempting to create something they believe represents an existential threat to humanity (causing untold real-world harm in the process), and they’ve remained fully convinced that they’re the good guys throughout every single step of this.

On the one hand, you do have precedent to point to in hoping they get consigned to the dustbin of history.

On the other hand, the rats have had a colossal(ly negative) effect on the general public (FTX, the AI bubble, the second Trump admin, etcetera), and their extremely high profile makes them much harder to ignore.

in general, I don’t think EA breaking into the mainstream like this led to the outcome they wanted - there’s way more discussion about weird sex and eugenics than the dangers of Robot Satan

The Dangers of Robot Satan™ are unbelievable and/or incomprehensible to most audiences, the weird sex/eugenics shit is easy to grasp and laugh at. Mainly the weird sex shit, the eugenics is too morally fucked to laugh at

The AI Doom™ shit’s much harder for the public to wrap their heads around, but there’s definitely good joke fodder there as well. At the bare minimum, the fact Anthropic’s building something they believe could kill them Terminator style makes for some easy Skynet comparisons.

Binged the entirety of Joe vs. Elan School over the course of a few days. Goddamn gripping from start to finish.