It’s been a while since I used Reddit. Is the thesis that subscribers to ChatGPT will be rounded up and killed? By whom? For what stated reason? It sounds like a weird inversion of victimhood, considering the number of GenAI user (even if they’re just casual users) and the massive money and hype around GenAI by companies and way too many govs.
Thoughts / notes on Nostr? A local on a tech site is pushing it semi-hard, and I just remember it being mentioned in the same breath as Bluesky back in the day. It ticks a lot of techfash boxes - decentralized, “uncensorable”, has Bitcoin’s stupid Lightning protocol built in.
Nah it’s real. As mentioned, they launched a limited metal ring model that was immensely popular. This is just them riding the wave.
there was a dude on LW who convinced himself that because Oort cloud comets move so slowly relative to the sun, it was really easy for them to start falling into it. Problem is you have the other term in the equation for angular momentum , a huge fucking average orbit.
don’t forget you need a hell of a lot of delta-v to get an orbit that intersects with the sun…
The author should be ashamed of himself for not asking the basic question of how to cool these motherfuckers
edit to add: the comments are all over the cooling issue
Nuclear wonk Chery Rofer talks a bit about the plutonium fire sale to Saltman in this piece, after some faff about Putin trolling Trump into resuming nuclear testing:
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/things-that-go-bump-in-the-night
NYT: “OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise”
HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771538 . Mostly people predicting a crash but some people are fine with it.
Bungie made Marathon before Halo and it’s basically the same plot - supersoldier aided/hindered by AI/s fights an alien force consisting of many “integrated” species. It’s a cheap way of making different enemies that are all antagonists.
OFC why the colony ship Marathon needed a supersoilder on tap is never explained. After a while our protag gets involved in a rebellion against the Pfor’s leaders and then we get Infinity which is just weird. Oh and there’s an eldrich horror living in a star too.
I have a webserver using Ubuntu. Are any of the popular LLM-poisoning solutions packaged for that?
I ran across this today and while I had fun mashing together the Sequences, Moby Dick and 1984, a pre-packaged solution would be even better.
Via a prev sneer, here’s a Bloomberg post about call center workers being accused of being LLMs:
I used to work in a call-center adjacent industry and the amount of crap some employers used to make sure their workers sounded as much as robots as possible was astounding.
nah same for me
Guys, it’s a problem that GenPop thinks “AI” is useless, because that means they will deny the inevitable coming existence of the Evil Robot God and make it harder to stop it
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/W2dTrfTsGtFiwG5hM/origins-and-dangers-of-future-ai-capability-denial
The whole thing has to be read to be believed. But there are some fun nuggets:
Did not know Farage was gay
Self-identifying as “progressive” and being anti-copyright and thus pro-AI is something I’ve seen before online.
I’ve never charged money for my creative output, but my “moral right” as an author/creator is very important to me.
Everything about this is terrible:
Crypto scammer reported to ICE after stealing cancer patient’s treatment fund
TechDirt has posts about this quite often.
Pretty sure post author knew all about this scam, and just pretended to fall for it to reveal how GenAI had “saved him”.
jfc