I trust Nate Silver’s writing advice exactly as much as I trust his recommendations for hair-care products

oppan Malkovich style

Certainly not the approach I would have taken! (Getting the bot to give up on delivering code, and instead return epic-length erotic fan fiction featuring Elan Sleazebaggano, the breakout supporting character from Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones) But probably all the more effective for it.

Can’t believe that these guys are forgetting Data on Star Trek needed an emotion-chip upgrade to feel emotions, and he didn’t even get it full-time until the series was over and they were doing movies. Dario and friends are just giving away what could be an entire upgrade/upcharge cycle! “Be more intimate than ever with your workflows! Upgrade to feeling agents on FeelsCloud today! (ignore that it’s just some bullshit we vibecoded in Verilog and then flashed to discount FPGAs we shoved in the bottom of the server racks)”

That’s OK, the next set of bankruptcy lawyers will again conduct clawbacks

Speaking of Aella (I really shouldn’t), many have probably already seen this Liberal Currents article that leans heavily on her web-survey sex research dataset:

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-interracial-*removed*-porn-theory-of-everything/

The publication seems to have plenty of traction on Bluesky, for what that’s worth, but I think this particular example needs to be retained as an exhibit of the hazards of rehabilitating American liberalism. A low-level affinity for the existing tech industry is always there, as its growth underlaid the benefits that make liberalism appealing. And that means the doorway for entryism by the tech-fascist freaks is always open, and then you’re never more than a couple fundraising cycles (whether electoral or investment) away from being right back in this exact same mess.

No way the facilitator will ever accrue any liability or get subpoenaed when the civil lawsuits (or worse) start flying!

Claude, write me an ironclad legal disclaimer, maybe something about this being for entertainment purposes only

“12 Endings of AI” definitely seems like another heaping helping of bland criti-hype, but it did remind me of the delightfully bizarre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_13_Ghosts_of_Scooby-Doo featuring Vincent Price

I strongly suspect there are an uncomfortably large number of Rust enthusiasts who tacitly assume that all the type-checking/borrow-checking/object lifetime tracking are primarily enabling features for AI coding.

Also note how his earlier message keeps talking about “we” and “our” and an “internal review” but then later one he claims to be a solo developer. Weird.

the temporarily-embarrassed royal “we”

why understand biochemistry, if you’re part of the cognitive elite who can reconstruct it from first principles should it become necessary

sunset super-voting shares within seven years

It’s taken 20 years to get this level of pushback on super-voting shares, and even then, the scam is still likely to go through. All of these people are whistling past the graveyard of eroding systemic legitimacy.

plastic surgery

oops, no wait, that’s the Kardashian scale, sorry

"We’re moving towards this ‘one true answer’ world.

This ugly little statement has been true ever since Twitter started eating mainstream media personalities’ brains. It’s why I consider the modern chatbot to be a direct design descendent of short-form social media – it’s giving you Twitter with zero pushback or hate. Beware anyone who thinks this is a good thing.

it’s not approval they’re after, it’s reaffirmation of faith

sigh OK Scotty, I’ll volunteer to host the Keymaster if that’s what it takes to get Zuul into action

I started to smell something funny about Galloway when I heard an ad for his podcast in a prime drive-time slot on the local country music station, of all places

I think this means we need a moratorium on fantasy TTRPGs until we figure out what’s going on

no, I meant the fiber damage looks like it was done by an animal… just like JFK’s head looked like it just did that spontaneously…

a surprisingly common defense of GenAI is that “so what if it’s stupid, people are stupid too”

I have to assume that people who assert this “defense” will be incapable of designing tools that don’t insult the user