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With the collapse of the US empire and hegemony in progress wonder if they actually did something with this or if it is all another thought experiment.
E: wow that users posts history is something. Drops that article 3 years ago. Silence till some weird comment (directly addressing yud claiming they had some big breakthrough, about the mind state of the zizians of course. And it is all speculation and way too verbose).
I got it from a comment here, apparently some pie in the sky charity needs more money
"In hindsight, CFAR co-founder Anna Salamon told NBC, “we were creating conditions for a cult.”", if only there had been people warning about this, sadly such a club didn't exist. Anyway, im sure this will lead to them reflecting and changing things.
Source "Two Vegan Lovers, an AI ‘Cult,’ and a Trail of Dead Bodies", Archive
ICYI I posted a new vid/pod this week and an accompanying thread about: Everything Is Work Now — Tech products have a work/life balance problem
Vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_os9Pp3AYW4 Pod: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse/7cdb9dc1/everything-is-work-now Thread masto: https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/114352163970046171 Thread bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/fasterandworse.com/post/3lmykmxv6qs2w
Lemme know what you think
this URL is the PDF of the NVCA-Pitchbook Venture Capital Monitor for Q1 2025
the Q3 2024 report was comedy gold, using word mangling to present bad news as okay news
i expect this one to be more of the same
404 media: I Tested The AI That Calls Your Elderly Parents If You Can't Be Bothered
It's a service that makes an AI voice chatbot call your parents daily, so you don't have to, and then it even sends you a notification to your phone with an AI summary of what your parent told the AI.
I really didn't think that people can come up with new AI-based ideas anymore that would astonish me, but there, I was wrong, they did it. This is so cold and fundamentally alienating to me, it reminds me of that recently much-quoted Miyazaki phrase, "an insult to life itself".
article about the tactics that felon employs against the women bearing his children
features some notable sentences from his fixer, too. the sort of shit that just barely doesn’t qualify as him threatening to top off your kneecaps
Eurgh!
Musk seems like he's 1cm away from Jeffrey Epstein.
idk when i'll have better opportunity to post this
Isn't it more grammatically correct to say "Jeffreys Epstein"?
I thought we all knew the proper collective noun was a creepful of epsteins
New sneer from Tante, this time aimed at the entire field of CS:
Not sure why anyone thought CS as a community can "save us". It's just as likely to be red/black-pilled (gold/black-pilled) as any other heavily male tech adjacent community. The idea that nerds should be politically liberal because they were bullied in 80 high-school comedies is ludicrous.
No, I'm sure this time we can identify the person or people who are divinely anointed to exercise absolute power over everyone.
His name is Scott.
Quick post: bad news here in Europe, Meta allowed to scrape facebook/instagram. bad source (just a screenshot isn't great as a source)
The article from the screenshot: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/meta-grabs-eu-approval-to-train-ai-with-social-media-posts-1034586675
When
…I do not give Instagram or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, messages or posts, both past and future. With this statement, I give notice to Instagram it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents.
Goes wrong
previous stubsack guest star Cursor rejoins the show, using a shitty liarsynth to automatically tell users broken behaviour is expected (cw: orange site), followed by people mass-killing their subscriptions
Earlier today Cursor, the magical AI-powered IDE started kicking users off when they logged in from multiple machines. Like,you’d be working on your desktop, switch to your laptop, and all of a sudden you're forcibly logged out. No warning, no notification, just gone.
Naturally, people thought this was a new policy.
So they asked support.
And here’s where it gets batshit: Cursor has a support email, so users emailed them to find out. The support peson told everyone this was “expected behavior” under their new login policy
One problem. There was no support team, it was an AI designed to 'mimic human responses'
haven’t gotten into the replies to look for sneers yet but I bet there will be some
That feels like a fitting ironic fate, a company selling AI slopcode generation looses a bunch of users from believing their own bullshit and using an LLM as customer support. Hopefully that story repeated a few dozen times across other businesses and the business majors stop pushing LLM usage.
Edit... looking at the orange site comments... some unironically cited Anthropic ~~research~~ marketing hype, which (correctly) shows "Chain-of-Thought" is often bullshit unrelated to the final answer (but it's Anthropic, so the label it as deception and unfaithfulness instead of the entire approach being bullshit in general).
No more CVEs, so I guess that means no more vulnerabilities, the computer security crisis is solved, who knew it would be that easy!
Wtf
E: it might have been fixed, now only if they also fixed all the other things. Erugh hate how much they are offloading the 'is this valuable' thing on just how mad (and who) people are getting. Such an extreme social cost (but very 'X but on the blockchain!' techbro style offloading of the costs unto others)
I hope that either way the opportunity will be taken to move this all to a safer/independent footing.
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