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I can’t stand the idea that the Anthropic IPO could end up funding these people to the tune of millions of dollars. Please, AI bubble, pop sooner.

As a visualization of how wild this could be, look at some Youtube videos of video game speedruns, such as this one of beating Minecraft in 20 seconds. Now imagine this applied to all domains of science, technology, and the economy. Tell me you have the mental maturity of a 12 year old without telling me you have the mental maturity of a 12 year old.

Rationalism is a magnet for unwell people. It’s sad.

Steven Bartlett barely has 3 brain cells to rub together, so this seems like the perfect outlet for Kokotajlo’s message.

The overlap between rationalists and the skeptic community was indeed tiny. I say this as someone heavily involved in Usenet skeptic communities since the late eighties. In fact the Bay Area doesn’t even register as a locus of the skeptic community at the times he’s talking about. I’m not trying to excuse what much of the skeptic/atheist community later became in the 2010s. It’s definitely turned into something nearly unrecognizable since its earlier days. But that had nothing to do with any sort of imagined rationalist adjacency.

His non-apology apology: I’m not going anywhere. I am not retreating from public writing, and I am not retreating from saying inconvenient things in public. I am unfazed by harsh criticism, and I know that a reaction of this magnitude is in part the result of having struck a chord. Bear with me, and if you can, remember that I am a human being with a six-month old boy to raise, a book to write, a new job, and much more questions than answers about our collective future. Guys, he has a baby. Don’t be too mean to him.

That feeling when you’re an OpenAI exec and you realize the jig is up.

What will EA (and, more specifically, Lighthaven) do with all the money they expect to receive once the Anthropic IPO mints a bunch of hundred-millionaires? I’m not granting all of the article’s premises, but the interviews with rationalists might be of interest.

How do we know this isn’t the AI god creating the first diamondoid bacteria?

Update: Neon acquired the rights.

So Anthropic slopmaxxxed a hamfisted Chinese AI lab detector into Claude Code. And I’m kinda surprised at how much hate Anthropic is getting for it on the orange site.

Remember when grok was inserting “white genocide” into every response? It was probably this guy (or one of his fellow moids).

It kind of makes a twitsted sense that so many of them go into life coaching. In their hermetically sealed subculture of highly paid, socially inept nerds, it’s probably pays the bills to set yourself up as an authority on reading social cues.

A predatory slop publisher has turned to algorithmic moderation by clankers? A shocking turn of events, to be sure. They’re probably just trying to wring the last few pennies out of their operation before they meet their inevitable oblivion.

IANAL, but my understanding is that companies are allowed to keep confidential the fact that they even filed the S-1. That’s how I read OpenAI’s statement. But it’s not completely clear what “it” means in “we expect it to leak”.

AI slop will absolutely kill any forum in which it proliferates. So I’m totally fine with it proliferating on LW.

That’s bizarre. Why?

One of the most egregious examples of p-hacking I’ve ever seen.

Everyone knew it was going to be a total shitshow once the free money ran out it. Copilot is just the first shoe dropping. Getting out the popcorn.

The best response to that comment: A man goes into a bread shop. He looks at the bread. on his favorite brand of bread dons the label, “Now with dog feces! :D”. Disgusted he approaches the manager of the store. “Why in the world have you started adding animal poop to my favorite bread?!” he says indignantly. The manager of the store says: “Stop. You know nothing. You have baked 0 bread loaves by hand. No one has ever depended on your bread. You are a finger-wagging “they put dog poo in my bread” type in an era where you hide in plain sight coasting on the moral high ground of baking homemade bread from scratch at home without poo. You can’t ship bread, can’t adapt, can’t even realize that a bread shop is not the place for this kind of attitude.”

The rsync slop-code scandal (mentioned [here]awful.systems/post/8427063/11608331) earlier) has now blown up in rsync’s github issues tab. And of course on the orange site.

Why doesn’t she just ring up Peter Thiel. She seems like just the type of person he’d love to donate some Thiel bucks to.

Related: Paul Graham: “You’re holding it the wrong way.”

If you want to witness a bunch of emotionally stunted clanker fondlers totally missing the point, check out the comments on this orange site thread.

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They’ve been using the excuse that not everyone who participated in the “AI 2027” project agreed on 2027 as the year it all happens. But if that’s the case, why the hell did they call it “AI 2027”? Gotta love the ex post facto of it all.

And not a single question about the Claude Code source leak, which revealed how it’s completely slapped together with string and bubble gum.

Her account is just another reminder that – apart from race science – nothing goes better together with rationalism than social cluelessness.

Clown v. Clown. This is about the level of discourse Yud deserves.

What about the git commit messages for the Microsoft PM who vibe-coded all these changes. Were they also accompanied by a “Co-Authored by GitHub” message? Because that’d be hilarious if they weren’t.

McKenzie has got to be one of the worst writers I’ve ever come across. We will return to the other reason in a moment. We return from this flight of fancy to the indictment. Why? We’ll return to it in a minute. I didn’t make it to the end, because I’m not going to waste that much time reading tens of thousands of words of fascist-supporting bullshit.

You and me both. The deluge of shitty AI slop code is never-ending. Unfortunately, software companies are going to have to start going under before anything gets done about it.

You thought software quality was poor before LLMs? You ain’t seen nothing yet. Typical mentality on the orange site: I don’t think I’ve read a single line of code I’ve shipped in over 6 months.

The back-and-forth between Gwen and LessWrong commenters is getting spicy. This definitely deserves a top-level post on SneerClub.

Habryka’s all, “Dammit, why do you have to come here and remind everyone where the Zizians came from?”

He really is insufferable, isn't he?

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