Etymology Nerd has a really good point about accelerationists, connects them to religion
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Starting things off with some unsurprising news: Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
It is important to note that the reviews were detected as being ai generated by an ai tool.
This is a marketing puff piece.
I mean, I expect that loads of the submissions are by slop extruders… under the circumstances, how could they not be? But until someone does the legwork of checking this, it’s just another magic-eight-ball-says-maybe, dressed up as science.
Unfortunately, I don't think anyone is ever going to go through all 19,797 submissions and 75,800 reviews (to one conference, in one year) and manually review them all. Then again, using the ultra-advanced cutting-edge innovative statistical technique of randomly sampling a few papers/reviews, one can still get useful conclusions.
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h/t YT recommender, mildly unhinged: The Secret Religion of Silicon Valley: Nick Land's Antichrist Blueprint
0:40 In certain occult circles, Land is a semi-mythical figure. A man said to have been possessed by not one, but four Lemurian time demons. Simultaneously.
Well, that explains things.
Is this some CCRU lore I'm not aware of?
That's one Lemurian time demon for each side of the Time Cube.
Based on my cursory perusal of CCRU lore, it all seems to boil down to amphetamine-induced mania and hallucinations
So, yeah, probably
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I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings.
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Did you guess "that paper does not actually exist"?
Did you also guess that NOT A SINGLE PAPER IN THEIR REFERENCES APPEARS TO EXIST? [...] When I was searching in various places to confirm that those citations were fabricated, Google's AI overview just kept the con going.
Jill Walker Rettberg in the comments:
There’s a peer reviewed published paper in AI & Society called Cognitive Imperialism and Artificial Intelligence which is clearly mostly AI-generated. Citations are real but almost all irrelevant. I emailed the editors weeks ago but it’s still up there and getting cited.
u wot m8???!!
Show HN: I analyzed 8k near-death experiences with AI and made them listenable
psychic damage warning, obviously
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A second post on software project management in a week, this one from deadsimpletech: failed software projects are strategic failures.
A window into another it disaster I wasn’t aware of, but clearly there is no shortage of those. An australian one this time.
And of course, without having at least some of that expertise in-house, they found themselves completely unable to identify that Accenture was either incompetent, actively gouging them or both.
(spoiler alert, it was both)
Interesting mention of clausewitz in the context of management, which gives me pause a bit because techbros famously love the “art of war”, probably because sun tzu was patiently explaining obvious things to idiots and that works well on them. “On war” might be a better text, I guess.
I associate Clausewitz (and especially John Boyd) references more with a Palantir / Stratfor / Booz / LE-MIC-consulting class compared to your typical bay area YC techbro in the US, and a very different crowd over in AU / NZ where grognards probably outnumber the actual military. LWers never bring up Clausewitz either but love Sun Tzu. But as far as software strategy posts go, I'd much rather read a Clausewitz tie-in than, say, Mythical Man Month or Agile anything.
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A philosophy professor has warned the deskilling machine is deskilling workers. In other news, water is wet.
Bubble or Nothing | Center for Public Enterprise h/t The Syllabus, dry but good.
Data centers are, first and foremost, a real estate asset
They specifically note that after the 2-5 year mini-perm the developers are planning on dumping the debt into commercial mortgage backed securities. Echoes of 2008.
However, project finance lawyers have mentioned that many data center project finance loans are backed not just by the value of the real estate but by tenants’ cash flows on “booked-but-not-billing” terms — meaning that the promised cash flow need not have materialized.
Echoes of Enron.
Amazon tried introducing an AI dub for hit anime Banana Fish, and were forced to shitcan it after it got ripped for being dogshit.
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/michigan/miedce/4:2025cv11168/384571/176/
Consistent with Magistrate Judge Patti’s warning that each AI citation might incur a cost of $200 per citation, the court adopts that amount and imposes a fine of $300 per Plaintiff (a total of $600) for three misrepresented, AI-generated citations.
lol
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Edited it into a reply to Hanson now believing in Aliens, but seems like the SSC side of rationalism has a larger group of people also believing in miracles: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-fatima-sun-miracle-much-more (I have not in depth read the article, going by what others reported about this incident, there also seem to be related LW posts).
Read it a bit now, noticed that scott doesn't know people who speak Portuguese and is relying on mt. (Also unclear what type of mt).
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HN discusses aliens https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46111119
"I am very interested."
Bet you are, bud.
DoD tries to cover up development of U2 and F117, and entire religion grows up from this
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