Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.
For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community
saw this elsewhere. the account itself appears to be a luckey stan account, but the next
There’s more crust than air or sea or land... so a vehicle that moves through the crust of the earth is going to be a huge deal
I have built working prototypes of this
so are we talking mining, or The Core (2003)? it feels like he's trying to pitch it as though it's Tiberian Sun style subterrean APC, but I can't be sure whether I'm reading into it
hey crazy idea, what if we made a vehicle that moves across the habitable surface of the crust instead
I’m thinking nydus worms from SC2 or the GLA tunnel system in C&C generals.
right? like, is felon finally getting competition for unhinged billionaire gamerposting?
announcing “leeroy jenkins” mode for grok where it just posts your tweet drafts and you can’t delete them
New and lengthy sneer from Current Affairs just dropped: AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
article is informing me that it isn't X - it's Y
there's some more cursor fun too. no sneers yet, I've barely started reading
github produced their ~~annual insights into the state of open source and public software projects~~ barrel of marketing slop, and it's as self-congratulatory as unreadable and completely opaque.
Yud explains, over 3k words, that not only is he smarter than everyone else, he is also saner, and no, there's no way you can be as sane as him
Eliezer's Unteachable Methods of Sanity
(side note - it's weird that LW, otherwise so anxious about designing their website, can't handle fucking apostrophes correctly)
I have found some Medium and Substack blogs full of slop which sneers at the TESCREAL types. Hoist on their own petard. Example: https://neutralzone.substack.com/p/the-genealogy-of-authority-capture (I was looking for a list of posters on the Extropians mailing list to 2001, which is actual precise work so a chatbot can't do it like it can extrude something essay-like).
Nicky Case posted the ending to her AI Safety for Fleshy Humans series and gosh I miss when I thought she was cool 🫠
linking to Rob Miles and an EA longtermist fund at the end of the outro really gives the game away lol
(interestingly this also involves Hack Club, which is the org that Ghostty is now part of from @gerikson@awful.systems’s post earlier today? I wonder what’s up with them)
I am not familiar with Case or her work, but based on my shallow research, she’s part of the cohort of internet stuff-communicators including people like Vi Hart or the Oatmeal etc. Not casting aspersions on anyone here, but I’d be interested to know who amongst them have revealed their chud nature and who has remained pristine (…for now).
Last I checked Vi Hart still seems like a good egg (idk if the closeted teenaged self hiding in the recesses of my brain could take it otherwise 😭)
I'm a bit more familiar with Case - I mainly knew her for making web games like :the game: trilogy, Nothing to Hide and We Become What We Behold.
Fucking sucks to see she's bought into this shit.
It's even way too long a read and full of footnotes, as is tradition!
Heck it's even long enough that I just came across the second flashcard break, and I'm 1/4th of the way through part 1...
I was annoyed at the start lumping in ai ethics with all the ai doom stuff, and then basically stopped reading.
Do think it is interesting that Miles is part of a collaborative yt tech channel and they recently released an ai slop episode. (Which I have not watched yet either, things need to slow down for a bit please).