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.
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new interview with Dario Amodei dropped https://youtu.be/n1E9IZfvGMA basically exponential curve real soon, nice skepticism from both the interviewer and the comment section
On a related note, I really gotta stop browsing r/singularity man, some of the AI hype in there is just painful. though it is funny to see people with "AGI 2024/2025/2026" flairs
EDIT: this is also the same podcast where Dario said we could have AGI in 2-3 years back in 2023. So lol
Caught this over on the subreddit and I figured it deserved a repost.
Nothing to see here folks, just Rationalists casually hanging out with major Tempel ov Blood figures. Just harmless nerds doing fun nerd things!
https://softcurrency.substack.com/p/the-dangerous-economics-of-walk-away
- Anthropic (Medium Risk) Until mid-February of 2026, Anthropic appeared to be happy, talent-retaining. When an AI Safety Leader publicly resigns with a dramatic letter stating “the world is in peril,” the facade of stability cracks. Anthropic is a delayed fuse, just earlier on the vesting curve than OpenAI. The equity is massive ($300B+ valuation) but largely illiquid. As soon as a liquidity event occurs, the safety researchers will have the capital to fund their own, even safer labs.
WTF is "even safer" ??? how bout we like just don't create the torment nexus.
Wonder if the 50% attrition prediction comes to pass though...
Apparently some of our AI Safety cult "friends" are planning a protest in London on 28th of February.
Is it going to be something worth critically supporting instead of the usual criti-hype? Possible, but not likely.
The AI Safety movement is finally changing by ~~Sillyconversations~~ Siliconversations.
Who?
I used to be a quantum scientist and now I'm a YouTuber. My parents are thrilled.
Oh, okay.
Also curious that they're not protesting Anthropic on the thumbnail. A cynic would say they're giving them free pass because they say the right shibboleths.
They're giving them free pass because they say the right shibboleths.
new episode of odium symposium. we look at rousseau's program for using universal education to turn woman into drones
Chatbots are a cognitive hazard, part infinity: AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking
need a word for the sort of tech 'innovation' that consists of inventing and monetizing new types of externalities which regulators aren't willing to address. like how bird scooters aren't a scam, but they profit off of littering sidewalk space so that ppl with disabilities can't get around
EDIT: a similar, perhaps the same concept is innovation which functions by capturing or monopolizing resources that aren't as yet understood to be resources. in the bird example, we don't think of sidewalk space as a capturable resource, and yet
In economic terms it's less rent seeking and more rent creation. Like, taking advantage of public sidewalk space may not be a rent in the strictest sense given that the revenue model is still people paying for the service, but the ability to provide that service is absolutely predicated on taking over and monopolizing this public resource to the maximal degree possible.
By historical allegory, harkening back to the original destruction of the Commons, we're looking at Enclosure 2: Frisco Drift.
Let's also not lose sight of the fact that those sidewalks aren't a natural formation, and that it's the city government who ultimately takes on the burden of their construction and maintenance. This kind of neo-enclosure of public resources is then another kind of invisible subsidy.
Last megathread I posted about some LWer writing about "demographic collapse" in Japan (indistinguishable from anyone with any ambition leaving for greener pastures). I've read the comments to see if there's any pushback, and found this absolute doozy
Quick TL;DR of my Discord Age Verification Experience™:
Using my face multiple times didn't work due to the AV shitting itself inside out, but setting my DOB via Family Center somehow did it
Absolute fucking clown fiesta, Jesus Christ
What in tarnation is happening at adafruit?
https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/14/heres-our-first-gemini-deep-think-llm-assisted-hardware-design/
they’ve jumped the shark a while back. ptorrone is relatively widely documented to go around harassing people (often using his partner as a shield excuse for doing so, just like this time), and a couple months back they sold to qualcomm
This person “Charlie Stross”
ah yes, that absolutely must be a pseudonym, and absolutely couldn’t be a real person
such a fucking weird bit
anyway yeah fuck adafruit. don’t buy their shit, there are other options (and often cheaper)
e: I derped on the who-sold, conflated the two for dipshittery. see subthread
Limor Fried and I had a class together at MIT in 2001. This has no bearing on the present circumstances and offers me no real insight (anything I could say about our extremely limited interactions would amount to confirmation bias). It's just the odd little factoid that comes to mind whenever adafruit Does Something Online.
I regret to inform you that the promptfans have a new fucked up way to thotpost:
transcript
screenshot from twitter. the search bar has the following search terms in it: "BC" "before claude"
a tweet body by @Jason_Dean reads: "I was born in 23 BC (Before"
Claudio Nastruzzi of The Reg chimes in on the inherent shittiness of AI writing, coining the term "semantic ablation" to describe its capacity to destroy whatever unique voice a text has.
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out (because the AI datacentres have stolen them all)
idk if the bubble will pop or slowly deflate, but im certain that in 10 years we'll look back at 2020s as the decade where tech stopped progressing in the way we know it - since we're diverting all our resources to ai, there's no longer any room left for anything else to grow
the 2010s crypto gpu shortage was the warning siren for this. it really hampered the growth of gpus because they permanently became so much more expensive - now the same is happening to memory, storage, and...well, gpus again! we've reached the point of reverse progress
2020s as the decade where tech stopped progressing in the way we know it
I mean, sure, but I think the underlying cause here is the end of Moore's law and exponential growth of potential userbases as the world becomes fully connected. The Enshittocene can be viewed as a consequence of capital's attempts to continue exponential growth while the fundamentals are no longer capable of sustaining it.