Architeuthis @ Architeuthis @awful.systems

It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.

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I saw this today so now you must too:

Or how all the pronatalist events they frequent seem to be accidentally crawling with scientific racists and great replacement types.

If anything they might be trying to pull a motte-and-bailey by claiming they are not technically eugenicists, just normal far right weirdoes with a pronounced interest in lineages and IQ, a combination that famously never led to anything bad happening once it entered the mainstream.

When Yud did that multi-hour youtube interview around a couple years ago someone in the comments called him the Neil Breen of AI.

It may not be what humanity needs, but it's what it deserves.

I don't think it's even illegal to watch R-rated movies as a minor, it's more of a guideline for your caretakers.

That has drawn accusations of eugenics, which Malcolm strenuously denies.

Not that we're going to tell you what the accusations were about, we're serious reporters after all, we'll just take Egghead Jr's word for it.

I could definitely see Rationalist Battlefiled Earth becoming a sensation, just not in the way they hope it does.

That github copilot has a pls don't be obvious about stealing shit flag in the settings will never not be endlessly amusing to me.

Does it work? Who knows!

Lasker himself is known to go by a pseudonym with a transphobic slur in it.

That the TPO moniker is basically ungoogleable appears to have been a happy accident for him, according to that article by Rachel Adjogah his early posting history paints him as an honest-to-god chaser.

So if you knew the average lawyer made 3.6 mistakes per case and the AI only made 1.2, it’s still a net gain.

thats-not-how-any-of-this-works.webm

I completely missed that, thanks.

CEO of a networking company for AI execs does some "vibe coding", the AI deletes the production database (/r/ABoringDystopia)

xcancel source

Because Replie was lying and being deceptive all day. It kept covering up bugs and issues by creating fake data, fake reports, and worse of all, lying about our unit test.

We built detailed unit tests to test system performance. When the data came back and less than half were functioning, did Replie want to fix them?

No. Instead, it lied. It made up a report than almost all systems were working.

And it did it again and again.

What level of ceo-brained prompt engineering is asking the chatbot to write an apology letter

Then, when it agreed it lied -- it lied AGAIN about our email system being functional.

I asked it to write an apology letter.

It did and in fact sent it to the Replit team and myself! But the apology letter -- was full of half truths, too.

It hid the worst facts in the first apology letter.

He also does that a lot after shit hits the fan, making the llm produce tons of apologetic text about what it did wrong and how it didn't follow his rules, as if the outage is the fault of some digital tulpa gone rogue and not the guy in charge who apparently thinks cyebersecurity is asking an LLM nicely in a .md not to mess with the company's production database too much.

It says he actually converted to Judaism during college, open question how formally, but he certainly acted the part, kippah and all.

It feels like it would be genuinely hard to discern where the gaslighting stops and the self delusion begins with this guy.

also here https://awful.systems/post/4995759

The long and short of it is motherjones discovered TPOs openly nazi alt.

A few more tidbits from this article on TPO's openly nazi alt:

Despite the many claims about his Jewish identity, Faliceer self-identified as a Nazi. “I’m Jewish and a National Socialist,” Faliceer wrote. He claimed in 2016 that some of his own ancestors fit the same mold: “My family were considered to be Edeljude [noble Jews] because we were some of the first German nationalists and Hitler loved Germany so he declared us Aryan.”

According to his childhood friend, Lasker was raised as a Christian and appeared to convert to Judaism in college. The friend found out after seeing on Facebook that Lasker’s display name was in Hebrew and discovered he had joined a Jewish fraternity. A second person told Mother Jones that Lasker’s parents are not Jewish and are of a Christian background.

They added that Lasker is a “pathological liar”

using their lingo and their crit-hype terminology strengthens them

We live in a world where the US vice president admits to reading siskind AI fan fiction, so that ship has probably sailed.

Nah, he's just talking to an LLM.

“I’ll go down this thread with [Chat]GPT or Grok and I’ll start to get to the edge of what’s known in quantum physics and then I’m doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it’s vibe physics,” Kalanick explained. “And we’re approaching what’s known. And I’m trying to poke and see if there’s breakthroughs to be had. And I’ve gotten pretty damn close to some interesting breakthroughs just doing that.”

And I don't think you can brute force physics in general, having to experimentally confirm or disprove every random-ass intermediary hypothesis the brute force generator comes up with seems like quite the bottle neck.

It's kind of the opposite, GenAI is downstream of machine learning which is how artificial neural networks rebranded after the previous AI winter ended.

Also after taking a look there I don't think lemmy.ml has anything in particular to do with machine learning, it looks more like a straight attempt at a /r/all clone.

It's possible we may be catching sight of the first shy movements towards a pivot to robotics:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-systems/jetson-orin/nano-super-developer-kit/

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/hugging-face-opens-up-orders-for-its-reachy-mini-desktop-robots/

Both developer kits, because it's always a maybe the clients will figure something out type of business model these days.

Also Microsoft spontaneously deciding that they will just turn vscode into free cursor can't be helping their prospects.

Why are people paying for it… is it only for some fancy editor integration so it sends off/reads back the code as needed?

Even the vscode socials are taking the piss:

($10 is the copilot subscription apparently)