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It's practically a proverb that you don't ask a scientist to explain how a "psychic" is pulling off their con, because scientists are accustomed to fair play; you call a magician.

The Wikipedia editors are on it.

The sound a vibe coder makes while edging to Ani

(This is also what all their other words mean)

I got bored and flipped to the replies. The first was this by "TERFs 'r' us":

Excellent overview!

This is transhumanism.

This is going to destroy humanity, @elonmusk.

Put the breaks on!

I hate transhumanism because it's eugenics for 1990s Wired magazine.

You hate it because it has "trans" in the name.

We are not the same.

Let's be honest: These are exactly the sort of people who will stick their dicks into the Torment Nexus.

Is your ring even swole, bro

The AI industry is getting sneered by the dictionary.

Or perhaps it is bleen

Gort is Klaatu barada nikhto?

Elon Musk announces "Grokipedia", which is exactly what it sounds like.

for article in wikipedia: grok.is_this_true(article)

The Gizmodo story mentions that he retweeted Larry Sanger, but it doesn't dive into the rabbit hole of just how much of a kook Sanger is and how badly his would-be Wikipedia competitors have failed.

Maybe next he can get an LLM to automate his apologetics for genocide.

He could call it Vibonism.

Zitron was a major dick to a friend of mine who was having technical troubles with reading his newsletter.

And he needs an editor.

Our final defenses are more diffuse, working at a level of norms and attitudes. Stigmatization is a powerful force, and disgust and shame are among our greatest tools. Put plainly, you should feel bad for using AI.

On top of everything else, "the father of quantum computing" is such lazy writing. People were thinking about it before Deutsch, going back at least to Paul Benioff in 1979. Charlie Bennett and Giles Brassard's proposal for quantum key distribution predates Deutsch's quantum Turing machine... No one person should be called "the father of" a subject that had so many crucial contributors in such a short period of time.

Also, chalk up another win for the "billionaires want you to think they are physicists" hypothesis. It's perhaps not as dependable as pedocon theory, but it's putting in a strong showing.

🎶 I would sire a gross of kids / and I would sire a whole gross more / just to be the man who dropped full two gross kids in baskets at your door 🎶

This is the first time that I have viscerally rejected reading the epigrammatic quotes at the top of a TV Tropes page. Like, it's TV Tropes, and I just closed the tab. Dear sweet and crunchy lord.

CHOTINER: Mr Yudkowsky, it says here 20% of your research budget went to “harry potter”. Care to explain?

https://bsky.app/profile/jpeg40k.bsky.social/post/3lzrvedbfe22o

I am Jack's bone-weary sigh.

Damn, these days you can't even post a recipe without a dath ilani guy getting mad in the comments

There are probably some downright horrifying things in Yud's dath-ilangations, but I bounce off the format every time I try to read it, so I won't be the one to find them. I am OK with this.

other fanfic writers in rationalist-adjacent space have complained about his amateurish attempts at conlanging

that feeling when the chess club shoves you into a locker