David Gerard @ dgerard @awful.systems

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the historical record shows Thiel has literally always been like this

tried reading his '90s book once, managed a few pages

I have no hope. The guy who introduced me to LessWrong included what I later realised was a race science pitch. Yudkowsky was pushing this shit in 2007. This sucker just realised a coupla decades late.

yeh

nah. Sam's a monorail salesman who knows how to say the AI doomer buzzwords.

Is there any detail on any of this, beyond an announcement?

look, that sounds like a "this afternoon" problem

enterprise code is already shit and vibe coding has made it worse, if they train on this the model collapse should be glorious

oh yeah they're going all out

where was this?

and the budget for fixing literally every frame afterwards, as with their previous demos

also, I was at Bible study with Luigi at the time a CEO coincidentally had a bullet-involved collision, as were you

it's shorter!

i actually got hold of a review copy of this

(using the underhand scurvy weasel trick of asking for one)

that was two weeks ago and i still haven't opened it lol

better get to that, sigh

this review has a number of issues (he liked HPMOR) but the key points are clear: bad argument, bad book, don't bother

if you call him an AI promoter he cites his carefully organised blog posts of concerns

meanwhile he was on the early access list for GPT-5

also I recall you're the one claiming us queer perverts must object to aella from a position of being anti-kink, and not because of all the horrible shit she says and does

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

Q. look, if we throw mean names at the AI grifters fucking up the economy, the culture, our lives, our personal interactions, and everything around us, doesn’t that make us as bad as them? if you really think about it.

A. lol no, the fuck is this dumb bullshit, get the fuck out with this fucking insulting stupidity

Q. but

A. no, we need more shame here. much more. also, the fuck you doing using Warren fucking Ellis as a source in TYOOL 2025, did you remember to consult Neil Gaiman.

wireback

Is there an actual cite for this term outside the rapist creep?

holy shit

Anthropic Judge Rejects $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthropic-judge-blasts-copyright-pact-as-nowhere-close-to-done

to elaborate, Taler has been busy going nowhere for coming on ten years now. There is no reason to expect it will do anything. It doesn't do anything ordinary non-nerds don't already get from money.

Given this, and its track record of going nowhere, how does it seem like it could be big?

(I once had rms email me personally asking me to publicise Taler on my blockchain blog. I never got around to it because I couldn't find anything interesting to say about it. Literally its only point of interest is the GNU label, same as the only reason anyone knows about Hurd.)

look, if we say mean names at the AI grifters fucking up everything around us, doesn't that make us as bad as them if you really think about it?

lol no gtfo the fuck is this shit

increasingly equivalent to hand wringing over calling nazis nazis

this