Also not that this ‘key was generated by a person once’ stuff does not validate personhood, it just means an identifiable person was involved once. So, it can be used to blame somebody, not prove personhood

It prob is a “some culture warrior/bodybuilder misread a piece of research and it turned into a culture war conspiracy” thing. Like soy. (My silly nickname predates the culture war stuff by several decades, it comes from Shadowrun).

E: yes looked it up, comes via RFK of course and is anti seed oils thing. https://www.diningandcooking.com/1742624/america-stopped-cooking-with-tallow-for-a-reason/ and the anti seeds oil thing is an idea that has been spreading through the (far) right blogosphere for a decade or more (that is when I heard of it, so prob existed before that).

Our friends of the pod at lw also joined in https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DHkkL2GxhxoceLzua/thoughts-on-seed-oil (but it concludes the seed oil theory is full of shit, points for LW there, well done (dont read the comments, there is roundup in the seed oils)).

On other dire notes, while it could just be the oblivion remaster, according to indie game devs, the already steadily declining income (long tail turns out to mostly not be a thing) of games has really cratered in april. Sex workers also report the general economic outlook being very bad. And if that isnt enough terrible news there is also this

Horrible “rubberhosing” of cryptocurrency people continues. Guardian article, content warning, bit extremer than a rubber hose.

Ah yes the centrist grey/gray tribe. “Prostitution”(ow look a shibboleth, see also “sex work”), and “abortion markets”(??) vs kidney markets.

Im reminded of Jordan Peterson once dropping without a hint of self awareness, that conservatives have a higher disgust response.

Not really related but perhaps entertaining titbit, in the metro 2033 video game series they use high quality ammo as currency. Cant recall if this also happened in the book.

“markets should reward the best” is quite something

Wow, Bitcoin was the solution for that. That is a first. Might have found a first real usecase.

Do you have time to talk about your bitcoins extended warranty, it now uses AI!

Thanks!

Not if the basilisk simulates you.

FT misreading financial statements is quite embarrassing, i mean I dont mind Zilton having a bit trouble with them, even of it isnt great. But FT? Oof. (Not 100% sure they dont mean percentage points btw (as I didnt read the docs), but ft should have caught the ambiguity)

Considering the animosity between stem (a real strong field, based on science, rules, math, for men!!1!!one!!) and humanities (the opposite, etc) this is a bit amusing. And sad.

Sorry cant really help, but perhaps showing a case where the llms fuck up in a way only expects caught on might be useful. Just mentioning the lawyers getting fucked over in casual conversation might help. For example heard about a contract negotiations case where the other side used a llm, and it had included a clause that was very unfavourable to them, of course the person telling this story was fine with that clause.

I’m just going to pretend that vibe coders mean a new VI variant and are using that to code. First VI, then VIM now VIBE? These linux holy wars are getting out of control. (sadly the vibe coder will just go ‘sorry what is leenux?’ and my joke will fall flat.

I agree btw, it will be a big rep damage like how NFTs damaged the idea of cryptocurrencies, and in the same note you saw how a lot of pro-cryptocurrency people disliked NFTs just because they saw this backlash (and the more naked grift of NFTs) coming.

On a related note, they (right wing govs i mean) are now quoting Singal to go after trans people. So ‘good’ times for the polite ‘centist/grey/gray’ debate bros with ‘concerns’.

But like the rightwinger influencers who go ‘wow a lot of people in this space are grifters’ I expect none of them to change their mind and admit they fucked up, and apologize. (And I mean properly apologize here, aka changing, attempting to fix harms, and even naming names).

How do you keep from going crazy yourself?’

When you start writing manifestos it is prob time to quit.

Yeah seems that for llms a linear increase in capabilities requires exponentiel more data, so we not getting there via this.

Also all the top results for most searches are blatant autoplag slop with no informational value now.

I just encountered a thing like this. A subject where no matter what you asked about it this one site was in the top 5 with just incomprehensible posts. Like every sentence on its own made sense, but there was nothing more than that. It read like constant promotional ‘before the actual meat of the article’ stuff but forever. Was really weird.

yeah I tried looking up his writings on the subject but substack was down. Counted that as a win and stopped looking.