Where’s the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don’t Add Up

JFC man, stop digging

Good news, everyone! A Wronger has Thoughts about Female Attractiveness

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cHqCGG5dTmpnM7y92/female-sexual-attractiveness-seems-more-egalitarian-than

30 karma, 15 comments. Very Rational.

Not the first time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=scottaaronson.blog

An update, a Concerned Citizen furrows their brow and Has Questions on how this was handled, about a week later

https://lobste.rs/s/zoirhl/appealing_ban_user_friendlysock

A predictable shitshow erupts, which leads to the creator of Anubis quitting the site, along with a few others.

At least I get more entries in my “lobste.rs assholes” list.

Worth noting is this text from the mod (https://lobste.rs/s/zoirhl/appealing_ban_user_friendlysock#c_6prapm)

This pattern was that every couple years there’d be a long string of cruel, dismissive, or discouraging comments. Not necessarily wrong, not outright abusive, not spam, not any one over the line, but all of them… just endless “ugh, this guy again?” and other users, more or less quietly, leaving rather than deal with it. This final comment called out in the modlog is one more example. The entire goal of the rhetoric is that it’s not explicit, it’s not outright libelous, it doesn’t even take personal responsibility for holding the opinion of the smear it insinuates. It’s deniable out of context, whether the missing context is the author’s writing history or the missing context is the old bigotry that trans people are pedophiles.

I’m not missing that context. The only thing I’m missing is the charity to think that somehow this time it’s different, that after a decade, this time it will the last time would be the last time I have to explain that this is a community where everybody’s going to be treated with some basic dignity. The other mods suggested the idea of a public apology but that didn’t work out, and absent a persuasive reason to expect this pattern wouldn’t continue, this ban stands.

Thanks for this write-up, I just saw the advisory and didn’t realize just how dumb the entire thing was.

They bet humanity’s future on the premise that very rich people would keep promises.

This seems very stupid to me.

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Enjoy this malicious prompt trying to find crapto secrets after a compromise

https://semgrep.dev/blog/2025/security-alert-nx-compromised-to-steal-wallets-and-credentials/#header-6

In 12 years we’ll get a book “My Mom Outsourced Raising Me to AI and it Broke Me”

No True AI Deployment

WTF is wrong with these people

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HbkNAyAoa4gCnuzwa/wei-dai-s-shortform?commentId=wFmCveaxA5EnNtuCj

Sad if true. I really enjoyed his book The Wages of Destruction which mythbusts a lot of folk knowledge about the Nazis

https://gerikson.com/blog/books/read/The-Wages-of-Destruction.html

“Enjoy” this Wronger explaining human sexual attraction

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ktydLowvEg8NxaG4Z/neuroscience-of-human-sexual-attraction-triggers-3

I have but skimmed it, not plumbed its depths for sneers.

yeah sorry I had the username (“friendlysock”) in a first draft then forgot to add it

good riddance to bad rubbish

OmniScott.

tbf being able to write thousand word long blog posts and using phrases like “good and important” is part of his job description

lobste.rs just banned an 11 year old account with almost 5,000 comments and 45k karma for being a transphobic jerk. No muss, no fuss, no apologetic blogpost where the user could defend themselves and rile up the masses.

That’s how you do it, people.

edit I have now skimmed the comments where banned use Said can explain himself, and he’s using his last efforts to nobly defend himself, thanking his admirers, and generally projecting an image of a man wrongly accused.

j/k he’s doubling down on being a dick.

Thanks for pointing me to this. I hadn’t read the Wolfe story and I appreciated it. I skipped most of the gwern fluff, precisely because while his preferred interpretation is one possible of many, what I like about Wolfe is that the story can be about multiple things beside that.

And the illustration sucks.

Funniest are all the commenters loudly complaining about this decision and threatening/promising to delete their accounts.