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Architeuthis

@ Architeuthis @awful.systems

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

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  • if all you want is sex you can simply go have sex with the people who want sex. Or just pay for sex, or use grindr or whatever.

    Rationalists used to more openly stew in incel culture, a big part of which is that beyond sex you are also owed undivided love and attention, so there's probably still a big deal of self-worth attached to that.

    Incels who are fine with just paying for it call themselves MGTOW and are kind of a separate subculture that I feel has mostly petered out by now, probably because it's harder to separate from regular old women-strictly-as-sex-objects type misogyny.

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  • maybe I’ve just missed that part of their culture.

    I wasn't around but supposedly rationalists were hugely PUA-curious in the early days when entitled nerds commiserating about not getting laid were a major voice in the community, along with a bunch of other more out there incel stuff like bi-maxxing, i.e. trying to get it on with other severely undersexed dudes to scratch the itch.

    A lot of it was summarily scrubbed when they started getting money and attention.

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  • jqwik maintainer's anti gen AI activism makes clanker crankers sad

    From github thread:

    I can't actually believe someone would be so childish and put this nonsense into their repo.

    Actively opposing hyper-scaled GenAI and agentic coding is an ethics-related decision. Those who have not followed the long-going discussion may want to start reading up here: https://blog.johanneslink.net/2025/11/04/to-gen-or-not-to-gen/

    Thus, one can argue that my ethical judgement is wrong or based on wrong assumptions. One could also argue that the measures I decided to take come with more down-side than up-side. Calling it childish, however, reveals IMO that the accuser has not seriously thought about the topic.

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  • Seems like run-of-the-mill yada-yada boosterism for the most part.

    Points for managing to write an entire blog post without lamenting how the persecution of nerds is a historical level atrocity, much unlike the ongoing state-sponsored genocide by Israel which is very fine and very justifiable, I guess.

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  • LessWrong, an online community that started out as a place to discuss Yudkowski's writings, who among other things is the If You Build It Everyone Dies guy.

    LessWrong also directly gave us Effective Altruism and the Zizians.

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  • While looking at ACX comments for the you should let claude vote for you thing I saw someone saying that the lumina guy (gobble designer microbes instead of brushing your teeth, boosted by siskind and aella who got free samples) has apparently pivoted to AI with a startup about producing AI generated literature around positive human-AI interactions to influence future generations of LLMs towards favorable alignment.

    I think the later got mentioned here some time or other but I didn't realize it was also the teeth bacteria successor grift.

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  • Well now you've made me look at the image too long, too.

    #1's belt probably wraps twice around that waistline, I'd say photoshop/AI but there's that 1/3 of the shirt hanging off to the right with nothing to fill it so yeah, and also Phil Davis1 exists.

    #10 is aspiring to be the jock from scooby doo and I don't think that jacket can actually close, similarly to #1 the whole thing probably only works for very specific poses and angles.

    #6 looks like he runs a leopard print handbag delivery service, #4 is horny youth pastor in his aunt's kitchen, 7-9 look comfy but contrived, #5 really wants you to know he's wearing a possibly expensive wife beater under that shirt and 2 & 3 are all sorts of dodgy, esp. #3 who looks like a tourist trap gift shop keeper whose face is noticeably untanned because he has to hide it a lot for undisclosed reasons.

    #2 mostly has a raging case of resting netflix true crime serial killer face syndrome.

    I get that the point probably was to only show the broad strokes of how it should look if you're making an effort, but whatever.

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  • I don’t know Guillaume Verdon / Beff Jezos

    He is supposed to be the original instigator and public face of so-called e/acc or effective accelarationism, i.e. the rationalist (or maybe rationalist inspired idk) spin-off of people who feel whinging about alignment isn't necessary and that it's in fact awesome when new technology is killing people and ruining the environment because it means we're getting to the singularity faster, and also openly rooting for fascism on main is based now.

    His magic heatless AI processor startup feels like a grift to fleece investors and as far as I know has only ever produced an obviously staged video of sciency looking individuals fawning over a 3d printed wire mesh while touring what looks like a chip fab with an extremely lax contamination protocol.

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  • I do not know if that can work because only a few percent of the company will be for sale

    I think a 30% chunk will be available for non-institutional investors, which as far as these things go is supposed to be humongous and also an indication that they are very much counting on stupid money to prop their valuation.

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  • It's more like license to sue their pants off if they get caught propagating obviously proprietary code through the responses of their tool, and if they are doing it but you can't tell that just means your enterprise code isn't discernible from claudeslop so no harm done.

    I'm assuming if suddenly an LLM code tool is able to do something like write a parser for an unambiguously closed source heavily copyrighted data format and the only possible leak is the devs using LLM tooling, it's going to be a big legal deal.

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  • Building infinite compute is hard, man

    As if LLMs being the last step before AGI/ASI/The Metal Messiah is a foregone conclusion. As far as I can tell even the AI 2027 thing only argues that once the bots completely nail down programming (any minute now) then the foom happens and the models will magic themselves into true AI, because apparently being good at solving coding problems is a sufficient proxy for superintelligence, hence the METR infatuation.

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  • In other Scott of Siskind news, he just posted an entirely unnecessary amount of words to aggressively push back against the adage that "all exponentials sooner or later turn into sigmoids" as if it was by itself a load bearing claim of the side arguing against the direct imminence of the machine god.

    It's just a bunch of arguing by analogy ( "helping you build intuition" ) and you-can't-really-knows while implying AI 2027 was very science much rigorous, but it also feels kind of desperate, like why are you bothering with this overperformative setting-the-record-straight thing, have you been feeling inadequate as an AI-curious stats fondler of note lately?

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  • He probably paid a rationalist dating coach good money to tell him to do that.

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  • the need to distribute sex to needy men

    It always trips me up how this is about state sponsored arranged marriages (preferably to virgins), instead of like pushing to decriminalize sex work in the united states.

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  • Isn't this completely hypothetical though? As in having the various LLMs respond to a story prompt and calling it an experiment, AI safety research style?

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  • Even Scott’s fantasy dream scenario for what prediction markets could be like and what questions they could answer feels… … deliberately naive? …like libertarian brainrot? …disconnected from reality?

    That's mostly because outright admitting that the point of prediction markets was to make having the prediction gene profitable so they could get on with breeding a rationailst kwisatz haderach to fight the robot god on more equal terms wouldn't fly with the lower level thetans and other exoterics.

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  • Well, you could maybe sort of train it not to generate “all men are cats”, but then that might also prevent it from making the more correct generalization “all cats are mortal” or even completely valid generalizations like combing “all men are mortal” and “Socrates is man” to get “Socrates is mortal”.

    Just wanted to say that that 'tal' comes after 'mor' when 'soc-rate-s' is in the near context and in agreement with the attention mechanism is a very different type of logic than what this phrasing implies. This is also in combination with the peculiarities of word embeddings (the technique by which the tokens are translated to numeric vectors) like how it has a hard time making something useful out of numbers, it uh gets uh complicated.

    The monofacts thing seems very post hoc and way too abstracted in comparison, and also the amount of text that can be categorized as strictly true or false isn't that big all things considered.

    Still if the point was to formalize the very no-duh observation that a neural net isn't supposed to output it's dataset verbatim at all times hence hallucinations, then fine, I guess. Their proposed sort of solution (controlled miscalibration) even amounts to forcing the model to generalize less by memorizing more, which used to be the opposite of why you would choose to use this type of topography.

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  • The newest addition to her polycule

    Isn't this mostly a pretentious way of saying someone I recently fucked?

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  • I feel like a lot of my writing on rationality would be a lot more popular if I could go back in time to the 1960s and present it there. “Twelve Virtues of Rationality” is what people could’ve been reading instead of Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land

    This is someone nakedly fantasizing about being L. Ron Hubbard.

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    Apparently Anthropic may be about to be on the receiving end of some major banana republic shit from the Trump admin -- Update: Anthropic labeled supply chain risk by DoD.

    archive.is /20260226063523/https://www.axios.com/2026/02/25/anthropic-pentagon-blacklist-claude
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    Peter Thiel Antichrist lecture: We asked guests what the hell it is

    sfstandard.com /2025/09/16/peter-thiel-antichrist-san-francisco/
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    Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption

    www.reuters.com /technology/albania-appoints-ai-bot-minister-tackle-corruption-2025-09-11/
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    OpenAI scuttles for-profit transformation

    www.axios.com /2025/05/05/opena-nonprofit-altman-chatgpt
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    "If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own social network." -- L. Ron Altman

    www.theverge.com /openai/648130/openai-social-network-x-competitor
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    UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill

    www.theguardian.com /uk-news/2025/apr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill
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    Turns out Altman is a lab-leak covid truther, calls virus 'synthetic' according to Spectator piece on AI risk.

    archive.is /20231123095653/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/virology-poses-a-far-greater-threat-to-the-world-than-ai/