Their heart seems to be in the right place, police interrogation will be exploitative and brainwashy with no real consequences for the interrogators, but they sure chose the dumbest possible way to make their point:

Despite the claims of AI evangelists, chatbots aren’t people and haven’t achieved sentience. The differences between a chatbot and a real person, however, make Heaton’s ability to elicit a false confession more disturbing, not less.

“ChatGPT lacks many of the vulnerabilities that make people more likely to falsely confess — like stress, fatigue, and sleep deprivation,” said Saul Kassin, a professor emeritus at John Jay College who wrote the book on false confessions. “If ChatGPT can be induced into a false confession, then who isn’t vulnerable?”

In the same period, the English-language alignment and AI ethics literature produced no substantive engagement. No citations. No rebuttal.

Wow it’s almost like alignment and AI ethics studies is less a serious academic field and more like a prank capital likes to play on consumers.

But I also think Zhao Tingyang’s take that alignment will make AI evil because people are evil falls too much into the the-people-deserve-to-be-disempowered totalitarian state funny business side of things to be especially influential down these parts.

I assume that’s more because they used AI to lift zootopia’s art style wholesale and so that’s just how rabbits are now.

It’s not so much he fails the purity test than it is he thinks all gen-ai works like whisper on a laptop and open source LLMs grow on trees.

Richard Lynn was right

Ah yes, the everyone in the continent of Africa and parts of Asia is secretly heavily developmentally disabled, my friend Cremieux who’s definitely a highly accredited biologistician and not a college drop out who’s also a nazi thinks this as well post.

Re the incel stuff I think the regulars grew older so it doesn’t come up as much outside the comments, which remain a safe space for this type of whining.

It’s not really extricable from the eugenics iinspired bioessentialism that’s encouraged there I think.

The MCP thing feels like an I like to leave my keys as a huge bulge under the welcome mat type vulnerability. It seems really easy to not do that and also something that is kind of out of scope for both lock makers and mat salesmen to address directly.

Maybe the MCP ecosystem is such that it’s hard to both avoid this and keep the impression that you’re doing magic and not just implementing a heavily annotated API, hopefully secured and with specific and well-defined functionality, and also they are all hacks.

Back in the old days, if you got found out for a race science and men’s rights internet instigator, there was the slight possibility that you might actually have to deal with negative real-life implications.

Sigh.

Rationalists tend to lean more towards anime villain that Bond villain, but yeah.

just one more data trove bro

Are new data-hungry players entering the market of are we still pretending that shoveling more social media posts to the data furnace will somehow overcome structural limitations?

Unless he specifies his problem was with ostensibly leftist academics being specifically too dismissive of race science and incelist tropes this is worthless, just run of the mill face-leopard schadenfreude.

Also the second half (the what? what’s the cut-off point?) of his career has been if anything more mask off, and it’s not like he stopped whining about woke after posting a half-hearted disapproval of trump like three days before the election after years of writing about how cool it would be if there was less regulation especially for healthcare.

Reading Heinlein as a kid isn’t even especially notable, but it’s Yud so he definitely means the polyamory advocacy stuff specifically.

I think SBF’s Scamfest Spectacular did a good enough job of that already :P

Still, being a possible hotbed for domestic terrorism is a whole different ballpark of having the authorities meddle into your day-to-day.

Microslop exec floats the idea that companies should be required to buy additional software licenses for each AI agent

“All of those embodied agents are seat opportunities,” Jha said, envisioning organizations with more agents than humans — each effectively a user that must pay for a software license, or “seat” in industry lingo.

A company with 20 employees might buy 20 Microsoft 365 licenses today. If each employee gets five AI agents, and the workforce shrinks to 10 people, that could still mean 50 paid seats.

Also, it’s apparently enough for an LLM endpoint to be paired with an email inbox to be considered an “embodied agent”, words mean nothing.

That rationalism-slobbering Sam Kriss article from a short while back also namedropped it.

According to the claude code leak the state of the art is to be, like, really stern and authoritative when you are begging it to do its job:

“Throw insane amounts of compute at some developer fan fiction and hope for the best.” is such a good description of vibe coding.

Oh jolly can’t wait for this to go viral enough that my boss schedules time to ask me about it.

The tumblr thread is a must read if you’ve ever been near HIPAA regulated infrastructure.

This account is just that sort of shit 24/7, just constant linkedin lunacy that everyone should treat as rage bait and move on.

exciting new roles of liquid management

algorithmic uh sovereignity

fantastic

Sam Altman wants his eye scanning crypto bullshit to be used to verify AI agents so he can save the internet from himself.

Rather than blocking automated traffic outright as a safety or data-protection measure, World [previously world coin] suggests sites could instead require AI agents to present an associated World ID token to prove they represent an actual human who’s behind any request. In this way, the site could allow agents to access limited resources like restaurant reservations, ticket purchase opportunities, free trials, or even bandwidth without worrying about a single user flooding the process with thousands of anonymous bots. The same idea could apply to sensitive reputational systems like online forums and polls, where it’s important to prevent automated astroturfing or dogpiling.