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1 day agoIt wasn’t on LW proper, but Yud endorsing a pedo science-fiction book as “basically Safe For Work” has to be up there.
https://awful.systems/post/2972738
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Well, now the students have incentive to record all the stages of their progress. And the professors have incentive to assign projects in stages, each one of which has a tangible output. It’s the golden age of the index card, baby! Fill out one for each idea or claim you want to use from a book you read, wrap the stack with a rubber band… This oddly dovetails with the professors’ obligations, since now we have to teach how to do research all over again.
A major Australian university used artificial intelligence technology to accuse about 6,000 students of academic misconduct last year.
The most common offence was using AI to cheat, but many of the students had done nothing wrong.
We won’t have any usable web browsers, but that’s OK, because there won’t be a web worth browsing.
An linkedin fesses up:
Claude Code has made me a dumber engineer.
https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:osg2vzhifd2tjfsvfwua7scy/post/3m2nhmlv3fk2r
Perhaps, one day, someone will talk about “the people that downvoted me” without sounding like a total goober. But that day is not today.
Counterpoint: Celebrating Hitler’s death is good, actually. Celebrate Hitler’s death on the train, on the boat, wherever good times are had!
I’m glad to see that another mod has already pushed the fuck off with you button.
Gaiman? I thought it was Warren Ellis, the other “into the trebuchet with you” guy of comics.
A new psychology preprint argues that “contemporary AI is research misconduct”.
The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year. And some analysts believe that estimate doesn’t fully capture the AI spend, so the real share could be even higher.
AI companies have accounted for 80 per cent of the gains in US stocks so far in 2025. That is helping to fund and drive US growth, as the AI-driven stock market draws in money from all over the world, and feeds a boom in consumer spending by the rich.
Since the wealthiest 10 per cent of the population own 85 per cent of US stocks, they enjoy the largest wealth effect when they go up. Little wonder then that the latest data shows America’s consumer economy rests largely on spending by the wealthy. The top 10 per cent of earners account for half of consumer spending, the highest share on record since the data begins.
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By Doug Melville, Contributor.
The Forbes “contributor” hive strikes again.
To quote the most pedantic nerds on Earth (complimentary),
Most content on Forbes.com is written by contributors or “Senior Contributors” with minimal editorial oversight, and is generally unreliable. Editors show consensus for treating Forbes.com contributor articles as self-published sources, unless the article was written by a subject-matter expert. Forbes.com contributor articles should never be used for third-party claims about living persons.
wiki-editing weirdos (derogatory)
That was actually said by some guy named Gary.
Well, they’re already using “waffles” as a transphobic slur (irony poisoning speedrun any%), so it’s really more of a question of which transphobic slurs they’ll escalate to next.
I cut YouTube out of my life at the end of July and don’t miss it.
While most bullish outlooks are premised on economic reacceleration, it’s difficult to ignore the market’s reliance on AI capex. In market-pricing terms, we believe we’re closer to the seventh inning than the first, and several developments indicate we may be entering the later phases of the boom. First, AI hyperscaler free-cash-flow growth has turned negative. Second, price competition in the "monopoly-feeder businesses” seems to be accelerating. Finally, recent deal-making smacks of speculation and vendor-financing strategies of old.
A spectre is haunting Silicon Valley. The spectre of getting force-femmed by diamondoid bacteria.