maybe there’s just enough text written in that psychopatic techbro style with similar disregard for normal ethics that llms latched onto that. this is like what i guess happened with that “explain step by step” trick - instead of grafting from pairs of answers and questions like on quora, lying box grafts from sets of question -> steps -> answer like on chegg or stack or somewhere else where you can expect answers will be more correct

it’d be more of case of getting awful output from awful input

*musk voice* if machine god didn’t want me to fuck with the racism dial, he wouldn’t make it

i meant more like scamming true believers out of their money like happens with crypto, this is cfar deal currently. spam, as something nobody should or wants to spend their creative juices on, or for that matter interact in any way, seems a natural fit for automation with llms

“A lot of the early Rationalists thought it was important to tolerate weird people, a lot of weird people encountered that tolerance and decided they’d found their new home,” he wrote in a message to me, “and some of those weird people turned out to be genuinely crazy and in a contagious way among the susceptible.”

The only question is who will get the blame.

what does chatbot say about that?

it’s sorta impressive that they’re treating their hardware worse than cryptobros then

isn’t openai silicon breaking all the time because it’s so overheated? so they have to replace it a lot of the time? maybe it’s only good for some months

nah they’ll just stop and do nothing. they won’t be able to do anything without chatgpt telling them what to do and think

i think that deflation of this bubble will be much slower and a bit anticlimatic. maybe they’ll figure a way to squeeze suckers out of their money in order to keep the charade going

the most subtle taliban infiltrator on lesswrong:

e:

You don’t need empirical evidence to reason from first principles

he’ll fit in just fine

cocaine users are convinced that everyone not using cocaine will be left behind, as use of cocaine leads to increase in productivity and innovation

but does the prospect of mass human sacrifice please The Line?

generous doses of ketamine probably don’t help either

but that’s how it was marketed as to people that buy it. doesn’t matter that it doesn’t work

Couple of years back there was a South Korean president that was captured by a cult, with cult reviewing all speeches and presumably influencing policies. No way that something like that could happen in the west, specifically no way it could get cooked in SV, pay no attention to it, nothing unusual happens here, this is not a place of honor,

Nope. Nuclear armed countries’ policy that no more nuclear armed countries are allowed is something both expected and having very much material impact. If Iran gets their nukes - it’s likely that Saudis or Egypt would want their nukes too, or at least that Israel or India would like to expand their stockpile. In turn, Pakistan or China or both could expand their stockpile too in response to India. This all has material impacts for everyone, including Trump

Now, Trump bombing Iran because Trump wants to get Nobel peace prize, if there’s anything demonstrating detachment from material reality, that’s it. This point could have been made much better in the linked article

There’s a notion that Trump bombed Fordow and Natanz for shits and giggles.

There are only very limited civilian applications for 20% enriched uranium and none for 60% uranium (above maybe low tens of grams). Iran has been stockpiling 60% enriched uranium (408 kg as of last IAEA report) for the last quarter, using up 20% uranium (fuel for research/medicinal isotope reactors) and 5% (fuel for normal nuclear powerplants). This is all in IAEA reports, which are based on what Iranians reported to them (relevant one). Had been Fordow intact, they could output something between 20-30kg (up to 50ish depending how reconfigurable are their centrifuges) of weapons grade material per week by using up their 60% and 20% stock until they get to something like 270-320 kg, then at much slower rate of something closer to 2.5 kg per week as long as they’re supplied with 5% material. Now, it’s hard to say in what state their entire nuclear program is, but if they can scrape up some cascade, that 60% stockpile still can get them some 200-220kg of material at rate of maybe 2 to 10 kg per week, depending what centrifuges can they get and how many of them. They’re digging up Fordow as we speak, presumably to try and salvage some of that 60% material. This development happened in only the last couple of months, and it’s really not surprising that any american administration would prevent iranian nuclear program from progressing using multiple tools available to them

No, what is happening is dumber and equally unhinged. It’s more visible considering events near ceasefire: Trump wants to get Nobel peace prize because Obama got one. That’s why he rushed ceasefire announcement so hard and that’s why he made that “peace in Ukraine in a day two weeks” promise. Bombing Fordow would be, outside of being consistent with general american strategic policy, part of “escalate to deescalate”-like negotiation tactic. Considering most recent events I think this ceasefire might fail soon anyway (days from now)

depends on jurisdiction of course, but where i live you can pull something like this. it takes something like 30 years of living in the same place at minimum tho

for openai, that’s just a recurring customer

maybe they filled that position already

altman brings the orb to reddit for some reason https://www.semafor.com/article/06/20/2025/reddit-considers-iris-scanning-orb-developed-by-a-sam-altman-startup