but that would cut down openai costs

tbf i expected that ed got openai’s s1 at that point. anything more detailed would be nice to see. that also suggests that saltman knows that leak occurred, and maybe who leaker is

i’ll just quote it straight because i can’t make it any funnier:

maia arson crimew 🏴 ‪> @crimew.gay‬ SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel’s private society that doesn’t have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

https://bsky.app/profile/crimew.gay/post/3moejkbqctc2z

zitron got a scoop on openai: 8.8B loss in 2024, 60.3B loss in 2025, 1.17B from ms + softbank, promises more detailed analysis later https://www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-openai-financials/

it’s nice to have a preprint about a phenomenon that has been weaponized years ago. it’s easy to say that in retrospect, but it was easy to say that in advance too. there are also bots that might try to do something similar on lemmy

D’Souza has observed that his friends are “the best little boys in the world. They all went to the fanciest universities and won all the prizes.”

and wiped out several cities in the process

My profile of Sackler, it turns out, was the first case to be brought before Objection’s tribunal, although the company told me there are now dozens in its virtual docket. “You’re Exhibit A,” D’Souza said, observing that the verdict on my work was part of the company’s soft launch: “Building software is hard.”

did they try to turn their first target into unwilling and adversarial beta-tester?

After we spoke, I awaited my verdict before the Objection tribunal in the Sackler case. None arrived. Eventually, the landing page was taken offline. I asked D’Souza about it. He explained that Objection would “hold off publishing any adjudications” until “a new major strategic partnership” was announced.

so it seems

(As a general matter, D’Souza questions the common journalistic practice of quoting “experts” as part of coverage.)

it does fit a pattern

he should 10x his budget. what kind of startup gets bankrupt after 2k loss? maybe they’re just deterred and will try again later (which was implied)

ig chucking in a segment of merck index (short entries with compound properties, 2000 pages of) to iocaine training corpus would trip it

Claude can now be silently nerfed. Anthropic has decided it won’t tell users when this happens.

considering how many habitual llm users can’t tell good from bad output anyway, they always could have done that

i mean the process of writing, if they didn’t they would perhaps write in more concise way

weird, for people who write so many superfluous words i guessed that they at least like it

ed zitron went on bloomberg podcasts, these might be actual end times

was that written specifically for elon musk

i see no reason why P/E could be negative, then it works like negative absolute temperature

there is a degree of risk that is acceptable for business. 90% drug trials fail; if you are inventor, you make a startup, package your pre-trial drugs and associated IP there, then pitch it up and cash out. vcs have money for clinical trials. sometimes you have phase 1 results that you got on your own too. the further it goes in trials the more it is worth; result is the biggest gacha in the town

techbros really just want to be slavers and mask slipped now a bit more

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insult_(medical)

tiny little problem of spinal cord attachment, surely It Will Be Solved™. at least they didn’t throw nanobots at it

i guess that immortal oligarch class is a 100% ethical thing for them

tired: butletian jihad

wired: butlerian crusade

their practical skills are weak, and they won’t survive the winter (because they don’t know how to make jam)

but frame the same physics in terms of what makes steam turbine spin, and they’ll pretend to get it but won’t apply it anywhere else. the longer you look the worse it gets. it’s like they have never watched how it’s made as kids