Promptfondlers on lobste.rs are unhappy about the tag “vibecoding”, used to denote development using GenAI. I’d not recommend reading the thread, just want to observe that if slop coding had actually taken the coding world by storm, I doubt there would be much pearl clutchign about how slop-slingers are treated on the site. We’re talking about people willing to pay Scam Altman money monthly after all.

https://lobste.rs/s/gkzmfy/let_s_rename_vibecoding_tag_llms

Where’s the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don’t Add Up

Good news, everyone! A Wronger has Thoughts about Female Attractiveness

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cHqCGG5dTmpnM7y92/female-sexual-attractiveness-seems-more-egalitarian-than

30 karma, 15 comments. Very Rational.

Thanks for this write-up, I just saw the advisory and didn’t realize just how dumb the entire thing was.

They bet humanity’s future on the premise that very rich people would keep promises.

This seems very stupid to me.

Enjoy this malicious prompt trying to find crapto secrets after a compromise

https://semgrep.dev/blog/2025/security-alert-nx-compromised-to-steal-wallets-and-credentials/#header-6

In 12 years we’ll get a book “My Mom Outsourced Raising Me to AI and it Broke Me”

No True AI Deployment

WTF is wrong with these people

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HbkNAyAoa4gCnuzwa/wei-dai-s-shortform?commentId=wFmCveaxA5EnNtuCj

Sad if true. I really enjoyed his book The Wages of Destruction which mythbusts a lot of folk knowledge about the Nazis

https://gerikson.com/blog/books/read/The-Wages-of-Destruction.html

“Enjoy” this Wronger explaining human sexual attraction

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ktydLowvEg8NxaG4Z/neuroscience-of-human-sexual-attraction-triggers-3

I have but skimmed it, not plumbed its depths for sneers.

OmniScott.

Thanks for pointing me to this. I hadn’t read the Wolfe story and I appreciated it. I skipped most of the gwern fluff, precisely because while his preferred interpretation is one possible of many, what I like about Wolfe is that the story can be about multiple things beside that.

And the illustration sucks.

DavidG already posted this here: https://awful.systems/post/5382402

After spending hundreds of hours per mod year trying to get a Wronger on the Right track , mod Habryka spends multiple hours writing a post explaining why the Wronger gets a 3 year ban

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/98sCTsGJZ77WgQ6nE/banning-said-achmiz-and-broader-thoughts-on-moderation

Bonus appearance of r/SneerClub right after the preamble!

El Reg: NIMBYs threaten to sink Project Sail, a $17B datacenter development in Georgia

Nuclear has been a running sore in Swedish politics since the late 70s. Opposition to it represented the reaction to the classic employer-employee class detente in place since the 1930s where both the dominant Social Democrats and the opposition on the right were broadly in agreement that economic growth == good, and nuclear was a part of that. There was a referendum in the early 80s where the alternatives were classical Swedish: Yes, No, and “No, but we wait a few years”.

Decades have passed, and now being pro-nuclear is very right-coded, and while secretly the current Social Democrats are probably happy that we’re supposed to get more electrical power, there’s political hay to make opposing the racist shitheads. Add to that that financing this shit actually would mean more expensive electricity I doubt it will remain popular.

Here’s a blog post I found via HN:

Physics Grifters: Eric Weinstein, Sabine Hossenfelder, and a Crisis of Credibility

Author works on ML for DeepMind but doesn’t seem to be an out and out promptfondler.

So state-owned power company Vattenfall here in Sweden are gonna investigate building “small modular reactors” as a response to government’s planned buildout of nuclear.

Either Rolls-Royce or GE Vernova are in the running.

Note that this is entirely dependent on the government guaranteeing a certain level of revenue (“risk sharing”), and of course that that level survives an eventual new government.

Deep cut, I love it!