Somehow I doubt sneerclub turning out to be gigachad central is going to do wonders for curing their persecution complex, but I’m here for it, I even have a couple of (really local) combat sports tournament medals to show for from back in the day.

Self-hating nerd may sound like a quip, but he is pretty specifically painting us as tribe traitors.

Remember, for them, the male nerd is a vulnerable minority, and that they haven’t been granted protected status yet is possibly the greatest injustice of our time.

We’re basically supposed to be fucking up their chances for finally instituting a society-wide word-count based sex redistribution scheme by cozying up to the Man normies who think cults are bad and don’t appreciate race science.

CEO of onlyfans competitor manyvids possibly lost to AI psychosis

It’s a gizmodo summary of a 404 article but the latter is login-walled so

woo takes about quantum mechanics and the power of self-affirmation

In retrospect it’s pretty obvious this was central to his character: he couldn’t accept he got hella lucky with dilbert happening to hit pop culture square in the zeitgeist, so he had to adjust his worldview into him being a master wizard that can bend reality to his will, and also everyone else is really stupid for not doing so too, except, it turned out, Trump.

From what I gather there’s also a lot of the rationalist high intelligence is being able to manipulate others bordering on mind control ethos in his fiction writing,

There’s no good reason for male circumcision

Supposedly it reduces std transmissions and thus HPV caused cancers, which of course is neither here nor there with respect to doing it to people who can’t meaningfully consent, and also there are non surgical alternatives like condoms and hpv vaccines.

Female circumcision is usually butchery and completely indefensible.

https://archive.is/20260109131721/https://www.theverge.com/news/859309/grok-undressing-limit-access-gaslighting

Turns out even the paywalling is fake since you can still do the edits by accessing grok from other parts of the interface like context menus, you just can’t outright ask it in a tweet.

heads up I heavily edited the post while you were responding though I don’t think the essence changed. I added their reasoning for only allowing image generation for paying subs and expanded the table a bit.

https://archive.is/20260109080655/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/09/grok-image-generator-outcry-sexualised-ai-imagery

In response to the outcry image generation is now turned off for non-paying users. Ostensibly it’s so people who are not using Grok as god intended can be identified via their subscription information, but I can’t help but think it’s just Elon explicitly monetizing grok’s CSAM capabilities.

It’s not just the anglo governments dropping the ball, there’s also the various app stores who simply won’t enforce their own explicit rules and ban the Grok app, I guess because the notion of accountability for the effects of AI slop must remain unthinkable for as long as possible.

If the great AI swindle has taught us anything, is that what’s good for normal people isn’t really important when all the macro-economic incentives point the other way and towards the pockets of the ultra rich.

As of April 2025, only 17% of Americans thought AI would have a positive effect on the US over the next 20 years. Only 23% thought AI would be positive for how people do their jobs.

robert anton wilson intensifies

Still, it merits pointing out that this explicitly isn’t happening because the private sector is clamoring to get some of that EY expertise on nothing the moment he’s available, but because MIRI is for all intents and purposes a gravy train for a small set of mutual acquaintances who occasionally have a board meeting to decide how much they’ll get paid that year.

This is from back when MIRI, then Singularity Institute, was paying him like $120K/y – https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qqhdj3W3vSfB5E9ss/siai-an-examination?commentId=4wo4bD9kkA22K5exH#4wo4bD9kkA22K5exH

OpenAi yearly payroll runs in the billions, so they probably aren’t hurting.

That Almsost AGI is short for Actually Bob and Vicky seems like quite the embarrassment, however.

Apparently you can ask gpt-5.2 to make you a zip of /home/oai and it will just do it:

https://old.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1pmb5n0/i_dug_deeper_into_the_openai_file_dump_its_not/

An important takeaway I think is that instead of Actually Indian it’s more like Actually a series rushed scriptjobs - they seem to be trying hard to not let the llm do technical work itself.

Also, it seems their sandboxing amounts to filtering paths that star with /.

Very good read actually.

Except, from the epilogue:

People are working to resolve [intelligence heritability issue] with new techniques and meta-arguments. As far as I understand, the frontline seems to be stabilizing around the 30-50% range. Sasha Gusev argues for the lower end of that band, but not everyone agrees.

The not-everyone-agrees link is to acx and siskind’s take on the matter, who unfortunately seems to continue to fly under the radar as a disingenuous eugenicist shitweasel with a long-term project of using his platform to sane-wash gutter racists who pretend at doing science.

They made a pro-longtermist video in association with open philanthropy a few years back, The Last Human or something like that, the summary was pretty open about the connection.

I don’t think the shadiness is specific to rationalism, see also that bizarre KG video claiming it’s scientifically impossible to lose weight by exercising that coincided with the height of Ozempic’s hype.

edit: The Last Human came out at 2022, the same year the McAskill book arguing longtermism was published, what a coinkidink.

Hyperstition is such a bad neologism, apparently doubleplus superstition equals self-fullfilling prophecy (transitive)? They don’t even bother to verb it properly… Nick Land got a nonsense word stuck in his head and now there’s a whole subculture of midwit thought leader wannabes parroting that shit.

Additionally he said something to the effect of I don’t blame you for not knowing this, it wasn’t effectively communicated to the media like it’s no big deal, which isn’t really helping to beat the allegations of don’t ask don’t tell policies about SA in rat related orgs.

[SBF’s] psychiatrist, George Lerner, worked in the same office as Scott Alexander IIRC (I’ve lost track of the source, will post later if I can find it).

It was in an ACX blog post, siskind just admitted it out of nowhere. edit: Well ok because he was obviously discussing him, but the possibility of any connections between them wasn’t really on anyone’s radar by then I think.

edit: Got it: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-psychopharmacology-of-the-ftx#footnote-anchor-1-84889532

OpenAI Declares ‘Code Red’ as Google Threatens AI Lead

I just wanted to point out this tidbit:

Altman said OpenAI would be pushing back work on other initiatives, such as advertising, AI agents for health and shopping, and a personal assistant called Pulse.

Apparently a fortunate side effect of google supposedly closing the gap is that it’s a great opportunity to give up on agents without looking like complete clowns. And also make Pulse even more vapory.

The kids were using Adobe for Education. This calls itself “the creative resource for K–12 and Higher Education” and it includes the Adobe Express AI image generator.

I feel the extent to which schooling in the USA is of the this arts and crafts class brought to you by Carl’s Jr™ variety is probably understated.