Yeah, it’s an anti-human project on several fronts.

Of course! The funnel must let something through, otherwise there’s no reason to keep the call center around.

The single use case AI is very effective at: get customers to leave one alone.

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain liquid (a classic quote typically gifted anyone who wants to “time the market”, but generally very applicable to anyone these days)

Better yet, bandcamp ban ai-generated music too: https://www.reddit.com/r/BandCamp/comments/1qbw8ba/ai_generated_music_on_bandcamp/

Great week for people who appreciate human-generated works

Discord have a new questionnaire up, to determine how their users think about “ai”: https://discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5BGtstVUidXadts

Breconstruction

Imagine how many electrons those space air conditioners must be using!

Sounds like a way to identify people who think of power requirements as energy going in, rather than energy that also has to be dissipated. Wonder how circular the Venn diagram of electron guys vs space datacenter guys is.

I wouldn’t worry about it, they are bad enough to ignore. The whole “it feels bad to use but that’s why Unix is great” reactionary aesthetic doesn’t lead to great software, after all

A pal: “I take back everything I ever said about humanoid robots being useless”

And… same

Impressive side fact: looks like they sent him an unsolicited email generated by a fucking llm? An impressive failure to read the fucking room.

Not like that exact bullshit has been attempted on the community at large by other shitheads last year, but then originality was never the clanker wankers’ strength

Here’s a substack post (sorry) with a quote I found both neat and pretty funny:

Integrity comes from the Latin “integer,” meaning whole or complete. A person with integrity is “whole” in the sense that their words, actions, and values are unified rather than fragmented or contradictory. They understand themselves; they have integrated the warring parts of themselves; and they respect and act on the values that their parts can agree upon.

Rationalists in shambles

Something intensely satisfying seeing this the same week as id software becoming a union shop.

Workers organizing against genai policies in the workplace: http://workersdecide.tech/

Sounds like exactly the thing unions and labor organizing is good for. Glad to see it.

They’re doing eugenics ads on the nyc subway https://hexa.club/@phooky/115640559205329476

Yup that’s one of them. The cryptonomicon protagonist no-nut-Novembering all the way to the ww2 treasure is another special fave

Lmao imagine reading a Stephenson book and being peeved that it ends

(His sex scenes are far far far worse than his endings, those are a mercy)

Ah yes, the classic open source guy stance of “you get to praise me publicly but direct criticism or problems to [over there]”

PR for AI slop generated DWARF support for ocaml. Expectation: doesn’t work

Reality: replicates existing support from another project including attribution to the author.