I haven’t seen qualifications this relevant and high-quality since “architects and engineers for 9/11 truth.”

I read this twice as LLM interference engine and was hoping for something like SETI or Folding@Home except my computer could interfere with ChatGPT somehow.

Seeing that, I too immediately thought, in popehat voice, “It’s not RICO.”

unsettling.

Indeed.

Not everyone wants ai for their search tools

invasions.

inviasions. Sounds better in Makadonian.

I think that he might share a social media manager with Jordan “please stop me from posting” Peterson.

I think that people have a really hard time conceptualizing compound interest rates. $10,010 invested with bit connect at their claimed rates would be $3.1 million after 12 months. But you get your “capital back” after 4 months?

The interminable length has got to have started out as a gullibility filter before ending up as an unspoken imperative to be taken seriously in those circles

Only in these circles could an article that AI can read to you in an hour and forty-eight minutes be clickbait for the paywalled “companion piece.”

I went to the study, and that’s the global market size for all sex toys annually, and just eyeballing another chart, butt plugs might be 10% of that. So butt plugs are around $3 or $4 Billion. On the bright side, unlike AI safety, butt plugs actually serve a function.

One is by David Brooks, so it’s guaranteed to be half baked?

I can’t even

Not a cult.

from r/EnoughMuskSpam

Hard to know if “Contovicsy” is an AI in-joke or a Grauniad in-joke. Or neither.

Starting a wall of text with a non sequitur is a bold strategy. I cannot follow his 9/11 logic at all.

“Balaji has the highest rate of output per minute of good new ideas of anybody I’ve ever met,” wrote Marc Andreessen.

10/10, no notes

At the risk of kind of picking around the edges here … something caught my eye in #5:

Michael successfully alerted me to the fact that crime has risen by a factor of ten over the past century, which seems REALLY IMPORTANT and nobody else is talking about it and it seems like the sort of thing that more people than just Michael should be paying attention to.

This claim is ridiculous. The homicide rate in the US was something like 30 or 40 per 100,000 people in colonial times, reducing every century, and it’s around 5 right now, since the increase from the 1960s - 1990s has gone back down.

Maybe, in the past 100 years, we have passed so many bajillion new statutes that it has increased crime tenfold, but that’s not what the reactionaries are saying at all.

My first response would be “that’s a rather shite superpower then, innit?”

I was thinking the same, especially if it only works on busses.

Actual text from the inset ad displayed in my viewing of the article:

Just as cryptocurrencies have revolutionized the financial landscape by enhancing inclusivity and convenience…