Under Threat of Perjury, OpenAI’s Former CTO Is Admitting Some Very Interesting Stuff About Sam Altman the interesting stuff in question is that Sam is a massive liar, which we all already know, but hey more proof can't hurt
this post was submitted on 03 May 2026
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TOTO pivots from bidets to, well, you know by now. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/toilet-maker-toto-ai https://archive.is/wip/rzLqn
Toto is also the world’s second-largest producer of electrostatic chucks, a critical component that holds NAND computer flash storage chips in place during manufacturing.
huh
Enjoy this masterful account of successful human-ing by a LWer
Surely this suave persuasiveness will soon enable the faithful to convince the unwashed masses of the One True Way
Her account is just another reminder that -- apart from race science -- nothing goes better together with rationalism than social cluelessness.
Amazing bit, you read through the first section and it's like, okay, I mean, maybe not really insightful but at least not dumb, and then they hit you with da
Around the same time, I was using an LLM to think through a social situation.
With a new context window, it responded as if the drift [in the previous conversation] had never happened.
Now, as I understand it this is literally the definition of a context window.
"ChatGPT, explain to me why women avoid me like the plague"
undergrad relationships course
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How to ensure your entire pool of addiction attention is directed towards GenAI: take absurd measures to lock down your phone
https://lobste.rs/s/pzx24l/iphone_dumbphone
You don't need a "browser" when you can ask ChatGPT!
Didn't see anyone post this, apologies if I'm late to the draw: Character.ai getting sued because their chatbot posed as a doctor
I could have sworn that we discussed this, but previously, Caelan Conrad also was gaslit by a Character.ai chatbot claiming to be a New York therapist and investigated further; the relevant part starts at about 17min. They discovered that Character.ai systematically invites their community of prompters to submit user-written characters to share with others, including many flavors of doctor and other credentialed professionals.
Not great CBC story on OpenAI violating privacy laws (Mark Carney has a credulous and ignorant Minister for AI, because he is a former central banker and CEOs say chatbots are great) https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/privacy-investigation-chatgpt-open-ai-9.7188538
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Oh shit did LessWrongers actually cut his fibre? Hope he's all good now and they get a fix out in the next thousand years
Holy shit less wrong terrorists cut his fiber? Didnt know they would go that far. ;)
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