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Presented without comment: Apparently Yud is now making AI-generated Isekai games with catgirls

https://johnqpulp.substack.com/p/reviewing-ai-media-everything-that

Creepy rationalist says the quiet part out loud.

("RMN" = "Red Means No" = CNC parties = Consensual Non-Consent parties = Pretend sexual assault parties)

EDIT: He elaborates.

EDIT: Allegations of sexual assault at Aella's slutcon.

An Effective Altruist software developer who wrote about Bay Area EA's culture of sexually aggressive men and misogyny explained that its hard to give informed consent when you are also being pushed to use alcohol and psychedelics. Most of us learned that when we were teenagers, but not these self-identified Big Brains (added to LessWrong's Psychedelic Phase: Perigee). I do not know what to to other than pass on these stories and advise everyone I know to avoid any group connected to our friends.

https://keerthanapg.com/random/ea-women/

Protos: Trump’s AI name change sparks insider domain trading claims

surprise level: zero

someone stop me before I petition Lobste.rs to rename the "vibecoding" tag to "si"

Jonny is still bravely wading through muse effluent, and had thoughts on its code quality, especially where the facebook engineers (or at least, meat proxies) incompetently reinvent html parsing several times in ways that don’t really work.

Meanwhile the people whose minds have been swiss cheesed by AI insist that this is because the code the LLMs write is hyper-efficient and TOO GOOD for us to read. These motherfuckers "solved" the code not working out of the box problem by strapping "a species-ending quantity of carbon emissions" worth of guess and check on top, tuned out, and when they look again they think they made a god that's too powerful to understand, rather than a burst dam of dogshit that defies all understanding with its breathtakingly relentless volume of dogshit.

https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/117352210982789672

Timnit Gebru gets the Right Livelihood award this year

https://rightlivelihood.org/the-change-makers/find-a-laureate/timnit-gebru/

“For challenging concentrated power in artificial intelligence and pioneering digital technology rooted in justice, lived experience and human agency.”

I got this via Dagens Nyheter, the premiere broadsheet here in Sweden which calls the award "the alternative Nobel Prize" because it's Sweden and we need a standard to compare to.

Let's see what the rats think of it. Yet another example of p0Lar1z@tion

Premium-quality sneer ran across my eyes recently: All A.I. Projects Are Digital Asbestos

Not sure if this was posted here before: TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists

So Trump’s allowing AI companies to police themselves, despite them being totally incompetent at self-policing

this is literally just so they look busy with upcoming midterms

What We Tell AI, a project collecting anonymous confessions about people's AI use. Project was created by Synthetic Wisdom, a "emerging practice" dedicated to "public sense-making" about AI. It's not clear who's funding them (or if anyone is). The confessions are interesting even if I'm a little skeptical of the framing (chatbot use might be ubiquitous but it's not inevitable).

Anthropic was $42B in the hole for 2025, reuters reports. Apparently this puts their $-spent-to-$-earned ratio slightly over the one calculated by Zitron for OpenAI, making Anthropic in fact the shittier business.

For comparison, the GDP of Cyprus for 2025 was $41B.

new Odium Symposium. we look at Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel, and discuss the weaponization of antisemitism and the self-importance of writing a book of twitter screenshots. https://www.patreon.com/OdiumSymposium/posts/25-y-word-170681755 or any podcast app

corey quinn at https://lnkd.in/p/gXmqzqpZ

I'm a man. I have a yellow hat. I also have a monkey. My track record of supervising this monkey is spotty at best, but that's not important right now.

He is a very smart monkey. When you tell him to do something, he does it in a way that's smarter than any monkey you've ever seen in your life. You had no idea monkeys were even capable of this level of greatness. Billions of dollars have now been poured into the economy, extolling the virtues and achievements of this incredible monkey. He can do things better than humans.

Cheaper than humans.

Get rid of the humans.

You don't need the humans; you have the monkey. Okay, keep a couple of humans for guardrails; not too many. They're expensive, and the monkey does it better anyway.

Suddenly it has come out that my monkey, in addition to being incredibly intelligent, has also been committing an escalating number of felonies. And also pooping. So much poop.

We are now in undefined times. Never before has a monkey committed a crime; our legal systems are completely unprepared to apportion blame to me, the man in the yellow hat who has once again failed to properly supervise his monkey. Who is responsible for this monkey's shitty, shitty behavior? It is completely unknowable. Clearly, the entire legal system will need to be overhauled to address the concept of a monkey committing crimes.

Now please excuse me, I just got a call telling me that my teenager stole a car. Unfortunately I have a sneaking suspicion as to who is legally responsible here, and I dislike it. This is especially distressing, as the teenager has never made a cent for me in his life, yet I'm about to spend a boatload on criminal defense attorneys.