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Back in the AOL days, the first iterations of Google had built-in white pages lookup, for everyone, where if you put in a landline phone number you’d get their name and address. One of my first experiences on the internet as a kid was talking people from AOL chatrooms into sending me their phone number, googling it, and sending back their name and address with some nonsense about being from the FBI. Really freaked people out.

I think it’s because it’s a category that’s usually on autoplay while people aren’t paying attention or are, as named, sleeping, so it’s easier to go unnoticed.

I immediately block any YouTube account that mentions sleep/rest in the name at this point. There are hundreds of those fake history ones that are straight up hallucinations of things that never happened.

At this point you could probably start a third political party in the US with the sole issue of “stop fucking with the internet”.

They’re putting all their efforts into exacerbating it, because the more agreeable it is the more people “like” it, and the more time they spend with it. It gets RLHF’d into being more and more of a sycophant.

Blegh, why is assraping tech at any cost the single bipartisan goal?

Looking forward to a wave of products named things like “IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS BUY THIS ONE”

The vibes of 1AM at a house party where the hosts are arguing.

I’m way too afraid of having our codebase ripped by these shucksters to use those in-IDE ones, and good open models are still too big to be run locally.

It’s such a misery managing any account during a bubble. If you hold you lose when the knife falls, if you try to time it then everything stays irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

They’ll run it every few years until it passes.