The $10K Existential Hope Meme Prize: A celebration of creativity, optimism, and big-picture thinking.
And none other than friend-of-the-pod Steven Pinker is a judge!
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How do we make the experience of dating apps even worse? With AI, of course:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/12/chatgpt-ed-into-bed-chatfishing-on-dating-apps
The funniest bit is the guy who needed multiple exchanges with the ocean-boiling slop machine to come up with "Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you".
e/acc-elerating doses of amphetamines
A spectre is haunting Silicon Valley. The spectre of getting force-femmed by diamondoid bacteria.
It wasn't on LW proper, but Yud endorsing a pedo science-fiction book as "basically Safe For Work" has to be up there.
https://awful.systems/post/2972738
Also PrimalPoly's dating advice:
Well, now the students have incentive to record all the stages of their progress. And the professors have incentive to assign projects in stages, each one of which has a tangible output. It's the golden age of the index card, baby! Fill out one for each idea or claim you want to use from a book you read, wrap the stack with a rubber band... This oddly dovetails with the professors' obligations, since now we have to teach how to do research all over again.
A major Australian university used artificial intelligence technology to accuse about 6,000 students of academic misconduct last year.
The most common offence was using AI to cheat, but many of the students had done nothing wrong.
I converted this to LaTeX and made a version that looks all official and spiffy. In the process, I edited the paragraph about the "Ask me anything" chapter, so I modified that paragraph here to match.
We won't have any usable web browsers, but that's OK, because there won't be a web worth browsing.
An linkedin fesses up:
Claude Code has made me a dumber engineer.
https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:osg2vzhifd2tjfsvfwua7scy/post/3m2nhmlv3fk2r
I see that wedging Copilot into Excel is going just swimmingly: