Thiel has fully lost it, and as I assume nobody around him has warned him about how crazy this ~~manifesto found after the shooting~~ oped in the ft makes him sound, so do the people around him.
TechTakes
Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.
For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community
That reads like some bullshit you'd find on r/iamverysmart on Reddit.
Maybe side effects of all the substances he uses to become the Übermensch.
jesus christ
the amount of doublethink and newspeak this is attempting to push is remarkable
also afaik thiel isn't one to regularly demean himself to writing tidbits such as this, is he? I don't recall seeing nearly as many words from mr likes-it-private as I have from andreesen et al
for someone that runs a surveillance company he sure as fuck can't help yapping about his plans
they're all just so fucking ...... smug
it appears they don't think anything can possibly go wrong
i also like that implied statement that no other country than us has any agency at all, and internal affairs of a couple mentioned countries were really result of american activities
Sir, this is a Wendy's, also
There will be no reactionary restoration of the pre-internet past.
did you get sucked up your ass so deep you forgot who's on the reactionary side?
i hope thiel keeps writing these, because every minute he does he doesn't spend on horrible shit like implementing them
[Fiction] [Comic] Effective Altruism and Rationality meet at a Secular Solstice afterparty
When the very first thing you say about a character is that they "have money in crypto", you may already be doing it wrong
wow i hate this so much
it's neat how the cartooning gets lazier and lazier as it goes though
holy shit you really weren’t kidding about how lazy it gets. there’s a bunch of frames that are just text I’m not gonna read on a black background???
- has money in crypto
- skin is actively melting
- will keep monologuing even when unconscious, like a broken video game cutscene
The FDA thing gave me whiplash what the fuck, what did I miss
evil regulators prevent sv megaminds from unrestricted access to adderall probably
idk what specifically, there has been a thing with anti-cavity bacteria that didn't work or maybe that's about some transhumanist bs
I remember from my misspent youth reading Scott's ramblings a fair bit of antipathy towards FDA regulations in particular. What I can only attribute to ignorance of history makes them fall prey to the standard libertarian talking points about slowing down drugs that could improve people's lives, never mind the fact that in the absence of those regulations everybody who could hypothetically benefit from psychedelic nootropics or whatever would have been too busy dealing with phocomelia to care.
we regret to inform you that mullenweg is still posting through it
no matter how unhinged you may expect this to be on starting to read it, you're probably guessing low
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SEOs match quality websites to those users trying to find them. As much as Google and Bing like to pretend that they're perfect there are very real indexing issues that crop up and need experts to debug, mitigate, and prevent; so in a very real way the SEOs do make the web better for users.
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For example let's say there was a user who wanted to read a website full of LLM written articles and ads but they keep stumbling across low quality websites with poor SEO practices like Wikipedia instead, why that would be terrible. In order to prevent this terrible possiblity it is the noble duty of SEOs to buy well respected high ranking domain names so that users get a brand they can trust. Like Forbes. Or Radioshack.
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Sincerely, the myseonews.now "staff".
the sheer amount and rapidity of times it goes from "fucking wot m8" to moments where you can just see him cackling to himself, "hee heeeeee..... that'll teach 'em!", just constant whiplash
my neck hurts and I should've stretched
You could hook Cthulhu with bait that big.
To make this easy and hopefully give this project the push it needs to get off the ground, I’m deactivating the .org accounts of Joost, Karim, Se Reed, Heather Burns, and Morten Rand-Hendriksen. I strongly encourage anyone who wants to try different leadership models or align with WP Engine to join up with their new effort.
The passive-aggressive language and the pettyness is such a combination.
LessWrongers find cool reception for translated HPMOR copies sent to Russia's highest IQ youth
I think it could be very valuable to alignment-pill these people.
Zoom and enhance!
alignment-pill
The inability to hear what their own words sound like is terminal. At this stage, we can only provide palliative care, i.e., shoving into lockers.
Man, now I'm bummed that I don't have a cult trying to distribute translations of my Daria fic in which Jane becomes Hell Priest of the Cenobites.
big sending bibles to north korea energy
Lmaou. "We need to alignment pill the Russian youth." Fast forward to the year 20XX and the haunted alignment pilled adults are now 'aligning' their bots to the world's top nuclear armed despot.
tony_soprano_how_could_this_happen.jpg (for some reason awful systems won't let me upload pictures anymore (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ)
Holy Moses in heaven, iirc both Sam and Dario have said that their urge to build the torment nexus came from being inspired by online RAT forums. Maybe alignment 'pilling' youths is counterproductive to human flourishing? As the LWers say, "update your priors fuckheads"
people in the Russian-speaking EA community are all busy with other things.
i.e. working for Putin, running from Putin, or dying for Putin
Apparently, the OpenMandriva folk (the inheritors of the venerable mandrake/mandriva Linux distro) are now best buddies with Bryan Lunduke (right wing tech grifter and q-anon fan) are decrying the left wing bias of Linux projects with a hilarious “wokeOS shell”
Archive of openmandriva forum post: https://archive.is/2025.01.11-001057/https://forum.openmandriva.org/t/came-here-from-lunduke/5516/1
Lovely juxtaposition of “let’s stick it to the gay fags” and “we’re accepting of everyone and there’s no hate here”. Seems like a classy community all round. It’s a little sad to see how mandrake ended up, but there you go.
WokeOS here: https://web.archive.org/web/20250110234818/https://lindev.ch/wokeos.cpp
It’s pretty tedious and unimaginative. No idea who lindev are.
(eta: wasn’t me who originally found this, but I’m never quite sure whether it’s ok to include sources for this sort of thing given the subject. on the other hand, the op has it as public post that’s been boosted a bunch of times, so here it is: https://tech.lgbt/@GeopJr/113807022917800887)
Bryan Lunduke
Holy shit, the Linux Action Show guy? I remember listening to that podcast occasionally fifteen years ago and found it quite entertaining.
I had no idea he was even still around, let alone going techfash.
Thanks for the heads-up. I couldn't finish reading through all postings in that forum thread, it's all just making me so tired... always the same shit.
please excuse me while I infinitely recursively scream into the void
Large Generative AI Models in telecommunications
(this shit has been getting airtime at a couple of different networking conferences, and it's all as ridiculous and pointless as you'd blindly guess)
It still has to go through peer review, so I fully expect one (1) accepted paper with the title "Large Generative AI Models in Telecommunications - What? No. Why? No!"
Hit me up if you want to collaborate on one lol
Here's a start:
Given their enormous environmental cost and their foundation upon exploited labor, justifying the use of Large Generative AI Models in telecommunications is an uphill task. Since their output is, in the technical sense of the term, bullshit, climbing that hill has no merit.
here have incomprehensible meme
inb4
I love the leaves and gold meme and I use it constantly even though quite literally no one ever understands it, so, thank you, now I know there's two of us.
Zapisz obrazek jako ahgsfds doesn't translate well, i think that's why