friend of a friend who works for meta was just ignoring the mandate to use ai. apparently this was happening enough that they’ve now implemented per character provenance tracing, and you get ranked according to how much AI is in your code

this is a lot like my expectation. ai never goes away, it never becomes revolutionary, it just makes everything worse and supercharges scams and theft and spam and means of social and nonsocial murder forever

unherd is a fash publication. to me this comes across as an AI take-ified rewrite of a 1994 luttwak essay i read recently, an endorsement of a revival of italian style fascism: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v16/n07/edward-luttwak/why-fascism-is-the-wave-of-the-future

maybe “parasitic innovation”?

need a word for the sort of tech ‘innovation’ that consists of inventing and monetizing new types of externalities which regulators aren’t willing to address. like how bird scooters aren’t a scam, but they profit off of littering sidewalk space so that ppl with disabilities can’t get around

new episode of odium symposium. we look at rousseau’s program for using universal education to turn woman into drones

https://www.patreon.com/posts/project-1789-150782184

excruciating

this is some of the most shameful groveling I’ve ever seen. what a pathetic toad

given how epstein ignores his proposal in favor of slapping him down i would be surprised if any of it came to fruition

it’s interesting, looking at all this it, that he seems to be getting dragged kicking and screaming by his audience toward the realization that the real concern here is orchestrated harassment campaigns, not than misalignment

>10k words into writing a piece of fiction that has a lot to do with our good friends

there’s no real definition of the term, but dark money group usually refers a group that helps its secret funders influence elections, rather than a lobbying group

Newspeak never became a real problem

never heard of wokeness, i see

robin hanson blocked me for referring to him as aella with tenure. i now think that he’s ghislaine maxwell with tenure

new odium symposium episode. this one is a lot lighter than the previous two. we went back and looked at joseph swetnam, the guy the word misogyny was coined to describe, and how he got relentlessly dunked on by his peers.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/9-first-149546072, or on any platform

new epstein doc release. crashed out for like an hour last night after finding out jeffrey epstein may have plausibly founded /pol/ and that he listened to the nazi “the right stuff” podcast. he had a meeting with m00t and the same day m00t opened /pol/

you have to make your ai antiwoke because otherwise it gets drapetomania

i actually find the content pretty amusing, since it amounts to “have you guys tried using words correctly every once in a while?”

“you should watch [Steven Pinker’s] podcast with Richard Hanania” cool suggestion scott

this happens like clockwork

I often feel like our industry has lost its sense of whimsy and experimentation from the early days, when people tried weird things to see what would work and what wouldn’t.

hard to think of anything more dreary and whimsyless than shoving a rainforest into the gas tank of an llm