Hyperstition is such a bad neologism, apparently doubleplus superstition equals self-fullfilling prophecy (transitive)? They don't even bother to verb it properly... Nick Land got a nonsense word stuck in his head and now there's a whole subculture of midwit thought leader wannabes parroting that shit.

It definitely feels like the first draft said for the longest time we had to use AI in secret because of Woke.

only have 12-days of puzzles

Obligatory oh good I might actually get something job-related done this December comment.

What's a government backstop, and does it happen often? It sounds like they're asking for a preemptive bail-out.

I checked the rest of Zitron's feed before posting and its weirder in context:

Interview:

She also hinted at a role for the US government "to backstop the guarantee that allows the financing to happen", but did not elaborate on how this would work.

Later at the jobsite:

I want to clarify my comments earlier today. OpenAI is not seeking a government backstop for our infrastructure commitments. I used the word "backstop" and it mudlled the point.

She then proceeds to explain she just meant that the government 'should play its part'.

Zitron says she might have been testing the waters, or its just the cherry on top of an interview where she said plenty of bizzare shit

Zitron catching strays in the comments for having too much of a bullying tone, I guess against billionaires and tech writers, and being too insistent on his opinion that the whole thing makes no financial sense. It's also lamented that the entire field of ML avoids bsky because it has a huge AI hostility problem.

Concern trolling notwithstanding, the eigenrobot stuff is worrisome though, if not specifically for him about how extremely online the ideological core of the administration seems to be, as close to the lunatics running the asylum as you'll get in a modern political setting.

Micrsosoft will be adding numbers on total meetings summarised, total hours summarised, and various classes of prompts.

So the manager types are also affected? This might be interesting.

So much psychic damage (and also /r/brandnewsentence material) in that thread...

The problem is solved by pairing those who wish to live longer at personal cost to themselves with virtuous pedophiles.

edit: That's not the alluded Yud's solution btw

edit edit:

I still wouldn't be all that tempted in his place, if pedophilia is merely a positive description. There's little advantage in not being a pedophile.

Man rationalists from back when they didn't worry about being youtube-ready were something else.

That's easy, it's because LLM output is a reasonable simulation of sounding like a person. Fooling people's consciousness detector is just about their whole thing at this point.

Crabs should look into learning to recite the pledge of allegiance in the style of Lady GaGa.

Oh sure, postgrads grading and even substitute teaching occasionally is very normal here too (edit: Greece)

For those who didn't read the article, the culprit is a Massachusetts company called Cognia that's apparently doing essay grading to the tune of $36.5M yearly revenue, which, what?

Please don't bother with the KJA/BH Dune books, they are incredibly shit. It's basically Dune fanfiction where the gimmick is everyone is brain damaged, especially the authors.

And even if you are into that, if you read the prequels first they will retroactively ruin the original books by giving up plot reveals for fanservice, or because they don't understand that character development is a thing, so you get people behaving like a lot of things that don't happen for several books are a given.

KJA is such a hack's hack it's unbelievable that he's flown under the radar the way he has, probably because he's made a career out of leeching on existing ips, before Dune it was starwars, x-files and stracraft, at least.

He sucks, and very consistently so. People should be writing Renowned author Dan Brown pieces about him.

That was a good one. Also, was he the first to break the coreweave situation? Not a bad journalistic get if that's the case.

It's both, probably. Sounds like the Alice and Bob of compsci security parable fame, except pretentious, and Mallory is the writer.