Looks like the great few years for space launch will be coming to an end, as Spacex gives up on launching other people's hardware and focuses inwards

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/spacex-no-longer-needs-nasa-and-thats-a-problem-for-americas-space-agency/

Take a look here for figures on space launch over time

https://planet4589.org/space/stats/pay.html

So what’s with the phenomenon of people that are dismissive of the capabilities of chatbots and freely list their constant fuckups, maybe even habitually calling them ‘clankers’, and yet still constantly fucking using them, comparing harnesses, blah blah blah? It’s not our usual cocaine analogies because these people are hardly evangelists… maybe still covered by ‘gambling addiction’? It’s just baffling to me. You humbly suggest that maybe they shouldn’t be making so much use of a chatbot that constantly bullshits them, and you don’t get any actual objection to that… and yet they continue on.

tech stocks falling has wiped out 1.5 trillion dollars

Oh here’s a fun scenario: FAANG stocks are correcting down and now there’s concern Anthropic will have timed their IPO perfectly such that the investors make out great and the employees have to deal with very much less liquid stock than when it triggered (leading to a massive tax bill they might not be able to cover)

So…

Roko’s Taxilisk.

https://www.todayintabs.com/p/eternal-black-october

The problem with A.I. defense is the same asymmetry attackers have always had against defenders. After a hotel bombing in Brighton, England in October, 1984 that failed to kill Margaret Thatcher, the Irish Republican Army put out a statement that said “Today, we were unlucky. But remember we have only to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always.“ As it turned out, Margaret Thatcher was lucky always, but there’s no reason to believe the rest of us will be. If an A.I. hack attempt works one time out of a thousand, that’s a fantastic success rate. If your A.I. sysop “secures” your server by deleting the production database and all the backups one time out of a thousand… well. Who’s gonna be first to sign up for those odds? Roll the dice! Apparently they always come up four.

I saw a slop ad hanging on a fence today, and I’m in half a mind to buy some spray paint just so I can write “SLOP” over it

Oh this will go well: Tom's Hardware story about someone at Cisco committing to rewriting "98%" of legacy code using AI in 24 months.

The author of More Everything Forever: A timely exposé of the ludicrous and cruel obsessions of Silicon Valley's oligarchs cybersquatted eilezeryudkowsky.com, which i think is delightful.

Likely Pivot candidate just dropped:

VRChat refused to add an AI label despite 95% of respondents on their own survey supporting it.

Uh-oh, renowned everyman Sam Altman opened his mouth again.

Local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources.

A lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we're going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we're not going to need all the stuff in the data centre

but from a global allocation perspective, actually it's quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time

you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment, somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that

Anthropic have been hacked to deliver remote access malware to millions of endpoints who use Claude Code.

LW adds Grok(!!!!) support (as in "@Grok, destroy this loser with facts and logic") and for some reason the denizens are Not Happy

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fSaxGFMysTTeKxoMF/you-can-now-grok-on-lesswrong#comments

North Korea gets away with stealing $3 billion from Binance

Nature is healing.