Its like the old joke about Software Engineers having a degree in Googling.

It's not strictly wrong in the sense that there are good results and bad results and you can sorta tweak things, but it was only ever just coincidence that you happened to be looking up the same approximate subject matter as what the people who maintained Google were working on, so the search results tended to be better than average.

"10% chance the moon will kill humanity in the next 10 years.", says NASA space exploration lead.

Part of the deal you took when you got the billion trillion dollars is that we get to make fun of you for being a sellout, why are they trying to renegotiate now?

OpenAI wasn't doing it for this person, they're going to work on telepathy?

I believe in about:config it's mostly under browser.ml.

browser.ml.chat.enabled => False, browser.ml.enable => False and extensions.ml.enabled => False I think are the minimum changes?

To what extent should one trust a statement that a program is free of Trojan horses? Perhaps it is more important to trust the people who wrote the software.

Ken Thompson, Reflections on Trusting Trust

I know this outcome was inevitable after software became a mass market thing, but it's still rather depressing.

Trump likes AI and they like Trump too much to dislike something he likes.

As long as the offer’s open, it will be irresistible. So we need to close the offer. Only another god can kill Moloch. We have one on our side, but he needs our help. We should give it to him.

I'd write something here, but there's nothing funnier I can say.

Removing the profit motive of gambling is exactly prohibition, what????

Polymarket when faced with the oracle problem: "What if we threaten to shoot the oracle?"

A worldview where one's worth is measured by the balance in their bank account makes it really easy to flatten out morality.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46994169 As with bitcoin before it, LLM dev cycles are now tied with the phases of the moon.