gerikson

Comments are utterly mired in jargon

Humanity should count as actual AGI, but it remains slow.

It's a weird middle ground, where it is fooming but pretty slowly. (I mean, as a human, I would think that, i.e. I would experience time on a scale that's somewhat faster than humanity's foom.)

I don't think the term "FOOM" as ever been explicitely defined, it's just verbal tic/shorthand for "intelligence explosion". How can something explode slowly???

also nice save defining "AGI == humanity" => goal reached

glad to hear there's still a career as a rent-a-cop once software eats my job

"monument to the first 500" or something, really fun concept - rich people pay a massive amount for essentiially suicide, get a monunment for their pains

I kinda like the Revelation Space universe, but I am literally stuck at 85% on book 4 or 5

Good luck with your novel!

nominative determinism strikes again

it gets better. Godier (the guy who misled Gruber) admits to using genAI to create a website that just to happened to almost exactly duplicate an existing website:

https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html

no mention of the submission of an astrology app to the App store and getting rejected

Noted Apple blowhard John Gruber makes a mistake, is naturally a performative dick about apologizing for it

https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/retraction_app_store_rejection_of_the_week

(nothing to do with AI or crypto, I just think Gruber is a dick. And the subject of the story - an app developer who apparently felt so secure in his indie rep he could do some light fraud for clicks - is a recognizable figure)

the orifice will pulse invitingly

gonna be the biggest flop since that facehugger apple made

enjoy ur hypertopical vibecoded website du jour

https://coldcardwatch.com/

we're up to 51 replies to the post, which has 198 karma points. I guess it's hard to distinguish between those that are in support of the racist, in support of a fellow rationalist, or some other reason.

JFC it's already been 2 years