paradox242

Yes

A test we must continue to pass 100% of the time, but need only fail once.

Even in the short time since we have developed the capability to annihilate ourselves, there have been dozens of accidents, false alarms, and near misses.

I am confident that on a long enough time line we will manage to fuck this up.

Anyone who has even slept through a history class will still have learned by osmosis that This Is Not How Things Have Ever Worked.

The wealthy and powerful have always held contempt for the poor and powerless, but for better or worse they needed them as a source of both cheap labor and, from time to time, as cannon fodder against their rivals. This part is what they can see possibly changing, and they are really, really, really hoping that they don't need you anymore.

People who say, "Well, who will they sell everything to if no one has a job" are stuck thinking in the past. When your existence is no longer tolerated, but now actively a nuisance, there is no need for a consumer economy supporting millions of people. While their vanity requires keeping some number of the permanent underclass around so they they will always have someone to degrade and feel superior to, I don't see this amounting to more than a few thousand underlings huddled in various competing compounds, and even this custom is likely be to be abandoned entirely by those who seek to transcend humanity itself.

The tech oligarchs and their boosters are doing more to radicalize the US populace than Bernie or AOC ever could.

The mask has been slipping for a while, but a combination of Trump getting elected and AI psychosis has lead to a lot of premature celebration over their belief in being the new masters of the permanent underclass. Now the the mask is completely off and revealed them for the disgusting reptiles they have always been.

No

They stole all the data for the model in the first place so fair is fair.

Advertisements for the latest release of a product in 2026 are wild

When you are telling every media outlet and investor that you are building a system which intends to capture all of the economic value, then don't be surprised when people take you at your word.

This is the routing of parts of a task to cheaper models dressed up as some kind of innovation in efficiency. Why anyone takes anything this guy has to say at face value is beyond me.

This article is literally the meme of the guy sitting in the middle of a room on fire confidently declaring "this is fine".

I have watched multiple times now where those most excited are the least capable. They prompt something out of an LLM and feel the thrill of vicarious creativity. They have never been able to do something like this before, and it feels good.

They show their barely working demo to management who is also excited. It kind of works if you don't look too closely, but includes features and screens no one asked for or can explain, tables and graphs which turn out to be static artifacts using made up data (in one case I saw a pie graph which when summed, exceeded 100%), is a security nightmare, and simple changes must be made across the handful of functions which are hundreds or thousands of lines long, because there is no separation of concerns.

Eventually they turn this steaming pile of "prototype" over to an engineer who is asked to get it ready to ship because "the product team was having trouble adding the few extra features, but it should be easy, just use AI".

I can't tell if this is stupidity, an elaborate joke, or maybe I am already dead and this is some kind of purgatory.

It's telling that even Plan A describes a world I don't want to live in.

One where humans are increasingly pushed to the periphery to make room for data centers and the human population is subsumed by robots.

Who is this future serving? Not me. Fuck this.

What was the end result of all of this exactly? Seems like 85k and all you have is a masturbatory blog post.