I was thinking about ethics in game journalism in software engineering and I think it might be easier to create a whitelist than a blacklist:

What are some serious software/hardware companies that have NOT participated in the AI bubble? No AI nonsense in their marketing slides, no mentions of AI on their landing page, etc.

More recursion means more intelligence.

Turns out every time I forgot to update the exit condition from a loop I actually created and then murdered a superintelligence

On the other hand, I’m sure people are going to come up with excuses even for this by blaming the user, his mental illness, his mother or even society at large.

I mean, I am going to say it but not as an excuse. Should companies that supply these products be held accountable as the criminals they are? Yes. Is this all downstream from the fact our society hasn’t treated mental health as a serious matter, therapy access is garbage, all the while being a young person in 2025 is a hopeless string of horrors and anxiety? Also yes.

Torment Chatbot That Kills You is a bad thing to create, but also no one would be chatting with the Torment Chatbot That Kills You if society hadn’t utterly failed them beforehand.

… thank almighty fuck

I’m sorry but this is zero percent surprising like ye of course he is, he was addicted to anime porn before AI generation probably

That’s because we haven’t helped them achieve their full potential

Watch till end the third option made me choke on my drink it was way too funny

We should have a cognitohazard tag

Finally, after years of research, we have managed to connect the smartest Orca to a text-to-speech device! What great wisdom will those superinteligent creatures bestow on us? How can we solve our world’s problems?

Eat the rich.

… What?

Like take your billionaires, right, roast them and then eat their flesh. Burn their yachts too. We can help.

Don’t they just radiate animal magnetism

Sorry darling, but according to my game-theoretical model this discussion ends in my victory in every possible combination of moves, so can we just skip to the point you apologise?

Where… where are you going

I, for one, am excited, because this could be the ultimate bubble. Like think about it, crypto was shit, but at least it was vaguely a thing, like you could buy Bitcoin and order drugs through SilkRoad and you’d have drugs, that’s a material use case. LLMs suck ass but ChatGPT exists, you can go to that website and type shit and it will respond, it’s garbage but it’s garbage you can touch and smell.

Quantum has none of this. It’s ultimate vaporware, a technology that literally does not exist, you can’t have a PoC, you can’t have an early version that you’ll lie about being a “big step towards General Quantum Computing” or whatever. This is SV’s wet dream, can we make money from basically nothing at all?

I wrote this post quickly and without thoroughly studying what people have historically written on this topic.

I think that goes without saying on LW but glad someone put it in writing

Banning him just before the funny number too, oof

So I was thinking about this recently with a colleague and there are two things that I think would be useful:

• I would actually like a HUD? Like a minimap when walking through the city. Or the ability to popup a small YT video in the corner of my eye. I have no idea if it would actually work with how human vision works, but that’s a cool idea for me.
• Universally good idea: smart glasses that detect advertising billboards and other shit like that and automatically replace them with something. Could be just with white space, or with pleasant landscapes, or giant dicks if you’re into that. The possibilities are quite endless. Would be universally beloved by everyone.

Not, it turns out, for the Meta Raybans, cos they don’t even have screens or projectors!

Wait what? So what are those glasses? I thought they were AR glasses? What do they do then.

This is a bundle which originated out of anti-Calvinist polemics written by Catholic and royalist Anglican writers during the early modern period, was picked up by 19th century romantic reactionaries to build the foundation of the emerging Counter-Enlightenment, got carried into the 20th century by various counter-modern literary movements seeking a third way against both capitalism and socialism which could justify the continuing relevance of the traditional humanistic disciplines against the new challenge of the social and psychological sciences, transitioned from being primarily of the political right to the political left because of the ideological aftermaths of WW2 and 1968, and took on its modern form in environmental and anti-globalization activism in the 90s

Parkour! So nazis weren’t left-wing but they switched after the war, brilliant.

It is the actual source of the post-60s ideological transformation against the ideas of rationality, science, objectivity, and progress on the left

Pfffffff, lol, what? xD Ye, the left, famously anti-science, unlike the rational thinkers that reside in the White House right now

Relational

As in a database? What?

Autodidact, Polymath

Why did you skip the funniest part?

Can anyone explain to me why tf do promptfondlers hate GPT5 in non-crazy terms? Actually I have a whole list of questions related to this, I feel like I completely lost any connection to this discourse at this point:

1. Is GPT5 “worse” in any sensible definition of the word? I’ve long complained that there is no good scientific metric to grade those on but like, it can count 'r’s in “strawberry” so I thought it’s supposed to be nominally better?
2. Why doesn’t OpenAI simply allow users to use the old model (4o I think?) It sounds like the simplest thing to do.
3. Do we know if OpenAI actually changed something? Is the model different in any interesting way?
4. Bonus question: what the fuck is wrong with OpenAI’s naming scheme? 4, then 4o? And there’s also o4 that’s something else??