I usually dislike the whole line of thinking of “Well, it might not be true, but it tells you something that you believed it.”

But, the world in which AI succeeds is the world where every book published is a fake field guide to mushrooms, or a recipe book for shaving cream. And it’s like… I dunno, after 4 years of happily proclaiming that this is the thing we’re going to sell, why have these guys never considered that fraud is bad, actually. Is fully automated luxury gay space fraud really so enticing?

Is this list just a summary of a bunch of downvoted SCPs?

“I even hate when you say the word ‘nigga’, but that’s just me I guess. Some things just cringeworthy, it ain’t got to be deep I guess.”

• Kendrick Lamar, euphoria, in response to Aubrey Graham.

It’s really funny that this was probably the closest thing to a killer app powered by genAI to exist.

Wonder if they’re getting rid of this stuff because they realized it’s actually a liability to mine these ERP convos for data and they’re burning money on every conversation as it is.

The bit about how the Bitcoiners won because the number went up is beyond parody.

I skimmed most of it once I had an idea of where this was going, and 13000 words of tone policing is just insanity. “The EA guys are great because they use moderate language and Gerald cackled at how Scott Star Alex had his life ruined by the extremist non-moderates at the NYT.”

Wait, the thin frames in the first picture are the “sound barrier”. Good lord.

Looks like this is a follow up to this article from February: https://time.com/6590155/bitcoin-mining-noise-texas/

Over the summer, the company agreed to construct a 24-foot sound barrier wall on one end of the property at the cost of $1 to $2 million. But while the wall reduced sound in some areas, it actually amplified it in others. “To be honest, the complaints have gotten louder for us since the mitigation efforts,” Constable John Shirley says.

Amazing. “We spent some money and made things worse, so I guess we’re stuck.”

Back in Granbury, the discomfort caused by the plant is causing some consternation for a region that largely prides itself on being pro-industry and anti-regulation. “I agree with people having the right to own a business if it’s not illegal or amoral,” says Granbury resident Wolf. “But when you’re harming a group of people, there needs to be some type of remedy.”

quoted in full without commentary.

You know that Factorio is a fictional video game, right?

Ah shit, ML spelled backwards and wrong is LLM, they got me good.

I am going to forcefeed you the Mona Lisa. The chances of me being able to do so may be extremely slim, but do you really want to take that chance?

Very based:

With all the damning evidence, the story was ready. Most reporters would now email their subjects for comment, but Woo elevated the story to performance art. He asked Austen for a recorded interview, without revealing its nature. Austen, lulled into a false sense of security by tech press puff pieces, agreed. What followed was the most riveting hour of tech journalism I’ve ever heard.

The premiere venture capitalists of our time, drawing from near infinity riches during ZIRP, and the most innovative thing they have is student loan debt racket but faster.

Did YC seriously think because a growth hacker was in charge, you could value a private school like its an overinflated tech company? PG going mask off to endorse slavery (sorry, “trying out a worker”) for a hack like Austen is so many levels of brainworm capitalism, how has Silicon Valley not sunk into the ocean.

It’s “reasonable” in context, I just thought it’s funny that rbuttcoin would be headpatting AI at all, since its basically the exact same people pushing AI as the people pushing crypto with the exact same motives.

This is quite minor, but it’s very funny seeing the intern would-be sneerers still on rbuttcoin fall for the AI grift, to the point that its part of their modscript copypasta

Or in the pinned mod comment:

AI does have some utility and does certain things better than any other technology, such as:

• The ability to summarize in human readable form, large amounts of information.

• The ability to generate unique images in a very short period of time, given a verbose description

tfw you’re anti-crypto, but only because its a bad investing opportunity.

Imagine being such losers that you get owned by the fucking Guardian, and as your brilliant followup, you start screaming “I’M NOT OWNED”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40631663

Orange site post with a bunch of people saying burnout is a learning experience and that its okay to be perpetually depressed because it makes you more disruptive.

I don’t have anything clever to say about this.