Gross and heartbreaking

hacker news is illiterate

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44245053

I question whether or not some of these commenters have a theory of mind. The product under discussion is a horror show of reified solipsism. For the commenters, books are merely the written form of the mouth noises they use to get other meat robots to do things and which are sometimes entertaining when piled up in certain ways.

“Words or bodies?” you might ask. Yes.

PS: channeling the spiritu drilum

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44246874

You cannot stop people from making the world worse or better. The best you can do is focus on your own life.

In time many will say we are lucky to live in a world with so much content, where anything you want to see or read can be spun up in an instant, without labor.

And though most will no longer make a living doing some of these content creation activities by hand and brain, you can still rejoice knowing that those who do it anyway are doing it purely for their love of the art, not for any kind of money. A human who writes or produces art for monetary reasons is only just as bad as AI.

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Oh yeah, they’ll say absolutely crazy shit about anything that is underrepresented in the training corpus, endlessly remixing what little was previously included therein. This is one reason LLMs are such a plague for cutting-edge science, particularly if any related crackpot nonsense has been snorted up by their owner’s web scrapers.

Poisoning would be a piece of cake.

OT9: touching grass

The only reason teal named the company Palantir is because HitlerPhone would’ve been too on the nose

Barricades-as-a-Service

Coupe d’etat

Sans Parking-lottes

LLMs are the Borg, but dumb

https://zeroes.ca/@maleve/114659111863714334

MacOS X Vista

Some AI company waving a big donation outside of the spotlight? Dorks trying to burnish their resumes?

Ya gotta think it’s going to lead to a rebellion.

Douglas Adams once identified these guys as a class of prostitute, then cleverly wrote it in a funny book so that no one would get mad at him.

Off topic: really enjoying Mike Duncan’s Revolutions podcast at the moment. Listened to the French Revolution and am now in the midst of the July Revolution.

he’s going on an all-psyker diet

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/elon-musk-new-party-poll-trump

Old: Jacobins

Bold: Jerkobins

In my experience, stimulants mean more self-control!

ADHD is a broad church, but most of us generally show reduced dopaminergic activity around the frontal lobe, which can manifest, as an example, executive dysfunction. The right stimulant medication at the proper dosage helps balance that out. My unmedicated brother can drink a latte and go to sleep immediately.

Gambling, browsing, etc feel good for the same reason, and I will never touch casinos, cocaine or street meth because I suspect that it’d ruin me.

Curious what a study on relative AI uptake by Parkinson’s patients and my fellow adhd’ers looks like. The same dopaminergic systems whose underperformance drives symptoms also makes us more likely to get hooked on gambling than average.

Edit: also, AI-to-cocaine is the new cloud-to-butt

Tired: brain rot

Wired: brain soap

Ha, glad to hear that the Onion is making it!

Sorry about my poorly specified post! My complaint was aimed more at Jeff Bezo’s bizzare idea that people who go out of their way to pay money to to a legacy media newspaper want ai slop rather than human-curated investigative journalism.

Google gives out slop for free. Why pay for it?

Do studio executives universally suffer from aphantasia or what?