I would pay more than that
When I joined as the head engineer of the Torment Nexus project, it was to work on fascinating technical problems and make the world a better place along the way. I am appalled to discover that the Torment Nexus would be used this way and, now that my options have vested, will be leaving the project
need a lot of the Homer Simpson style covers from him
I’m sure this will be a worthwhile investment
this is for the best. jay's interests in the social media space seem to fall strictly in the realm of the theoretical.
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
glad everyone hated this I hate it too
I live in fear of the 1-line terraform change
I’m not sure how you would do this but I want the equivalent of this design trend with LLM chatbots
It is a feature not a bug as they say, but the danger comes from people not being equipped to handle a computer that fluently produces language (eg, all the chatbot-motivated suicides). Maybe too late now but I wish the artifice of the assistant character were more foregrounded in its design
The Cuban Missile *Opportunity*
#2 Chad Anthropic brutally benchmark mogged by OpenAI frontier model leader
Vibe coding broke people's brains because they had a bad understanding of the software design process.
The pop culture model goes something like this: start out with a sketch and then render that same idea in progressively finer detail.
So when tools could "skip" to high detail, people went WOW.
strandlike game where you’re walking across what’s left of america to collect on your last kalshi bet
we need to get woahvickyyy on here. not a real site until we have people like that
Sanyo RD 4300 stereo cassette deck (1974)
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Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.
Anthropic's defiance of the Pentagon's A.I. orders was undeniably brave, a welcome contrast with Big Tech's general approach to the Trump admin. but the resistance folks shooting Claude to the top of the app charts need to understand that Anthropic is not very principled, and is not your friend:
Nancy 3/4/26 💅
tell me not to use a particular word, say I’m wrong about AI, that sort of thing
can any more people jump into my replies to scold me in pointless and annoying ways
“I will be too tired. I am going back to bed.”
Toad went back into the house.
You can hold both without contradiction: anthropomorphizing is epistemically sloppy (it invites category errors, abdicated responsibility) but anthropomorphic interfaces are instrumentally effective (they hijack the human pro-social stack and make the operator behave better, which changes outputs).
Personally I think this is giving them too much credit though, as many people who work in the space seem to genuinely believe they are creating new conscious entities
the paragraph did not say “don’t make it simulate any persona” so I believe you’re the one misinterpreting things here.
Even if they don’t internally, the outward discourse about these tools (particularly from people with money to make from them) and their deployment to users encourages these delusions.
No, you’re thinking that my criticism is aimed at training processes when rather it is aimed at the discourse surrounding these tools and how people with money to make from them are presenting them to the general public
