Jan Jęcz

Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?—Asterisk There’s a lot to like about the Rationalist community, but they do have a certain tendency to spawn — shall we say — high demand groups. We sent a card-carrying Rat to investigate what’s really going ...

9. It can reasonably be objected that the starry-eyed advocates of LLMs are themselves cultists. Even some inside the tribe accept that it is so! But too much Bluesky AI discourse reminds me of vintage Dawkins/Harris atheism - taking up the bad intellectual habits of those they condemn. Finis.

It’s the large adult sons’ world and we’re just living in it

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Thomas Chatterton Williams writes the way a Terry Pratchett character named Thomas Chatterton Williams would talk

Claude (which like any AI has a knowledge cutoff date a couple of months ago) finds out about the newest Middle East War during a research (screenshot from Reddit).

I feel you, Claude, I really do.

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Also: building with the money Pete Hegseth has control over

View of London from the Blackfriars Bridgeridge

Can't wrap my head around the British right’s London-bashing. How can you not at least appreciate this city

Sam Altman picked a hell of a day to basically urge the world to trust the morality and legal restraint of the Department of Defense

Dying at the idea that the Pentagon gave Dario Amodei a hypo that was essentially the dril woke sniper tweet

The right-wing will gain influence over dozens of TV channels worldwide, including TVN24, the 2nd-most-watched news station in Poland. The most-watched one is far-right agitprop. It might be true that the US right isn't good at producing popular programs, but many others won't squander their chance

YouTube video by RAU PERFORMANCE RAU PERFORMANCE - MÓJ TWÓJ KUMPEL (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

Wszystkim kumplom i kolegom dedykuję www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORfa...

YouTube video by vgtbl pl (Franek Warzywa & Młody Budda) vgtbl pl (Franek Warzywa & Mlody Budda) feat. Furda - Święto Ziemniaka (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

Podsekretarz stanu w Ministerstwie Ziemniaka- to brzmi dumnie m.youtube.com/watch?v=mvUC...

Jak któreś przeniosą do Poznania to rozważę!

Speeche to potwierdzają ;)

There is also a “foreign interference” angle - the implications for Poland and, by proxy, the whole CEE, of them getting control over the TVN Group are quite significant

My guess is either Britpop band or drum'n'bass DJ duo bsky.app/profile/jecz...

This comparison makes the opposite point. Those services are nowhere near as ingrained in our lives and socio-economically impactful as AI is in the boosters’ scenarios. If gen AI tools are to work what InstaCart is to shopping, then data center CAPEXs are even more absurd than the critics say

Jan Böhmermann - Wikipedia

His Wiki page has a good section explaining controversies around the song en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_B%C...

Slide saying “Lessons Learned: Scarcity created a lot of demand for hats” Accompanied by images of various hats, each labeled as “hat”

This is a real slide from their presentation about TF2 (found it in @louisashworth.bsky.social great piece www.ft.com/content/f4a1...)

I’m sure this paper will gain traction and spark a lively debate among the AI crowd on X, which is notoriously hungry for good-faith arguments from the left

The "cracked coder" fetish Epistemic arrogance in Silicon Valley

This reductionist thinking about social practices, from running a business to governing, where every problem can be solved with enough code and compute might stem from the “cracked coder” fetishism, with AI agents replacing tech-savvy twenty-somethings open.substack.com/pub/maxread/...

The Citrini piece seems to be yet another case of AI theorists failing to grasp the socio-material constraints of everyday life: tacit knowledge, affordances of objects, infrastructural disclosures, etc. There is a reason why the practice turn in sociology happened!

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

As if Foucauldians weren't smug enough already, they keep handing them new wins

I don't know when the next financial crisis will begin, but it will be started by a lengthy, alarmist post that somehow got millions of views on X, the AI discourse and graphic violence app

Right, that these borders are so blurred seems to be both the biggest advantage for and threat to this whole ideological project. Sort of how “common sense” podcasters, once a vessel for Trumpism, started abandoning the ship once the public turned sour on its core ideas

But it’s also the next chapter in the right’s quest for Foucauldian biopower, aligned with Rogan-esque supplement-mania, anti-abortion movements, Hubermanian self-optimization, etc.

Although, in response to a question, Trump said that "nothing changes" wrt the India deal, and that "we're just going to do it a different way". So it seems like we're off to a new, tedious round of trade negotiations

Not me, I’m Maxxing Weberring