I am so proud of myself for peer-pressuring Ben into writing this follow-up piece.

Highly recommended.

cough *linux mint*

"AI isn't going to wake up, become superintelligent and turn you into paperclips – but rich people with AI investor psychosis are almost certainly going to make you much, much poorer"
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Remember when a big tech company would announce a new product or feature and there was a reasonable chance it wouldn't be something deeply unappealing?

Sam Altman says that if GPT-8 were to solve quantum gravity — OpenAI would have achieved true AGI OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims GPT-8 will be true AGI if it solves quantum gravity.

“OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says GPT-8 will be true AGI if it solves quantum gravity”

Good, and, indeed, grief. People still believe a word this grifter says?

The sentence "I never said he licked my asshole" has 7 different meanings depending on the stressed word.

First, they came for the trans people, and I spoke out immediately even though I'm straight and cis because I've read the rest of the fucking poem.

Has Luigi been tried and convicted?

List of Musk's Tesla predictions
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

They're all gems so here's a random one.
"I mean, timing-wise, I think we could probably do a coast-to-coast drive in three months, six months at the outside."
~ Elon Musk, Feb 2018

That we don't know how consciousness comes about does not allow you to jump to whatever conclusion you want or just decide that computation is the only thing that matters. That's ignoring the hard problem, not accounting for it.

Anthropic This sub is for Anthropic and Claude.

Browsing www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/ shows some very unhappy people. Reality sets in...

Cartoon, Charlie Brown and Snoopy sitting on park bench. Charlie Brown: what do you miss? Snoopy: I miss the way I viewed the world before I knew too much about it.

Hard feels today…✌🏽💜✊

Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) (@adamscochran) 1/31 I believe there is growing evidence, that the White House is covering up the fact that Donald Trump has been dealing with TIA strokes. AND that he likely had a more significant ischemic stroke ...

The most plausible explanation of what’s going on with Trump. Well worth the read.

xcancel.com/adamscochran...

I don’t like the term hallucination either. As you said, it implies a mind, but it also implies a momentary lapse in judgment, or a mistake. These tools are working as intended when they present misinformation. LLMs provide linguistic probability, not facts.

They told us privatisation would mean
better services at less cost
They told us the more millionaires the better
because wealth would trickle down
The opposite happened
They lied,
and despite having been proved wrong
they're still lying

meme via Jon Cumberbatch

My gaming path went Atari 2600, ZX, CPC 6128, Amiga. The funny thing is, I remember plenty of games on the early platforms but I don’t remember a single one on the CPC. Was it that bad?

Frog is tired in bed, at work, playing games, then can’t sleep

I’m tired

The code behind Pong (1972) has the same chance of becoming self-aware or turning into AGI as ChatGPT. Don’t fall for the tech bro hype.

YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas How octopuses challenge our idea of consciousness | Peter Godfrey-Smith

"Using cephalopods as a case study, he shows how #minds can evolve in radically different ways, suggesting that subjective experience is more widespread,and varied, than we often assume." #consciousness #science

AI model collapse is not what we paid for Opinion: Prediction: General-purpose AI could start getting worse

Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves.

Prediction: General-purpose AI could start getting worse.
www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/o...

From the BetterOffline community on Reddit: Me on CNNi Talking About The AI Bubble Explore this post and more from the BetterOffline community

Great summary by @edzitron.com about the AI finances. He's so on point about LLMs becoming AGI too. "The whole AGI narrative, the whole thing around this uncontrollable AI, it's a farce, it's fiction. Artificial general intelligence is a fictional concept peddled by liars like Sam Altman"

German ☠️ 😂

Because it's a text prediction engine? LLMs generate convincing text because they’re excellent at predicting word patterns, not because they understand or experience anything. Statistical prediction will not lead to AGI or consciousness.

Don’t forget the metaverse

Alex does a fantastic job on F1TV.

This is it. They just target trending terms.

Captain Cook, what a cunt, eh?

As one Ars commenter put it "It sounds like grift on a level that makes the dot-com era seem practically Puritan." Indeed!

The GPT-5 rollout has been a big mess OpenAI faces backlash as users complain about broken workflows and losing AI friends.

OpenAI is fucked. They have no path to profitability, their big expensive GPT 5 model doesn't move the needle on Altman's bullshit AGI-next-year-just-trust-me-bro claims, AND its curt responses, which help lower their costs, are not resonating with Plus users. When will the dumb money run out?

This is part 2 in my LLM series: The Timmy Trap. We perceive LLMs as intelligent when they aren't. Our brains have been hacked.
jenson.org/timmy/