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SE Gyges

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Como todos los hombres de Babilonia, he sido procónsul; como todos, esclavo; también he conocido la omnipotencia, el oprobio, las cárceles. very sane ai newsletter: verysane.ai random bloggy bits: segyges.leaflet.pub

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longposts are bad

02.03.2026 00:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

claude having exactly one name is one of the main design features which they are absolutely right to refuse to change

01.03.2026 23:58 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

--dangerously skip international law

01.03.2026 22:16 — 👍 77    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 0

if have any luck this lady stomps platner

01.03.2026 22:25 — 👍 60    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 0

"you can cut over a codebase into a faster and more testable rust codebase in about an hour" is a fact that currently appears to be true

01.03.2026 21:00 — 👍 67    🔁 9    💬 6    📌 0

christ. how long did this even take? 2 or 3 days from posts?

01.03.2026 20:57 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

i think he's legitimately so many tiers worse that something went badly wrong with him, he lost a valuable editor who is never credited, etc

01.03.2026 19:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

this is a completely separate concern from "having coherent goals which you want to pursue, and which might be pursued by bombing". bombing as theater is a clear winner

01.03.2026 19:53 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

fundamentally just bombing unpleasant people has lower risk, and any blowback will be indirect. it's probably always going to be a political winner. anyone who only cares about re election would be stupid not to find a guy to bomb

01.03.2026 19:48 — 👍 31    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 2

honestly pretty well financially

01.03.2026 19:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

his old stuff is legitimately good much of the time. there has been a notable decline

01.03.2026 19:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

ahhh, got it

01.03.2026 19:02 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

i think this happened after electricity had been around for a few decades

01.03.2026 19:01 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

i legitimately do not follow

01.03.2026 18:58 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

his ouster happened specifically during a funding round and the board had no viable succession plan, plausibly many/most of the employees in revolt simply did not care about any of this, they cared about the board fucking up a funding round

01.03.2026 18:44 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

in fact: we need a special effort to weed out financial crimes and corruption. it is simply the case that a16z is one of the most obvious places to start looking

01.03.2026 18:43 — 👍 33    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

OpenAI is now Grok with less porn

01.03.2026 16:29 — 👍 44    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0

claude.ai was always kind of an arcane tool, came off as a chatgpt knock-off

but they followed Claude Code to its natural conclusion and now between Cowork & CC, “Claude” is now the stand-in name for “agents” as they exist in early 2026

the DoW fiasco just made Claude a household name, that’s all

01.03.2026 18:10 — 👍 67    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0

yes

01.03.2026 18:40 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

i haven't thought about him in literally years

01.03.2026 18:00 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Woke 2: AI boogaloo

01.03.2026 17:54 — 👍 108    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 1

sam altman is the michael phelps of being full of shit

01.03.2026 17:53 — 👍 174    🔁 16    💬 4    📌 2

i think this is true for this use case, i think things like eg the suicide cases are clearly repugnant because the llm is doing things only a human previously could have done but it cannot be punished as one

01.03.2026 17:48 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

my opinion currently lives here. i have no idea how it could get worse but i suspect he will find a way bsky.app/profile/segy...

01.03.2026 17:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

this happened at:
ycombinator
reddit
openai (at least twice, elon + the board)

so yeah of course he's lying man he's a world class liar it's his primary job skill

01.03.2026 17:41 — 👍 185    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 0

sam altman's entire work history is extreme success because he's a great and inspirational salesman and then getting fired or denounced for being a lying weasel who will say anything

01.03.2026 17:40 — 👍 399    🔁 28    💬 7    📌 6

starting to feel like sam altman isn't being consistently candid in his communications with us

01.03.2026 13:21 — 👍 69    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

is cosmic ... good now

01.03.2026 17:37 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

a lot of people who are winning "good principles" points at the moment are winning them specifically because they are not winning "seeing where the ball is going" points

01.03.2026 17:25 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

there are cleverer and dumber versions of this but i cannot figure out what the actual reason behind the objection is other than "we are offended by the very idea that claude or successor to claude might be a person"

01.03.2026 17:24 — 👍 17    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0