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Silicon Valley's three historical phases
1. commercializing mostly gov't-funded research/infrastructure (and passing it off as the fruits of private enterprise)
2. stupid consumer services for millennials
3. turbo grift fascist death cult
1. commercializing mostly gov't-funded research/infrastructure (and passing it off as the fruits of private enterprise)
2. stupid consumer services for millennials
3. turbo grift fascist death cult
I hate this argument that AI data centers are supposedly not using _that_ much water in the grand scheme of things. Water is local in a way power is not! Maybe it doesn't matter to you if a data center 1000 miles away is sucking up all the groundwater, but for the locals it sure as fuck does.
December 3, 2025 at 5:56 AM
I hate this argument that AI data centers are supposedly not using _that_ much water in the grand scheme of things. Water is local in a way power is not! Maybe it doesn't matter to you if a data center 1000 miles away is sucking up all the groundwater, but for the locals it sure as fuck does.
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AI: not even once
December 3, 2025 at 2:22 AM
AI: not even once
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AI + automation is deindustrialisation but for the services sector. Never mind the fact that it makes everything tangibly shittier to use, the ultimate goal is to finally divorce capital from labour.
November 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
AI + automation is deindustrialisation but for the services sector. Never mind the fact that it makes everything tangibly shittier to use, the ultimate goal is to finally divorce capital from labour.
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Edgelord leftists who think all forms of commerce are capitalism and thus must be smashed should take their own advice and read theory lol
We’re not small business owners, ffs - we’re independent contractors, and we are routinely robbed by the world’s dumbest dingbats.
![A quote-tweet with the profile blocked out because I won’t be accused of sending flying monkeys at this digital turd.
counterpoint: pirate everything all the time. pirate a sandwich. download a car. abscond from from small business owner mindset with your brain
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November 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Edgelord leftists who think all forms of commerce are capitalism and thus must be smashed should take their own advice and read theory lol
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People who adore the LLM-machine, that by design has no concern for truth, must have no concern for truth
November 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
People who adore the LLM-machine, that by design has no concern for truth, must have no concern for truth
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The Falcon rocket exited development for its first commercial deployment in 2012 and the success of this program is basically the only reason why everyone assumes this idiotic superheavy Starship program will work eventually. It's pure faith completely detached from engineering or design principles
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The Falcon rocket exited development for its first commercial deployment in 2012 and the success of this program is basically the only reason why everyone assumes this idiotic superheavy Starship program will work eventually. It's pure faith completely detached from engineering or design principles
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My most extreme policy position on college admissions is that if you want to be really serious about admissions equity and preserving rigor, you just use some form of school adjusted GPA and standardized test scores and then lottery admit from all applicants above that threshold.
November 20, 2025 at 1:08 AM
My most extreme policy position on college admissions is that if you want to be really serious about admissions equity and preserving rigor, you just use some form of school adjusted GPA and standardized test scores and then lottery admit from all applicants above that threshold.
Nobody cares (or should care) any longer since Trump collapsed the conservative moment into a singularity of idiocy, but there have always been profoundly stupid people on both ends of America’s utterly cursed political spectrum.
It’s 2025 and there are still people who are so brain-dead that they’re pretending that standardised testing is not the thing that’s the hardest to game with parental wealth instead of the easiest.
November 20, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Nobody cares (or should care) any longer since Trump collapsed the conservative moment into a singularity of idiocy, but there have always been profoundly stupid people on both ends of America’s utterly cursed political spectrum.
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This is why I've always been skeptical of criticism of standardized tests. Yes, they're rigged in favor of the wealthy, but a rare element of college apps with at least *somewhat* of a level playing field. A kid from a poor neighborhood is never going to outdo a rich one on extracurriculars.
basically every single measure of academic achievement is correlated with family income for pretty obvious reasons. the ~20% of SAT variation explained by family SES makes it one of the measures *least* determined by this.
And then we can go on to discuss the fact the only consistent correlation for SAT scores (as well as other standardized educational assessments) is to family income level--which in turn is nicely correlated to race/ethnicity for minoritized Americans.
November 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
This is why I've always been skeptical of criticism of standardized tests. Yes, they're rigged in favor of the wealthy, but a rare element of college apps with at least *somewhat* of a level playing field. A kid from a poor neighborhood is never going to outdo a rich one on extracurriculars.
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The thing about bubbles is that no one really knows when the music will stop. There's probably going to be some minor panic around every earnings call or other big event for every one of these companies until it actually finally explodes.
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The thing about bubbles is that no one really knows when the music will stop. There's probably going to be some minor panic around every earnings call or other big event for every one of these companies until it actually finally explodes.
I hate this prima facie assumption that digital computers must necessarily be able to emulate something that runs on a wholly dissimilar biological substrate (AGI). GPUs and Tinkertoys can both be Turing-complete, but nobody is suggesting that any real Tinkertoy device can usefully run Crysis.
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I hate this prima facie assumption that digital computers must necessarily be able to emulate something that runs on a wholly dissimilar biological substrate (AGI). GPUs and Tinkertoys can both be Turing-complete, but nobody is suggesting that any real Tinkertoy device can usefully run Crysis.
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At least the 2008 crash was about a bet that housing would never decline. The next one will be about betting that six companies who sell each other magic beans would never decline
November 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
At least the 2008 crash was about a bet that housing would never decline. The next one will be about betting that six companies who sell each other magic beans would never decline
"AI" itself is a bullshit marketing term invented by dishonest people to obfuscate, which is why it's important to make a distinction between (e.g.) computer vision and LLMs. "There are non-LLM tools often called AI that are useful" is a different argument from "LLMs can be useful in certain cases".
AI tools can be super useful for certain research tasks, sorting and analyzing huge data sets for instance. in some specific areas it makes a transformative difference. but these are all pretty niche use cases compared to the trillions of dollars being invested into the tech
November 12, 2025 at 6:16 AM
"AI" itself is a bullshit marketing term invented by dishonest people to obfuscate, which is why it's important to make a distinction between (e.g.) computer vision and LLMs. "There are non-LLM tools often called AI that are useful" is a different argument from "LLMs can be useful in certain cases".
It's definitely a product of the times, one where if you don't die from lack of healthcare you get to enjoy your twilight years working until the very end. If you get one of these at the age of 30 you better hope you're still spry enough at 78 to hold down a job to pay that bill.
Communicating why a 50 year mortgage costs more, overall, than a 30 year mortgage should not be a hard task.
The problem is the average American is both functionally illiterate and innumerate, as a deliberate result of decades of the policies made by the very people pushing for 50 year mortgages.
The problem is the average American is both functionally illiterate and innumerate, as a deliberate result of decades of the policies made by the very people pushing for 50 year mortgages.
November 12, 2025 at 4:51 AM
It's definitely a product of the times, one where if you don't die from lack of healthcare you get to enjoy your twilight years working until the very end. If you get one of these at the age of 30 you better hope you're still spry enough at 78 to hold down a job to pay that bill.
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Between chatgpt and the complete destruction of the US educational system on every single level, this illiteracy and innumeracy will only get worse.
Now, right now, is the easiest it will ever be to get people to understand that $100 is a bigger number than $50.
Now, right now, is the easiest it will ever be to get people to understand that $100 is a bigger number than $50.
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Between chatgpt and the complete destruction of the US educational system on every single level, this illiteracy and innumeracy will only get worse.
Now, right now, is the easiest it will ever be to get people to understand that $100 is a bigger number than $50.
Now, right now, is the easiest it will ever be to get people to understand that $100 is a bigger number than $50.
There is much talk (rightly) about the "everyone is 12" theory of society, but also worthy of consideration is the pervasive belief that no solution to a problem is worth considering unless it's some 'one weird trick' that conveniently bypasses hard work, even at the cost of being wrong.
November 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM
There is much talk (rightly) about the "everyone is 12" theory of society, but also worthy of consideration is the pervasive belief that no solution to a problem is worth considering unless it's some 'one weird trick' that conveniently bypasses hard work, even at the cost of being wrong.
I think Thomas L Friedman serves a very important purpose in society, and that is to prove by existing that it is indeed possible to invent an op-ed columnist who is too stupid to parody.
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I think Thomas L Friedman serves a very important purpose in society, and that is to prove by existing that it is indeed possible to invent an op-ed columnist who is too stupid to parody.
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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Being the best at AI is a bit like being the world's foremost vuvuzela virtuoso.
November 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Being the best at AI is a bit like being the world's foremost vuvuzela virtuoso.
"AI" has been a bullshit obscurantist marketing term since the Darmouth conference in 1956, so forgive me if I'm not exactly broken up that the people who viciously and rightfully hate genAI aren't exactly making the most precise delineations between it and everything else anyone has ever called AI.
November 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"AI" has been a bullshit obscurantist marketing term since the Darmouth conference in 1956, so forgive me if I'm not exactly broken up that the people who viciously and rightfully hate genAI aren't exactly making the most precise delineations between it and everything else anyone has ever called AI.
It's not possible to criticize the delusions of Starship without criticizing the delusions of newspace, all of which essentially trace their roots to American conservatives (and their fellow travelers) desperately wanting Manifest Destiny 2.0.
November 3, 2025 at 3:42 AM
It's not possible to criticize the delusions of Starship without criticizing the delusions of newspace, all of which essentially trace their roots to American conservatives (and their fellow travelers) desperately wanting Manifest Destiny 2.0.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky is what happens when a very, very stupid person spends a lot of time thinking very hard about what it would be like to be smart.
October 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Eliezer Yudkowsky is what happens when a very, very stupid person spends a lot of time thinking very hard about what it would be like to be smart.
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i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake
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November 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake
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The inevitable intersection of capitalism and tech is that people will eventually figure out that the most money is to be made in solving problems that only the most morally dissolute people have, which is how we ended up with crypto, ubiquitous app-based gambling, and generative AI.
November 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The inevitable intersection of capitalism and tech is that people will eventually figure out that the most money is to be made in solving problems that only the most morally dissolute people have, which is how we ended up with crypto, ubiquitous app-based gambling, and generative AI.