@pumppumppump.bsky.social
Love the energy in "How AI data centres were invented".
Tax breaks now. Bailouts later!
Tax breaks now. Bailouts later!
How AI data centers were invented #shorts
YouTube video by Charlie Berens
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Love the energy in "How AI data centres were invented".
Tax breaks now. Bailouts later!
Tax breaks now. Bailouts later!
“After 50 years, the evidence is beyond dispute: prohibition has failed dismally,” says HRCA Chair Dr Kirsten Gibson. “It has not made people safer, nor has it reduced harm. No drug is made safer by prohibition— all it has done is fuel stigma, harm, and marginalisation."
Enough Is Enough: Coalition Calls For A New Drug Law
HRCA believes that endless amendments to an unworkable law are not the solution. It is time to replace drug laws with a single, coherent Psychoactive Drug Law—one that regulates all drugs, including c...
www.scoop.co.nz
November 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
“After 50 years, the evidence is beyond dispute: prohibition has failed dismally,” says HRCA Chair Dr Kirsten Gibson. “It has not made people safer, nor has it reduced harm. No drug is made safer by prohibition— all it has done is fuel stigma, harm, and marginalisation."
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I am so proud of myself for peer-pressuring Ben into writing this follow-up piece.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
Ok @davekarpf.bsky.social wins, I wrote about OpenAI and Enron again, with a nod to Lehman Brothers as well. The fire burns as AI bubbles.
buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/dont-stop-...
buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/dont-stop-...
Don't Stop Believin' in OpenAI
Or it all may collapse
buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I am so proud of myself for peer-pressuring Ben into writing this follow-up piece.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
"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...
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
October 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
"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...
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?
September 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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?
“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?
Good, and, indeed, grief. People still believe a word this grifter says?
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.
www.windowscentral.com
September 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“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?
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.
September 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The sentence "I never said he licked my asshole" has 7 different meanings depending on the stressed word.
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
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
List of predictions for autonomous Tesla vehicles by Elon Musk - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
September 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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
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
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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.
September 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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.
Browsing www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/ shows some very unhappy people. Reality sets in...
Anthropic
This sub is for Anthropic and Claude.
www.reddit.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Browsing www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/ shows some very unhappy people. Reality sets in...
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Hard feels today…✌🏽💜✊
September 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Hard feels today…✌🏽💜✊
The most plausible explanation of what’s going on with Trump. Well worth the read.
xcancel.com/adamscochran...
xcancel.com/adamscochran...
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 ...
xcancel.com
September 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The most plausible explanation of what’s going on with Trump. Well worth the read.
xcancel.com/adamscochran...
xcancel.com/adamscochran...
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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.
September 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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.
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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
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
August 30, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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
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?
August 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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?
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.
August 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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.
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"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
How octopuses challenge our idea of consciousness | Peter Godfrey-Smith
YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas
youtu.be
August 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"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
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...
Prediction: General-purpose AI could start getting worse.
www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/o...
AI model collapse is not what we paid for
Opinion: Prediction: General-purpose AI could start getting worse
www.theregister.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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...
Prediction: General-purpose AI could start getting worse.
www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/o...
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"
From the BetterOffline community on Reddit: Me on CNNi Talking About The AI Bubble
Explore this post and more from the BetterOffline community
www.reddit.com
August 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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"
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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?
The GPT-5 rollout has been a big mess
OpenAI faces backlash as users complain about broken workflows and losing AI friends.
arstechnica.com
August 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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?
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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/
jenson.org/timmy/
August 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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/
jenson.org/timmy/
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