I suppose their position and work so far doesn't give them much space to antagonize anyone.
January 12, 2026 at 6:32 PM
I suppose their position and work so far doesn't give them much space to antagonize anyone.
Thanks for sharing this. As a far away observer of all that's going on, this is very encouraging and good reads to boot. Good point about Anthropic which relates to a strange lack on discussion about possible "bad actors" on these documents.
January 12, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Thanks for sharing this. As a far away observer of all that's going on, this is very encouraging and good reads to boot. Good point about Anthropic which relates to a strange lack on discussion about possible "bad actors" on these documents.
Sign me up for this but my layman understanding is that it'd be more economic with regards to silicon and supporting infra to have centralized batch inference on larger machines. Might as well get the best models ar that point? Happy to be wrong on this.
January 12, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Sign me up for this but my layman understanding is that it'd be more economic with regards to silicon and supporting infra to have centralized batch inference on larger machines. Might as well get the best models ar that point? Happy to be wrong on this.
And also, human curation can actually work online. You just need a culture and system in place to enable it. A modern example is Telegram, which used to be my primary haunt for a few years there. Not perfect
and I have so many words on this but its given me some strong opinions on what's optimal.
and I have so many words on this but its given me some strong opinions on what's optimal.
January 12, 2026 at 1:59 PM
And also, human curation can actually work online. You just need a culture and system in place to enable it. A modern example is Telegram, which used to be my primary haunt for a few years there. Not perfect
and I have so many words on this but its given me some strong opinions on what's optimal.
and I have so many words on this but its given me some strong opinions on what's optimal.
Human curation always beats algorithms on most metrics. Cost and ad incentives had eradicated it from most places that folks use that they don't appreciate it anymore.
January 12, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Human curation always beats algorithms on most metrics. Cost and ad incentives had eradicated it from most places that folks use that they don't appreciate it anymore.
I don't really know how to resolve all this. And I mean *all* this and not just the mania. This conflict predates AI as you put it, we were feeding ourselves to the grinder and writing slop for questionable ventures way before that.
January 12, 2026 at 1:29 PM
I don't really know how to resolve all this. And I mean *all* this and not just the mania. This conflict predates AI as you put it, we were feeding ourselves to the grinder and writing slop for questionable ventures way before that.
"I know everything now (delegated), I can do everything now (delegated) so why am I not doing everything now (delegated)?" "I just have to pay for more tokens, this project will be done in a month."
January 12, 2026 at 1:28 PM
"I know everything now (delegated), I can do everything now (delegated) so why am I not doing everything now (delegated)?" "I just have to pay for more tokens, this project will be done in a month."
And not just a neutral and well grounded one but one steeped in the accelerationist "we'll terraform the world in an afternoon" ideology filled with recklessness, immediacy and other easily recognizable as originating from tech salesman bs traits.
January 12, 2026 at 1:28 PM
And not just a neutral and well grounded one but one steeped in the accelerationist "we'll terraform the world in an afternoon" ideology filled with recklessness, immediacy and other easily recognizable as originating from tech salesman bs traits.
I personally think it's transformative and I do hope the technology will help me with my personal ambitions but...I was surprised how quickly I'd let it alter my "subjectivity" for the lack of terms.
January 12, 2026 at 1:27 PM
I personally think it's transformative and I do hope the technology will help me with my personal ambitions but...I was surprised how quickly I'd let it alter my "subjectivity" for the lack of terms.
Thanks for writing this! The framing you use and other recent discussions about how these "productivity boosters amplify the modern worker's" alienation... let's just say I feel super called out.
January 12, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Thanks for writing this! The framing you use and other recent discussions about how these "productivity boosters amplify the modern worker's" alienation... let's just say I feel super called out.
nooo, don't say that, you're so goated aha
January 12, 2026 at 12:23 PM
nooo, don't say that, you're so goated aha
Microblogging more than others. Microblogging mostly.
January 12, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Microblogging more than others. Microblogging mostly.
Yikes, is that really his job? I was very disappointed when I watched that video, I'd really liked his content previously which felt thoughtful and nuanced. This one was not only genocide apology, it was uncharacteristically intellectualy lazy. I suppose we all create blind spots to avoid facts.
January 12, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Yikes, is that really his job? I was very disappointed when I watched that video, I'd really liked his content previously which felt thoughtful and nuanced. This one was not only genocide apology, it was uncharacteristically intellectualy lazy. I suppose we all create blind spots to avoid facts.
So yeah, I'm completely confused with these half assed "owning the libs" takes I keep seeing on this app. The ethical concerns with this topic are not at all countered by usefulness or productivity.
January 12, 2026 at 6:39 AM
So yeah, I'm completely confused with these half assed "owning the libs" takes I keep seeing on this app. The ethical concerns with this topic are not at all countered by usefulness or productivity.
You know who else is on always my feed hyping up AI besides tech workers who've just downloaded CC and "felt the AGI" for the first time? The specific authoritarian (not American) I live under won't shut up about it.
January 12, 2026 at 6:34 AM
You know who else is on always my feed hyping up AI besides tech workers who've just downloaded CC and "felt the AGI" for the first time? The specific authoritarian (not American) I live under won't shut up about it.
Besides these small corners of the world, which have always been populated by principled tech leftist hardliners, people fucking love this shit.
January 12, 2026 at 6:34 AM
Besides these small corners of the world, which have always been populated by principled tech leftist hardliners, people fucking love this shit.
...does this mean we (tech workers) should throw up our hands completely? And should we be running political defense against the sometimes misguided and misinformed critics on the current and non-hypothetical harms? As someone put it on Lobsters, there's no "anti-AI hype".
January 12, 2026 at 6:34 AM
...does this mean we (tech workers) should throw up our hands completely? And should we be running political defense against the sometimes misguided and misinformed critics on the current and non-hypothetical harms? As someone put it on Lobsters, there's no "anti-AI hype".
Agree on the importance of the tech which a big part of my personal concern comes from. And I don't think users like you should be accountable for every harm, that's silly. But...
January 12, 2026 at 6:33 AM
Agree on the importance of the tech which a big part of my personal concern comes from. And I don't think users like you should be accountable for every harm, that's silly. But...
*drivers of this change. But yeah, I really doubt you think certain individual uses justify the wholesale investment and all the other harms.
January 12, 2026 at 4:25 AM
*drivers of this change. But yeah, I really doubt you think certain individual uses justify the wholesale investment and all the other harms.
Yes but that's a big strawman I'm afriad. It's estimated at least 30% of U.S. grid will be for data centers for the U.S. by 2030. Drivers of this discussion talk in fractions of GDP for investment. It's really now about individual usage but system wide usage.
January 12, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Yes but that's a big strawman I'm afriad. It's estimated at least 30% of U.S. grid will be for data centers for the U.S. by 2030. Drivers of this discussion talk in fractions of GDP for investment. It's really now about individual usage but system wide usage.
What talk if I may ask? And agree, I suspect the reason is that a lot of folks can't meaningfully address the other issues raised up on the discussion. Is this "treatlerism"? For many, definitely.
January 12, 2026 at 4:17 AM
What talk if I may ask? And agree, I suspect the reason is that a lot of folks can't meaningfully address the other issues raised up on the discussion. Is this "treatlerism"? For many, definitely.
Oh, hard agree. I'm a "the medium is the message" hardliner. While I think the lack of algorithm is a massive improvement on masto, it's still has the same problems like quick context collapse, popularity contest, sound-bite rhetoric, drive-by replys and pretty soon probably, an amplification algo.
January 11, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Oh, hard agree. I'm a "the medium is the message" hardliner. While I think the lack of algorithm is a massive improvement on masto, it's still has the same problems like quick context collapse, popularity contest, sound-bite rhetoric, drive-by replys and pretty soon probably, an amplification algo.
At least masto has no char limits, why the fuck are there char limits on a new platform? Whyy?
January 11, 2026 at 10:02 AM
At least masto has no char limits, why the fuck are there char limits on a new platform? Whyy?