FredFig

To what extent should one trust a statement that a program is free of Trojan horses? Perhaps it is more important to trust the people who wrote the software.

Ken Thompson, Reflections on Trusting Trust

I know this outcome was inevitable after software became a mass market thing, but it's still rather depressing.

Trump likes AI and they like Trump too much to dislike something he likes.

As long as the offer’s open, it will be irresistible. So we need to close the offer. Only another god can kill Moloch. We have one on our side, but he needs our help. We should give it to him.

I'd write something here, but there's nothing funnier I can say.

Remove the profit motive of gambling is prohibition, what????

Polymarket when faced with the oracle problem: "What if we threaten to shoot the oracle?"

A worldview where one's worth is measured by the balance in their bank account makes it really easy to flatten out morality.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46994169 As with bitcoin before it, LLM dev cycles are now tied with the lunar new year.

The real damning thing is the speed that the true believers abandoned this garbage fire. You used to be able to string these guys along for years, and now they can barely keep the trend going for a week. Gonna be real weird when the scammers realize they've finally burnt out all the good will.

Crosslinking SRD: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1p88k7d/guys_were_gonna_be_okay_maybe_not_today_maybe_not/

Observing AI psychosis from a distance is so fascinating. "Valentine just got nerfed for me." What???

Hank Green has been one of my barometers for the moderate opinion and he's sounding worryingly like Zitron in his last video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0TpWitfxPk

The attention black hole around nvidia and AI is so insane, I guess it's because there's everyone knows there's no next thing to jump onto.

if there isn't, I'm calling it muskware, its conceptually close enough to vaporware.

The truth is that we feel shame to a much greater degree than the other side, which makes it pretty easy to divide us on these annoying trivialities.

My personal hatred of tone policing is greater than my sense of shame, but I imagine that isnt something to expect for most.