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That's a hilarious reaction.

Anyway there's zip about this incident on LW, which is telling.

Glad to see some pushback on these claims.

Important to note that as these companies are approaching an IPO, they are desperate that the reporting is about the glorious (or dangerous) future they can provide, and not about the dodgy finances.

Kind of a pseudo-sneer, author is writing a

blog on machine learning engineering, compound AI systems, search and information retrieval, and recsys — exploring machine learning, LLM agents, and data science insights from startups to enterprises.

Here's the discussion on the red site: https://lobste.rs/s/nmhkdl/ai_great_leap_forward Plenty of people suspect the text being LLM generated. Pangram disagrees, fwiw.

I do think there's some interesting ideas about how humans will "defend" themselves from being replaced by bots, and that the critical info in a company is seldom in the source code, but in the customer relationships, sales etc.

surprise level == 0 (or rather, short odds on the prediction markets)

El Reg: OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape

yeah my kid had to get a gaming PC for school (gamedev) and managed to snag a decent rig before prices went parabolic

Circular at work states that the standard laptop we get from Dell has increased in price by 50% so they’re looking for alternatives.

Those S-1 filings are gonna be spicy.

OTOH does the SEC have any staff left ?

IRGC doing their part to Halt AI. Donate to them now!

On this most terrible of online days, "enjoy" this LW attempt at humor

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3GbM9hmyJqn4LNXrG/yams-s-shortform?commentId=ik6ywoQYsGrrQv8Dm

edit there are more submissions on the theme of "humor" on site now. Let's just say the cringe factor outweighs the humor factor by a large amount.

omg I don't have anything better to do

• Lesswrong Liberated - they implemented a chat interface to redesign the LW site according to different themes. Mostly boring
• LIMBO: Who We Are, What We Do, and an Exciting High-Impact Funding Opportunity - probably not AFJ? Can't really tell. Bad day to launch a call for funding if not
• Announcing Doublehaven with Reflections on Humour - protip do not try to reflect on "humour" (native brit speaker or pretentious LWer? flip a coin) with boring examples of "ratty humour"
• ACME Alignment Co Announces: Aligning Humans - this one is easy to call as AFJ
• Giving up on EA after 13 years - lol it's funny because EA means "Electronic Arts" here
• "You Have Not Been a Good User" (LessWrong's second album) - also seems to be a "straight" post, not a joke, but released on AFJ b/c then the community can "cut loose"? I dunno, and I am never gonna listen to any songs by "Fooming Shoggoths" in my life
• Announcing EA Omelas - "[Extensively co-written with Claude Opus 4.6]" you have been warned. Considering how every rat coverage of Omelas has been utter shit I'm just posting the link, not reading it

Kinda crazy that these date from 2025 and no-one has noticed (or bothered to complain) until now.

“an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.”