I am beginning to like the cut of this publications jib.

https://defector.com/there-is-no-place-in-a-functional-society-for-elon-musk

The federal government is in tatters, the judiciary seeded with sneering MAGA goons like bear traps on a forest floor, the executive branch a metastatic growth of varyingly murderous criminal enterprises in unholy union with a psychotic, apocalyptic tech industry in suicide-cult thrall to bumbling chatbots.

That’s interesting, thanks! Not exactly sure where the dc loans fit in the benefits vs contributions scheme, but I guess it’s important context to keep in mind if reading further into this.

Ιt could have been part of a larger thing where it made sense to want to keep evidence of the shutdown in the chat context.

It’s not like they design or promote these things in any way that encourages user initiative, can’t have full cognitive surrender if the user is running system commands on the side.

Presumably you still need to believe that these are the specific loans that you are least likely to see a return on though, otherwise why get rid of them?

The way the bubble pops will probably be a bunch of normal things happening, except cumulatively they cause investors to shy away from further bankrolling this mess and someone important won’t have enough money at some crucial point. It certainly won’t be sam altman laughing maniacally and dissolving into a mound of scurrying cockroaches.

The comment got so downvoted reddit now autocollapses it when you open the page. /r/BetterOffline posters seem to be good people:

Icy-Recognition-7453 wrote

My brother in Christ, it is dreamed-up rubbish. It comes from an offshoot of EA/Rationalist thinking where the foundational documents are Terminator 3 and a Harry Potter fanfic written by an “AI researcher” who never went to high school. The pay-off of the “good” scenario is you get to live as an emulated human on AI God’s hard drive.

Altman performed outrage that his comment was taken out of context — he was specifically talking about people running AI rigs at home. You should just outsource your work to OpenAI, see. It’s much more efficient. [Twitter, archive]

Let them eat low end GPUs ass retraction.

Self-replicating data centers are blatantly bullshit but also such a failure to read the room, nobody wants them even now that you don’t have to worry they might decide to go through mitosis overnight.

According to a random tweet I came across he’s been liquidating like mad again.

Bloomberg: Mystery Seller Seeks to Dump $500 Million of Data Center Loans

Via a zitron skeet, finally some news that feel slightly more portentous that tech stocks hitting a slump:

Wasn’t there a bit where making it more racist also made it worse at programming for some reason?

I wonder what their benchmarks for racism look like.

If that paper about astra being able to make sense of other models’ weights has any merit, at some point they became so desperate they actually started adding serialized open weight models to the training data.

The “recursive self-improvement” nonsense really baffles me.

That’s always been the magic sauce that gives the AI supernatural abilities in rationalist lore, I think they cribbed it from the early singularitarians who had a thing about how when we got our shit together intelligence studying intelligence would lead to an “intelligence explosion”, except they replaced the humanity-fuck-yeah aspect with robot fetishism.

Does that mean Musk is now legally obligated to transition or was it just the children?

To extract more value from their engineers. The controversy is about the CEO having AI psychosis and wanting to forego stuff like pen testing to speed up feature delivery, not over anything customer facing.

The author of More Everything Forever: A timely exposé of the ludicrous and cruel obsessions of Silicon Valley’s oligarchs cybersquatted eilezeryudkowsky.com, which i think is delightful.

Villarreal seems to imagine that capitalists will simply ignore this, bypassing the market and continuing to invest purely to grow the physical stock of goods for their own consumption.

I mean, who can blame him? Like obviously obsoleting the concept of human labor would collapse capitalism and ideally lead to hunting the atlmans and the musks of the world for sport, but our current batch of robber barons certainly seem convinced that a strictly line-go-up stable capitalist situation is possible, so it’s kind of an honest mistake.

Also calling people who get marxism wrong ‘reactionaries’ will never not rub me the wrong way.

“On-premises customers can now move far more easily to the cloud by leveraging the AI tool sets to automate migrations and decrease the cost and time to implement. They don’t have to be Oracle customers; they can be competitive customers.”

Sicilia said enterprise application software users’ reluctance to change had been a major “headwind” for Oracle, one he hopes AI will ease.

“Our large remaining base of on-premises customers are going to start to adopt this technology quite quickly. When we move customers from on-premises to cloud, we see a multiple increase in revenue,” he said.

Apparently the latest in executive suite psychosis is that the main reason customers like on-premise solutions is because it was just too darn complicated to hand over all your data to oracle move to the cloud.

Sounds like they are taking a page from microsoft and using AI units, as in an obfuscating layer between the client and the per-million-token cost charged by the AI vendor that they (oracle) can fiddle with at will.

Uh-oh, renowned everyman Sam Altman opened his mouth again.

Local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources.

A lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we’re going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we’re not going to need all the stuff in the data centre

but from a global allocation perspective, actually it’s quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time

you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you’re trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment, somehow many people’s intuition is the opposite of that

Notable customers who run Claude Code and Cursor on laptops include Binance, amongst thousands of others.

That would be soooooo funny.

Apparently they mean @grok as in you tag the chatbot to use your post as a prompt which I guess is a thing the nazi site pioneered, other bots are also available.