Palantir’s public relations team explains how it helped America win the Global War on Terror

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44894910

This whole story is unhinged. Thanks for chasing it down!

Let me fix that for you

neo-Luddite (based)

Her kick’s so fast the call it the “quad laser”

https://bsky.app/profile/iwriteok.bsky.social/post/3lwcvfzwjuc23

Robert Evans quoteskeeting dgerard’s mic drop

The ideological version of Mr Burns’s diseases getting in each other’s way

aw man I’m glad you brought that up. I generally like their show, but gestures broadly at all of that. I also wonder how much of it is money-driven.

“usecase” is a cursed term. It’s an inverted fnord that lets the reader know that whatever follows can be safely ignored.

Looks like the bologna engine generated some balogna.

Some days it feels like developers are headed for a Morlock/Eloi split, except the Eloi are sickly and unappetizing due to a steady diet of glue pizza and mushroom surprise

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-disagreements

Brian Merchant’s article about that lighthaven gathering really struck me.

The men who EAs think will end the earth were in the building with them, and rather than organize to throw them out a window (or even to just make them mildly uncomfortable), the bayes knowers all gormlessly moped around their twee boutique hotel and cried around some whiteboards.

Absolute hellish brainworms

@dgerard@awful.systems probably. you can tell because of the food poisoning. (Hope you’re feeling better!)

OpenAI is food. You can tell because it’s washed, rinsed, and cooked.

What if we did They Live, but in reverse?

Oof, thanks for the heads up!

I feel ya, I got got by that Sam Kriss piece dunking on hpmor last week.

According to wikipedia he’s a eugenics enjoyer. Another W for nominative determinism I guess.

Smarter people than me suggest that Claude code does the best job at optimizing the gacha mechanic.

The guy who is slowly transforming into a racist hot dog?