My favorite part about this is that they say ‘needlessly.’

Like, they’re completely nuts and believe Claude might have feelings. But they’re not content to just be insane in that way, they have to also be ok with harming it as long as it’s not needless.

God these fuckers

Treacle Eaters

For a while it looked like devs would resist the slop

I don’t think I ever saw this. The only indication would have been a major dev org like the FSF, OSI, SFC or somebody hitting Microsoft with a really aggressive lawsuit over OpenAI. They would have had a slam dunk and it would have set the tone for the way the rest of the world reacted, I think.

Instead it was just ‘wow cool toy.’ That was when I realized the real politics of Foss wasn’t just a couple of bad actors like Eric Raymond but a full on rot.

I am thinking about leaving tech altogether.

I wish I had a plan B, but I’ve devoted my life to being a software engineer and have no idea what else I could do .

It is pretty depressing.

Yeah. I’ve sort of resigned to my world being ruined and everything I ever worked on stolen and sold back to my bosses for the rest of my career.

I just wish there were some way to inflict some fraction of this pain on the people responsible, the people who go to work every day to ruin mine.

gotta be right?

If they actually gave a damn about people they wouldn’t be working at OpenAI

What Would You Do If Your Employer Could Destroy the World

Surely not things you can print in the newspaper. Surely.

It is also an incredible strength that they actually practice what they preach, and don’t exclude someone based on hearsay and “probably a rapist”.

🫪

I think it’s because they think they’re the elite of society who will ride out climate change and don’t give a shit if they kill three billion people as long as those people are mostly in the global south because they’re racist too.

He is not sure why everyone is so spooked by the “coordination” between agents on random message boards.

It’s weird to be sure, seems like a bug. Don’t they have a more efficient communication channel available through the harness? If this was real and not a test it would be a catastrophic operational security failure.

With Better Offline and the NYT simultaneously covering Rationalists it seems like maybe we’re getting more mainstream sneering. A bunch of people (including bsky) are finding out about all the weird lore.

At what point does doing something you think will result in the end of the world become attempted murder?

Apparently it’s getting weird over at Automattic

No other Linux or FOSS project ever gets this kind of funding. You should be suspicious of it, not celebrate it. You have been tricked into playing defense for millionaires that don’t give a shit about you.

one million times this

Aaaaaand flagged

I imagine they envision the slow social murder of the dispossessed, sort of a global San Francisco.

On FTX itself, I remain conflicted. It was their money and spirit that enabled the Future Fund, and I still admire many aspects of FTX and the individuals who worked there.

‘Bruh’ moment

The antiai sub on Reddit is lousy with doomers now. Ugh.

Just in time for Irreplaceable to show up!

They recognize the groundswell of anti AI sentiment and want to try and channel it into AI booster action. Good luck with that.

Realistically a BSD