For a while I’ve said that people moaning about ‘Luddites’ really just wish they could have some child labour going on. Nice of him to just outright say it:

[the machines being smashed] “replaced the scarce and expensive factors, the skilled artisans, by relatively cheap and abundant factors, unskilled manual labor of men, women, and children.” The Luddites treated this as an outrage.

An outrage! Oh, my monocle!

their equivalent of a NACL

I can only infer you mean some sort of salt circle to keep the AGI demons at bay.

The ‘sex cult’ framing really seems to be catching on. Of course, none of the eugenics comes up.

Keep spreading the good sneer, everyone! There are still horrors to detail!

Haha, check out this comment from the other Sneer Club:

They had me till the part near the end where they say doing an LLM slowdown is like banning medical research and if you don’t like it you are literally an ‘enemy of humanity’.

Like is this accelarationists doing sneer entryism? What’s happening?

Also the thread could’ve used a nod towards the pervasiveness of eugenics in the ratsphere but I guess that’s not the audience segyges’s going for.

edit: A distressing number of replies to that doing the opposite of sneering slop 😔 edit2: … which could in itself be construed as sneer entryism

But don’t forget the infinitely bad outcome of delaying the uncountable emulated superbeings by one second

Software programmers: At last we have created the Milkshake Duck from classic internet shitpost “Do Not Create the Milkshake Duck”

Yeah, pretty much. I think Marginalia is explicitly not trying to be the search engine, but rather to surface some of the more-neglected corners of the internet. So it won’t function as a complete substitute for another.

My non-helpful answer is to resign myself to accepting that whatever I was searching for isn’t that important.

More practically, finding human-written work is the thing that https://marginalia-search.com/ excels at, although you might have to scroll a bit to find a relevant result.

Personal AI has crossed the threshold where the desktop itself can be compiled per user, per device, per moment, from a small portable model of the user

Source: well I wouldn’t have much of a talk if it weren’t true so I really really hope that it is

It’s easier to imagine the end of causality than the end of capitalism.

complex life developed around 300 million years ago

LOLWAT

I wouldn’t even pin the Cambrian explosion as the beginning of ‘complex life’, yet it’s almost twice as far back as your date.

It will have the capacity to eliminate our energy grids.

This would be a sensible course of action, since AI famously doesn’t require any significant source of energy to operate.

This is an incredible read

It really is. Regards to BioMan for finding it: https://awful.systems/post/9389883/12420011

I had some interest in trying out Bevy for some future projects, in no small part due to their anti-slop policy. Guess I won’t bother?

TracingWoodgrains attempted hatchet job against David Gerard

Out in the wild, I’ve actually seen somebody cite that piece earnestly… as an example of how Wikipedia still has problems even if it’s generally a useful source of information.

It’s like praising with faint damnation.

I continue to be amazed by those random university students somehow outwitting all of LessWrong on this matter.

Here’s a helpful link for the reading-averse https://drewdevault.com/weird-guys/#rauch

Once we have superconductors, all computation will immediately switch to relay-based logic

There’s this: “Built for agents: Omarchy’s pipeline moves to DigitalOcean” https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/digitalocean-joins-omacom-foundation

Alongside the infrastructure move, DigitalOcean is joining the Omacom Foundation, the nonprofit that funds Omarchy’s infrastructure and the open source projects it depends on, as a Founding Corporate Patron, and will serve as Omarchy’s agentic compute provider.

So fascism and slop. Name a more iconic couple.

Don’t suppose we could track down how the announcement got any publicity whatsoever…