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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026

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  • An actual interesting thought: If AI Causes a Mass Unemployment Crisis, Will the Public Explode Into Violence?

    My opinion is yes. People absolutely despise AI and the tech companies, as we have seen time and time again, not to mention the spread of AI doom fears. The current state of America is a boiling pot as Trump gets worse and worse (and with upcoming midterms) so AI causing mass unemployment absolutely would be enough to make it boil over and cause violence

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026

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  • The idea of “the exponential curve goes up forever” has always been silly and an idea rooted in capitalism for me (“no bro you don’t get it we’re gonna get infinite money forever”). Limited resources exist, and people are already very fed up with the ludicrous amounts of water and electricity data centres take up. Making bigger models that need to run for longer is also probably going to take an exponential amount of resources (and also make people hate you more).

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  • Nick Bostrom jumpscare with a funny sneer

    These already head-scratching lines hit different when you remember that Bostrom believes it’s likely that we’re already living inside a computer simulation — in his head canon, do all those levels of simulated ancestors develop their own superintelligence, and what does that have to do with the new simulations they feel compelled to build? If AI wipes out humankind, does it build its own simulation? If so, is it simulating its human ancestors, or its creation by humankind? Heck, if our entire world is simulated, are we AI? We’ll leave it up to readers to take another bong hit while they try to make sense of it all.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th April 2026

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  • Yud says so much, and its often so confusing, that I think a lot of his followers don’t know his main messages.

    This is very late to respond but what I’ve noticed is that a when people in rationalist spaces respond to Yud, they often say “my interpretation of this is..” and things along similar lines, which always struck me as weird

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026

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  • The METR graph has gone up again to my fascination somehow the gap between 50% and 80% has gotten even longer (15 hour difference) the CI is also still big (47 hours)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th May 2026

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  • this seems like a great time to bring back AI disagreements by Brian Merchant where a rationalist AI convention spends more time arguing about AI takeover scenarios then they do discussing plans to actually stop AI and implement anti-AI policies

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th May 2026

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  • that image of Yud made me laugh out loud

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th May 2026

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  • I saw the emails where Musk and Altman treated Hassabis like some great evil, but I didn’t know a Scott blogpost was involved

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  • Oh shit did LessWrongers actually cut his fibre? Hope he's all good now and they get a fix out in the next thousand years

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  • It appears that Anthropic vs the Pentagon is going to happen right on the heels of Altman vs Musk, which is spicy

    "While the Musk-OpenAI courtroom showdown has been billed as the first great technology trial of the AI era, a legal showdown that matters far more will take place two weeks from now in a courtroom in Washington, D.C. That’s when a federal appeals court panel will hear arguments in Anthropic’s challenge to the ‘supply chain risk’ designation the Trump Administration slapped on it for refusing to agree to its specified contract terms for providing its AI models to the U.S. military. That’s a case with huge implications not just for Anthropic and the fate of the AI industry, but also for the balance of power between the state and industry more generally."

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  • the funniest bit so far is probably that Greg Brockman’s (who mind you is a massive Trump supporter, being a top donor to him) diary essentially vindicated Elmo’s whole case against OpenAI. You gotta love when morons shoot themselves in the foot

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  • Wow, that’s probably one of the most in-depth critiques of the book I’ve read. Kudos to the OP

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026

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  • it gets better/worse: this (might) is the paid version, meaning Yud gave money to the companies he think will kill us all to use the technology he thinks will kill us all to win an argument on shitter.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026

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