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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • new interview with Dario Amodei dropped https://youtu.be/n1E9IZfvGMA basically exponential curve real soon, nice skepticism from both the interviewer and the comment section

    On a related note, I really gotta stop browsing r/singularity man, some of the AI hype in there is just painful. though it is funny to see people with "AGI 2024/2025/2026" flairs

    EDIT: this is also the same podcast where Dario said we could have AGI in 2-3 years back in 2023. So lol

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • completely unsurprised, cant wait to see what shitshow this produces

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026

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  • Wong expressed a desire to see more parentless working on AI rather than "childless singles" and refers to it as a "son of man".

    eughhh weird vibes all around

    on the subject of AI as children/parents I’m gonna drop this article on Geoffrey Hinton and leave it at that https://futurism.com/godfather-ai-bizarre-plan-save-humanity

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026

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  • also this post which is where I got the xAI co-founder statement from, also goes over other things

    -the Anthropic team lead quitting (which we already discussed in this thread)

    -AI is apparently so good a filmmaker with 7 years of experience said it could do 90% of his work (Edit: I thought this model was unreleased, it’s not, this article covers it)

    -The Anthropic safety team + Yoshua Bengio talking about AIs being aware of when they’re being tested and adjusting their behaviour (+ other safety stuff like deepfakes, cybercrime and other malicious misuses)

    -the US government being ignorant about safety concerns and refusing to fund the AI international report (incredibly par for the course for this trash fire of an administration, they’ve defunded plenty of other safety projects as well)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026

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  • another co-founder has quit praises Elongated Muskrat (lmfao) and says recursive-self improvement in the next 12 months and 100x productivity real soon (alongside those self-driving cars Musk promised back in 2012)

  • Let’s vibe-regulate US transport with Gemini!

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  • read the whole article, of course Donald Trump is excited about this. Which also guarantees that this will crash and burn in no time at all

  • Let’s vibe-regulate US transport with Gemini!

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  • well that headline just filled me with dread

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026

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  • neither did I reading this article was my first exposure to him

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026

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  • the aforementioned wikipedia page has got some criticisms of his works under the critical reception section

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026

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  • this article involving an incredibly eyebrow-raising take from one of the people at METR (the team behind the famous "tasks AI can do doubles every 7 months" graph) saying AI is eventually going to become more impactful than the invention of agriculture and more transformative than the emergence of the human species and also calls it an intelligent alien species. Immensely funny amongst the other people saying "please stop treating AI like magic"

    the Harari guy also seems to be into transhumanism if a skim of his wikipedia page is correct. The “this is the first time in history that we have no idea what the world will look like in 10 years” thing is also an eyebrow-raiser. I could probably rattle off a couple examples (ie the two world wars)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026

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  • OpenAI is probably toast tldr OpenAI's financial situation is more cooked as a big investor shows doubt, WeWork 2 imminent

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026

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  • also completely leaving out important context on the Iran/stuxnet example, in that it was a joint effort between two countries believed to have been in development for five years. The idea that AIs will engage in lightspeed wars and disable all critical infrastructure in a single day while speaking in alien languages and creating alliances is unreasonable extrapolation of the capabilities. Also completely ignored the segment where the Anthropic team implemented safeguards and communicated with the teams behind the software to patch out the bugs. It's the most blatant fearmongering ever. Thank god the comments contain reasonable responses and breakdowns of the post. That channel's way of highlighting papers just pisses me off

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026

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  • community posts have been a thing for like, two years now? three?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th December 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Eliezer’s latest book says humans and chatbots are both “sentence-producing machines” so yes

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th December 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Just decide to be sane, sanity is a skill issue

    Yud has officially cured mental health forever, psychologists and therapists in shambles

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  • 2034 is also the year superintelligence is gonna happen according to the updated predictions from the AI 2027 crew, so double whammy!