Chris Hanson

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again. Bluesky VC so far: • $8M via a seed round on July 5, 2023 • $13M via a Series A round led by "Blockchain Capital" on October 24, 2024 If you think you're not the product here, you're wrong. #enshittification #roteconomy

Hell yeah, Hasan Piker’s suing Scott Jennings for defamation for repeatedly falsely attributing racist statements to him.

Roblox downloaded 145 GB of models from our sites (including adult content) without asking - open3dlab.com/news/roblox-...

i know the trot of my tone here seems slightly flippant because thats just the nature of posting, but this makes me deeply, deeply sad. like physically ill. i cannot believe there are people out there doing this. i cannot imagination seeing reflection on your own child as a task to streamline

As the LLM & other generative AI advocates get more and more lost and drone-like, they really do seem like they’re going to all start saying, in unison, “Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been is over. From this time forward, you will service us.” #butlerianjihad #resistanceisfutile

Completed my fiftieth year on this cruel joke of a world.

the big thing the rise of LLMs has revealed to me is that there is a not insignificant chunk of the population that considers cognition itself to be a frustrating and unnecessary burden

Same. All the babies saying they "have" to stay there because of their ostensibly huge audiences all... had fewer followers than me.

“It’s inevitable! It’s here to stay! It’s unavoidable! It’s the future!” Nah, it’s shit on top of shit on top of shit. Butlerian Jihad now so people stop being taken in by this insanity.

This is a sitting member of Congress who called for immigrants to be executed by throwing them to their deaths out of helicopters. Mike Collins personally amplified neo-Nazi propaganda online. It's disqualifying for a member of Congress and for a candidate for the U.S. Senate.

The Ilhan Omar stuff is grotesque and feels worthy of impeachment by itself

again, American social media companies are directly acting as proxies for what feels more and more like a state department regime change operation www1.folha.uol.com.br/internaciona...

this is the fucking problem with all the "AI is useful" shit, it's like... it's all, constantly, always, me me me me me. not one second spent thinking about the degradation of literally everything about life and society, just my convenience trumps all.

If you use or approve of so called AI you are a contemptible piece of shit and I do not respect you. Go fuck yourself. Block me already so I don’t have to block you.

this is the thing right, I felt like I had a pretty good handle on the utter depravity of silicon valley but I never foresaw the all-out embrace of spam. I thought "spam is bad" was one of the very few things the FAANGs were serious about, even if only to protect their ad monopolies.

the "agentic" vision of computing is a spam world where everyone has their own personal army of spam bots working 24/7 on their behalf choking everything with spam to try and get one over on the next guy. and that's just not something that can really... exist, long term?

This is quite literally what happened to one of my grandparents in 1933. You know, in case we still have folks in the “it’s not fascism if it doesn’t meet these very specific, arbitrary characteristics based on my own refusal to accept responsibility to oppose it” crowd.

Hey, John, no matter how ‘happening’ the Nazi bar is, how much ‘action’ is at the Nazi bar, it’s still a Nazi bar and nobody reasonable should go there.

wild how we're getting a socialized Faces of Death before healthcare, college, free school lunches, or first world public transit.

This is insane.

I don’t want to be a dick. But having read a few things by this Yudkowsky guy and now seeing that he left school in middle school and didn’t go to high school or college I think I’m understanding the situation a lot better, or things at least seem to fit.

just say “groomer school,” this is taking forever

The bizarre culture that’s sprung up around Silicon Valley AI companies - which overlaps hugely with rationalist and effective altruist circles - appears to be seriously pressuring some women into attending sex parties for the sake of networking. This is, needless to say, horrifying.

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...

Um. Wow?

AI comic

Why talk about how nuts the AI rationalist sex cult is, and not just focus on the (very real) risks and harms of AI? Well, when we're discussing "who should get to regulate AI, and how," I think it's VERY relevant to talk about the antisocial, unsettling ways many people running US AI think.

at some point you have to wonder for which side such advisers actually work

Important reporting here on an aspect of accelerationist organizing: Atomwaffen Division clones. @svartflagg.bsky.social follows a recent incarnation of one these small copy cat groups & how they have joined a small international alliance in an attempt to create a new branch of far-right terror.

Hey, for all the people who said that LLMs are transformative fair use of the intellectual property they ingest during training? Yeah, doesn't seem like that's what even the LLM providers think…

There’s a move I’ve coined the “Black Mirror Gambit” which works by presenting your company as the villain in a Black Mirror episode to soak up this mid-2020s-era investor demand for, well, evil plots. That’s the playbook.

Yes, the American AI industry is massively intertwined with the people who brought you Aella’s birthday gangbang. Because they are a millenarian AI-worshipping sex cult who now have billions of dollars. knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/me...

The people who are running the massively powerful and lucrative US AI industry pretty much all know about this chart, and quite a few directly participated in the proceedings. Speaking of the rationalist sex cult who regard a Harry Potter fanfic as their Bible, and who also have tons of money.

Like you will not be able to fully understand how dangerous the leaders of the US AI industry really are without engaging with this cursed lore, unfortunately.