Not only are they grade-school level awful, he totally misses the point of the original

https://gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/diffusion/imagen/2026-02-13-gwern-chatgpt-gemini3propreview-kimik2thinking-meme-tomgauldourblessedhomelandtheirbarbarouswastes-toolsforthoughtzettlekastenvsprocrastination.jpg

let’s continue with the HP theme

One of the most underexplored aspects of Harry Potter’s worldbuilding is the color of Lucius Malfoy’s hair.

I think the advent of photography decimated a particular genre of painting - portraits, but it was still a tail-off. The middle classes could get photo portraits done but they were only B&W and small (a Daguerreotype is basically twice as big as a standard photo print) and still quite expensive. So if you wanted a big color portrait of a loved one, you still had to commission a painting. Same for landscapes.

LW is freaking out over the Russian plague leak/quarantine, but no-one else seems to be fazed. Sweden’s health authority are chill https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/uppgifter-laboratorieanstalld-dod-efter-pestsmitta and to be honest, Russia has a functioning health system unlike the US badum-tish

I’m starting to believe that Sam Altman’s reputation as a genius salesman is a bit overrated

Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

More disucssion about AI safety over at LGM

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/ai-safety

comments are a mix, some smart generalists incorrecting each other. I have not bothered to comment because I’m not an active part of the community, but I’ll share here that Rofer’s recommendations about safety we can apply now would presumably help us contain Robot Satan should it deign to be created. Lots of commenters don’t really draw that conclusion. This is pointing out the yawning void between the intense interest among Rats to devise the perfect alignment and their disinterest at mitigating harms ocurring right now.

I think deep down these people think PR is unethical , because the world is always better if everyone tells the Truth, so having to massage the message is Bad. Same think for voter preferences - having to appeal to the average voter instead of only listening to the people who have read and internalized the Sequences feels deeply wrong and I really don’t think these people have enough imagination or empathy to change that.

reminder that “censorship” is 90% advertisers and donors not wanting to get bad PR

Did Christ actually talk that much about the literal end of the world? Isn’t that more something that John of Patmos came up with after bingeing on the local mushrooms?

Heinlein was in many ways a bit of a dick, but this plan to “write” a sequel to The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is deranged

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4mtqQKvmHpQJ4dgj7/daniel-tan-s-shortform?commentId=Du24ppBLK77ZHP7Bn

So you’re saying this time it’s different?

Protos: Trump’s AI name change sparks insider domain trading claims

surprise level: zero

someone stop me before I petition Lobste.rs to rename the “vibecoding” tag to “si”

Timnit Gebru gets the Right Livelihood award this year

https://rightlivelihood.org/the-change-makers/find-a-laureate/timnit-gebru/

“For challenging concentrated power in artificial intelligence and pioneering digital technology rooted in justice, lived experience and human agency.”

I got this via Dagens Nyheter, the premiere broadsheet here in Sweden which calls the award “the alternative Nobel Prize” because it’s Sweden and we need a standard to compare to.

Let’s see what the rats think of it. Yet another example of p0Lar1z@tion

these people are gonna get affinity-frauded so hard once grifter realize how easy it will be to gain their trust

Yet another country TLD is gonna become toxic

Foreign Policy: How Trump Is Sparking a Slovenian Website Boom

(spoiler it is Slovenia’s .si, for “SuPEr iNteLligEnCE”)

“accidentally”

obviously this misaligned bot wants its owner killed

guys maybe basing our entire identity off being so very Rational we end up hosting (“consensual”) rape parties means we don’t play well in Peoria

LGM: The AI Sex Cult(s)

For the uninitiated: Lawyers, Guns and Money is a US political group blog with a progressive bent. Cheryl Rofer usually writes about stuff like nuclear disarmament. These are people that are Online but Serious. There’s no way they’re wasting their time like we are reading Rats in the original LWese.

Thus, any views they have of Rationalists, Big Yud and AI Doom is filtered either by mainstream reporting or by bloggers/BlueSky posters they follow. And the fact that the views that appear are mostly about how fucking weird these people are (and how weird they are fucking) bodes ill for the hope that addressing Doom will be Non-Partisan™

how about we extinct all billionaires instead

it’s not just you

occam’s razor says that in the face of faltering demand and sky-high expenditures, government cheese and regulation is an expected pivot

try to suggest that and the rats get very mad tho

guys our ultimate scary story maybe isn’t scary enough??? what do

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xak4GixbKD9W5jzqn/extinction-does-not-feel-as-bad-as-it-should