Architeuthis

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[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Overall more interesting than I expected. On the Leverage Research cult:

Routine tasks, such as deciding whose turn it was to pick up the groceries, required working around other people’s beliefs in demons, magic, and other paranormal phenomena. Eventually these beliefs collided with preexisting social conflict, and Leverage broke apart into factions that fought with each other internally through occult rituals.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And if you have multiple prompts you just do a separate caching for each one?

I think this hinges on the system prompt going after the user prompt, for some router-related non-obvious reason, meaning at each model change the input is always new and thus uncacheable.

Also going by the last Claude system prompt that leaked these things can be like 20.000 tokens long.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 14 points 3 months ago

Eight-year-olds, Dude.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

Thiel is a true believer in Jesus and God. He was raised evangelical.

Being gay must really complicate things for him.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I don’t think Scott is doing anything nefarious here, it is very intuitive to think about risk in this way and then take the basic intuition and run with it.

Yeah, he's a very non provably non-nefarious well meaning guy who thinks Richard Lynn is on the money, cites Cremieux on the subject and platforms Emil Kirkegaard et al in the comments while giving money to aporia, and who will never shut up about IQ heritability, ever.

And it's not like he outright admits his article that misrepresents the data this way started out as marketing material for one of those companies, or that he picked this company because he liked the cut of Jonathan Anomaly's jib.

Edit: also, not taking your basic intuition and running with it is supposed to be the whole entire point of so-called rationalism, so what the shit?

I guess the traffic he gets from being on good enough terms with Scott to be occasionally cited as the opposing viewpoint must be worth it to him.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago

Blockchains. Why is this report even mentioning blockchains? Who cares about enterprise blockchain in 2025?

Could be an LLM thing, I noticed they still churn out stuff about blockchain when generating PRDs with a future proofing section, at about the same time I noticed management had okayed using chatgpt to write product specifications.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 17 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I saw this today so now you must too:

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Or how all the pronatalist events they frequent seem to be accidentally crawling with scientific racists and great replacement types.

If anything they might be trying to pull a motte-and-bailey by claiming they are not technically eugenicists, just normal far right weirdoes with a pronounced interest in lineages and IQ, a combination that famously never led to anything bad happening once it entered the mainstream.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago

When Yud did that multi-hour youtube interview around a couple years ago someone in the comments called him the Neil Breen of AI.

It may not be what humanity needs, but it's what it deserves.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't think it's even illegal to watch R-rated movies as a minor, it's more of a guideline for your caretakers.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

That has drawn accusations of eugenics, which Malcolm strenuously denies.

Not that we're going to tell you what the accusations were about, we're serious reporters after all, we'll just take Egghead Jr's word for it.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I could definitely see Rationalist Battlefiled Earth becoming a sensation, just not in the way they hope it does.

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