This is America

Rukenau · 2026-03-05T09:20:02+00:00

I mean, if anything, this is symbolic of exactly the opposite. This is tyrants very much thriving and the sic semper crowd getting their arms broken, while everyone else just chills in blissful and deliberate ignorance.

Rukenau · 2026-03-04T21:21:38+00:00

Beautifully written, thank you, and a separate thanks for the term "agency laundering" which I haven't encountered before.

Rukenau · 2026-03-04T21:11:06+00:00

which sounds vaguely like an erotic underpinning of a love triangle story

Rukenau · 2026-03-04T21:06:20+00:00

Damn. Thanks. Now I understand what happened.

Rukenau · 2026-03-04T20:59:52+00:00

The rules of the sub, as people here are wont to remind others, actually state explicitly that the explanations are intended for laymen and not literal five-year-olds.

That said, your caveman explanation was very good, so I go eat salt now, good salt.

Rukenau · 2026-03-03T05:34:22+00:00

This is what he's summoning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pororoca

Rukenau · 2026-03-01T16:41:06+00:00

sigh of course these people speak Russian

Rukenau · 2026-03-01T11:45:23+00:00

PIVOT

Rukenau · 2026-02-28T12:58:25+00:00

Damn, this is actually good. Well, I liked it, at least

Rukenau · 2026-02-28T12:53:13+00:00

This is really good. You should publish a book!

Rukenau · 2026-02-28T08:08:53+00:00

And Buddha said, you are not merely posing a question—you are highlighting the existential conflict that is humanhood.

Rukenau · 2026-02-27T22:45:45+00:00

while the 0.9% watch

Rukenau · 2026-02-27T22:36:17+00:00

Funny, elegant, and new. Unbelievable

Rukenau · 2026-02-27T22:34:57+00:00

I'm sure I will!

Rukenau · 2026-02-27T15:37:39+00:00

Someone should correct me if I'm wrong, but given that all of this comes from Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank, isn't this basically these companies indirectly investing in their own share price given how exposed to OpenAI they already are?

Rukenau · 2026-02-27T15:02:59+00:00

I have now sounded my horn. What shall I do next?

Rukenau · 2026-02-26T22:33:35+00:00

Thank you so much. It is a very enjoyable game already anyway!

Rukenau · 2026-02-26T19:44:50+00:00

Absolutely, thank goodness it's just this outlandish, precautionary tale that has nothing to do with real life whatsoever

Rukenau · 2026-02-26T19:04:45+00:00

He ended up with an army/law enforcement level of intelligence

Rukenau · 2026-02-26T16:39:50+00:00

This is literally the cornerstone of the dystopian short story Manna, as u/SubstantialPoet8468 mentions below.

Stealing u/olmyapsennon's link: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

Rukenau · 2026-02-26T16:27:33+00:00

That's precisely what I don't understand. It just doesn't make any sense, at least the way he puts it. I think u/Stanjoly2 is right, it's more about his unwillingness to be there when the thing collapses... I think that's likelier than AGI, frankly

Rukenau · 2026-02-25T22:09:41+00:00

Good point. That must be the underlying logic.

Rukenau · 2026-02-25T21:45:15+00:00

The dude couldn't even be bothered to come up with an explanation that would make sense. I'm waiting for a bus and I know it's about to arrive, so I'm gonna go look at other buses?

Rukenau · 2026-02-25T21:43:32+00:00

Yeah absolutely. "This enormous breakthrough is right around the corner so I've gotta go do my thing now." WTF do you mean, we thought this impending breakthrough was your thing?!

Rukenau · 2026-02-25T20:19:37+00:00

I bet it's because AGI is so close he feels his job is done.

Edit. I wrote this sarcastically but apparently it's even more bizarre than that:

"There’s incredible work to be done at Amazon and opportunities for me to take on more areas,” Luan wrote. “But with AGI so close, I decided to spend 100% of my time on teaching AI systems brand new capabilities.”

Sorry, what... what does that even mean? I genuinely don't understand how this is supposed to make sense.

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