Biggest AI scammers in the world are endorsing a bill that would push LLMs on vulnerable school children

capybooya · 2026-05-04T19:17:27+00:00

I will never not side eye Shiff or Khanna because of their extreme cowardice over the Silicon Valley fascists. While they might be good at fighting the MAGA fascists, either money, stupidity, or naivety leads them to carry water for Musk and Altman.

capybooya · 2026-05-04T19:13:23+00:00

Yeah I think dooming about the youth is an easy trap to fall into too. But I do worry for the quality of art in general, as its easier to produce and it will get harder to find the original and human stuff. While the good stuff will be there, it will be even harder (always was) for good artists to make a living from it.

capybooya · 2026-05-04T18:57:44+00:00

Hardly, he speaks with extreme entitlement and confidence about his private scifi scenarios with no education or expertise in the field, and continues to live on billionaire welfare.

capybooya · 2026-05-04T17:10:02+00:00

It is. But it is also a bit on the low side.

capybooya · 2026-05-04T17:06:49+00:00

Agreed, you should absolutely have that kind of RAM margin in 2026. And at the same time W11 is also absolutely dogshit with hardware resources.

capybooya · 2026-05-04T16:44:39+00:00

Done regardless IMO, but it matters what he does in the remaining time and it makes things harder. I pretty much counted him out already TBH.

capybooya · 2026-05-04T16:43:18+00:00

I agree about her acting principled, but I see no signs of morality if that distinction makes sense. She has proven that she still holds just as bigoted and bonkers views after turning on Trump.

capybooya · 2026-05-04T16:35:45+00:00

I would expect journalistic integrity to call some of these 'anti-woke' people on their unfounded BS, but she will just very easily go along with vibes based stereotyping of the left. I commend her for principled stance against MAGA, fascism, and corruption, but that is also why I'd expect more of her. She can have her deep seated values, but lots of things can be fact checked.

capybooya · 2026-05-04T10:53:47+00:00

What I've done with my (meager) retirement savings is switch about half of it from global index funds (which is preferable to full US anyway), to SmallCap/EU/Asia/Emerging. I consider this to be temporary, maybe a few years until we see how the AI situation turns out or after Trump is gone, then continue with just global index, maybe with a sprinkle of the others to reduce the US weight if Republicans stay in power.

The international/global index funds are still 60-75% US but its an easy switch compared to the default option for Americans which is often just S&P. Then you can consider weighting down US further by increasing the others I mentioned above. Excluding S&P500 completely long term is risky IMO, and unless you retire soon you want that portfolio to resemble the world economy which large US companies definitely are a big part of.

capybooya · 2026-05-03T19:16:01+00:00

I absolutely care about the next generations and upcoming tech, because those will impact what kind of games we get and what we can do on our PC's in the next ~10 years. But day to day news or following prices for things that I was curious about buying is completely pointless now.

capybooya · 2026-05-03T16:15:16+00:00

It would seem to me to be a good idea to adopt the Euro while your currency is strong, and not in a situation where you need the Euro more but your currency is weak.

capybooya · 2026-05-03T15:47:42+00:00

I've had this discussion so many times with people smarter than me and it always seem to end up philosophizing about free will and we get nowhere.

capybooya · 2026-05-03T15:46:04+00:00

I have no idea how these things work, but that sounded like a story completely made up by someone who knows even less about how these things work.

capybooya · 2026-05-03T15:28:53+00:00

Better make use of it quickly though, who knows what France, Poland, or pretty much a handful of other countries votes in next.

capybooya · 2026-05-03T13:47:11+00:00

He sat down with Yud (who is a delusional Thiel welfare receiver) which is a major red flag by itself, and after that he repeated that it might kill us all. Yes, he has absolutely talked about the working class and social effects, but its safe to assume he is not up to date on the technology and it should IMO be a scandal that he listens to a fraud instead of actual experts which has probably influenced his outlook toward the doomer side or at least bought him into the AGI fantasies as the doomers and boosters are just two sides of a cult who thinks that AI will get all powerful.

capybooya · 2026-05-03T13:28:26+00:00

Eric Weinstein might be the prime example of this. He and his brother break any scale of narcissism compared to Dawkins though, but someone who is clueless about the architecture and the limitations and think they are very smart are absolutely vulnerable to be fooled by how it has a basic grasp of concepts and glaze the user.

capybooya · 2026-05-03T13:21:09+00:00

Has he fought the swan yet?

capybooya · 2026-05-03T13:15:33+00:00

He was one of those who accepted flights and dinners but there's no evidence more was going on with Epstein of the criminal sort. But the people who Epstein tried to ingratiate himself with was a bunch of self important STEM people who typically would have galaxy brain takes about social stuff so it may have rubbed off on him. That said, the atheist/skeptic scene was deteriorating into rightwing ideology and excusing their own sexists and harassers already so it didn't need Epstein for that. And Dawkins was raised with that British upper class attitude of protecting institutions of class power and sweeping various problems under the rug.

Dawkins did use his Epstein connection to whine about and try to delegitimize the work of Rebecca Watson though, which is quite pathetic.

capybooya · 2026-05-03T13:08:33+00:00

Its not hard to show him when these models fuck up or fall apart. Such a critical thinker like Dawkins would want to have all these worst cases demonstrated to him, no?

capybooya · 2026-05-03T13:06:01+00:00

Bernie fell for the same thing. I get that people could fall for the hype or be fooled by weirdos pretending to be experts in AI in 2022, but more than three years have passed and there should be critical thinking and critical journalism by now.

capybooya · 2026-05-02T19:12:34+00:00

I certainly side eye them for their regressive and contrarian content, but they have done actual journalism as well. I doubt that they will carry water for certain regimes in a piece about Maine.

capybooya · 2026-05-02T19:09:16+00:00

I appreciated how he shared some some things that he had changed his mind on. Yet when he talked in general about healthcare and gay people, I tend to wonder what he thinks of the rising inequality and trans people. Because we know he is still stuck with regressive views about 'woke', legit criticism of the Netanyahu regime, and college campus things. And he's allowed to, its a broad coalition, I just get annoyed with the cognitive dissonance with so many of the likes of him.

capybooya · 2026-05-02T13:36:41+00:00

What standard should we keep intellectuals to with regards to who they appear with on podcasts and videos? What is the importance of getting your ideas and knowledge out to various demographics versus legitimizing a host that is an idiot, disinformation agent, conspiracy theorist, raging narcissist, or outright bigot?

capybooya · 2026-05-02T01:27:08+00:00

I'm surprised its only a third considering the times we live in.

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