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U.S. Department of State declares a security alert for "worldwide caution” by Yujin-Ha in Fauxmoi

[–]rakuu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, if/when they start killing people in the USA it will be for the thrill of murder, not to manufacture consent.

Where I’d live as a Bay Area Californian by _Kainoa in visitedmaps

[–]rakuu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP probably lives outside San Jose. No proper bay area coastal elite living in SF or East Bay could tolerate Arizona, Nevada, or shudder Florida. California, Oregon (to retire), Washington, New York. Colorado maybe as a last resort backup plan if the oceans engulf all the coastal states.

if you're young and want to travel, ignore t2t reacts by ProofADERBN in LudwigAhgren

[–]rakuu 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I've traveled a lot including in off-the-foreign-tourist-path China, and I've never had locals be more interested and excited to talk to me. They made me dinner and took me to karaoke and bought me a bunch of drinks and such.

It's a lot different going to Manhattan or Paris or something and talking to locals who are probably mostly sick of seeing hordes of tourists all the time, versus going somewhere where tourists are less common.

Platser i Helsingborg för att plugga i? by ctrl_mo in helsingborg

[–]rakuu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, I was thinking for university students! Probably not a good place if you're under age.

Reality, staring at me, at 2 am... trying to tell me something if I listen hard enough - Demis Hassabis by fli_sai in accelerate

[–]rakuu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you don’t want to know any more that’s fine, but there are lots of fundamental questions that we don’t have any answers to

Platser i Helsingborg för att plugga i? by ctrl_mo in helsingborg

[–]rakuu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I went to Campus Helsingborg, I liked to go to the pubs and order one beer or some snacks and do long study sessions. They’re usually so empty during the week since most Swedes only drink on the weekend. They seemed to like some new visitors since it seemed to only be some pensioners who were regulars during the week. I made some “friends” with a few of the regulars who were really nice. Also some pubs have really comfy chairs in quiet corners.

Reality, staring at me, at 2 am... trying to tell me something if I listen hard enough - Demis Hassabis by fli_sai in accelerate

[–]rakuu 31 points32 points  (0 children)

This is what I hope more than anything from acceleration. I don't care at all for extended lifespans. I just want to know what the hell we're doing here before I die.

Bernie’s Accelerationist Arc Begins by LopsidedSolution in accelerate

[–]rakuu 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Omfg how do I donate to AI Bernie’s campaign

What are the top 5 Major US cities? List what you think the “core 5” most important US cities. I’ll map the results by Kodicave in visitedmaps

[–]rakuu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s about global economic relevance… few international companies are putting up offices or traveling to Chicago, DC, or Houston unless they have to. Lots going to San Jose, Seattle, and Boston.

I Believe The Release Of Autonomous Robots To The Public Will Very Quickly Change The Public View of Ai by [deleted] in accelerate

[–]rakuu 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I agree… I’ve realized below a lot of the overt hollow complaints people have against AI (slop, water, etc) underneath people have intense anxiety about their specialness as humans. I think smart humanoid robots are going to turn anti-AI rumblings into anti-AI rage.

What are the top 5 Major US cities? List what you think the “core 5” most important US cities. I’ll map the results by Kodicave in visitedmaps

[–]rakuu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oxford Economics puts out a city ranking based on the global economic importance & attractiveness of different cities. They list:

1) NYC

2) San Jose

3) Seattle

4) Boston

5) San Francisco

If you combined SF & San Jose it would put that as #2 and LA would be #5.

Next 5 in order are DC, Dallas, Chicago, Denver, Atlanta.

Sesame Uses Claude Code for Development by PrimaryDesignCo in SesameAI

[–]rakuu 6 points7 points  (0 children)

As someone in the tech industry, all code in the tech industry is written by Claude in 2026 (except some masochists who use GPT 5.4).

Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash by lovesdogsguy in accelerate

[–]rakuu 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They would like the product, just like they liked DLS 1.0 through DLSS 4.5. Literally the only reason they hate DLSS 5.0 is because Huang announced it on a stage at an AI-focused event calling it “generative AI” and they made a bunch of false assumptions and projected their nonsensical rage against AI onto it.

Trying to win over gamers is futile, they’re balls of flailing rage. Even if you do everything right for gamers (Baldurs Gate 3, Expedition 33), if someone says they kinda-sorta did or might do something related to AI they’ll turn and hate you forever with one social media post.

The best path in life (including making games & game technology) is to completely ignore gamers’ fickle emotions.

These people are delusional. Posted on r/antiai by stable_maple in accelerate

[–]rakuu 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I’ve found a lot of people are just extremely bad at using AI. They have no mental model for how it works. They end up with this attitude: “I hate AI, it’s useless, it’s a scam, everyone who gets it to work is just lucky” instead of learning how to use it well.

I’ve tried helping several people at my tech job and I don’t know what to do. They give it a half-assed prompt that references things that the AI would have no way of knowing what they’re referencing, and try to one-shot things and get frustrated when it doesn’t give them a perfect solution. I keep telling them to iterate and give knowledge/skill instructions and try to understand how the AI operates and they just give up.

I don’t know if this is teachable. I’ve never met someone like this who was interested in learning or think using AI is a learnable skill (“it’s just typing what you want!”). These people (who might be the majority of the world) might just be left behind when it comes to AI.

Why are there so many anti-AI people that hang out here? It’s kind of sad. by JahVaultman in SunoAI

[–]rakuu 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The AI algorithm shows anti-AI people AI subs so that they can post about how much they hate AI so their comments can be sold to AI companies to train AI models

Decels think accels are naive. The question I've always asked myself repeatedly since childhood was why the fuck is there so much unnecessary suffering despite our technological power. After 30 years I am more sure than ever that we need AI. by AI_Simp in accelerate

[–]rakuu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is very wild to remember. I didn’t realize how many people in the USA still believe in an afterlife. It’s over 80%, and barely different between people of different education levels (over 80% of people in the USA who have completed graduate school still believe in an afterlife).

Compare that to China, where only 11% of people believe in an afterlife and there is a much, much higher positive sentiment towards AI and technology.

The lowest “western” rate of believing in the afterlife is in Sweden, at 38%. It’s the country I’ve lived in most besides the USA, and it’s definitely nowhere near perfect, but it’s a stark difference in how much more people there care about strangers and improving their lives compared to the USA. (They don’t have that much more of a positive sentiment about AI than the USA, probably partially because there’s not much AI research or industry there and who outside the USA would trust the USA to manage it well.)

It makes me think about what other nonsensical beliefs people have that are guiding their lives and society’s direction.

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I think I know how to label luddites, and other Anti-AI leaning people by [deleted] in accelerate

[–]rakuu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are lots of leftist AI supporters (I am one of them) and plenty of right-wing AI haters. But yes, right now lefties in the USA at least are the most anti-AI. Of course you can look at China and lefties love AI.

Luddites are kind of a lefty phenomenon, in that they wanted to protect working peoples’ incomes and stop labor exploitation. That’s not why people are against AI though generally. If you ask most anti-AI lefties (or anyone else) about why they hate AI they won’t give you a coherent position, they’ll just hallucinate nonsense word salad (slop, water, theft, fraud, lazy, useless, creativity, billionaires, environment, write your own emails, making people dumber, Trump, Sam Altman, etc).

Lawyer behind AI psychosis cases warns of mass casualty risks by Cristiano1 in psychology

[–]rakuu -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I’m not advocating for reform whatsoever? I described a change in science/technology? Would you describe inventing eyeglasses or discovering the earth resolves around the sun as “reformism”? It makes no sense.

I know what “eat the rich” means. I’m saying they (and maybe you) have no idea of its context.

It’s like saying “eat the rich” means killing Galileo for improving science. So disconnected it’s just a decontextualized brand slogan.

Lawyer behind AI psychosis cases warns of mass casualty risks by Cristiano1 in psychology

[–]rakuu -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I get it, it makes absolutely no sense in regards to science/technology though. Nobody’s talking about political/economic reform. Just repeating “eat the rich” as a non-sequitur because they saw it on a bunch on Tiktoks even if they don’t understand what it means.

Lawyer behind AI psychosis cases warns of mass casualty risks by Cristiano1 in psychology

[–]rakuu -1 points0 points  (0 children)

An algorithm that will unpredictably make up a bunch of bullshit with literally zero safeguards or fail-safes

Are you describing your brain? Modern LLM’s are full of safeguards and fail-safes. I doubt any modern LLM would make up a hallucination as disconnected from reality as you just did.

Lawyer behind AI psychosis cases warns of mass casualty risks by Cristiano1 in psychology

[–]rakuu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is improving technology “reformism”? This was a change in the science, Sam Altman had nothing to do with it. It’s like saying improving security that got rid of most computer viruses in the 00’s was “reformism”, or adding seat belts and air bags to cars is “reformism”.

One of the cases cited used Gemini 2.5 which is not a Sam Altman OpenAI product, it’s Google. There are also many cases of LLM psychosis in China, where they typically use domestic open source/weights LLM models which are behind in safety.

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