A conservative is a libertarian who has been mugged.

This isn’t even skating towards where the puck is, it’s skating in a fucking swimming pool.

Yeah that’s “Lena” by the SCP guy. Great story.

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

MMAcevedo’s demeanour and attitude contrast starkly with those of nearly all other uploads taken of modern adult humans, most of which boot into a state of disorientation which is quickly replaced by terror and extreme panic. Standard procedures for securing the upload’s cooperation such as red-washing, blue-washing, and use of the Objective Statement Protocols are unnecessary.

About the only good stuff LW does is remind me of other, much better SF. In this case Ian McDonald’s Necroville (Terminal Café in the US), about a future where nanotech enables the resurrection of the dead. Said neo-living are of course discriminated against, have no human rights, and are used as cheap disposable labor by the corporation that uses the technology.

D’oh! I missed that connection, although the little infographic amoebas should have tipped me off

AI researchers continue to daub soot on the walls of Plato’s cave, scaring themselves witless:

https://www.emergent-values.ai/

At least I’ve IDd the transmission vector from LW to lobste.rs

MoreWronger is concerned that the shitty fanfic the community excretes is limited to LW and Xhitter and wonders if The Atlantic is a better venue

Look I have nothing against fanfic myself but if there’s one powerful corrective it lacks, it is commercial content editorial feedback.

Credit where credit is due, this is a decent comeback

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43005246

Rats have reached the “put up stickers to proselytize” stage of their weird religion

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SvtKronRNrw9AxXwa/clement-l-s-shortform?commentId=ZifQXkhxo5dJvrL3Q

I bet that jacket is some super-nerdy thing that William Gibson once mentioned in a book

Anyone matched the list of names of the dinguses currently wrecking US agencies from the inside with known LW or HN posters?

balancing parentheses is why I draft all my comments in emacs

wow the sanewashing of trump in those threads is insane

I wonder how much % of the freakout over Deepseek is AI doomers realizing the coming AI god might be … ChiCom!

yellowstone caldera erupting during Trump II would be fitting somehow

What? You don’t have a spare $6,000 to run nonsense generators at home? Peasant…

https://xcancel.com/carrigmat/status/1884244369907278106?mx=2

white always wins

this is the method Elon prefers

this was mentioned in last week’s thread

what I don’t get is why the admins chose to both backdate the entries and re-use poster’s handles. If they’d just tried to “close” open questions using GenAI with the current date and a robot user it would still be shit but not quite as deceptive

This is a good article, thanks for posting.

SoftBank, one of the big backers behind Stargate, is notorious for WeWork-level funding disasters — but five days from floating the idea to the crash might be a new record.

I LOLd