

An hackernews responds to the call for āmore optimistic science fictionā with a plan to deport the homeless to outer space
An hackernews responds to the call for āmore optimistic science fictionā with a plan to deport the homeless to outer space
Five Things the āNuclear Brosā Donāt Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors
sinks like a pellet of uranium on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43825285
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āThe millenials were so well paid in tech jobs during the boom that they nevered bothered to invest in homesā is ⦠a take
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Just a standard story about a lawyer using GenAI and fucking up, but included for the nice list of services available
https://www.loweringthebar.net/2025/04/counsel-would-you-be-surprised.html
This is not by any means the first time ChatGPT, or Gemini, or Bard, or Copilot, or Claude, or Jasper, or Perplexity, or Steve, or Frodo, or El Braino Grande, or whatever stupid thing it is people are using, has embarrassed a lawyer by just completely making things up.
El Braino Grande is the name of my next band GenAI startup
We have that already, itās called ads.
āThe CCP is worse than Hitler because at least Hitler was electedā is⦠a take
Gonna put that down to really really bad historical knowledge
when people do stuff like dismissing x-risk because their top Google search result pointed them at RationalWiki, what exactly was the proper non-free-speech-limiting solution to this problem?
How can we leverage the monopoly of violence of the state to promote our religious views?
Inside baseball, and I donāt really have a dog in this fight, but LW is crowing over a legal loss for RationalWiki
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KW5tjMmTqsoRa6zrd/pablo-s-shortform?commentId=wB9jcCPrXzNCLCQXL
They link to a TracingWoodgrain(!) tweet which is basically just a screenshot of a talk page
https://xcancel.com/tracewoodgrains/status/1913717061626347642
I donāt know the significance of this, if any. I donāt recognize the names of any of the plaintiffs(?) in the screenshot, so I find it a bit amusing that probably the only google juice they had were RW.
YIL there was a right-wing antisemitic US general called Moseley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Van_Horn_Moseley
Nominative determinism?
You still canāt be an outright Nazi without people getting mad at you. Obviously unacceptable.
TIL Richard fucking Hanania is a Rationalist, at least according to this excrescence from LW
The left-wing monoculture catastrophically damaged institutional integrity when public-health officials lied during the pandemic and when bureaucrats used threats and intimidation to censor speech on Facebook and Twitter and elsewhereāin the long-term this could move the country toward the draconian censorship regimes, restrictions on political opposition, and unresponsiveness to public opinion that we see today in England, France, and Germany.[1]
Yeah Iām sure trying to dictate to Harvard who they can hire and what courses they can teach is not leading to a ādraconian censorship regimeā
[1] to be clear this is attributed to Richard Ngo, not Hanania
JZW link but meat is a 404 article, donāt wanna bypass their paywall
Hello fellow kids! Doing crimes is TIGHT!
American police departments near the United States-Mexico border are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for an unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on ācollege protesters,ā āradicalizedā political activists, and suspected drug and human traffickers [ā¦]
Eminently punchable face
I got it from a comment here, apparently some pie in the sky charity needs more money
His name is Scott.
not every programmer posts to social mediaā¦
Not sure why anyone thought CS as a community can āsave usā. Itās just as likely to be red/black-pilled (gold/black-pilled?) as any other heavily male tech adjacent community. The idea that nerds should be politically liberal because they were bullied in 80 high-school comedies is ludicrous.
A dimly flickering light in the darkness: lobste.rs has added a new tag, āvibecodingā, for submissions related to use āAIā in software development. The existing tag āaiā is reserved for ārealā AI research and machine learning.