[–] 13 points 4 days ago (1 child)

AI Crisis Flowchart spotted on linkedin

spoiler

and the actual article: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-ai-that-hacked-its-way-out-and-the-hype-that-followed-it

quoted zvi haha :|

To be fair, the safety community can plausibly claim vindication here. At worst, an autonomous agent that breaches containment and attacks a real third party is precisely the scenario researchers have warned about for years, which enthusiasts have routinely dismissed as speculative. And at best, the company in charge of maintaining safety failed to construct an adequate containment system.

are you fucking kidding me, they have been DDoSing sites for months, everybody knows about it, and the "safety" community has done jack shit the entire time and has offered zero solutions. I know multiple companies that woke up one day to 10-20k netlify bills until they could stand up an anubis.

Just let hugging face sue the idiots, it isn't like law enforcement will do anything even though there's already laws on the books for unauthorized access, industrial espionage, etc etc etc.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    zerohedge sponcon so obviously a grift but wtf is this AI Black Paper by Jim Rickards

    https://www.zerohedge.com/sponsored-post/sobering-july-29th-announcement-set-crush-ai-stocks

    Have the goldbugs been reading Zitron? or just an extremely late pivot from btc to ai? or flooding the zone?

    Anyway who the hell is Jim Rickards? Another week, another guy.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:James_Rickards

    "AI Black Paper" is catchy enough though, should be a goth band.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    The AI Race With China Is a Lie Told by Big Tech to Justify the Data Center Invasion via naked capitalism

    choice quotes:

    More to the point, LLM development in China is incidental to the country’s real goal for AI. Its focus remains on products embedded with AI and robots. Or, as AI policy researcher Liang Zheng says, in China, “The first priority is to use it to benefit ordinary people” (debatable, but indicates the kind of AI they are pursuing).

    In the US, the first priority is to exploit people so that the tech oligarchs can profit. It’s chatbots all the way down.


    Yet, the “AI race” story is a convenient lie for Big Tech and its political protectors. It is a neat political argument designed to insulate the industry from criticism and regulation.

    If every environmental review, every question raised by a community, every issue around water usage and electricity prices can be dismissed or lessened as “helping China,” then meaningful political debate can be silenced. Real regulation—if even possible—can be avoided. Fear becomes a substitute for policy.

    At the same time, data center developers and their minions in Washington have tried to weaponize false claims about foreign ties to the anti-data center movement. Kevin O’Leary of Shark Tank fame has explicitly said that our movement is being funded by China. He has no evidence because evidence of a falsehood can’t exist. In fact, Fox News has been forced to retract its coverage of his claims.

    We understand why O’Leary and the other Tech Broligarchs don’t understand the grassroots opposition to data centers building across the country. It’s hard to spot the grassroots from the window of a private jet.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    That Greer/Land crossover podcast is one of the funnier things I've listened to in a while, thanks for the ref, I guess I had missed it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-pcSez32-s if others are interested.

    Land opens with a Greer/Land yin-yang and we're off the to races. Greer definitely brings up Spengler. Then Land starts talking about "Father Chad the Colorado Exorcist" and Greer is just yes-and-ing about the Solomonic tradition of binding demons.

    ... Half way through, that's enough for one sitting.

    Relatedly, C2C had a guy on talking about the singularity plus the bible. https://kfiam640.iheart.com/featured/coast-to-coast-am/content/2026-07-22-1100-the-best-of-coast-to-coas-the-singularity-best-of-coast-to-coast-am-72/

    Seems like America is definitely getting ready for this stuff to cross over to the Left Behind crowd, I predict more Tucker segments. I'll post some of the other guys I've found, digging into the "AI is actually the demonic spiritual energy of surviving nephilim" theory rn.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    John Michael Greer writes:

    Second, I’ve had various people try to launch discussions about AIs — that is to say, large language models (LLMs) and the utilities they power — on this and my other forums. The initial statements and their follow-up comments always end up reading as though they were written by LLMs — that is, long strings of words superficially resembling meaningful sentences but not actually communicating anything. That’s neither useful nor entertaining. Thus I’ve decided to ban further discussion of this latest wet dream of the lumpen-internetariat here, and have extended that ban to LLM-generated content of all kinds. https://ecosophia.net/july-2026-open-post/

    Good for you, you peak-oil meme-magic druid, for keeping your corner of the net weird.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago

    I hate LLMs because I am under enormous pressure, from many different angles, to also use them. I'm being asked -- required, in some cases -- to ignore all of my concerns about them and use them anyway because everyone else does and "obviously" they are the future. Because, somehow, all of my positions against LLMs make me unreasonable and a less valuable member of society.

    oof. yeah that's me.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    who is this Dean Ball guy? new week, new guy, I guess.

    https://www.axios.com/2026/07/19/pentagon-openai-dean-ball-trump-ai

    Zoom in: "Every industry/ecosystem has its supreme village idiot. @deanwball is that for AI," Defense under secretary Emil Michael said Sunday on X.

    "Dean Ball has perhaps the biggest gap between actual IQ and his own perceived IQ of anyone in the industry (about 40 points)." Michael was arguing against Ball's point that various government agencies, including the Pentagon, have blocked employees from using Chinese AI, which has already sent a message to regulated companies.

    Russ Wilcox felt compelled to weigh in also

    Dean Ball, days into his new job as Head of Strategic Futures at OpenAI, posted his assessment of Kimi K3, the new model from the Chinese lab Moonshot AI. Kimi is an open-weight model, which means its inner workings are published for anyone to download, run, and modify; the newest version’s weights ship later this month. It had just matched the best publicly available models of the first quarter. The post made three claims. Open-weight models are “inherently decelerationist.” A probable outcome of an open-weight-dominant world is “full AI communism,” a future of AI as public good and digital public infrastructure that strikes him as a “dystopian hellscape.” And the United States government will at some point realize that its best strategy is to create large amounts of “regulatory risk” around the use of open-weight Chinese models.

    I have met Dean Ball. We have disagreed before. This time the disagreement is public, and so the response should be too.

    oh no kimi3 got the neo marxist woke mind virus

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