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  that's a horrifying situation to be in... good on the community who originally cancelled his show for apologizing

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  More on Dawkin's fellating Claude (sorry Claudia) https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2026/05/richard-dawkins-and-the-claude-delusion/ *edit* this particular episode has not made it into LW (yet)

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  If all you have is a blog, it's natural for you to think that you can effect regime change through blogging. But there's a very large step between 1. blog a lot 2. ??? 3. absolute CEO-king Culture matters. The US has had a de jure republic for almost 250 years. Even though the presidency has steadily moved to a more central role, it's one thing to have a literal KING in place. There needs to be a story there, and saying "we need to be more effective or the Chinese will win&...

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  Why? So it can be firebombed? (don't fire-bomb residences people) also it's hilarious that a 5% local tax surcharge on a place you don't even live in is considered Stalinism

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  A go-live at 11PM is a recipe for disaster as sleep-deprived engineers struggle to fix all the teething bugs.

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  The color choice was either super lazy or super inspired.

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  > “the thing that matters for your company is: is my employee becoming insanely AI-pilled? And that requires getting them on this tokenmaxxing mindset.” This is gonna be the epitaph of this current bubble.

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  Glad to see some pushback on these claims. Important to note that as these companies are approaching an IPO, they are desperate that the reporting is about the glorious (or dangerous) future they can provide, and not about the dodgy finances.

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  Those S-1 filings are gonna be spicy. OTOH does the SEC have any staff left ?

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  Circular at work states that the standard laptop we get from Dell has increased in price by 50% so they’re looking for alternatives.

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  surprise level == 0 (or rather, short odds on the prediction markets) __[El Reg: OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape ](https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/09/openai_puts_stargate_uk_on/)__

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  Kinda crazy that these date from 2025 and no-one has noticed (or bothered to complain) until now.

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  On this most terrible of online days, "enjoy" this LW attempt at humor https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3GbM9hmyJqn4LNXrG/yams-s-shortform?commentId=ik6ywoQYsGrrQv8Dm __edit__ there are more submissions on the theme of "humor" on site now. Let's just say the cringe factor outweighs the humor factor by a large amount. omg I don't have anything better to do * [Lesswrong Liberated](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hj2NTuiSJtchfMCtu/lesswrong-liberated-1) - they implem...

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  Right? If it had been some poor schlub manning the security desk at a datacenter, it would have been a blip. But this is a __VC__ we're talking about!!

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  JFC at least wait until you have a de-facto monopoly before musing about extracting the rents! This is capitalism 101.

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  There's a pretty wide divide between the speculations of the motives of the alleged arsonist of Sam Altman's SF residence last week. LW has handled the issue obliquely, but the main concern seems to be that they are pretty convinced the dude acted out of fear of AI-induced x-risk. The optics is that his actions would paint EA in a bad light. HN (based on this big heap of comments ) is more focused on the idea that Altman and co. are fomenting class hatred and the attack is more akin...

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  Neal Stephenson comes out strong and funny against GenAI here: …substack.com/…/a-remarkable-assertion-from-a16z “Hypothesis 1: it was written by a clanker”