INTERCAL: We have keywords like PLEASE and IGNORE because we think it's funny

Anthropic: We have PLEASE and IGNORE *baked into our source-code* because we have no fucking idea how this thing works

Anthropic: "You have no idea what's coming. And neither do we. We literally have no idea how any of this works. Our source-code looks like something you'd be embarrassed to present as a GCSE assignment"

This shambolic dogshit is coming for your white-collar job in 12-18 months*

At least the machine looms fucking WORKED

*12-18 month rolling window, as ever

When this all comes crashing down, remember how little the Epstein Class valued you and your labour
@pikesley I remember when they decided that it was better to boil the Earth and everyone living on it instead of lower consumption just even a little bit. Seems rather par for the course right now.
@PatrickoftheG @pikesley I really need to use "par for the course" more often. It is such a good phrase with indifferent disdain baked into it 
@grob @pikesley One of my favorite expressions, for exactly that reason. Please use it well and use it often.
@pikesley And 90% of my colleagues, apparently.
@theorangetheme @pikesley Oof, the colleagues. That part right there has hurt the most in all this, at least for me.