can all of rationalism be reduced to logorrhea with load-bearing extreme handwaving (in this case, agentic self preservation arises through RL scaling)?

got my Urbit newsletter for this quarter (or whatever the fuck the cadence is) and what stood out to me this time was nockchain.org. I was going to sit and do a deep dive to come up with sneers for this but I just don’t have the executive function right now. @self thoughts?

Sean Munger, my favorite history YouTuber, has released a 3-hour long video on technology cultists from railroads all the way to LLMs. I have not watched this yet but it is probably full of delicious sneers.

zig is C with approximately everything it should have had, imo. The only thing that kind of sucks is that it’s not 1.0 yet and big breaking changes do happen. The most recent one was a complete overhaul of the writer interface in 0.15.1.

this is very fashtech coded, happy to be proven wrong though.

Blog von Marcus Seyfarth, LL.M.

LOL

I have a hard time blaming AI specifically for the degradation of information sharing. I think we already lost the plot when we started relying on a centralized entity (Google) to “index the world’s information and make it useful”. Ad-tech already fucked up all of the incentives, making recipe sites fill their pages with bullshit in hopes of wiping my eyeballs with messages from third parties hungry for attention. I fucking hate this world.

I don’t doubt you could effectively automate script kiddie attacks with Claude code. That’s what the diagram they have seems to show.

First comment: “the world is bottlenecked by people who just don’t get the simple and obvious fact that we should sort everyone by IQ and decide their future with it”

No, the world is bottlenecked by idiots who treat everything as an optimization problem.

wait this isn’t a joke this is a yc funded startup