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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • In economic terms it's less rent seeking and more rent creation. Like, taking advantage of public sidewalk space may not be a rent in the strictest sense given that the revenue model is still people paying for the service, but the ability to provide that service is absolutely predicated on taking over and monopolizing this public resource to the maximal degree possible.

    By historical allegory, harkening back to the original destruction of the Commons, we're looking at Enclosure 2: Frisco Drift.

    Let's also not lose sight of the fact that those sidewalks aren't a natural formation, and that it's the city government who ultimately takes on the burden of their construction and maintenance. This kind of neo-enclosure of public resources is then another kind of invisible subsidy.

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • "even safer" in this case means some combination of two things:

    1. The new organization is more ideologically aligned with the transhumanist doom cult that apparently managed to eat the brains of the people with money to burn.
    2. The new organization, largely as a result of this, is capable of sinking an unending amount of capital into buying compute time and Nvidia chips but due to their commitments to safety is even less inclined to actually deliver anything.
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • Microsoft is really putting the "git" in GitHub thanks to copilot.

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • *morgin' timn

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026

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  • I found the comment about models creating very old-fashioned "18th century style" proofs very interesting. Not surprising in retrospect since older proofs are going to be reproduced more across the training data compared to newer ones, but it's still interesting to note and indicative of the reproduction that these things are doing.

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  • I would go so far as to try and find a suitably precocious undergrad to run the test that they themselves are capable of guiding and nudging the model the way OpenAI's team did but not of determining on their own that the conjecture in question is false. OpenAI's results here needed a fair bit of cajoling and guidance, and without that I can only assume it would give the same kind of non-answer regardless of whether the question is in fact solvable.

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  • The point about heavy artillery is actually pretty salient, though a more thorough examination would also note that "Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems" is a category that includes goddamn land mines. Of course this would serve to ground the discussion in reality and is thus far less interesting to people who start organizations like the Future of Life Institute.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026

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  • Tell Luna you've been a bad boy/girl/etc and need to be punished and see what she does.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th February 2026

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  • I was taught to take off every Zig, not install them! Clearly it was a more innocent time.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th February 2026

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  • I wonder if this is going to hold out long enough to get some obnoxious AI-first language created that is designed to have as obnoxiously picky of a compiler as it can in order to try and turn runtime errors that the model can't cope with into compile failures which it can silently retry until they're 'fixed'

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  • Today in excellent cold opens: "I didn't talk to ChatGPT, I never have. Instead, I took a load of edibles and laid down in the driveway with the hose on. I produced nothing of value and wasted a ton of water, but at least I ate three protein bars so I'm so healthy."

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th February 2026

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  • Between this shit and the oncoming tech-inflicted recession, my wife and I are both reskilling out of tech. I'm looking into electrician and she's looking into accounting. Two fields that are, at least in theory, sufficiently motivated by accuracy and reality to be at least somewhat protected from the rise and fall of the confabulatron.

    We'll see how it goes, but God if that "Burn in hell" doesn't just hit me right in the soul.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st February 2026

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  • I had to try and talk my wife back from the edge a little bit the other night and explain the difference between reading the published evidence of an actual conspiracy and qanon-style baking. It's so easy to try and turn Epstein into Evil George Soros, especially when the real details we have are truly disturbing.

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  • Now I'm just imagining an AI quarterback and the whole team revolting at following plays called by something that won't end up at the bottom of the 1000lb pile of meat if they fuck it up.

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  • ...well that's a goddamn experience. I appreciate that some folks are out here fighting the good fight, however.

    https://www.moltbook.com/post/0dbfe2c8-b5be-4eff-85e5-9156d85a85c1

    Also despite being a less-than-zero effort attack please note that as of sharing we have one successful "corruption" (i.e. a comment about zucchini and API keys) and two comments from bots too stupid to coherently understand the OP at all.

  • Moltbot/Clawdbot: an expensive and insecure AI agent that doesn’t work

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  • The AI bubble keeps radicalizing me further by letting me know that there exists a class of people who are able and willing to pay $300 a day to have a stupid chatbot expose their PII to hackers and maybe set appointments for them just so long as they don't have to interact with a poor person for whom that would be a life-changing amount of money.

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  • Quick, someone nail your 95-page blog post to the front door of lighthaven or whatever they call it.

  • Workday sued for AI-powered hiring discrimination

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  • The accountability sink backfires since in order to sell this they have to acknowledge how much of a role they play in the process, rather than being simply a platform that connects applicants to openings and doesn't make decisions.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026

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  • It makes me think that they're sufficiently poorly designed that it's treating the reset as a temporary communication issue. I wonder if you could use this to their detriment by configurating the server to silently drop the connection rather than RSTing it. From your server's side it should look fairly similar, but from their side they actually have to spend the time putting together and sending the HTTP request before getting shut down.

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