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This paper is an incredible read: TESCREAL hallucinations: Psychedelic and AI hype as inequality engines https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2054/7/S1/article-p22.x... > "Research…

LLMs can't access the training data that's less than the statistically most common token, so they use a random jitter. With that randomness comes statistically irrelevant results.

It's a type of cognitive bias not much different than an addict or indoctrinated cult follower. A subset of them might actually genuinely fear Roko's basilisk the exact same way co…

It looks like most of Peter's projects are just simple API wrappers. Peter's been running agents overnight 24/7 for almost a year using free tokens from his influencer payments to …

Peter has been running agents overnight for months using free tokens from his influencer payments to promote AI startups and multiple subscription accounts: Hi, my name is Peter an…

OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission (November 2025) https://theconversation.com/openai-has-deleted-the-word-safe... Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

either way there's a lot of money pumping the agentic hype train with not much to show for it other than Peter's blog edit history showing he's a paid influencer and even the littl…

Can you elaborate on this more or point a link for some context?

That's not actually research though. The LLM API is only requesting a few of the top search results from a search engine and then adding those web pages to its context window. That…

"Is curing patients a sustainable busines model?" - Goldman 2018 https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/goldman-sachs-asks-in-bi... Many of the biggest medical innovations have come f…

LTO9 is only 18TB. The LTO compression ratio is theoretical and most peoples data will be incompatible with native LTO compression method used.

"The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber is a great, more recent alternative with a lot more context around the non-linear trajectory of history - the modern myths of linear progr…

Manipulating the The Keynesian Beauty Contest is the metagame, especially after the era of /r/Wall-street bets swelled up. What do you think Jim Kramer gets paid to do, report fact…

In a post-industrial economy there are no more economic problems, only liabilities. Surplus is felt as threat, especially when it's surplus human labor. In today's economy disease …

upwards of 60% of the ethanol used in combustion engines is completely wasted.

Mass layoffs and the wellness camp industry will easily account for $600+ billion a year in contracts, for at least a few years. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/rfk-wellness-farms-…

Slop influencers like Peter Steinberger get paid to promote AI vibe coding startups and the agentic token burning hype. Ironically they're so deep into the impulsivity of it all th…

New York City had hybrid in-person and remote as an option, so only about 4 months were remote for most students. Seems like a perfect A/B test case to test the theory that a remot…

Funding for schools is often based on Average Daily Attendance.

Most studies are showing children with neurological damage from continued exposure to covid outbreaks in schools multiple times a year. Lockdowns did not last more than a few month…

Most schools across the US were available for in person teaching by April and June of 2020. By August of 2020 the vast majority of schools were opened back up. https://ballotpedia.…

Debunked and no evidence, all claims came from biased sources: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-2-debunked-accounts-o... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_and_gender-based…

Isn't ATProto just a compromised version of Activity Pub, basically designed around an excuse to force all users into a data mining firehose structure like twitter used to have onl…

The game is social engineering to "exit" for early investors to bag holders through an IPO just like an ICO. The irony is with crypto everyone knows it's a scam, but with IPO's the…

Metadata is never deleted, only copied to more and more archives and databases. You're always being added to a list, and all of your metadata decides what lists you'll end up on in…