Christian Kündig

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Motherfuckers aren't running a business, they're playing cookie clicker.

There is, it turns out, a lot of space between 'company is about to implode under its own costs' and 'company is worth 1.25 trillion dollars.'

it basically takes every thesis he's every published out back and beats it to within an inch of its life.

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They trained their probes on Claude's internal activations, to detect the "this seems harmful" signal associated with dubious outputs. They asserted a high degree of confidence that these internal activations - Claude's gut intuitions - could not be easily modified. This assertion was incorrect.

discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-propos... huh

r/opensource is banning all mention of projects that use AI. let’s dive in and see what else they are banning. …ah. www.reddit.com/r/opensource...

This is so eye-popping, on the universe of back-channels between Moscow and DC, by the brilliant @maxseddon.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/dcb5...

Moscow has viewed Europe largely as a “parking lot” for U.S. forces: a region of the world that is relevant but strategically subordinate to Washington. That assumption is changing.‘ www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/how-r...

I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, all three of these guys are talking about Jews

like, I think the criticism of Uber in particular is very trenchant and on-point, it's part of why I've been frustrated that 'enshittification' now just means 'i think things are worse because I have back pain and I've lost my sense of wonder' instead of the actual useful descriptor it once was

+ + BREAKING ++ Switzerland votes in one year. Latest polls suggest the radical right SVP could surpass its 2015 record, approaching 30%. But rather than framing this as a surge, the story of the SVP: a relatively stable electoral base, alongside an increasing number of defeats at the ballot box

to little surprise, "Tailscale oh no no no no no" turns out to be...uh. well, you can read it yourself. this is an axe-grinding exercise that uses confident-sounding slop as camouflage.

You dont fool me. I live close to Italy, I regularly travel there and I know what Italian Cuisine looks like.

Hey everyone, gather around! Elon Musk, the trillionaire defense contractor currently spending >$400m on political campaigns to prop up the party of a deeply unpopular president who launched the Iran War has some thoughts about Ukraine, elites, and money in politics.

This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

This post is so useful and wise that I've been referencing it for over 20 years. slashdot.org/comments.pl?...

It'd be rather impressive if someone managed to light a giant fucking metal tower completely on fire

Let's just clear something up: if you believe support for Ukraine is wrong in any way, you are a bad person with bad beliefs and you need to change, immediately. There's no pulling punches here. The Ukraine test is absolute, ironclad, and infallible.

My earnest opinion is that drivers who can't manage a situation like this without melting down shouldn't get behind the wheel.

okay, what the hell? i expected php to bungle their security patch. i did not expect openai to brag about how smooth and great the process was and how proud they are of it here they should not be proud of it this was bungled af

Blitzchung, a pro Hearthstone player at an event hosted in Taiwan, said "Liberate Hong Kong, the revolution of our times" on stream in a post match interview and Blizzard, without pressure from the PRC, immediately banned him from the tournament and made him forfeit his winnings

just the purest form of private power superseding public power, like a fever dream of the kind of thing that the anti-corporate globalization movement warned about in the 1990s. i think i saw puppets foretell this future at an IMF/World Bank protest.

To me it's like those late 19th century people who would go to a cinema and just watch video of trains going by and be astonished. I'm them now. I'm watching a machine do stuff with my cursor because I instructed it to with a phone. I walk in the woods and it updates me. Astonishing.

bad: paying $600 for 32GB RAM in 2026 good: paying pennies for H100s at goodwill in 2029

There is only a weak correlation between "used AI" and "low effort" Once you understand that, you understand the potential of the time in which we find ourselves

I don't think the US is relaxing sanctions on Russia. Here is why: 1.) The timing of the Graham Act waiver is mostly a coincidence. Trump would have had to impose new sanctions and tariffs latest on 18 October. He had to use the waiver now - and it was clear that he would use it.

ultimately the bigotry is the point so true compromise and coalition building maybe wasn't ever in the cards but you also don't have to record podcasts on "The Indian Question" and a group of people that clearly has no aversion to constant outright lying chose odd ground for honesty imo

Claude in particular keeps doing this bizarro-world passive voice thing. It's not actually passive voice but it has the same effect. This is objectively terrible technical writing

According to current orbital elements, the Russian #KOSMOS 2612 satellite is now within 1-2 km of #ICEYE-X36. Based on current elements, it might come within meters of the latter within a few hours from now. This is an #RPO without consent. (cont.)

After 10 years, I disabled my lobste.rs account. I think it's clear I am not a culture fit anymore with whatever it is they have going on there. I feel more and more like I don't belong in almost any tech community because I believe LLM agents are real, passkeys are good, and fascism is bad.

Some users on this site never torrented a Metallica song and it shows

Epic's "AI-first" Disney game is actually kind of a good thing: it will settle the argument over whether players will accept a game made so brazenly with genAI. If it fails, it could take the whole concept of AI games down with it newsletter.hitpoints.co/402-vibe-shi...

Oh.

linus dropping truth bombs lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=w...

the thing that’s tied to this is the air of overwhelming pessimism which has consumed the western radical left, which is why “is the government we’re supporting even left wing” is no longer important to them. the socialist revolution has become a missed opportunity, a lost golden path

A video game reverse engineering community has shut down because many games can now be trivially reverse engineered and decompiled with AI: "The community aspect of decompilation has been broken." www.404media.co/video-game-r...

this is the same cop out as when the EAs decided that theres more humans to live than currently alive so they should focus on lofty future problems not todays. Guess what - theres also more future donors to come and they won’t send their money back in time to feed todays kids ffs!

anthropic cares about safety as long as it is purely hypothetical safety that does not meaningfully impede their operations or profitability. they got into an argument with the government about a hypothetical one time but there is no evidence this has any practical impact