occasionally mentioned here Jan Marsalek implicated in surveillance (sometimes comically bad) and planned murder of journalists who crossed him https://theins.press/en/inv/279034 https://www.euronews.com/2025/03/07/uk-court-convicts-three-bulgarians-of-spying-for-russia
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.
For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community
we live in hell https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow-based-global
(this is compounded by how some segment of heavy ai boosters/users - former cryptobros, but not only them - were already immersed in this particular bubble)
Ow look the thing I worried about on r/scc (yes I know my own fault for touching it) which could not happen 'because you dont understand how llms work' happend.
google stepping up their quest to disorganize the world’s information
since the name popped up elsewhere: what's the feel on venkatesh rao?
(I often see the name in 🚩 places, but dunno if that's because the areas or because the person)
We talked about that on r/sneerclub in the past, can't recall the specific consensus. Seems post-rational, has innovation on rationalism from binary 'object vs meta' to 2x2 grids.
thanks, I'll go check in the archives :)
I did a quick search on Ribbonfarm (I couldn't recall what his blog was called quickly) myself. And see how much I had forgotten, it should have been called meta-rationality, and yes, insight porn, that was the term. (linking to two posts where ribbonfarm/this stuff was discussed).
E: Sad feels when you click on a name in the sub from years ago and see them now being a full blast AI bro.