"Dark Enlightenment" was invented for Nick Land for his essay of the same name.
more proximately, he also went to the Manifold Markets meetup for statistical predictors that just happened to include Jordan Lasker, which is why he keeps making these posts with curiously Lasker-adjacent talking points. It's very disappointing.
the rationalists are still not over thiel getting sick of them
i actually spoke to someone in greece who tried tracking this story to its roots, and is pretty sure it didn't actually happen, but identified places it could have happened, so it seems to have been written by someone who'd been to exarcheia
Apparently it works in binary.
The Stoller piece is instructive - he's wrong, but it's a perfect example of the resentment and the reasons for the resentment.
the second, I think. I'm actually surprised we have no smoking guns on vibe coding in production at MS. Or even one guy saying "hell yeah we totally did."
On the other hand, Nvidia is doing some very questionable circular looking deals.
On the other other hand, Jensen knows precisely how to surf a bubble while it's bubbling, he's done it before. When you do stupid shit and the number goes up, shareholders don't have a lot to get aggrieved about.
The bit where OpenAi and Anthropic need actual real dollars to set on fire.
But why are we talking about some AI agent platform in the Urbit newsletter? Naturally because we think, Urbit fixes this.
As a matter of fact, Tlon is already working on this with their Openclaw Plugin for Tlon Messenger. It is currently in an early adopter phase, but they expect to provide an instance of Openclaw with every ship that they host for their users.
but of course
I get the worst bottom of the barrel AI ads on the YouTube. At least the viewers find them hilarious.
view more: next ›
amazed he got through that without somehow blaming sneerclub