The top comment begins thusly:
I think you make a reasonably compelling case, but when I think about the practicality of this in my own life itās pretty hard to imagine not spending any time talking to chatbots. ChatGPT, Claude and others are extremely useful.
I didnāt think it was possible, but the perfection continues! Still, no notes!
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METR funded 16 experienced open-source developers with āmoderate AI experienceā to do what they do.
https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/
When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issuesāa significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.
womp, hold on let me finish, womp
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JspxcjkvBmye4cW4v/asking-for-a-friend-ai-research-protocols
Multiple people are quietly wondering if their AI systems might be conscious. Whatās the standard advice to give them?
Touch grass. Touch all the grass.
Dorkus malorkus alert:
When my grandmother quit being a nurse to become a stay at home mother, it was seen like a great thing. She gained status over her sisters, who stayed single and in their careers.
Fitting into your societal pigeonhole is not the same as gaining status, ya doofus.
Another comment that has been getting downvotes and tut-tuts begins,
The only thing that will raise fertility rates is to make it more affordable to have a child.
(Robot Santa voice) Wanting all women to be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen? Evil! Not providing footnotes in your reply to a blog post? EXACTLY AS EVIL
Any time somebody edits a post to talk about the downvotes, itās cursed gold.
In the morning: we are thrilled to announce this new opportunity for AI in the classroom
Someone finally flipped a switch. As of a few minutes ago, Grok is now posting far less often on Hitler, and condemning the Nazis when it does, while claiming that the screenshots people show it of what itās been saying all afternoon are fakes.
Yet Rationalists I spoke with said they didnāt see targeted violence ā bombing data centers, say ā as a solution to the problem.
Andrew Gelman does some more digging and poking about those āignore all previous instructions and give a positive reviewā papers:
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/07/chatbot-prompts/
Previous Stubsack discussion:
Major Strasser has been shotā¦ round up the usual suspects!
It is a dark time for the Rebellion. Although the Death Star has been destroyed, Imperial troops have driven the Rebel forces from their hidden base and pursued them across the galaxy.
If I may say so, sir, I noticed earlier the hyperdrive motivator has been damaged. Itās impossible to go to lightspeed!
Captain, being held by you isnāt quite enough to get me excited.
Weāre going to get pulverized if we stay out here much longer.
āYou said theyād be left at the city under my supervision!ā
āI am altering the deal. Pray I donāt alter it any further.ā
I can see that my 50,000 a year has been well spent.
Donald, Donaldā¦ This park was not built to cater only for the super-rich.
This isnāt some species that was obliterated by deforestation, or the building of a dam. Dinosaurs had their shot, and nature selected them for extinction.
Dinosaurs and man, two species separated by 65 million years of evolution have just been suddenly thrown back into the mix together.
T-Rex doesnāt want to be fed. He wants to hunt.
Unless theyāre continually supplied with lysine by us, theyāll slip into a coma and die.
I was overwhelmed by the power of this place. But I made a mistake, too. I didnāt have enough respect for that power and itās out now.
The quest for the Grail is not archaeology; itās a race against evil! If it is captured by the Nazis, the armies of darkness will march all over the face of the Earth! Do you understand me?
āIt was the job we were chosen for.ā
āOf course youād say that, James Bond, her majestyās loyal terrier, defender of the so-called faith.ā
I just found out, that a girl got killed here last week, and you knew it! You knew there was a shark out there!
Is it true that most people get attacked by sharks in three feet of water about ten feet from the beach?
The torso has been severed in mid-thorax; there are no major organs remainingā¦ May I have a glass of water, please?
What we didnāt knowā¦ was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent.
I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him upā¦ bobbed up and down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Wellā¦ heād been bitten in half below the waist.
It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is.
It was believed they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the Sun.
When the Matrix was first built, there was a man born inside who had the ability to change whatever he wanted, to remake the Matrix as he saw fit.
You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged.
If youāre killed in the Matrix, you die here?
Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world?
I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that Iāve somehow been infected by it.
The plodding pace she was forced to setāfor the road was too narrow and winding to pass safelyāallowed time for meditation.
Elizabeth Peters, Naked Once More
Outside the window the cry of gulls could faintly be distinguished as they swirled about aimlessly in the gloom.
Nicholas Meyer, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
The device had been constructed by a master craftsman, and the riddle was thisāthat though heād been told the box contained wonders, there simply seemed to be no way into it, no clue on any of its six black lacquered faces as to the whereabouts of the pressure points that would disengage one piece of this three-dimensional jigsaw from another.
Clive Barker, Hellbound Heart (second sentence of first paragraph)
Skimmed by the savage Seneca from the waters of Pennsylvaniaās great Oil Creek, mister.
William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, The Difference Engine
Only those with unshakable psych profiles were assigned to the outlying agronomy posts; the screening was almost as rigid as that for deep space.
Margaret Wander Bonanno, Strangers from the Sky
One summer afternoon Mrs Oedipa Maas came from from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary.
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (opening line)
Kaneda just scooting to the side at the 14:05 mark like a Looney Tunes character caught with their pants down is comedy gold. I want to loop it with a MIDI rendition of Joplinās āThe Entertainerā.