Clown v. Clown. This is about the level of discourse Yud deserves.

What about the git commit messages for the Microsoft PM who vibe-coded all these changes. Were they also accompanied by a “Co-Authored by GitHub” message? Because that’d be hilarious if they weren’t.

McKenzie has got to be one of the worst writers I’ve ever come across.

<thousands of words of blather>

We will return to the other reason in a moment.

<thousands of words of blather>

We return from this flight of fancy to the indictment.

<thousands of words of blather>

Why? We’ll return to it in a minute.

I didn’t make it to the end, because I’m not going to waste that much time reading tens of thousands of words of fascist-supporting bullshit.

You and me both. The deluge of shitty AI slop code is never-ending. Unfortunately, software companies are going to have to start going under before anything gets done about it.

You thought software quality was poor before LLMs? You ain’t seen nothing yet.

Typical mentality on the orange site:

I don’t think I’ve read a single line of code I’ve shipped in over 6 months.

The back-and-forth between Gwen and LessWrong commenters is getting spicy. This definitely deserves a top-level post on SneerClub.

Habryka’s all, “Dammit, why do you have to come here and remind everyone where the Zizians came from?”

EDIT: This person also seems to have no concept of the finality of death, which might explain why the Zizians were so murdery.

Every day, HN users flag into oblivion anything mildly critical of the technological dystopia these tech-bros are trying to manifest. “Politics!” they cry. But Sam Altman comes along with an OpenAI marketing piece dressed up as a condemnation of political violence, and suddenly “politics” are a perfectly acceptable topic. dang has long made it clear whose side he’s on.

Oh, and I hope everyone noted how quickly Sam used this incident as an excuse to place blame on the reporters who published the New Yorker piece that was mildly critical of him:

Words have power too. There was an incendiary article about me a few days ago. Someone said to me yesterday they thought it was coming at a time of great anxiety about AI and that it made things more dangerous for me. I brushed it aside.

He really is insufferable, isn’t he?

Looks like they’re using the standard blue/orange color scheme

That was quite the rabbit-hole.

The whole time I’m sitting here thinking, “do these mods realize they’re moderating a subreddit called ‘cogsuckers’?”

I was unable to follow the thread of conversation from the archived links, so here is the source in case anyone cares.

Does anyone know when Dustin deleted his EA forums account? Did he provide any additional explanation for it?

I didn’t realize this was part of the rationalist-originated “AI Village” project. See https://sage-future.org/ and https://theaidigest.org/village. Involved members and advisors include Eli Lifland and Daniel Kokotajlo of “AI 2027” infamy.

Its standard crypto libraries are also second to none.

Follow the hype, Kevin, follow the hype.

I hate-listen to his podcast. There’s not a single week where he fails to give a thorough tongue-bath to some AI hypester. Just a few weeks ago when Google released Gemini 3, they had a special episode just to announce it. It was a defacto press release, put out by Kevin and Casey.

Orange site mods retitled a post about a16z funding AI slop farms to remove the a16z part.

The mod tried to pretend the reason was that the title was just too damn long and clickbaity. His new title was 1 character shorter than the original.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46305113

Bay Area rationalist Sam Kirchner, cofounder of the Berkeley “Stop AI” group, claims “nonviolence isn’t working anymore” and goes off the grid. Hasn’t been heard from in weeks.

Article has some quotes from Emile Torres.

https://archive.is/20251205074622/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/sam-kirchner-missing-stop-ai/685144/

As someone who also went to university in the late 80s and early 90s, I didn’t share his experiences. This reads like one of those silly shaggy-dog stories where everyone says sarcastically afterwards: “yeah that happened”.

Damn. I thought I was cynical, but nowhere near as cynical as OpenAI is, apparently.

One thing to keep in mind about Ptacek is that he will die on the stupidest of hills. Back when Y Combinator president Garry Tan tweeted that members of the San Francisco board of supervisors should be killed, Ptacek defended him to the extent that the mouth-breathers on HN even turned on him.