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robjwells@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th October 2026English
3·1 day agoGood luck with your exams.
robjwells@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI giant Anthropic commits 5% of shares to ‘public benefit’ fundEnglish
3·2 days agoIs this just a slightly altered repeat of when LLM companies (or was it some boosters?) argued they were so dangerous and so potentially profitable the best thing would be for the government to buy 50% - 1 of their shares?
an additional 2% added at the board’s discretion for every 50% increase in the company’s value above a set baseline
Exceedingly optimistic to suggest that they haven’t already peaked in private valuation (perhaps apart from any IPO pop).
robjwells@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th October 2026English
8·2 days agoThey got one of my favourites, Medhi Sadaghdar (ElectroBoom), and yes in a video released on the 10th.
CAIS seem like an “AI safety” laundromat, in the sense they try to put a reasonable face on the paperclip maximiser stuff. They were the ones who organised the “AI safety statement” in 2023, which features lots of signatories who I’m sure just thought “oh yes I don’t want anything bad to happen because of AI”, not “If we don’t give Yudkowsky the reins we’re doomed to become office supplies”.
robjwells@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th October 2026English
2·2 days agoVery disappointing, even if I was only ever a non-registered lurker. Gave in and DNS-blocked it and HN this morning (I had a HN-filtering userscript which in hindsight was just cope).

Kind of reminds me of the people who, around the time the (UK) smoking ban was introduced, made “It’s my right to smoke anywhere I want” their whole personality.