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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • SEO will pillage the commons.

    My personal conspiracy theory (not sure if I actually believe this yet):

    The idea that people would use generative AI to make SEO easier (and thus make search engine results worse) was not an unfortunate side effect of generative AI, it was the entire purpose. It’s no coincidence that OpenAI teamed up with Google’s biggest rival in search engines; we’re now seeing an arms race between tech giants using spambot generators to overwhelm the enemy’s filters.

    The decision to make chatGPT public was not about concern for openness (if it was they would have made the earlier versions of GPT public too), it’s more that they had a business partner lined up and Google search had become enshittified enough that they thought they could pull off a successful “disruption”.
















  • In a world of moral totalitarianism, sometimes freedom looks like a short story about sex tourism in the Philippines.

    I literally lol’d. Beyond parody.

    the answer is to get Peter Thiel to try to magic up Dimes Square out of nothing, isn’t it?

    On a actually serious note: When I look back at the multiple years I spent on sneerclub and otherwise following the rationalists, I increasingly feel that I had been tilting at windmills. I had spent most of that time making fun of them instead of looking into their finances, and in doing so I had missed the big picture and simply hadn’t realized how integral Peter Thiel was in propping them up and building a network to support them.

    Thiel funds or funded MIRI, EA groups, Curtis Yarvin, FTX and OpenAI.