The Information’s Dealmaker newsletter is talking today about downrounds in AI venture funding

it’s been an ongoing exit scam

OpenAI buys services from a pile of Altman’s other portfolio companies

Text removed in Mozilla TOS update:

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here’s the diff

Ziz appears in court for bail hearing

looks like tomorrow’s Pivot

i am presuming his lawyers, and a special crypto bro pardon

yep that’s the stuff. they HINT HINTed what they wanted the LLM to do.

Wired: The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians (archive)

Evan Ratliff has apparently been tracking the Ziz cult since 2022 and when it blew up into mainstream news, he was ready

crayon either way

Has the study itself shown up?

EDIT: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.13295

that gives me questions about China

that’s tomorrow’s Pivot

Chris Kluwe vs Gamergate is an example of the jocks as the good guys up against the nerds as the bad guys

IQ is a farce multiplier. Elon is a High IQ Individual which means he wreaks 1000x the havoc of a regular dumbass. IQ stands for Idiot Quickly

BBC summary of the story of Ziz

the user has been gently directed to the debate club

the Laserjet 4M from the 1990s, the incredible unstoppable tank of lasers

Superbabies is a backup plan; focus the energy of humanity’s collective genetic endowment into a single generation, and have THAT generation to solve problems like “figure out how to control digital superintelligence

The academic institutions in charge of exploring these ideas are deeply compromised by insane ideologies. And the big commercial entities are too timid to do anything truly novel; once they discovered they had a technology that could potentially make a few tens of billions treating single gene genetic disorders, no one wanted to take any risks; better to take the easy, guaranteed money and spend your life on a lucrative endeavor improving the lives of 0.5% of the population than go for a hail mary project that will result in journalists writing lots of articles calling you a eugenicist.

oh no, not a eugenicist!

apparently video is just huuuuge

this is also why pivot to AI is mostly 200-250 words, not 1200 or 2000 or 8000