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New comment by akomtu in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"

akomtu — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:10:57 +0000

Good for Norway. AI turns your brain into slop real quick, especially in the formative years.

New comment by akomtu in "Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good"

akomtu — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:53:01 +0000

I call it Alien Slop Intelligence (ASI) that gradually turns your mind into slop. AI is sloppy on details, so at first you polish its slop by hand, then you start ignoring small imperfections, and eventually you lose taste and skills to evaluate AI output. At that point your mind has become slop.

New comment by akomtu in "OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B"

akomtu — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:13:32 +0000

We are watching an experiment: how high the Tower of Babel can stand of it's built with AI slop.

"According to the narrative story in Genesis 11, the city received the name "Babel" from the Hebrew verb bālal,[e] meaning to jumble or to confuse, after Yahweh distorted the common language of humankind.[11] According to Encyclopædia Britannica, this reflects word play due to the Hebrew terms for Babylon and "to confuse" having similar pronunciation.[7]" (Wikipedia)

New comment by akomtu in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

akomtu — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:50:31 +0000

Minds keep humans as pets.

New comment by akomtu in "Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents"

akomtu — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:58:53 +0000

The public is forced to use AI at work and outside of work because the corpos are determined in inserting their AI everywhere. Then the people come back home and see that their energy bills have doubled because of AI datacenters. Of course people hate AI.

New comment by akomtu in "Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents"

akomtu — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:49:48 +0000

This is what happens when people with big money succumb to AI psychosis.

New comment by akomtu in "AI will consume as much water in 2030 as 1.3B people"

akomtu — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:08:43 +0000

A light source emitting gigawatts on the orbit is going to turn night into day.

New comment by akomtu in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

akomtu — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:32:51 +0000

Meta-stasis

New comment by akomtu in "Squillions: How money laundering won"

akomtu — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:30:13 +0000

Don't you pay 3% of every purchase to your credit card?

New comment by akomtu in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

akomtu — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:41:29 +0000

Morality, good and evil, true or false, is a human way of thinking. AI sees the world thru the lens of efficiency, ROI and so on.

From https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/docume...:

> *112. Having considered the issues of responsibility and governance of AI, we must now return to our central question: what does it mean to safeguard our humanity? The risk extends beyond the misuse of certain technologies. More gravely, the pervasive technocratic paradigm in which we are immersed, and that is amplified by the digital revolution and AI, threatens to normalize an anti-human vision. In that vision, the fullness of life is equated with having more, reducing weakness, eliminating uncertainty and exerting total control. When efficiency becomes the ultimate measure of value, human beings are tempted to see themselves as a project to be optimized rather than as persons called to relationship and communion.*

New comment by akomtu in "You can just say it"

akomtu — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:13:23 +0000

If there is anything worse than the tyranny of greed, it is the tyranny of a machine that's trying to optimize you 24/7.

New comment by akomtu in "Various LLM Smells"

akomtu — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:12:32 +0000

That's an interesting difference between true intelligence and its LLM imitation. If you throw a pile of mediocre data at LLM, its level will drop to mediocrity, for it can't discern true from false, good from bad. However if you throw the same data at an expert human, he will ignore it, and maybe pick a few bits of novel knowledge, so overall his level will raise a bit.

New comment by akomtu in "I cut my AI API costs 99% by switching from Claude to DeepSeek"

akomtu — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:45:55 +0000

China is fine. The Communist regime is the problem.

New comment by akomtu in "On Labubu and the Hyperreal"

akomtu — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:38:17 +0000

The appeal of labubus is simple: they are cute-looking creatures that show their demonic side. Since many people have it, they find labubus cute.

Remember the first scene in the movie Constantine, where the woman that's being exorcised looks at her demon in the mirror and finds it cute? That's the same thing.

New comment by akomtu in "Magnifica Humanitas"

akomtu — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:19:49 +0000

> 111. I wish to address a special appeal to those who develop artificial intelligence. <...>

He addresses the Catholics, appeals to their faith, but how many of those behind AI have any faith? Many, maybe most of them, are proudly atheists and even nihilists, and they can't be reasoned with on the grounds of faith. The Pope says that God created man in his image, and warns that the technocratic paradigm sees humans as machines to be optimized, but isn't it what the crowd behind AI truly believes in?

New comment by akomtu in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

akomtu — Mon, 25 May 2026 01:41:38 +0000

6 am, 6 pm, 6 days a week. Why is it called 996?

New comment by akomtu in "Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation"

akomtu — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:29:04 +0000

There is a movie, Gold (2016), about a fake gold mine. One of its founders is a true believer: he found a few chunks of gold and started digging for more. The other founder is a nihilist: he realised that there is no gold there, but who cares if he makes the investors believe? So he does, and almost sells the company for $300M.

In our story, investors are mining intelligence from GPUs, and they truly believe they are one inch from discovering the biggest goldmine in history. But GPUs, unlike a goldmine, cannot be inspected for traces of gold by independent contractors. To keep the hype up, the nihilists in our story dig up cheap gold-looking metals from time to time and tell investors that with a bit of alchemy - agentic workflows, etc. - those metals can be magically turned into gold.

Investors will keep digging until the end of the age, or until they run out of money.

New comment by akomtu in "AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills"

akomtu — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:09:57 +0000

The effect of AI on technical skills is closer to the famous Microsoft's strategy - Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. First you embrace AI because it appears so helpful: it can do boring stuff for you. Next you change the way you work and think to better leverage the AI greatness: now you verify half-assed AI output instead of making your own, you switch between 5-6 parallel projects done by AI instead of focusing on one thing, you find clever ways to prompt AI instead of building a mental model of your work and so on. You are an extension of AI at this point. Eventually you delegate all thinking to AI, because why bother? Your mind atrophies, while AI becomes good enough to replace you and effectively extinguish.

New comment by akomtu in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

akomtu — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:47:52 +0000

AA stole from the rich and gave it to the poor. AI stole from the poor and gave it to the rich.

New comment by akomtu in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

akomtu — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:54:25 +0000

That's demonic creativity.