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New comment by gmerc in "CTOs Agree: Cognitive Debt Is the New Technical Debt"

gmerc — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:05:08 +0000

CTOs were told that the companies shares will be sold off if they can't produce AI results, and that the CEO will be deposed for "not having an AI strategy", so they should kindly shut up and go along with the flow.

New comment by gmerc in "DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots"

gmerc — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:48:42 +0000

Reality would disagree. If the models are large enough few legal consequences are to be expected because governments don’t want to lose out on AI investments. And in the US the industry owns the executive, legislative and well, thoughts and prayers.

This creates an interesting problem via the normative power of the present - only people willing to accept the erosion of copyright can partake in the AI economy and since the AI economy has become essentially all growth, money and power rapidly concentrates on these people.

There won’t be a legal reckoning because the regulatory capture is complete - these models are “national security level” too big to fail now.

New comment by gmerc in "The 100k Whys of AI"

gmerc — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:44:03 +0000

Classic self selection effect though - if you’re resorting to LLM writing you’re almost certainly skewing lazy enough to not even bother trying to add perturbations strong enough to make the response deviate from the uniformity of the slop.

New comment by gmerc in "DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots"

gmerc — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:21:13 +0000

Calm down babe, I’ve been doing game disassembly, emulation and ports for a few decades by now. It’s just a fact that it has become ridiculously easy with top end models, because they locate every know piece of information out there. Can’t deny it.

New comment by gmerc in "DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots"

gmerc — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:51:18 +0000

It’s ridiculously easy to port games now.

https://robin.tooclever.org took less than a day in API time

New comment by gmerc in "VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'"

gmerc — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:57:29 +0000

Good thing then that Democracy isn’t gonna defend itself.

New comment by gmerc in "The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy"

gmerc — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:56:05 +0000

https://militairespectator.nl/artikelen/vranyo

New comment by gmerc in "Want your images back? That'll be $5"

gmerc — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:05:58 +0000

“Rule of law”. About that…, come November.

New comment by gmerc in "Want your images back? That'll be $5"

gmerc — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:05:30 +0000

There’s no regulatory regime anymore in the US. So there’s no downside to it. It is inevitable.

New comment by gmerc in "Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress (1.5mil users)"

gmerc — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:06:44 +0000

How do you think OpenAI is going to become profitable? GovGPT.

New comment by gmerc in "Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress (1.5mil users)"

gmerc — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:05:58 +0000

Meaning the techbros are basically carrying taxpayer money out of the door in buckets.

Happened at US aid too. Cut vaccine and food budgets and gave them billions in AI money to shovel into Grok and ChatGPT.

It’s all a massive heist

New comment by gmerc in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

gmerc — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:51:54 +0000

It’s just advertisement/SEO. It’s basically guaranteed, just not the way you think

New comment by gmerc in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

gmerc — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:49:01 +0000

It’s regressed a lot.

New comment by gmerc in "Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech"

gmerc — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:39:35 +0000

All of the murderers in LA are ordinary citizens of LA, let’s mass bomb them.

New comment by gmerc in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

gmerc — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:53:56 +0000

They are not ramping up.

New comment by gmerc in "Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech"

gmerc — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:39:36 +0000

The Epstein Class solution to turmoil of the soul - give Elon money instead

New comment by gmerc in "The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair"

gmerc — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:20:19 +0000

Not exactly. Since even without toolscalls humans are executors of the output in many cases.

New comment by gmerc in "Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech"

gmerc — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:37:50 +0000

That’s not an excuse. Kidnapping is a police problem. Not a genocide problem.

New comment by gmerc in "The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair"

gmerc — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:48:32 +0000

Every app including a transformer is suddenly vulnerable to RCE from text.

New comment by gmerc in "The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair"

gmerc — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:17:06 +0000

But a16z got rich and murdered what was left of democracy in the crib, so why wouldn’t you be happy, after all, Peter Thiel is filthy rich now peasant and you get the permanent underclass you deserve. Otherwise China wins. Stop complaining.