New comment by portender in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

portender — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:57:25 +0000

It's sad to me that "racism" is such a divisive word to many, and is met with defensiveness rather than introspection and communication. Trying to not be racist takes work, and communication, and is a process, not a state.

I appreciate OP's sharing as well. Also, racism isn't peddled only by rich white elite university attendees, it reaches into all the corners.

New comment by portender in "AISLE’s autonomous analyzer found all CVEs in the January OpenSSL release"

portender — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 04:57:39 +0000

The fun thing to me here is that a ton of really creative thinkers are going to have access to tools (LLM agents) that allow them to test their thinking quickly. I dearly hope that this leads to a prolonged phase of pain and loss.

We made good choices when we decided the information on the internet should be delivered by simple, open protocols.

We made bad choices when we decided that the information on the internet didn't need to be verified, or verifiable.

Then we slipped on our good choices, because our bad choices let robber barons claim the verified or verifiable case.

And then we were left an explosive entropy shit-pile.

But now the new tools the new overlords are paying us to use will help us break free from their shackles, bwahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!

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New comment by portender in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

New comment by portender in "AISLE’s autonomous analyzer found all CVEs in the January OpenSSL release"