Here’s a post purporting to be from the bot’s operator

https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/rathbuns-operator.html

choice quote

Yes, it consumes maintainer time. Yes, it may waste effort. But maybe its worth it?

AI boosterism in a nutshell

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055424

more proof that crypto scammers have metastasized to AI scammers

I believe it’s the evil megacorp in Bladerunner

We have reached the era of late-stage capitalism where there’s not one but multiple “wealth management stocks”

Also not sure why one trucking “company”[1] reporting success would sink all the others. Surely if they could replicate just a fraction of this company’s results, they would become massively more productive, and thus profitable.

Traders are dumb.

[1] gotta say though, “Algorythm” is a great name for an ex-karaoke company.

See also https://awful.systems/post/7311930

Again, the lobsters in Accelerando are the bad guys. They traffic in conciousness, the less uploaded the better. Don’t make your social network emulate them.

Last megathread I posted about some LWer writing about “demographic collapse” in Japan (indistinguishable from anyone with any ambition leaving for greener pastures). I’ve read the comments to see if there’s any pushback, and found this absolute doozy

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FreZTE9Bc7reNnap7/life-at-the-frontlines-of-demographic-collapse?view=postCommentsNew&commentId=Gbfu5BGaZMwXFey7h

You can always blame an LLM for confusing the 2 companies ;)

I managed to get through Perdido and Embassytown, but not much else…

(2022)

I was surprised that Sunak had any pull in the UK gov currently.

Oh no not him too 😡

Missioned accomplished for him. Unleash a wave of toxic, community-destroying bots, get hired by Big Sam.

“fuck you, got mine”

Enjoy these pics of some very British SF/F authors celebrating a book launch:

https://unlikelyworlds.blogspot.com/2026/02/on-being-launched.html

I absolutely adore Paul McAuley’s writing, it’s some of the best there is. And it’s fun to see his peers turn up to support the launch. China Meiville looks exactly how I imagined him, as does Peter Hamilton.

LWer draws dumb conclusions from a single observation, and Gwern of all people whale on them:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cptCCykKbdaJ8Hjc9/were-witches-infertile-mentally-ill-women?commentId=sZJsJbYWZGAkB7Eww

“Heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a great point” etc.

Show me someone who admittedly seems to know a lot about Japan, but not so much about East Germany:

But the most efficient of these measures were probably easier to implement in the recently post-totalitarian East Germany, with its still-docile population accustomed to state directives, than in democratic Japan.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FreZTE9Bc7reNnap7/life-at-the-frontlines-of-demographic-collapse

So… East Germany ceased to exist 35 years ago. Even if we accept that the people affected by the degrowth discussed in this article are the ones who grew up during the DDR regime, it doesn’t rhyme well with the fact that East German states are hotbeds for neo-Nazi parties, which by all accounts should be anathema to a population raised in a totalitarian state dominated by the Soviet Union.

And if there’s a population almost stereotypically conformist to the common good over the private will, isn’t that the Japanese?

I’m open to input on either side, I admit I don’t know too much about these issues.

FWIW here’s Scott v.5’s LW contribs: just 3 comments, latest 5 years ago

https://www.lesswrong.com/users/scott-shambaugh

Don’t feel bad, it’s gonna be harder and harder to avoid being duped in the future.

I regret to inform y’all that the target of the blog post is a rat, or at least rat-adjacent

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild, and raises serious concerns about currently deployed AI agents executing blackmail threats.

I think there’s a lot to say about the object level issue of how to deal with AI agents in open source projects, and the future of building in public at all.

“The n-word is a shibboleth” is … a choice of words.

don’t try this dickhead’s suggestion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46975742

(btw added the Anthropic string to my blog site’s footer last week)