The target="_blank" tag would be a nice touch

[Edited on September 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM. Reason : oh snap he is using them now ]

9/5/2025 2:24:01 PM

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"risk = hazard + outrage "

If the house has a swimming pool and a gun the child instantly dies.

Modernity is hiding and moving risk. Executives not responsible for killing people. Normies can't be given responsibility for their own actions. Or pooling risk when you shouldn't across populations.

Like in the above example from Freakonomics, I'd wager if you dig in the swimming fatals are all super young, and the risk factor decreases dramatically as the kid gets better at swimming.

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"Children under the age of 5 are the most vulnerable group, accounting for 75% of all fatal pool- or spa-related drownings and 77% of nonfatal, emergency department-treated injuries "

So older than 6 you hit a huge drop off and it becomes more like 1 in 90k. The gun thing would be better done by homes and not guns and correcting for parent home/not home. Context matters.

[Edited on September 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM. Reason : a]

[Edited on September 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM. Reason : o]

9/5/2025 2:38:31 PM

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"For comparison, driving in the US results in 12 in 100,000 deaths (not including life changing injuries which arguably should probably be accounted), smoking something like 192 in 100,000 and the smoking companies lied about it for many years. 1 in 5 smokers can be expected to die in a lifetime as opposed to about 1 in 90 drivers (and the risk scales as you get older"

These are two things that absolutely need more regulation/avoidance! Driving regulations should almost definitely be stronger. Everybody speeds bc the penalties are so minor. Drivers kill pedestrian and get traffic violations instead of manslaughter. And they are both already age limited, for primary user anyway. Our society has also made it so a car is pretty much required anywhere in the US, people deal with more risk when faced with necessity. AI is not a necessity, yet anyway, so let's set up the proper regulations and responsibilities NOW before it becomes so ingrained it's impossible to peel back.

9/5/2025 3:28:51 PM

^ broadly agree as long as it's not used to stamp out competitors and regulation isn't used to keep Zuck, Altman, and Elon as the new lords of the world.

9/6/2025 2:14:18 PM

https://gabrielweinberg.com/p/ai-surveillance-should-be-banned

9/6/2025 3:32:00 PM

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-bubble-building-spree-55ee6128

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"Spending on AI Is at Epic Levels. Will It Ever Pay Off? Tech companies pour hundreds of billions into data centers, taking on heavy debt, but current revenue is relatively tiny; echoes of dot-com bubble This week, consultants at Bain & Co. estimated the wave of AI infrastructure spending will require $2 trillion in annual AI revenue by 2030. By comparison, that is more than the combined 2024 revenue of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia, and more than five times the size of the entire global subscription software market. Morgan Stanley estimates that last year there was around $45 billion of revenue for AI products. The sector makes money from a combination of subscription fees for chatbots such as ChatGPT and money paid to use these companies' data centers. How the tech sector will cover the gap is "the trillion dollar question," said Mark Moerdler, an analyst at Bernstein."

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"*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history * Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system * Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24"

https://bsky.app/profile/mims.bsky.social/post/3lzqmcknerc2m

[Edited on September 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM. Reason : .]

9/26/2025 1:58:23 PM

I'm certainly not going to pay for a service for which I haven't found a valuable personal use case while "free".

9/26/2025 5:57:31 PM

https://www.404media.co/openais-sora-2-copyright-infringement-machine-features-nazi-spongebobs-and-criminal-pikachus/

10/1/2025 8:40:16 PM

As a software engineer I’m spending about $100/month on ai

Easily my most expensive monthly service at this point

10/1/2025 10:41:28 PM

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/robin-williams-daughter-ai-recreations-gross-1236541633/

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" Robin Williams’ Daughter Tells Fans to ‘Stop Sending Me AI Videos of Dad’: It’s ‘Gross’ and ‘Not What He’d Want’"

10/9/2025 1:04:31 AM

Why in the world would someone ever feel entitled to do that?

It's only one step better (?) than this:

10/10/2025 7:03:17 PM

https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemma-ai-cancer-therapy-discovery/

+1

10/15/2025 8:53:21 PM

Finally!

10/15/2025 9:11:28 PM

More of an economy posts but I couldn't find any good economy thread

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/09/ai-bubble-us-economy/684128/?gift=XYkZ7NyIHnvK8O__kELYotEj4YazT-bPkhciN-nMo4E&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

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"In the first half of this year, business spending on AI added more to GDP growth than all consumer spending combined. Many experts believe that a major reason the U.S. economy has been able to weather tariffs and mass deportations without a recession is because all of this AI spending is acting, in the words of one economist, as a “massive private sector stimulus program.” An AI crash could lead broadly to less spending, fewer jobs, and slower growth, potentially dragging the economy into a recession. The economist Noah Smith argues that it could even lead to a financial crisis if the unregulated “private credit” loans funding much of the industry’s expansion all go bust at once."

[Edited on October 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM. Reason : E]

10/19/2025 10:20:50 PM

better be careful, you’re in danger of being accused of being triggered

10/19/2025 10:22:46 PM

this is a completely appropriate thread for that

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"AI added more to GDP growth than all consumer spending combined"

you're welcome. y'all need to pick up the pace.

[Edited on October 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM. Reason : jk I have nothing to do with AI I'm a serf just like y'all]

[Edited on October 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM. Reason : ^ no you calm down]

10/19/2025 10:25:44 PM

I'm a plebeian

10/20/2025 12:34:04 PM

Not great
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/racist-sora-snap-welfare

11/1/2025 10:17:48 PM

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/

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"Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day. Among its responses to suspected rogue marketers: charging them a premium for ads – and issuing reports on ’Scammiest Scammers.’"

11/6/2025 3:15:36 PM

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"Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability."

https://apnews.com/article/openai-chatgpt-lawsuit-suicide-56e63e5538602ea39116f1904bf7cdc3
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/us/openai-chatgpt-suicide-lawsuit-invs-vis

https://bsky.app/profile/samadams.bsky.social/post/3m54tihdjx22w

[Edited on November 9, 2025 at 8:51 AM. Reason : E]

11/9/2025 8:50:15 AM

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DP7cHrOD3ha/

Grok speaks to the kids

11/10/2025 5:04:28 PM

Grok thinks a newt is a lizard.

WTAF?!

11/10/2025 7:07:04 PM

^Maybe Grok's talking about Gingrich?? idk

11/10/2025 7:31:35 PM

As an ai maximalist I’ve always thought, and still do, that OpenAI rushed to commercialization

But once people realized Ai could write code it was an arms race so this outcome was inevitable. Ai safety people like Timnit gebru (who I thought was a crank until I saw an interview with her a few months ago) were sounding the alarm about this for years and they were ignored.

It’s seeming like it’s basically impossible to prevent bad outcomes at the population level (trump, climate change, ai disinformation ), but we can try to mitigate the damage as much as possible and seize opportunities as they present themselves.

11/11/2025 2:33:47 AM

That Grok voice is creepy from the jump. I assume that's the intent. If so. . . cool.

11/11/2025 5:51:30 AM