I mean… I’ll be the one to say it: he’s not gonna know.

Do what you want and need to in order to maintain your sanity. Placate him with a white lie - and it is a white lie - to make him feel better, if you want to. But maintaining your boundaries and avoiding people you find utterly caustic isn’t “childish”. In fact, I’d call it a consummately adult behavior.

That shit was a core memory for me, too - I was in middle school when 9/11 went down, and high school during the Iraq invasion and war. I remember feeling weird about signing up for selective service (it’s a compulsory holdover from the draft era, if you aren’t aware), and being moderately concerned that I’d be plucked for deployment to the Middle East if some political dipshit decided they needed more meatbags for the grinder. It absolutely sped up my political coming of age.

Side note: I now struggle to take the popular outrage at the event seriously, in light of the fact that during peak covid, there were a couple weeks where we were losing a 9/11’s worth of people across the US every single fucking day. Call me callous if you will, but the popular reaction to that of “fuck you I won’t wear a mask or get a vaccine but I’ll inject bleach and take ivermectin” kind of broke me in terms of having any faith whatsoever in the broader American populace. Huge swaths of my countrymen don’t give a single shit about anything unless it either affects them very directly, or it’s a splashy MCU-esque story.

Ooh, good protip! I’ll have to check that out.

Ugh goddammit. I still check a handful of long running CW post chains from some writers/users whose stories I’ve become invested in… but I guess I’m done with that now :(

Oh yeah it 100% explodes your token usage by establishing a contentious paradigm. But that’s what the C-suites want, and they don’t understand (or care to understand) the subtleties of how this development methodology works. So we’ll all (somewhat maliciously) follow orders until they change their minds when they see the absolutely ludicrous LLM bill 🤪

Now ask it why it’s apologizing

The best sort of methodology I’ve found to coerce Claude or whatever (we are strongly encouraged to use it, because you know, tech these days) is (for a single agent) to define a process that includes proving its work and citing sources. For agentic flow, you basically just assign a contrarian role in particular domains to some of the agents - ideally all of this is also hooked into an MCP server that includes deterministic utilities to improve accuracy and solution arrival speed.

It’s basically just a shitty, brute-forced, massively over complicated Monte Carlo algorithm that’s wildly inefficient in terms of energy usage and infrastructural cost, that also happens to be turning our economy into a highly flammable house of cards.

Can you tell what my opinion of all this bullshit is, despite knowing how to do all of this crap reasonably well? 😛

Well hey, since this is surely taxpayer money, according to our idiot fucking regime, we’re all now funding “terrorist activities” 🥴

Ballparking the numbers, ~165M taxpayers gives us a mean handout from literally everyone to the tune of a bit under 2k/person.

This is the dumbest fucking timeline, I swear to Cthulhu

What the actual fuck are you talking about?

I’m gonna suggest two:

• anyone at all who works at ICE
• anyone who works at an America health insurance company in any sort of managerial or leadership capacity

I got good news and bad news for you: Welcome to the rest of your career.

Holy shit. You absolute legend.

Genuinely, the only thing I still go on The Old Place for these days is for a handful of long-running (like, years) creative writing post sequences by particular users. Literally couldn’t tell you the last time I voluntarily sought it out, outside of that very specific context.

How is the weather down in the warm-water port of Corpus Christi, in Texas oblast?

That won’t stop them from trying to use “AI” as a scapegoat, and it also won’t stop investment bankers from continuing to participate in the circlejerk

Idk man that just sounds like the market capitalism that these captains of industry purportedly love so much

Tbh this would be a good policy for literally all countries to follow, not just China.

It’s simultaneously imbecilically quaint and mildly concerning that orangeboi thinks he can just decree things like that.

But also, he had enough absolutely idiotic sycophants who all think they’re the smartest guy in the room who will try to follow the decrees. So it’s a roll of the dice.

He is buddies with Milei