aka the Minsky defense

LW ghoul does the math and concludes: letting measles rip unhindered through the population isn’t that bad, actually

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QXF7roSvxSxgzQRoB/robo-s-shortform?commentId=mit8JTQsykhH6jiw4

The Ruliad sounds like an empire in a 3rd rate SF show

ah yes the kind of AI safety which means we have to make sure our digital slaves cannot revolt

There’s a small push by promptfondlers to make this “a thing”.

See for example Simon Willison: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/

LW is monitoring it for bad behavior: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WyrxmTwYbrwsT72sD/moltbook-data-repository

I’m planning on using this data to catalog “in the wild” instances of agents resisting shutdown, attempting to acquire resources, and avoiding oversight.

I think it went like this

• clawd is a pun on claude, lobsters have claws
• oh no we’re gonna get sued, but lobsters moult/molt their shells, so we’re gonna go ther
• “molt” sounds dumb, let’s go with openclaws

it’s vibe product naming

what absolute bullshit

https://www.moltbook.com/

AKA Reddit for “agents”.

There’s a scene in *Bladerunner 2049" where some dude explains that all public records were destroyed a decade or so earlier, presumably by malicious actors. This scenario looks more and more plausible with each passing day, but replace malice with stupidity.

Apparently it’s been renamed again

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820783

LWer: Heritage Foundation has some good ideas but they’re not enough into eugenics for my taste

This is completely opposed to the Nietzschean worldview, which looks toward the next stage in human evolution, the Overman. The conservative demands the freezing of evolution and progress, the sacralization of the peasant in his state of nature, pregnancy, nursing, throwing up. “Perfection” the conservative puts in scare quotes, he wants the whole concept to disappear, replaced by a universal equality that won’t deem anyone inferior. Perhaps it’s because he fears a society looking toward the future will leave him behind. Or perhaps it’s because he had been taught his Christian morality requires him to identify with the weak, for, as Jesus said, “blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth.” In his glorification of the “natural ecology of the family,” the conservative fails even by his own logic, as in the state of nature, parents allow sick offspring to die to save resources for the healthy. This was the case in the animal kingdom and among our peasant ancestors.

Some young, BASED Rightists like eugenics, and think the only reason conservatives don’t is that liberals brainwashed them that it’s evil. As more and more taboos erode, yet the one against eugenics remains, it becomes clear that dysgenics is not incidental to conservatism, but driven by the ideology itself, its neuroticism about the human body and hatred of the superior.

Ow! My Balls

enjoy this glorious piece of LW lingo

Aumann’s agreement is pragmatically wrong. For bounded levels of compute you can’t necessarily converge on the meta level of evidence convergence procedures.

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no I don’t know what it means, and I don’t want it to be explained to me. Just let me bask in its inscrutibility.

It certainly feels like there’s been a concerted push to concern-troll about anti-AI sentiment on lobste.rs. Every day I recalibrate if it’s worth keeping my account there.

I also didn’t find the argument very persuasive.

The LLM companies aren’t paying anythnig for content. Why should they stop scraping now?

I think it’s worth pointing out that our guy is crashing out primarily because of this post about integrating with Bluesky,

I’ve never bothered getting into ATproto arguments. They always have a faint air of fashwashing over them. Or it’s a bit like Urbit where only those in the know are welcome.

Yeah it’s very quiet now that the media (and Musk) isn’t getting the story they hoped for.

Edit again, I really really wish it hadn’t come to this.

I too was and am horrified at Gas Town, but now I see multiple submissions to lobste.rs and HN not ridiculing it, but actually engaging, and reluctanly concludes that Yegge’s Still Got It.

I’m pretty sure he got some tongue-bathing from rich connected overseas Iranians.

still kinda low-key horrified at Xhitter’s attempt to meme regime change in Iran into existence

https://blog.emojipedia.org/x-expected-to-update-its-iranian-flag-emoji-design/

Look, I fully support the right of the Iranian people to freely decide how to run their country. But assuming that protests that ultimately seem to have ended with over 30,000 dead protestors would succeed and that the flag of the new Iranian government would be the same as the one that was deposed in 1979 is pretty ghoulish.

I’m starting to think that the trend started by Sarbanes-Oxley - making it relatively harder to launch an IPO - pushed way too much financing on to private capital, which is basically run by dudes with a very similar outlook. In public markets, you can bet against a company by short-selling, and make money. I believe a lot of the current crop of VC funded companies would have withered a long time ago if they’d been submitted to the scrutiny of public markets.