this comment has a rancid attitude no matter how much civility filler you try to spackle on top

if a state-level actor wants access to your encrypted secrets,

in a closer to home example, El Salvador deploying Pegasus on the phones of journalists who were already using Signal

I concur this series could do with a bit more focus.

(When I realise I don’t understand the fine details, I ask people and then listen to the answers for useful bits. I have a half-written draft here that I’ll be posting to MoreWrite when it’s done specifically to get that stuff right.)

This commenter seems to be missing the point about the point.

nah he’s almost certainly talking about the post on old-sneerclub, the rationalists seem almost unaware this one exists.

reviewing his history, i don’t think this article was actually written by the sort of commie who ends up at finance papers then belatedly remembered to tone it down a bit, but you’d be forgiven for thinking so

quoting that

pile of youtube comments quoting the Beastie Boys

the survey says all sorts of things, it’s true

and our very good friends and their predecessors have wanted to automate away the human decision bit since forever.

oh nah it’s fine, LW is what it’s for

with a moment’s thought, it should be obvious that they are painfully aware, and with another moment’s thought that that’s where I found this out.

don’t wanna read this

what a coincidence!

absolutely appalling figuring it out, it really was “it can’t be this stupid, I must be understanding it wrong”

then I got to the bash injection

and the proud “Generated by Claude Code”

and welp

TIL that “Aris Thorne” is a character name favoured by ChatGPT - which means its presence is a reliable slop tell, lol

like the dumbass-ray version of Ballard calling multiple characters variants on “Traven”

what to do with this information

SICP, not SCP

IoM cribs from the ENC, here’s to them cribbing that bit! See if you can get in there …

Tom is a top chap of generally correct opinions

The English national curriculum exposes every child to programming of some sort. 10 years ago it was 8yo kids learning Scratch, all of them.

I posted about it at the time: it turns out scratch is probably the answer, scratch is probably still the answer

in high school maths and computers they learn python.

my kid has no wish to become a professional dev, but can wield python as is useful to them.

OpenAI lasts as long as Masayoshi Son can scam Saudi Arabia. Suddenly my 2027 thesis looks more solid. Fuck.