Key Discussions

AI “killing all humans” is the viral soundbite that’s connecting with the masses (“actualizing” itself to create weapons of mass destruction, etc).

Incidents 1 & 2, ~June 2025: Missing contacts & then contacts duplication.

The Kessler Syndrome is a scenario where the density of objects and space debris in low Earth orbit becomes so high that collisions between them trigger a runaway chain reaction.

Meta’s own research (and its use of it) has shown that it repeatedly ignores well-substantiated facts about the harms of its products.

A couple of weeks ago, there was a great blogpost Is Show HN Dead?

One thing you could always confidently say about Sweeney was “he’s going to speak his mind”.

This post was linked to by legendary link blog mjtsai, which features additional discussion.

You have to be obsessive compulsive to avoid the privacy landmines that companies like OpenAI and Anthropic spread throughout their products.

I am a power user of AI models, who pays a premium for plans claiming to better-respect the privacy of users.

[If you’re here for the worst AI fail, I’ll spoil it: ChatGPT hallucinated my app’s purpose and basically described it as some sort of keylogger, which it absolutely isn’t .

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