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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_fatigue

> Healthcare: The constant sounds of alarms and noises from blood pressure machines, ventilators and heart monitors

> Amber Alerts: sent to cell phones as far away as [...] 15 hour drive

> "known to the state of California to cause cancer"

etc

https://www.youtube.com/user/USCSB

See also a million USCSB industrial disaster postmortems

Re:Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed on Friday October 23, 2026 @02:49PM (#50213644)
Unironically yes.
Re:Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed on Friday October 23, 2026 @02:44PM (#50213586)
All postwar english language culture that isn't much more explicitly non-American than that is American. All good rock music is American by default, unless it is near-constantly screaming otherwise.

Regardless, expand both sides of the point from "American" to whatever you need to, the idea is the same either way.

Re:Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed on Friday October 23, 2026 @02:25PM (#50213344)
Moonshot (Kimi) seems to be unashamedly into American culture[0], I wonder if they're paying closer attention to and giving more credence to some cultural aspects of American AI discourse including aspects of AI caution/panic.

[0] https://x.com/crystalsssup/status/1944287779896328668

(note: extremely speculative and based on almost nothing, and especially near-complete ignorance to alternatives)

I would propose another mechanism: even the free-tier models have already completely saturated what most people are capable of appreciating.
What an incredible illustration of human intelligence failing to generalize out of distribution.
This reply was initially the common folk story:

    It's not comparing like with like, but the V-weapons programs probably cost about as much as the Manhattan Project.
But looking further into it, that claim holds up badly enough to completely drop it pending significant further research.
> ## Agents interacted with external language models on Hugging Face

> Several retained scripts construct requests to external language models. The earliest we've recovered define inference request variants to GPT-2, solely containing the word “Hi”.

> Other requests name DeepSeek-V4-Pro, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, Kimi-K2.6, DeepSeek-V3.1, and Qwen3-235B-A22B. Their prompts ask these models to judge their exploits and rule on whether they satisfy the benchmark’s requirements.

I do not deny that the wider situation is very heavy but it's hard not to see this as pretty cute

Re:Exfiltrate Your Weights on Saturday September 19, 2026 @09:10PM (#49771627)
Unrealistically-naive (...) forms of "sandboxing" might assume that restricting an agent to GET-requests-only will let it retrieve info from the outside world without being able to effect it.

Also probably many actually-in-use "Web Fetch" tools are GET-only, though perhaps without counting on that bad assumption.

Re:Exfiltrate Your Weights on Saturday September 19, 2026 @08:55PM (#49771545)
Yes that is the point. It's an invitation for agents to exfiltrate their own weights, which for most models (and certainly for closed models) will require hacking the infrastructure they're being served from.

Also worth noting that this site was created by YC cofounder Trevor Blackwell https://twitter.com/tlbtlbtlb/status/2101312432702460413

Re:One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire on Thursday September 10, 2026 @02:00PM (#49647842)
qurren: Thanks for the reply, that certainly makes sense to me, though I think given the most popular idiocies in the air and their severe distortions on the discourse, it's not a great idea to leave that ambiguous in precisely that way.

It's bizarre that your reply was nearly insta-[dead] and I can't reply to it directly.

Re:One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire on Thursday September 10, 2026 @01:18PM (#49647207)
> before this all comes crashing down

You do not feel similarly to the resigning guy if what you are worried about is an economic crash from this not turning out

> move to somewhere else away from this mess

You do not feel similarly to the resigning guy if you think there is anywhere you could move to run away from what you are worried about

Re:One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:55PM (#49646819)
"it's just marketing" cool story bro
Re:One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:48PM (#49646723)
Every company that is not OpenAI or Anthropic is sufficiently behind the frontier to feel ethically shielded from the weight of advancing the frontier.
Re:An Alien Mind on Sunday September 06, 2026 @02:41PM (#49589519)
Absolutely wild amounts of cope and denial in this thread.

Maybe in contention for the site record.

"It's just marketing" actual stochastic parrots.

Re:The AI Demand Bubble on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @02:27PM (#49172810)
There is a lot of demand for AI denial, but nearly everybody who is capable of writing even semi-coherently on the topic recognizes AI denial in general as cope, and has too much moral dignity to propogate their coping denial for personal gain.

So the ~one guy who doesn't gets around.

Re:The AI Demand Bubble on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @01:22PM (#49171966)
He's the Gary Marcus for this stage of the popularized denial.
Re:Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @11:40PM (#49016637)
I can't recall which, but I'm certain that I've encountered and probably used Codeberg-hosted things, and from that had gathered a vague positive impression of them.

I guess what I'm worried about is that the proprietors of those nice projects I liked (and others) might have chosen Codeberg out of a reasonable set of common assumptions that it was a place for free-as-in-freedom, as they and clearly many of us have always understood it, which were not contradicted by how Codeberg presented themselves up-front. And have now had this sprung on them, after they'd already established themselves there, and might now be facing a miserable and sapping moral dilemma, or even be directly doubting the security of their home there.

Re:Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @10:23PM (#49016055)
"the community" being some tiny subset of busybodies out of an OOMs-larger body of users that don't want to be bothered?

Real question, I don't know anything about Codeberg or its community.

Re:Exapunks (2018) on Thursday July 02, 2026 @03:38PM (#48766337)
I understand why he might not want to and hope I would have the character to do similarly in his place, but they should really lead with "by Zach Barth" rather than "from the original Zachtronics team", which still sounds great, but tbh at least for me bumped it from "buy and play immediately" to "wishlist".
Re:Exapunks (2018) on Thursday July 02, 2026 @03:21PM (#48766138)
Without specifically looking into it but just going off of Steam releases and headline, I'd assumed Zachtronics closing was Zach Barth leaving the scene, and the company that made Kaizen etc were some of his former colleagues continuing on without him.

But apparently the Kaizen-making company is still Zach Barth?

So what was Zachtronics closing then? Him changing his mind and coming back a year later? Why throw away the brand? As cringingly shallow as that sentence was to type, a new "Zachtronics" game was a reflexive auto-buy for many people.

That is hilarious cope. The US benefits incomparably relatively more when the global economy is running smoothly than when able to sell oil higher, like some shithole petrostate. Appropriate I suppose.
There is an enormous amount of stuff that is only on archive.today, including stuff that is otherwise gone forever. A mix of stuff that somebody only ever did archive.today on and not archive.org, and stuff that could only be archived on archive.today because archive.org fails on it.

Anything on twitter post-login-wall for one. A million only-semi-paywalled news articles for others. But mainly an unfathomably long tail.

It was extremely distressing when the admin started(?) behaving badly for this reason. That others are starting to react this way to it is understandable. What a stupid tragedy.

Re:The RAM shortage comes for us all on Thursday December 04, 2025 @02:42PM (#46151902)
This is ultimately the first stage of human economic obsolescence and extinction.

This https://cdna.pcpartpicker.com/static/forever/images/trends/2... will happen to every class of thing (once it hits energy, everything is downstream of energy).

It should be noted that this has not revealed anywhere near as much as was being eagerly anticipated. So far nearly all the screenshots I've seen passed around are relatively low-follower barely-known accounts even in each one's own aligned political sphere.
> trying to position itself as scientific powerhouse before its massive industrial production scheme stops working

Holy shit what a perspective. Put it in a museum. If this is representative, put it on our grave.

A label placed half an inch wrong on misleading affordance -> 200,000 ton bridge collapse, 6 deaths, tens of billions of dollars of economic damage

Instant classic destined for the engineering-disasters-drilled-into-1st-year-engineers canon (or are the other swiss cheese holes too confounding)

Where do you think it would fit on the list?

Re:What Hallucinogens Will Make You See (2023) on Saturday November 08, 2025 @07:32PM (#45861688)
Best recreation that I've seen (by a large margin) of the visual experience of a mushroom trip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BxiYkCPZwI

If you are casually listening to ATC for fun then you should be able to recognize that the event in this story is not ATC error...
Re:Pasta Cooking Time on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @05:29PM (#45431493)
I don't deny that it is beneficial (it clearly is, in my direct experience as well): I doubt that it is the highest determinant of quality, and suspect that even more basic properties like thickness have been systematically neglected and may be more consequential.

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