cocoanaut
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Reminder that AGI is not coming anytime soon. You can tell by observing that OpenAI is trying to become a traditional big tech company like meta with a bunch of slop products and copium revenue streams They made a lot of money from the AI hype and now they're trying to figure out how to keep it.
Most people I know in AI think the median person is screwed, and they have no idea what to do about it. I spent the last 3 months talking to dozens of researchers, economists, and policy experts about AI's impact on work; including reps from every frontier lab and several Congressional offices. Unfortunately, I was not reassured. The AI industry is raising the alarm, but can't change course. These companies' core business model relies on the disruption they are warning about: their faith in full automation only makes them go faster. Policymakers are waking up, but still paralyzed by data and debates. Econ wonks disagree on plenty, but even the limited scenario looks like a "painful transition" that will disempower millions of workers. But an "underclass" is not inevitable, but rather a societal choice — and one we can and should stop. Instead of waiting for impact, we should start planning now to support workers through AI disruption. Whether policymakers can assuage concerns about economic security may determine if we get to reap AI's gains at all. New from me for @NYTOpinion. I put a ton into researching what I think may be the biggest topic of the year, so hope you read it (gift link here!) nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opi…
Twitching The vermin knows he has no other edge but muh scale learned that one trick in Baidu, never learned another
Jane Street office. What do you notice?
A 2025 study out of M.I.T. cautioned that “the integration of LLMs into learning environments may inadvertently contribute to cognitive atrophy.” This danger hasn’t slowed the advancement of A.I. in schools. newyorker.com/culture/progre…
linux exposes every running process as a file. you can cat your own memory map. windows users read this and quit.
egghead.io has a data breach affecting 705,000+ accounts. their GraphQL API returns the private email address, full name, roles, and learning history of every user on the platform. sequential IDs starting from 1 no login required + no API key + no token. Employees of Goldman Sachs, Google, Accenture, Autodesk, and Fidelity + more are all exposed. i reported this via email a few weeks ago, i sent a follow up 8 days ago, they never responded. i retested today and the vulnerability is worse than when i found it.
Twitter’s algorithm is optimized for addiction, not for us. We deserve better. We’re releasing Bouncer today so you can take back control of your feed. Describe what you don't want, and Bouncer removes it. It’s free, doesn’t collect your data, and will be open source soon.
EFF exists to protect people's digital rights. Not just the people who already value our work, have opted out of surveillance, or have already migrated to the fediverse. The people who need us most are often the ones most embedded in the walled gardens of the mainstream platforms. (3/5) eff.org/deeplinks/2022…
