You'll be unsurprised how many AI poison pill projects are on GitHub

hi! mine is https://mannan.is - I haven't shared it publicly yet, though I do enjoy sharing it.

It is angular made, and I have so many fun features I'd like to add there.

haven't shared it publically on hn I meant.

I've been wanting to make a little circadian rhythm graphic based on the sun, would love to have a graphic like this to support it. If Andrew Marsh is listening, would love to create something to extend what I have (Preview at sun-taupe.vercel.app)

This is really cool! The clock on your page reminded me too of some sites that show a "real solar" time based on your location where solar noon corresponds to 12:00 PM.

Right. My theories and hunches to support this that got jumbled up due to AI slop, were that syncing to the sun over a “9-5” or “8 hours of sleep” would improve and align our health better than any scientific system would. The sun is the enabler of science in a weird way.

Like there’s culture that have a siesta at solar noon and it’s a time to rest: that means the sun’s noon time not our arbitrary time or 12pm every single day. Lunch annd exercise could also follow for productivity gains to happen at particular times of day.

I think it was that there was a cancel culture censorship type of intensity that occurred while he was able to express before, it particularly latched onto targeting people like him (we all know about and have heard of the intensifying censorship in the last half decade COVID-era) and one of the things I've recently learned is censorship, a form of criticism, has that affect of creating and triggering insecurities which digs us deep into extreme positions.

Think of it this way: if you were cancelled and repressed and censored in your own home and unable to express yourself, your efforts to communicate to remain authentic would intensify not die down. Or you die and let yourself morph to the average new censor-ship approved world.

Scott wouldn't do that and neither would I. All this to say I think its normal to intensify your opinions and even take on and be pushed to more extremes when you live in a controversial time of "you're either on my side or the other side and theres no acceptable middle gray area.

I loved this guy. His writing and book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big particularly impacted me early and exposed me to First Principles, biases, and in particular not giving a f*k about what people care so much.

he was one of those people who was attacked during COVID and labeled and propagandized against as a scapegoat for the failings of our unaccountable leadership - the cancel culture was unfair and unwelcome towards him. I resonated with that too.

I hope his legacy lives on - it will in me.

Weird, he was a huge fan of that unaccountable leadership.

There's more unaccountable leadership than just the side you follow.

In regards to the space ship that people see, I've seen photos of some Egyptian pyramid hieroglyphs myself, I hear this often "Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?"

This stupendous gaslighting mirrors what I took away early in this article. It used several Appeal to Authority and Epistemic Invalidation and is quite clearly pathetic. Hard to read the clearly biased claims.

Seems like a lot of successful leaders have a history of or normalize deception and lying for some benefit.

Weird question. If a system you are using is intended to extract from you, and unwillfully and nonconsensually stealing your intellectual property because the unaccountable big companies do shady stuff (the "AI" companies) is it justified to use it for the productivity gains because it will 'eventually' get there anyway?

Does the potential gain as an early adopter make it morally ok.

Because thats what these tiered uses of these AI and how it's been getting better works imo. It got lots of training data from juniors and seniors using it the last 2 years, it got better. It gets more appealing and leverages human psychology and marketing to get higher level engineers to train it as it and the companies extract more data. It needs and gets more data from the people willfully complying and using it. Wondering if theres a game theory design for this conundrum - what typically happens in nature in these scenarios?

How is it different from what OpenAI and Codex, and Gemini offer?

The good ol Reverse-Centaur.

It's also like simultaneously a hybrid-zoan-Elephant in the room the CEOs don't want us to talk about.

The UPS delivery scenario is also evocative:

> Like an Amazon delivery driver, who sits in a cabin surrounded by AI cameras, that monitor the driver’s eyes and take points off if the driver looks in a proscribed direction, and monitors the driver’s mouth because singing isn’t allowed on the job, and rats the driver out to the boss if they don’t make quota.

> The driver is in that van because the van can’t drive itself and can’t get a parcel from the curb to your porch. The driver is a peripheral for a van, and the van drives the driver, at superhuman speed, demanding superhuman endurance. But the driver is human, so the van doesn’t just use the driver. The van uses the driver up.

I guess it resonates for me because it strikes at my own justification for my work automating things, as I'm not mercenary or deluded enough to enjoy the idea of putting people out of work or removing the fun parts. I want to make tools that empower individuals, like how I felt the PC of the 1990s was going to give people more autonomy and more (effective, desirable) choices... As opposed to, say, the dystopian 1984 Telescreen.

Right. this feels more and more like a situation of extraction, abusive and theft of empowerment of the people and funneling it up to the top. It's apparent, and people are too afraid and weak to do anything.

Or so they think.

And I think of a saying that all capitalistic systems eventually turn in socialist ones or get replaced with dictators. Is this really the history of humanity over and over? can't help but hope for more.