Hippocratic oath is government-imposed oppression apparently

“OpenAI has tapped out one petrostate already, time to move to the next one!”

FWIW I have no clue how the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund is managed. The principal idea is to sequester windfall earnings from hydrocarbon extraction from the normal day-to-day economy, avoiding a boom-and-bust cycle and the resource curse.

That said, it’s pretty useless to just store a bunch of money to use “later”. I can imagine a portion is used for infrastructure (all those marvelous tunnels) but taxes on income and VAT are eye-wateringly high (and I say that as a Swede!). So there has to be some political pressure to raid the piggy bank, not least for election winning purposes.

So presumably the fund is insulated from day to day meddling. On the other hand, you can’t just hand over the reins to 25 year old coke-addicted MBAs.

My main point is that for the proposal to happen, someone will have to try to convince the people in charge of the fund that betting the farm on Sama not ripping you off is worth doing. Possible? Maybe. Probable? I fucking hope not.

I ruthlessly cull any helpful “suggestions” from my YT recommendations and try to do some due diligence on the people I do follow.

here’s someone who cutesly spells “EA” as “∃Ɐ” and posts

Norway Should Buy OpenAI

the move to Kazakhstan is news to me

at least there shouldn’t be any problems with Israeli students attending as Kazakhstan and Israel have normal diplomatic relationships … but downtown Almaty in midwinter isn’t that balmy

noted internet blowhard John Gruber complains that the stochastic parrot output is now less stochastic, because EU

Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

hard to tell if he’s madder that EU is trying to enforce a minimum of accountability for slop usage, or Anthropic for bowing the knee to Brussel mandarins

oh well there’s always Grok

pretty sure David is on some very cursed mailing lists

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If the Markets Reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US Should Nationalize Them

too bad most of your debts are denominated in this shitcoin so you pay relatively less as it depreciates

(standard reminder that deflation is good for lenders and almost no-one else)

user has previously decried bans against genAI assisted writing by stating that every neuro-atypical person writes like that so it would discrimination to ban

https://lobste.rs/c/nadrad

Comments are utterly mired in jargon

Humanity should count as actual AGI, but it remains slow.

It’s a weird middle ground, where it is fooming but pretty slowly. (I mean, as a human, I would think that, i.e. I would experience time on a scale that’s somewhat faster than humanity’s foom.)

I don’t think the term “FOOM” as ever been explicitely defined, it’s just verbal tic/shorthand for “intelligence explosion”. How can something explode slowly???

also nice save defining “AGI == humanity” => goal reached

glad to hear there’s still a career as a rent-a-cop once software eats my job

wait so this is a separate “AI hacked and escaped” than the ones already hyped by OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta???

“monument to the first 500” or something, really fun concept - rich people pay a massive amount for essentiially suicide, get a monunment for their pains

I kinda like the Revelation Space universe, but I am literally stuck at 85% on book 4 or 5

Good luck with your novel!

nominative determinism strikes again

it gets better. Godier (the guy who misled Gruber) admits to using genAI to create a website that just to happened to almost exactly duplicate an existing website:

https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html

no mention of the submission of an astrology app to the App store and getting rejected

Noted Apple blowhard John Gruber makes a mistake, is naturally a performative dick about apologizing for it

https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/retraction_app_store_rejection_of_the_week

(nothing to do with AI or crypto, I just think Gruber is a dick. And the subject of the story - an app developer who apparently felt so secure in his indie rep he could do some light fraud for clicks - is a recognizable figure)

the orifice will pulse invitingly

gonna be the biggest flop since that facehugger apple made