Depending on your DNS provider, you may not be able to use archive.today without infinite captchas. I believe Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) and NextDNS are affected this way. Google (8.8.8.8) apparently is not.

Looks like they’re using the standard blue/orange color scheme

Nick Land goes to Silicon Valley.

Fake journalist with AI slop avatar and slop credentials starts rising in Substack’s “politics” rankings, someone asks the Substack CEO what they’re going to do about it, and gets told to pound sand.

RFK Jr’s Nutrition Chatbot Recommends Best Foods to Insert Into Your Rectum.

Shhh, don’t tell him.

It is a much cheaper and quicker means of murdering a bunch of astronauts though, so it does have that going for it.

There’s also a better chance that Elon exits the planet sooner.

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The Joscha Bach Substack article is a strange mix of self-pity, JAQing off, and eugenics. He compares Namibian babies he saw in a documentary to great apes in terms of their childhood development, cites studies showing lower cognitive ability among African American children, and then gets all emotional over the fact that people might think he’s a bit of a racist.

AI attracts so many racists – especially the kind who can’t tell that they’re racist. I guess it’s inevitable for any field of study that includes the word 'intelligence" in its name.

That was quite the rabbit-hole.

The whole time I’m sitting here thinking, “do these mods realize they’re moderating a subreddit called ‘cogsuckers’?”

I was unable to follow the thread of conversation from the archived links, so here is the source in case anyone cares.

Does anyone know when Dustin deleted his EA forums account? Did he provide any additional explanation for it?

I didn’t realize this was part of the rationalist-originated “AI Village” project. See https://sage-future.org/ and https://theaidigest.org/village. Involved members and advisors include Eli Lifland and Daniel Kokotajlo of “AI 2027” infamy.

Its standard crypto libraries are also second to none.

Follow the hype, Kevin, follow the hype.

I hate-listen to his podcast. There’s not a single week where he fails to give a thorough tongue-bath to some AI hypester. Just a few weeks ago when Google released Gemini 3, they had a special episode just to announce it. It was a defacto press release, put out by Kevin and Casey.

Orange site mods retitled a post about a16z funding AI slop farms to remove the a16z part.

The mod tried to pretend the reason was that the title was just too damn long and clickbaity. His new title was 1 character shorter than the original.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46305113

She seems to think Urbit became crappy, when in fact it was crappy from the start. It’s what you get when you throw a handful of D-tier engineers at a shitty idea promoted by a fascist loon who loves the smell of his own farts.

Bay Area rationalist Sam Kirchner, cofounder of the Berkeley “Stop AI” group, claims “nonviolence isn’t working anymore” and goes off the grid. Hasn’t been heard from in weeks.

Article has some quotes from Emile Torres.

https://archive.is/20251205074622/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/sam-kirchner-missing-stop-ai/685144/

It’s reminiscent of the freakout among some of the rationalists when Roko’s basilisk first appeared. And they wonder why people keep calling them an apocalyptic cult.

It’s a really good article. This part stuck out to me:

If you are seriously, legitimately concerned that an emergent technology is about to exterminate humanity within the next three years, wouldn’t you find yourself compelled to do more than argue with the converted about the particular elements of your end times scenario? Some folks were involved in pushing for SB 1047, but that stalled out; now what? Aren’t you starting an all-out effort to pressure those companies to shut down their operations ASAP? That all these folks are under the same roof for three days, and no one’s being confronted, or being made uncomfortable, or being protested—not even a little bit—is some of the best evidence I’ve seen that all the handwringing over AI Safety and x-risk really is just the sort of amped-up cosplaying its critics accuse it of being.

That thread is wild. Nate proposes techniques to get his kooky beliefs taken more seriously. Others point out that those very same techniques counterproductively pushed people to into the e/acc camp. Nate deletes those other people’s comments. How rationalist of him!