2026 May 07
- You Should Never Be The Most Sycophantic Participant In A Conversation With A Chatbot - "Imagine a film director telling an actor to play a scene with greater emotive intensity, and then afterward being like 'Jeez, I'm so sorry to have upset you.' Imagine a costume designer dressing a performer up like Albert Einstein and thinking that would make them capable of explaining general relativity. Imagine a gamer turning up the difficulty setting on FIFA and thinking they'd made their Playstation better at soccer.
Andreessen is creating—typing out and entering, but not into the chatbot—his own delusion. In trying to tell the chatbot not to hallucinate, he is scripting his own psychotic break. He is doing it because he is a huge dumbass. Don't expect Claude to tell him so."
- Life During Class Wartime - "War is bad. Don’t start one. But we’re already in a class war and we’re losing. Where by 'we' I mean most people; the winning side comprises, roughly, the richest 0.1% of the population, who are morphing into a hereditary aristocracy."
- This Canadian millionaire wants to pay higher taxes