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this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Anthropic employee has had their brain destroyed by rationalist circlejerk
‘we need to make armageddon happen as fast as possible even though I dont think it will be very good. a trillion dollars please’
Well obviously they wouldn't bother calling themselves, that never accomplishes anything. They will instead raise money for a new lobbyist think-tank.
I've been going down a Weird Little Guys archive binge for a little bit here and this eschatology is even less hinged than the most ridiculous accelerationist nazi terror screed.
“Hello, Ms Congresswoman? The computers! They’re going to kill us all! The only way to save humanity is to spend a trillion dollars on killer computers! I work for a soon-to-be publicly listed company making maybe-killer computers.”
"Since you [Ms. Congresswoman] can't manage an international total ban on all AI progress, the only alternative is to bail out my company so we can maybe have a small chance at inventing a friendly AI before the Chiense invent skynet. Obviously the Chinese are behind us and have only gotten as far as they have by distillation attacks to steal our models' training (that we trained with honestly-and-totally-fair-use acquired scrapes of the entire internet), BUT if you just make us stop, the Chinese will catch up in 6 months and then we will have Chinese skynet, or worse yet, an AI aligned to communism and the CPP!"