Most people don't really have clear or strong opinions about AI other than that they don't like it :-p.

> So at least some of what LLMs do internally seems to involve a bit more structure than just linear combinations of some overcomplete dictionary.

Well that's good to hear. Would have been rather exasperating to find out we could have somehow gotten Fable or Sol out of sufficiently advanced sparse-coding ages ago.

Every time I see it again I'm shocked at how close the Eye of Terror is to Terra in realspace distance.

> One of the old slurs against Christians was that they followed a "corpse-god." They say the same thing in 40K.

Seriously? Wow. Maybe it's because I'm American, but I can't imagine actually saying that to someone. I'd sorta expect them to throw hands if I talked like that about Jesus.

And I'm an entirely secular, non-Christian atheist living among many other such people!

Some friends, and possibly a local metal bar, were referring to Easter as Zombie Jesus Day.

Why would atheists be offended?

Well obviously nobody's gonna be offended at the metal bar. That's the point of a metal bar!

Although he should really be considered a Lich because he raised himself from the dead, not by some outside force.

Well, if a bunch of Christians come to you and say their God is better than yours.

And you look at their "God" and its literally a dead guy on a cross.

You might not be too impressed.

> Maybe it's because I'm American, but I can't imagine actually saying that to someone. I'd sorta expect them to throw hands if I talked like that about Jesus.

I mean, that's exactly what a "slur" is. They are not coined with the recipient's comfort in mind, and saying them can sometimes provoke exactly the sort of fight you imagine.

But yes, violent consequences ought to be particularly unsurprising to an American, since the US is, by Western standards, an exceptionally violent country. [1]

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9535176/ (table 2)

You can't hurt fantasy stories and their fantasy characters.

Seconded. The year I graduated from college, the median CS graduate was employed making about $65k/year USD. I got offers for $80k/year and thought that was pretty hot shit.

> Is what these fusion companies are doing unethical? A case can be made that it is, particularly when it comes to that last category of investor I mentioned. On the other hand, in an environment where basic research is discouraged, “life will find a way,” and you get these weird distortions of what a funded company is.

I think those VCs are acting quite unethically. If they want to fund basic research, they should just start a foundation that issues grants for basic research.

Personally, not being a billionaire, in a WH40k-type setting, I like to imagine myself as an ork. The dakka would make a lot of cool noises before I die.

I was just thinking, this game needs a snowboard I can use to jump, do tricks, and smack around people's cars.

Just like me fr fr

Ok, but then there's a nasty question: why do employers not choose to create high-value jobs doing high-value work? Wouldn't this indicate an economy with stagnant or declining productivity-per-hour?

If this supply of high-value jobs still needs to meet demand, that is a pretty severe constraint on the supply.

This is something like "how come there isn't more demand for unlicensed psychologists".

It would, wouldn't it? Bullshit jobs are a component, but we can also look to China and India, and see that their youth unemployment is high and year over year, have large excess educated students coming out of their educational institutions. Is lack of will to invest in work for highly educated citizens the problem alone? I argue it's likely also a matter that there potentially isn't enough high value work for the overproduction that has occurred. What jobs would you create for the millions in some cases, tens of millions in other cases, college graduates who are not employed or are underemployed currently?

Record graduate influx lifts China’s youth jobless rate to 17.9% in July 2026 - https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3364538/r... - August 19th, 2026 ("China’s youth jobless rate climbed to 17.9 per cent in July, as a record wave of university graduates enters an already crowded labour market, prompting Beijing to step up employment support. The jobless rate for those aged 16 to 24, excluding students, rose 3 percentage points from 14.9 per cent in June – the last of three straight months of contraction – according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday. The rate last July was 17.8 per cent and it then climbed to 18.9 per cent the following month – the highest level since Beijing revised its methodology to exclude students in December 2023")

India's young are more educated than ever. So why are so many jobless? - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17841zez8wo | https://archive.today/sitRv - March 19th, 2026 ("Start with the headline number: 367 million young people between the ages of 15 and 29 - the largest youth population in the world, and making up a third of India's working-age population. Of them, 263 million are not in education and constitute the potential workforce.")

State of Working India 2026 - https://azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/media/resources/SWI/SWI-... ("Nearly 40% of graduates aged 15-25 - and 20% of those aged 25-29 - are jobless, far higher than among the less educated, the report finds. Only a small share secure stable, salaried jobs within a year.")

HN Search: bullshit jobs - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

> I argue it's likely also a matter that there potentially isn't enough high value work for the overproduction that has occurred. What jobs would you create for the millions in some cases, tens of millions in other cases, college graduates who are not employed or are underemployed currently?

Well that doesn't seem like a problem of "elite overproduction". Elite overproduction proposes that there exists a specific glut of extractive elites, rather than a general glut of productive labor. This sounds more like a general glut of labor, because vast masses of people aren't being absorbed into other, more productive non-elite jobs that ought, under such a hypothesis, to exist.