Ben Friedl

becoming-deleuzional; posting-machine | CS DS IS @ UW-Madison | Visit my website!

[Ben Friedl @BenEnterprises]

https://t.co/qxMfKGCzHL

[norvid_studies @norvid_studies]

is the great process of history understanding itself in the room with us right now

[lcamtuf @lcamtuf]

How much of Hacker News is AI, part 2. TL;DR: ~50% of the daily top as of June 2026.

Methodology and other info: https://t.co/vySCLhW68m

[Ben Friedl @BenEnterprises]

@max_spero_ Participant 7

[Ben Friedl @BenEnterprises]

Many such cases of P7 unfortunately
"Woah, interesting [suggestion from Copilot]. The first thing I’ll do is pull up ChatGPT."
"I use ChatGPT more like a personal tutor"
"So [ChatGPT]’s giving me some code. I’m going to copy it so I can understand what it’s saying"

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@TheZvi https://t.co/ZkfjDEkFaf

[meowbooks @meowbooksj]

government got fable locked up?

better call sol

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

you’ll get mad at me for saying this…but cloud gaming is so obviously more economically efficient than physical hardware I think it’s going to be the default soon.

your home console / pc is idle 90%+ of the day. meanwhile, data centers targets what, 5%, maybe at worst 10% idle.

every second a cloud gamer isn’t gaming, that hardware is being used for someone else, training, etc.

I think there should be a new measurement, something like cost-per effective FLOP hour that takes into account the TCO + effective utilization.

If a gamer spends $500 on a GPU, uses it for 3 years, but it’s only fully active ~5% of that period…the cost-per relative FLOP hour is crazy high! Meanwhile, a $50,000 datacenter GPU might have a *LOWER* cost-per FLOP hour just because the effective utilization is 90+%.

[Ben Friedl @BenEnterprises]

❌ Fortune 500
✅ Mythos 100

[Ben Smith @semaforben]

Mythos is back

[Ben Friedl @BenEnterprises]

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[Ben Friedl @BenEnterprises]

Was not expecting 80,000 Hours to ask if I'd considered becoming a Marxist

[Ben Friedl @BenEnterprises]

"The death of writing is like the death of God or the death of the father: the thing was settled a long time ago, although the news of the event is slow to reach us" -Deleuze & Guattari, Anti-Oedipus

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

Unfortunately, I think that in the near future, not using LLMs to write for you will be like someone refusing to use Google Maps for directions in a new city. A bizarre idiosyncratic choice that's just completely incomprehensible to the vast majority of people.

[Ben Friedl @BenEnterprises]

This is my quant

[Negligible Capital @negligible_cap]

Real slides from the Softbank annual general meeting presentation

Say what you will about Softbank, but Masayoshi Son should get an award for this slide deck

[Ben Friedl @BenEnterprises]

@lu_sichu don't give zuckerberg ideas

[Ben Friedl @BenEnterprises]

@KeyTryer *glances at new drug* LGTM!

[Ben Friedl @BenEnterprises]

That's just teleos-slop. You only like it because you immanentized the eschaton

[Ben Friedl @BenEnterprises]

@_ueaj Hayek fans after the singularity just predicts everyone's revealed preferences

[Ben Friedl @BenEnterprises]

"At what point will AI systems generate heterodox insights and genuine creativity? We can't really measure for that today, but what we have are the symptoms of it starting"

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

NEW ODD LOTS:

@tracyalloway and I talk to Anthropic’s co-founder @jackclarkSF and top economist @PeterMcCrory about everything they’re seeing doing research at the AI frontier.

We talk Fable, human extinction risk, job loss, shrimp rights and more.

https://t.co/RaHnlSWTHF

[Ben Friedl @BenEnterprises]

lol, lmao

[Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro]

New: Leaked records show how Dialog, the Thiel-linked private club, secretly grades members by wealth and fame, labels their politics, tracks relationships, and uses algorithms to decide who should meet, who should date, who sits where, and who gets cut

https://t.co/nYqzUSRKqC

[Ben Friedl @BenEnterprises]

@tenobrus Recently remembered I had actually pasted Defender's dishonest drivel into Claude. Yay accidental archival? I forecast this will move him infinity towards "dumb" in our collective consciousness (proprietary embedding models) https://t.co/auoOUmYsPK

[Ben Friedl @BenEnterprises]

@tenobrus It's over for you kiddo I've already portrayed the vector embedding of your name moving significantly towards "dumb" based on my analysis of YouTube physics cranks then censored my blog about it later like a coward

[Ben Friedl @BenEnterprises]

@tenderizzation TOTAL WISCONSIN VICTORY