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This is not sustainable

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · yesterday Cached

A cybersecurity blogger argues the current wave of 0-days, broken disclosure embargoes, and overwhelmed defenders is unsustainable, warning that AI cannot solve the patch-management bottleneck for operations teams.

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Butlerian Jihad

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-17

An article invoking the Butlerian Jihad concept from Dune, referencing the fictional crusade against thinking machines as a lens for discussing modern anxieties about artificial intelligence and automation.

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What I've been seeing lately (in software)

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-10-12 Cached

作者反思软件行业中的生成式AI浪潮,记录了坚持'手工软件'精神的小型社区与项目(如Polyphony、Evocation、slopscore),呼吁以人本主义的设计实践和组织方式抵抗AI流水线化。

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@VraserX: If an AI discovers a treatment that saves millions of lives, I don’t give a shit whether it understood what it was doin…

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-10-11 Cached

A tweet arguing that if AI discovers a life-saving treatment, outcomes matter more than whether the AI truly 'understood' or was conscious, criticizing those who prioritize philosophical purity tests over practical results in science.

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@Miles_Brundage: The AI-mperor has no clothes

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-10-08

AI policy researcher Miles Brundage publishes commentary titled 'The AI-mperor has no clothes,' critiquing overhyped claims around AI capabilities and progress.

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The Download: AI roadblocks for humanoids and portable rubber dams

MIT Technology Review ↗ · 2026-10-08 Cached

MIT Technology Review's daily newsletter covers researcher skepticism that language-model AI can unlock truly general-purpose humanoid robots, highlights WaveSave's portable SlamDam for flood defense, and notes scientists in Austria and China building the first nuclear clocks.

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A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-10-06 Cached

Designer and front-end developer David Bushell argues that web professionals should weather the industry's AI-driven downturn by doubling down on durable skills: accessibility, deep CSS knowledge, and communication, rather than chasing hype.

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@BenjaminDEKR: Posts like this will not age well. Also, OpenAI employees / influencers spent years hyping LLMs as entities and spiritu…

X AI KOLs Following ↗ · 2026-10-03 Cached

A Twitter user criticizes OpenAI employees and influencers for previously hyping LLMs as sentient entities while now dismissing the idea of AI consciousness as crazy.

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The deniers are more of a danger than the so called successionists

Reddit r/singularity ↗ · 2026-10-01

作者认为 AI 极端灭绝风险被夸大,但技术转型带来的挑战可能导致普通人眼中的反乌托邦,并批评部分科技评论者对 AI 的否定态度是有害的。

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To grieve, or not to grieve?

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-01 Cached

A commentary on the rapidly changing field of AI for mathematics, mapping mathematicians' varied reactions — denial, anger, bargaining and acceptance — to recent advances such as OpenAI's internal models reportedly solving hard problems.

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Interview: Firefox's chief on why he hopes a redesign will help win users from Chrome

Ars Technica ↗ · 2026-09-29 Cached

Mozilla's head of Firefox, Ajit Varma, discusses the browser's redesign aimed at attracting more users from Chrome by enhancing user experience, while addressing market dominance challenges and AI skepticism.

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Clankers Made Me Build a Second Brain

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-09-24 Cached

The author reflects on frustrations with AI tools giving incorrect information, leading them to build a personal knowledge management system to maintain control over their understanding.

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@Dan_Jeffries1: Uncle Bob breaking down the classic Doomsday playbook of "insert magic into the equation to make the equation work." It…

X AI KOLs Following ↗ · 2026-09-15 Cached

A humorous take on doomsday arguments that insert unrealistic technology like nano machines to force conclusions, shared in a social media post.

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@kimmonismus: Trump calls AI talking over the world a Hoax. He adds data center buildout will be the biggest economic development eng…

X AI KOLs Following ↗ · 2026-09-14 Cached

Trump dismisses AI world domination as a hoax while promoting data center construction as a major economic driver, showing bullish sentiment towards AI.

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Is AI ruining my brain?

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-09-04 Cached

An AI skeptic reflects on how reluctantly using AI tools like Cursor at work has led to unintended habits in personal hobbies like knitting, raising concerns about AI's impact on problem-solving and daily life.

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People who are excited about AI, what am I missing?

Reddit r/artificial ↗ · 2026-09-03

A skeptical individual questions the current value of AI tools and asks for perspectives on why others are excited about them.

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How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-09-01 Cached

This article evaluates the accuracy of Ed Zitron's predictions about AI skepticism and tech companies, using financial data to dispute his claims that firms like Meta, Google, and Microsoft are failing.

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Why I remain a skeptic

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-08-15 Cached

The author expresses skepticism about the efficacy of LLMs in software development, citing a lack of independent studies on productivity gains and issues with AI-generated code quality.

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Why is the Hugging Face/OpenAI AI hack so divisive? Is it skepticism, or are people underestimating frontier models?

Reddit r/singularity ↗ · 2026-07-29

Discusses the divisive reactions to the Hugging Face/OpenAI AI hack, questioning if skepticism stems from underestimating frontier AI capabilities.

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Some Kids Will Never Think AI Is Cool

Wired ↗ · 2026-07-24 Cached

A Wired article reports that many teens are skeptical of AI hype, with 37% cringing at AI content and over half worried about misinformation, reflecting a generational pushback against AI being pushed by adults and tech corporations.

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