158 pointsby CharlesW2 hours ago19 comments
  • sippingabonedryan hour ago
    Is this supposed to be funny?

    Hard to comprehend how we've gone from Norm MacDonald being so relentlessly bold he was fired, to this sterility, in 30 years.

    • swed42019 minutes ago
      > Hard to comprehend how we've gone from Norm MacDonald being so relentlessly bold he was fired, to this sterility, in 30 years.

      Is it, though?

      Wouldn't it be more strange if the former didn't eventually lead to the latter?

    • 2III723 minutes ago
      Dario?
    • queenkjuul21 minutes ago
      30 years is a long ass time. Did you miss what happened to the Simpsons over 30 years?
      • Chance-Device11 minutes ago
        Man, the Simpsons stopped being funny a few years in, I have no idea what they’ve even been doing since then.
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  • tptacekan hour ago
    This is the best thing Jane Wickline has done. I worried about whether she was on the bubble because she's so situational (I think that's a good thing), but clearly she's got staying power.
    • The_Bladean hour ago
      i just learned her partner is named Henry Hornbuckle now this is power couple we deserve but not the one we need right now
      • Aboutplants16 minutes ago
        Her mother also just happens to be Lorne Michaels long term assistant
  • Chance-Device34 minutes ago
    It’s not funny. It could be, Dario is idiosyncratic enough they could have done a really good send up of him, this just wasn’t it.
    • troupo28 minutes ago
      To be honest I struggle to understand why SNL endures. It has never been funny with very very few exceptions.
  • jihadjihad30 minutes ago
    I know it’s a little OT, but I keep seeing the same misquotation all over the place. Right at the beginning Michael Che refers to the claim that “there’s a 10% chance that AI could wipe out humanity within 10 years.”

    But that isn’t what the often-misquoted current and former Anthropic employees said. They said it was a 10% chance of it happening by the end of the current decade [0], i.e. by 2030, not 2036.

    0: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/09/anthropic...

    • pj_mukh29 minutes ago
      But what does it matter? It’s not like that number is based on any science. It’s literally p (doom | vibes).
      • someothherguyy25 minutes ago
        what does the scientific literature say then?
        • pj_mukh21 minutes ago
          Unfortunately, this question was never asked by any news organization or of Coxon as he ran to the press. People who would usually ask to "see the work" never did because it comfortably confirmed their biases.

          Specifically, I have no idea what the research says, or even if it exists, I wish we had a system to figure that out instead of exciting Twitter "whistleblower" threads.

    • nmca24 minutes ago
      You are wrong. The confusion arises because Coxon said “within the decade” with no associated probability and Hubinger said “within the next decade” at 10%.
  • lostmsu5 minutes ago
    [delayed]
  • chews40 minutes ago
    I urge you to urge me to stop is critical Super Dario
  • monkaiju14 minutes ago
    Pretty funny tbh, it is amazing these clowns have so much influence over such large investments...
  • TheAceOfHeartsan hour ago
    I generally don't think SNL is very funny but I think it's quite socially healthy that they make fun of the political and economic elites. I wonder if we mapped out their targets if there would be any glaring omissions that would stand out.

    This video didn't make me laugh but I appreciate the flexing of the first amendment. They should continue with other AI-related figures.

    • rudedoggan hour ago
      Agreed. I wish they would have thrown in a "guardrails to stop me, but mostly my competitors" so the public would think about that possibility more.
    • charcircuitan hour ago
      I disagree there are so many other ways to be funny than making fun of someone's stuttering. We shouldn't be bullying people delivering trillions of dollars of value to society.
      • pluto_modadic40 minutes ago
        the idea of a caricature is to exaggerate the features someone is most insecure about. That's what Spitting Image is.
        • charcircuit38 minutes ago
          That is literally bullying. especially when those insecurities are something that can not be fixed. You can't excuse bullying because "it's for humor." It's cruel.
          • jakubmazaneca minute ago
            Search "punching down vs punching up in comedy" and you'll understand why it's not bullying.
          • cannonpalms15 minutes ago
            Bullying implies a power imbalance that does not exist here
          • queenkjuul19 minutes ago
            I can excuse bullying powerful people in all cases, especially when it's funny
          • owebmaster22 minutes ago
            You can't bully someone so much more powerful. Bullying is saying AI will replace devs, 10% chance of everybody dying, etc.
          • johnnyanmac22 minutes ago
            I think Dario will be fine. I don't have much sympathy.

            And yes, it is indeed because he's a billionaire actively shaping a worse society. Not because it's okay to make fun of impediments when it's on rich people.

  • starkd5 minutes ago
    How did everyone forget how to be funny? It's like there's a formula that's been patented and hidden away so no one else can find it.
  • AtlasBarfed22 minutes ago
    Hey how about we go back to LLM/AI being a simple knowledge request service? You have a model trained on data, you request a text or media response from that knowledge model.

    No agents. And if someone loops the response into an agent, well, then they are legally liable for personally doing that.

  • gib44441 minutes ago
    Her character's voice at times reminds me of that Rick and Morty court room sketch. NSFW. Pretty hilarious:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vN_PEmeKb0

    • MBCook5 minutes ago
      Seems like a gollum thing to me.
  • bitwizean hour ago
    When Dario talks to himself sotto voce and then answers himself in a raspy voice, Gollum-like, made me lose it. I once encountered a severely cognitively deficient individual on the bus who calmed himself in the exact same fashion. It's almost a perfectly succinct psychological snapshot of the character they're trying to create.
    • nullc10 minutes ago
      They missed an opportunity to talk about 'my precious AI' or have the gollum-like voice talk in claudeisms ('lever', 'honest take', 'load bearing'). I wasn't entirely clear on the skits working theory, is this a crazy guy that thinks he has the one ring but really has a cereal box toy?
      • MBCook3 minutes ago
        “My precious” would have been too on the nose for the Gollum part for me.

        Claudisms could be fun but probably too obscure for the target audience.

  • verdverm2 hours ago
    I for one am glad to see society moving from deference to skepticism of these valley elite
    • DonHopkins2 hours ago
      It's all just a big scam to scare the public into buying robot insurance.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Gh_IcK8UM

      • BearOsoan hour ago
        In reality, it is a big scam to trick the public into thinking AI is dangerous and needs to be regulated. Then the government can limit it so only the preferred companies can continue to develop it.

        It's because both frontier companies are worried about plateauing and there's no barrier to competition. They both have upcoming IPOs, too.

        • pvab328 minutes ago
          To be fair, I think most of this is sci-fi brain rot, but the fact that 2 trillion-dollar companies supposedly have RSI as their #1 priority by a long shot is concerning to me
          • verdverm15 minutes ago
            The I in RSI... Improvement or Immolation... tbd...
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      • Bluecobraan hour ago
        An insurance policy with a robot plan? Certainly, I’m too old!
      • layer8an hour ago
        Does it apply when robo-advisors make bad investments?
      • verdverm2 hours ago
        lol, that's good

        Lawfare Media recently, actually proposed a mutualize insurance system for Ai

        https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/bootstrapping-frontier-...

        I don't think it such a bad idea that the Big Ai labs put money into a fund for their negligence, but that should not relieve them of criminal liabilities

        my consternation is that they likely have sufficient money to avoid consequences, like the sacks and the opioid epidemic, two-tier justice system at it's finest...

  • iAMkenough2 hours ago
    How long until the President of the United States threatens to pull licenses for NBC over their anti-AI viewpoint?
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    • ok12345639 minutes ago
      Something about the lack of socialization leads tech people into these off-putting ego cults.

      While it's not exactly the traditional Randian objectivism you're alluding to, effective altruism adds an extra step: it ostensibly helps people. But, ultimately, it's a distinction without difference: no one escapes the dialectic. Individuals, especially ones cloistered off from the world, are not good arbiters of what will make the world better, or of understanding the higher-order effects of their actions.

    • nba456_an hour ago
      Nothing Ayn Rand about pushing for regulations.
      • malfistan hour ago
        Sure, pushing for regulations.

        What are they doing now to stop their harms? They're not bound to commit as much harm as possible just because government hasn't told them to knock it off, they can just, not.

      • kennywinkeran hour ago
        I think the Ayn Rand thing is more about "the I'm getting mine, f everyone else". However the next 5-10 years shake out, if you're ultra rich today you'll almost definitely be ultra rich in 10 years. Probably ultra-richer. Ayn Rand wasn't just about free markets, she was about individualism over collectivism. Don't worry about how your actions will effect society, worry about what's best for yourself and society will work itself out.
      • The_Bladean hour ago
        yeah this isn't just moving the goalposts it suddenly started playing Gaelic football but this all seems a lot more Ellsworth Toohey
      • GaryBlutoan hour ago
        "Ayn Rand" unfortunately seems to have become shorthand on HN for "politics I disagree with". I wonder how long it's going to be until I see somebody here describes the CCP as "Randian".
        • verdverman hour ago
          The EA folks are not happy with the newfound HN criticisms either

          If I may... a drEAk meme

          (⌐_⌐)ノ Empathy

          (•ᴗ•)つ Apathy

    • kanwisheran hour ago
      Sorry Dario is the exact opposite of Ayn Rand, he wants the government to manage his industry cause he thinks it will be good for him. More likely all his competitors are more libertarian like Ayn Rand writes about
      • kennywinkeran hour ago
        Notoriously, Ayn Rand only believed deregulation. Her books are just the phrase "deregulation is good" over and over and over.
      • malfistan hour ago
        Libertarian freedom for me and my friends, harsh regulatory capture for my enemies
      • lazyasciiart19 minutes ago
        Except the ones joining his call for regulation, obviously.
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    • slopinthebagan hour ago
      rand is when bad politics?
    • bogzzan hour ago
      It's pretty difficult for me to imagine a turnaround there. Disenshittification would make shareholders irate.
  • barbazoo2 hours ago
    > The uploader has not made this video available in your country

    Copyright is another threat to humanity.

    • egeozcan2 hours ago
      Here you go: https://www.instagram.com/reels/Ddxyuq4N9vj/ (had the same problem)
      • sajithdilshanan hour ago
        It's so stupid, like why would they block it on YouTube, but not on instagram. Is the copyright law only applicable in YouTube
    • Waterluvian2 hours ago
      Copyright might be part of this; I haven’t thought that through. But this restriction is about whose turf they’re trying to push their product on. SNL has to be pushed through a different distributor in different regions.
  • aleksandrm21 minutes ago
    Why is this on the front page of HN?
    • GolfPopper5 minutes ago
      For a while, it has felt like anything LLM-related hits the front page.