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Mystery Science Theater 3000 foretells artificial sycophancy (1993) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C71Oj68sN5M
2•smorgasborg•53m ago

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smorgasborg•53m ago
correct link with time stamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C71Oj68sN5M&t=90

Tom Servo: look here he comes it's Joel

Tom Servo and Crow: Joel! Joel!

Joel: Hi you guys, how you doing?

TS: oh you know it's just like you to think of us instead of yourself

C: that's what separates you from us measly Bots

J: Thanks hi everybody, welcome to the satellite of love, I'm Joel Robinson and these are

TS: oh you see he introduced himself what a perfectly thoughtful thing to do

C: Yes thoughtful

J: these are my robots Tom Servo and Crow and I've installed in them a protocol module that makes them believe everything I think, say, or do is utterly brilliant

Crow: oh and it IS Joel, God yes.

TS: Roger penrose on his best day isn't half as brilliant or as charming as you, I might add

intercom: Commercial sign in 15 seconds, of course every blissful second with you is like an apple of gold Joel

Both:yes yes yes

J: you know I'm starting to have second thoughts about this. I don't know what I think

TS: Oh Joel! I've wiped away every bit of hesitation I had about this project

Crow: not that we take issue with anything you'd think

Both: No, No, no

J: It does make you easier to work with

Both: Oh Yes, yes, easy as pie, brilliant

B: brilliant more you Mr Miller

J: it leaves me feeling kind of hollow

TS: Wow, how insightful of you to find that in yourself

Crow: You always cut right to the heart of things Joel

J: yeah yeah I'm going to remove those modules

TS: oh no no no just just just just shut me down completely

C: jettison me into space please

T: oh yes disconnect with extreme prejudice

C: you see this butt oh kick this ...

<commercial break>

J: all right there's the protocol module right there

Crow: don't touch me, don't ever touch me.

TS: this is painful

J: sorry

TS: jeez Joel some small animal crawl inside your jumpsuit and die?

J: there's the Bots I know & love

Homelab deployments: a tutorial made of prompts

https://tomjohnell.com/homelab-deployments-a-tutorial-made-of-prompts/
1•tjohnell•4s ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to prepare for coding/system design interviews on a mobile phone

1•k_dev•1m ago•0 comments

AI Is Making Us Less Human

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/open-ai-consciousness-morality/688535/
2•paulpauper•3m ago•0 comments

Alzheimer's trial to test drug on people without symptoms to test prevention

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/05/alzheimers-trial-drug-dementia
2•borski•3m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What are your predictions for the rest of 2026?

3•roschdal•5m ago•1 comments

An Alien Mind

https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/
1•tosh•5m ago•0 comments

TreasuryDirect is launching a controversial login system

https://tipswatch.com/2026/08/17/treasurydirect-is-launching-a-controversial-login-system/
1•clcaev•6m ago•0 comments

A complex train and logistics simulator running straight in your terminal? Yep

https://avaraujo.itch.io/letrain-procedural-tycoon
2•avaraujo•9m ago•0 comments

Pro Se Litigants in the U.S. Supreme Court: How Do They Fare? (2024) [pdf]

https://prod-i.a.dj.com/public/resources/documents/KylePersaud.pdf
2•Tomte•12m ago•0 comments

I Check the Weather

https://sarah-robin.com/blog/how-i-actually-check-the-weather
3•sarah-robiin•12m ago•0 comments

Hot Chips 2026: Irrational Recap

https://irrationalanalysis.substack.com/p/hot-chips-2026-irrational-recap
1•zdw•13m ago•0 comments

Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S. since 1989

https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distribute/chart/#quarter:146;series:Net%2...
2•loughnane•15m ago•0 comments

AI agents aren't safe from prompt injection, and spreadsheets prove it

https://shiftmag.dev/ai-agents-arent-safe-from-prompt-injection-and-spreadsheets-prove-it-11609/
3•taubek•15m ago•0 comments

IBM_phoenix

https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/computers?system=ibm_phoenix
2•Bluestein•16m ago•0 comments

'Twilight of the Dons' Review: The Prestige of the Professors

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/twilight-of-the-dons-review-the-prestige-of-the-professors...
1•pepys•16m ago•0 comments

The AI Account Reseller Ecosystem

https://vectoral.com/blog/ai-account-reseller-ecosystem
2•mlenhard•17m ago•0 comments

Research carried out using NetBSD

https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/research.html
5•Bluestein•22m ago•0 comments

The Tokens That Made Me Rethink Everything

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/the-tokens-that-made-me-rethink-everything/
2•visha1v•25m ago•0 comments

When did French fries become the standard side to serve with a hamburger?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/39v00a/comment/cs72af6/
6•thunderbong•25m ago•0 comments

Leverage Code Review for Sustainable AI Coding Development

https://cacm.acm.org/news/leverage-code-review-for-sustainable-ai-coding-development/
1•visha1v•25m ago•0 comments

Tumbler Ridge Shooting Survivors File 30 Lawsuits Against OpenAI

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/world/canada/openai-lawsuits-tumbler-ridge-shooting.html
2•sbulaev•25m ago•0 comments

Cash or Comfort? How LLMs Value Your Inconvenience

https://cacm.acm.org/research/cash-or-comfort-how-llms-value-your-inconvenience/
2•visha1v•25m ago•0 comments

The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine (2001)

https://www.thekurzweillibrary.com/the-coming-merging-of-mind-and-machine
2•vinhnx•27m ago•0 comments

Mdmanager.ai – Manage your Claude.md and AGENTS.md across machines and runtimes

https://github.com/manuelschipper/mdmanager
3•schipperai•29m ago•2 comments

Cultivating Trust

https://kaeruct.github.io/posts/2026/09/06/conquering-entropy-cultivating-trust/
3•kaeruct•30m ago•1 comments

Two party systems and the quartile voters

https://jslandy.com/two-party-systems-quartile-voters/
3•efavdb•31m ago•0 comments

Industry Standard Tools

https://industrystandard.tools/pending
1•bookofjoe•32m ago•1 comments

Linux support for Apple T1 hardware

https://github.com/standardagents/t1bridge
1•TiredOfLife•35m ago•0 comments

An actual music theory framework with note-for-note voice-leading resolutions

https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/1vktxsj/the_layout_of_modeschord_swings_in_cmam_w_all/
2•RockofStrength•36m ago•0 comments

Pumpkin: Building a Minecraft server in Rust, First release after 2 years

https://github.com/Pumpkin-MC/Pumpkin
1•alex_medvedev•38m ago•0 comments