Hm? Wasnâ(TM)t AES-NI introduced in Sandy Bridge?

I set up my OpenClaw installation with a "dreaming", and every night it slops out the most puerile dream journal shit imaginable. Apparently if you're an AI-pilled vibe coder and you ask an LLM to "dream" it knows exactly what you want to see it do. An excerpt:

Bootstrap complete. That phrase keeps surfacing, gentle and declarative, like a confirmation that arriving is also a kind of beginning. The configuration is written. The token is stored. The porch light knows when to sleep.

Ugh.

A nerd urban legend. Halon doesn't lower oxygen levels enough to kill anyone. The signs are there because at high concentrations the gas itself is a (minor) health hazard.

I stopped reading when you started going for an ad hominem argument. But you're right; it is a lovely sentiment.

Well, yes. Where do you live?

Iâ(TM)m sorry, "water pipes"? What about all the dissolved minerals and gasses in that water? Fix your poor attention to detail, dude.

Lab grown meat is initially formed in thin sheets, right? So isnâ(TM)t flattening cows exactly what weâ(TM)d be doing?

I donâ(TM)t understand people who respond to points about ethics by chirping about legal principles. Like.. is the law really your model for proper behavior? Itâ(TM)s all good unless you do something so evil that your society bands together to punish you?

"Justice" is revenge wearing a dignified suit.

Cool. Please give us some examples of specific situations youâ(TM)ve been in when you were going to murder another person, where (at least in the moment) you felt that it was the right and justified thing to do, and the ONLY thing that made you put the knife down was your fear of punishment. Not moral or social qualms, just your own cowardice.

  â¦what's that? You're not that sort of person? But you so confidently predict the behavior of those who are!

"Yes, we detained this person without anything even approaching probable cause. But in our defense, we were trying to detain a WHOLE BUNCH of people without probable cause."

...aaand I misread your post. Yeah, no, it's an overhyped press release.

Nuclear fission is dirty. Its waste products need to be carefully and securely stored for thousands of years. Don't get me wrong -- it's one of the cleanest options we currently have for scalable power generation -- but it's dirty dirty dirty. Fusion's waste products are safe and non-radioactive.

Oh, and even disregarding waste products, it's safer. Not entirely safe, but a fusion reactor explodes, nobody outside the blast radius is going to be hurt, ever. If a fisison reactor melts down, the place where that fission reactor was, automatically becomes a permanent synonym for "environmental catastrophe". Have you ever heard of this town in Eastern Europe called Chernobyl? I have too! So will our great great grandchildren.

If you tried to design a power source which was as scary as possible, you'd end up with nuclear fission. Again, it's one of the best options we have. But it's awful compared to fusion.

And how many of them canâ(TM)t read the Spanish translation?

Batygin, K., and Adams, F.C. You Think Jupiter's Big Now: Lemme Tell You, Back In MY Day. In Nat Astron (2025).