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software is clay now

if i sit next to someone in a café and they start whispering to their computer i might scream https://cleanshot.com/share/k946cryR

it’s crazy how fast our brains get used to things; frontier models have been good at making animated videos for what; a few weeks? and i’m already tired of all the animationslop

i hope the next big releases from the labs are safety breakthroughs

while there is a permanent underclass, i am in it

The experts are warning you that AI could kill you because they think AI could kill you. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/ai-safety-is-not-a-corporate-plot

i received this book in the mail with no recollection of ordering it. i have heard of it, and have a dreamlike memory of looking it up on an online bookshop, but i can find no record of purchasing it

With effective altruism in the news a lot more, I wrote about the version of EA I'm most excited about and the direction I'd like the movement to go. These 6 points are my vision of EA in a nutshell:

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

no, no, I said i'm a DUELIST. your insipid theory of consciousness offends my honor and I demand satisfaction

Paul Christiano […], the research community’s most prominent proponent of “AI may take off slowly” a few years ago, now thinks that 50-75% of humanity’s all-time AI loss-of-control risk is concentrated in the next three years. https://nothingismere.substack.com/p/are-we-nearly-out-of-time-on-ai

i know we are all eating from the trash can of ideology but some of y’all are really gorging yourselves

Hard to believe how bad this piece is; each answer contains at least one straightforward falsehood or fallacy

interesting

From the very beginning, software engineering has been about automating other people’s work. Every single commercial software program is valuable because it takes over some task you would have to pay a human to do. https://www.seangoedecke.com/software-engineers-dont-get-to-be-luddites-about-ai/

https://truisms.btao.org/

this rules! @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social have you seen this

@epochai.bsky.social is one I know of directly, and I'm pretty sure there are more.

are any AI safety people active on bluesky? lots of them of X but i’d prefer not to open that website!

it is done

There's something profoundly depressing in realizing and being continually reminded again and again that the public intellectual ecosystem doesn't necessarily reward having something to say so much as having something people feel compelled to react to.

i know that dario is trying to become High Priest of Claude God or whatever, i.e. not chill, but for once it’s nice to see a powerful person who’s as awkward as i would be in this situation youtu.be/D8lDoI4yLLA?...

we haven’t solved cybersecurity with human adversaries, and nadella thinks we will solve it when the adversary is much smarter than us? what happens if a superintelligent model is not aligned and we got the security wrong?

i think everyone should keep making confident strong claims about consciousness on social media. i’m sure everyone has read the prior art, thought about it a lot, and are contributing something novel to the debate

social media rewards the appearance of understanding far more than it rewards actual understanding. that’s why it’s making us all stupid

this is a goofy post. it seems like the main reason for posting it is to use the term “SI” to show allegiance to trump https://x.com/satyanadella/status/2108931348857827686 you cannot “[set] aside the hard problem of alignment”

i love using amp code so much

Total Workerd Supremacy

LLMs make being a sysadmin pretty fun

"Launching an opt-in vulnerability-finding service for open-source software" / Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/research/launching-opt-in-vuln-finding-service-for-open-source

i watched it follows and i really related to the guy who follows

this is very beautiful https://paper.design/mono

software engineering

i finally found a great use case for hermes: checking my doctor's janky website every hour and notifying me when there are appointments available

it’s cool that someone built an open-source version of the adobe suite but those apps were dead anyway. no-one’s gonna be manually editing SVGs in five years

now that echofeed is shutting down, some of you might be looking for an alternative way to post your RSS feeds to bluesky or mastodon. i built http://parrot.garden/ for this a while back. it’s totally free and will stay that way! feature requests are welcome :)

Finished reading The Erotic Mind by Jack Morin ★★★★☆

Hey friends, could you do me a favour and star github.com/roostorg/coop if you like the Roost Coop project?

Finished reading If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares ★★★★★

but kitten should worry, that message was sent from inside the swarm

chatgpt is down which means that astra is coming, right?