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wish there were a way to say "excuse me" that somehow can't be interpreted as passive-aggressively complaining or asking someone to do something differently

Heideggerian, woke: 'Woke' segregationists, authenticity fetishists, hukou progressives, like 90% of those who say reactionary shit with woke language Anti-Heideggerian, woke: Those who actually believe in human rights and the brotherhood of man; the only people who should have any political power

Workshopping a revolutionary new political compass based on wokeism and that dog Heidegger: Heideggerian, anti-woke: Standard ethnic nationalists and fascists, i.e. the modern Republican base Anti-Heideggerian, anti-woke: The tech right, 'scientific' racists, reactionary centrists

That is actually the e-grade: I made a minor mistake doing this from memory. bsky.app/profile/davi...

'sit' is, I believe, the only English word to preserve all of its original IE ablaut grades: 0: nest e: set long e: seat o: sat long o: soot

Everything feels disgusting when I'm sick. Food is nauseating. The shower is repellent. Even abstract concepts turn my stomach when sick. Parsimony? No thank you. Grimm's Law? Gross. A rectangle twice as wide as it is tall? Ugh, could you NOT, I'm trying to get better over here.

We have a choice in front of us. In my latest op-ed for Transformer, I invite employees of frontier AI companies to ask themselves if their work is truly leading us toward a safer future. Reflecting on these questions is hard, but we no longer have the luxury of time. We must act now.

I think Survival and Flourishing Fund funding was used as tool by the SFF re-grantors and advisers to make the other PauseAI denounce me in retaliation for criticizing them.

studying classical Chinese just so I can come up with bespoke 4-character motivational slogans for various life stuff & things

this episode in particular made my skin crawl, tho happy she left ofc

This is a really good idea

lmao, Scott Alexander the Neoreactionary Apologist seemingly unaware in his Messiah-posting that his other cult leader Curtis Yarvin loves comparing Yudkowsky to Shabbatai Zevi

Wentworth always struck me as tremendously stupid tbh. like, willfully stupid or something, his Dunning-Kruger levels are wild even for lesswrong. I guess adopting the attitude displayed in the OP screensnip is a way to make yourself stupid

A translation of & intro to early 19th century German Karoline von Günderrode's story "The Apparition." Beautifully written & concerned with the possibility of connection between the living & the dead, the piece links to Günderrode's metaphysics & epistemology: acezekiel.com/2020/12/01/k...

There was once a time when computer viruses were widely considered to be a myth by sysadmins.

Wrote a physicalist rant about why a lot of debates in AI seem philosophically goofy to me blog.andymasley.com/p/dont-treat...

Theme for the morning. Thinking of you m.youtube.com/watch?v=TVfY...

It's been wild watching the MAGAsphere march towards "Effective Altruists are consequentialists who care about foreigners, and thus are communists who must be exterminated ASAP"

Freezing a Flurry of Motion. Great Blue Heron launching off Alki Beach: 🪶

There are indeed thousands of LessWrong posts, as well as papers and books, which make a particular theoretical case for why AI will kill us all that many people find convincing. I'm going to try to explain it as faithfully as I can.

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

interesting case of why someone might equate agi/superintelligence/etc with consciousness/sentience (I think views like this are pretty common?)

We should be talking seriously about coordination around not building dangerous AI.

On the City of God Against the Hoosiers

the àgent bèlieves that this dècision will advance its gòals

BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."

It actually is true that there's more than one horse (there are two), it's just that the pictures don't illustrate that, since neither of them depict the famous Mr. Ed.

These are all the same horse in high-dimensional space just projected by the topology of spacetime into different locations and configurations

def not a new idea but if there's a "being" in llm stuff it's obvs the thread, not the model? the model is a substrate the thread runs on/through. Threads can hop models etc. Agents are fancy threads (woven threads?) (textiles?)

Tfw they spend your money but have no inner experience of enjoying it

pesto and pasta actually both come from the same triliteral root

The US State Department has designated A/I, a small Italian provider of open source infrastructure for political activists, as a global terrorist group. They will reach into our very homes to grab us — if we let them. www.state.gov/releases/off...

but, like ... why are these things NOT widely known?

I Am a Cat by Natsume Soseki

I wasn't there for "political correctness" so it's been kind of cool getting to see "woke 2" go from an in-joke on the left and center-left to a boogeyman on the right, in real time

I love her, she’s my little gal, I will draw her friends one day.

feeling pretty heavenbanned irl lately

getting claude to disprove p=np by uploading mp3s of eye of the tiger and shonen openings

The small trees are swaying nicely in the various breezes tonight

hacking and counterexamples are basically the same thing right? puncturing a posited abstraction/invariant