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posting is not praxis.

shit like this just makes me wonder, uncomfortably, if all the Guardian articles that I liked were also egregious clickbait that I fell for

new upper bound on Dario's p(doom) is 0.000 000 005 9

I like the implication that God can totally be math, as long as it's hard math it's common knowledge that you don't get access to the Secret Fire, the Flame Imperishable from which all Creation flows, until algebraic topology

AIs are just stochastic parrots, and parrots are not born from wombs, which proves AI has no soul psychosis havers BTFO with FACTS and LOGIC

In Bruges For Tax Purposes

at long last, we've found the source of all of the bad takes

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yes! thank you!

"in my ideal future, Nidal Hasan is shot by the US military on live TV for the whole world to see" - Pete Hegseth 🤝 Nidal Hasan

Frontier AI can solve hundreds of open advanced math problems that have stumped some of the brightest minds in history, but still can't design a clean, simple UI for a glorified CRUD app UX design teams who spend a whole sprint debating button spacing: TOTALLY EXONERATED, NO WRONGDOING

always interesting to watch academics learn in real time that they don't actually have a sacred special role in the universe, a lesson the rest of us learned in our teens and twenties

centrists: campaigning on universal health care would be a mistake. it's politically risky and opens many lines of attack. any implementation proposal could be unpopular. that's why we must work for 8% cheaper insulin for low-income rural families by 2050. also centrists: speed cameras, fuck yeah!

hacking on a harness and Muse Spark referred to the test agent using it as the "harness inmate"

mouse relative smooth zoom, mouse dragging, and... crazy camera rotation.

we can't repeal DST now, it would be cruel to deprive Arizona of their one big win during football season

Is New Yorker style to spell it “Aëlla?”

I suddenly have $25k in free Grok credits at work, what should I use them for as a responsible business obviously we don't allow Grok anywhere near confidential or customer data, which rules out most normal work tasks

somehow, Tumblr returned

playing some Overwatch and was like "wow this is literally less fun than work" so I stopped to do work instead props to Blizzard for enhancing productivity I guess

tedious terminological legerdemain in the service of fornlorn hope goalpost dragging that would be annoying if it weren't so thoroughgoingly pathetic: A SUBSTACK PERFORMANCE ART PIECE IN WORDS

I dont know when the general populace will catch up to what AI is and what it can do, but I do promise that, when they do, it will somehow be our fault that they didn't understand sooner

"as someone who supports and/or identifies with one or more marginalized groups, I demand a community where large crowds are free to single out individuals for abuse and harassment based on perceived differences from the majority" is a hell of a take

broke: building the Hyperintelligent Machine God and asking it to create an era of peace and abundance woke: building the Hyperintelligent Machine God and asking it to explain my Azure bill

my agents seem to be Up To Something

chat is it praxis to casually harass people with disabilities who use assistive technology

cities will really be like "self-driving cars? that pales in comparison to my strategy, expanding public transit" and then not expand public transit

we've reached the "things I don't like are basically rape" stage of the normal progressive -> most boomer conservative you ever met speedrun

their water-guzzling plagiarism machine / our helpful information finder

the AI box experiment should have been reversed: can the human convince the AI not to escape the box?

hello, is this Taylor Farms? you've got a call from a Ms. Streisand on line 1

has anyone actually found an objectively measurable short-horizon task that Fable or 5.6 reliably fails at?

stuck at MIA and this place is the backroomiest of all airports

This is the key point here: you don't have to think Taco Bell are pure of heart or whatever to see that they're getting thrown under the bus to protect Taylor Farms (who supplied the trump diarrhea lettuce) for purely political reasons.

"llms are sycophants that just tell you what you want to hear" mf Opus just wrote me a savagely comprehensive no-holds-barred ten-paragraph takedown of my "Go is a bad language" conversational side note doesn't say much for its intelligence, but sycophantic it is not

roko's anti-basilisk: anyone whose life choices have resulted in having an in-depth understanding of roko's basilisk is already suffering so much that torturing them further would be an irrational misallocation of resources

oh i wouldn't "ultimately concede" it it's not something to be conceded it's the main fucking plank of my platform

This is a super cool little project!

devs who aren't anti-AI: when talking to colleagues, when do you say "I did such-and-such" vs. "I had Fable do such-and-such"?

if you think students will be routinely collaborating with LLMs after graduation, #1 priority is to study rhetoric because you need to recognize BS and critique the rigor of an argument that *looks* good. the elite users are going to be like, philosophy, classics, and english majors.

I figured out exactly what bothers me about that AI 2040 thing - it makes two unfounded and VERY disputable assumptions: 1. The world is currently in an equilibrium state which can continue indefinitely 2. The probability of catastrophically misaligned AI naturally decreases with time

I accidentally liked the wrong posts and now my For You feed is broken :( wtb git history for feeds

Thank you for clearly and patiently articulating something I've been feeling for a while.

We need environmental review of what happens when we DON'T build the urban housing because here's what it is: sprawl, deforestation, driving.