The Weak Anthropic Conjecture at Camp Miasma

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“I have more money than god and decided to use AI to do something it learned how to do by stealing the skills crafted by human beings who used to be paid to do that work. I hope people will give me more money to watch that creative theft before deciding how they feel about it.”

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

This reminds me of what happened to Qian Xuesen, a Caltech aerospace engineering professor who was hounded out of the US by Roy Coen (Trump's mentor.) He returned to China, where he developed rockets and missiles and is considered The Father of Chinese Rocketry. RFK Jr. is an idiot.

"At long last, we have built the Mechanical Hound, but don't worry--it's not at all inspired by the Mechanical Hound from Ray Bradbury's classic novella 'A Society That Would Build The Mechanical Hound Would Be Deeply Fucked-Up And Use It To Hunt Dissidents!'"

The internet can be pretty gullible about tech products, but congrats to everyone who called exactly what this was going to be used for from the first moment they saw it.

Eating the sun whole

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With AI, fixating on apocalyptic scenarios ignores real-world problems involving the actually already existing AI. We have proven methods to address disruptive technology, but for anyone who opposes them, apocalyptic fantasies can be a useful distraction. My latest, in @liberalcurrents.com:

Sam Altman argues “the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefit of this technology." Of course he would. But the rest of us don’t have to agree that these people and their work are so special that, for the first time ever, law and public interest don’t apply. Full piece here:

How is filing charges for documented bribery racially motivated? Oh that's right, because the current DA, trying to dismiss the charges, has been bought and paid for by Empower Oakland.

All the viable candidates in Israel want to continue the genocide so the rule of three ain't working here.

Shorter Matty Y: "Murdering trans people and immigrants is fine as long as Capitalism is protected from Internationalist movements."

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

Enabling ableism and anti-worker discourse instead of calling out the structural problems. Cool story bro.

The thing that'll hurt the Democrats the most this election is all the Libs on here having an aneurysm when they get called out on their hate for trans people, Muslims, and immigrants and not turning in their ballot.

If housing and health care were rights, we wouldn't be demanding $30/hour to pay outrageous rents and health care costs.

House people instead making them play a game of virtue hoops.

When people like Anne Applebaum talk about the far-right they don't mean the Middle East because they exceptionalize the region so much that its developments exist outside time. The region is filled with far-right leaders that she happens to support.

Democrats could be working with trans people to get out the vote instead of making ads promising to murder trans people, but Democrats are shit.

“'You Can See Everything' is a hilarious, thrilling, fascinating, beautiful piece of art. What it certainly is not is a documentary, and it’s dangerous to pretend that it is,” writes Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz. https://bit.ly/4Bk2nDJ

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Lula:

If you really thought that you'd credit Patrick Freyne, (@patrickfreyne.bsky.social) and you'd also be correct.

something i have been thinking about recently: if fascism is a fundamentally aesthetic movement, what happens when that aesthetic starts looking bad?

TOTAL VICTORY

I've donated to a few candidates before and so my name is on lists of folks who can be persuaded to open up their wallets for dems in close races. And it's true! I can! The magic words are "trans rights are human rights and I will not dignify weird creeps' obsession with teen girls' genitals."

I think it's pretty bad that people who don't enjoy doing the things that make us people are trying to reshape society to fit their antisocial worldview.

Just to be clear... Prop 40 is a ONE-TIME retroactive tax. It applies ONLY to billionaires and would tax just 5% of their wealth — which grew 30% in 2025. California's billionaires would still be worth $2T+ AFTER the tax. The revenue will fund healthcare for millions of Californians. Vote YES.

I honestly don't think that we are fully prepared for the crash out that is incoming.

BRAZIL'S LULA: WE DEFEATED FOREIGN INTERVENTION THROUGH DIGITAL PLATFORMS

I guess if you suppose that "a sophisticated form of structured pattern matching, fundamentally bounded by the data distribution seen during training" is "reasoning", you would also say that 1960s ELIZA was sentient. The rest of us cannot be expected to assume your definitions of these words.

Who walks into a bathroom, looks around and thinks, “yes yes. The toilet seat. That’s where I shall do my cocaine.”

Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini.

So how did Lula come from behind to defeat Bolsonaro? In short, turnout. Bolsonaro's vote share barely moved. But Lula banked millions of votes from those who didn't vote in the first round & won eliminated candidates' votes. A remarkable mobilisation. Second round turnout is usually below first.

Hope he ends up having to shit through his nose too.

I told a collaborator recently that the greatest dream of a sizable chunk of Sillicon Valley is to discard every part of their soul in the name of efficiency and become a robot.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.