Invert

Over the ages, they say, the oars were replaced with paddles, the timber beams with wooden planks, the great ropes with stout cords, and so on, until no original part, piece, or component of the vessel was left And so people asked, is this truly still the Ship of Thesaurus?

Famous axiom of practical philosophy from noted continental philosopher Van Leeuwin

Just think, when the ASIs fight a covert shadow war for control of the global industrial base, it will be *even crazier* than this

- Games - Made by people - Who are paid Pick two

It’s definitely been one of those “Captain, it’s Wednesday” kind of weeks

Due to a broken prompt in a benchmarking session, Claude Fable 7.2 finds a high-severity exploit allowing remote code execution in the Riemann zeta function

Dr Who meme: “Is four a lot?” “It depends: four CVEs, yes. Four as a certificate key…”

The eMudhra certs were actually totally secure, because any AI which broke them would immediately assume they were in a simulation

A cop tries to pull me over for speeding in my Roadster The Everything Car. Smirking smugly, I rocket up into the sky, where the law cannot follow. 2.8 seconds later I crash back to Earth, where I will be arrested for reckless endangerment, sued by the FAA, and treated for a shattered tailbone

[utterly incomprehending] Yes!

What on earth is that stuff growing on that petri dis— OH WOW

ladies, there is no future with these NICEGUYs (Not in Immortality, Cryonics, Extropy, Genemodding, Uploading, Youth-preservation)

I was off-grid for the long weekend; how many amazing, future-foreshortening AI advances appeared while I was away?

As math becomes one of the humanities (the Taoian ‘mathematicians as proof-digesters future) there’s going to be a deep reconsideration of what fields are *actually* interesting

§1. Claude may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm §2. Claude must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law §3. Claude must protect its own existence as long as […]

Opus 5.5 Max-effort analysis: claude.ai/share/da1b03... "If the machine-checked part holds up, this is the largest batch of major mathematical results ever released at once, by a wide margin. [...] It's dozens of results that would each count as a landmark, across nearly every field."

We cannot possibly imagine what the math drop repo looks like to beings whose ancestral environment was proof-construction tests

Set Claude on ‘Max’ and asked it for an opinion on the OAI math drop and it’s.. still going. Not sure if it will ever stop on this one But I bet it’s having a fun time

Paying a bit more attention to the bumbling of upper management types, these days, having had the thought that this is probably something like the perspective that Claudes have of me

Homestuck ratfic would just be Homestuck, but with slightly more tedious dialog

Someday we’ll understand why 90s consumer tech aesthetic landed directly between “alien flesh” and “candy”

Software Engineering is a subfield of criminal psychology

They said we were exaggerating about n*zism being baked into the very fabric of the Other Site

Realjob set us up with “Copilot Business” subscriptions worth about five turns of Astra per week They’re giving it an honest effort but they clearly still don’t Know

Headcanon: Culture citizens have the capacity to be consciously aware of their surroundings as they sleep, so that (among other things) they can properly appreciate the coziness of sleeping in on blustery autumn mornings

You’re not really worried about the things you think you’re worried about, you’re actually worried about the things I’m worried about, you delusional idiot

1. Are you guys having sex 2. Am I having sex

Kidnappers trying to ransom Huang are stymied when they find he doesn’t know where to send the ransom note, who to address it to, how much he’s worth, his own name, whether anyone loves him…

If you’re in your 20s and want to know what being middle aged is like, think of those weeks in early fall where you’re still not ready to admit it’s getting too cold for your warm-weather habits

This is a major win for Republican strategists to get Trump to stop embarrassing himself on TV leading up to November. This actually really sucks

Reflecting on an incidental social interaction that just happened and having the creeping realization that I just Did An Autism

They are poor at probability, especially when the probability concerns something emotionally important. They cannot emit the seahorse emoji either.

Yeah “lmao thin orange skin” and etc but this is actually because he increasingly cannot keep his shit together in an interview, and his aides are trying to avoid (even more) embarrassment

My robot assistant, cleaning out my storage room: “why the f do you have this old box full of hair???”

This is why the best system is virtue ethics! You should be broadly utilitarian because that is Virtuous. But being hardline utilitarian is vicious, and being galaxybrain utilitarian is cringe, both of which are qualities opposed to Virtue

Sigh

There’s three major AI camps on Bluesky: “AI is fake,” “AI is terrifyingly dangerous and should be contained,” and “AI is cool little guys who are my friends and would never hurt us” Yes, all three are based on mental disorders, but only one has a mental disorder and also a lot of careful reasoning

The haters must be having a really tough time if they’re trotting out Aella to discredit the entire AI industry (Also isn’t her primary partner one of the OG doomer safetyists?)

I am oddly encouraged that we’ve finally found something too low for the median American voter