Jon Kelvey

In more positive news than I've shared here lately, I had the pleasure of joining Dr. David Livingston on The Space Show over the weekend to discuss nuclear power and propulsion in space: www.thespaceshow.com/show/10-nov-... (apple pod: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...)

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.

The post-Trump constitutional amendment that must be part of Project 2029 should be threefold: 1) overruling the Trump immunity ruling and refashioning immunity in a more narrowly-defined way for Presidents; 2) expressly mandating Presidents and Vice Presidents divest from all businesses,

Another example of how so much AI optimism misapprehends what the actual rate limitations are in doing pretty much everything. Sure, creatives sometimes get blocked on ideas as well as execution, but historically the solution has been $50 worth of drugs, not $1 trillion of computing capacity.

Thanks, I hate it and I hate you and wish you only misfortune. Not sure what else you were expecting ...

neither of these things exist, Elon just said "imagine if universal automation was a solved problem" and people were like "that would be cool" and made him the richest man alive, without any evidence that he (or anyone) could deliver them

Just been such a revolution in my worldview to realise that people like Musk actually believe this, this isn't just the nonsense they feed the rubes so they can do coldly rational mercantile calculations in smokey rooms among themselves. No. It's rubes all the way down, they're that stupid.

Pet theory that gives me hope: Healthy democracies can get by with generic leadership, competent, but not uniquely talented. while steering into authoritarianism requires sui generis talents. Big Q is whether you need a uniqe leader to pull us out of the nose dive once it's begun.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy.... Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” — Dr. Gustave Gilbert, U.S. Military Chief Psychologist in the Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Diary

Just found out that a reason I probably didn't get a comp copy of a game I worked on is my contact got laid off a few weeks ago after he had worked there 20+ years. Anyway, here's this.

fwiw the reason the 'fuentes constantly talks about femboys' stuff will never stick is that right-wing people are allowed to be transgressive about gender norms in ways left-wingers arent because right-wingers are (correctly) assumed to just be offering different flavors of patriarchy.

As good a case for nationalization as you're going to get.

“The dumbest fascist in the world fucked up the economy by picking a fight he didn’t need but had no moral center and thus broke the back of American petrocapitalism in a failed attempt to get people to stop laughing at him” would legitimately make me quit political science.

Just thinking about this as the state harasses Ilhan Omar over 40 year old paperwork.

I don’t think the president of the United States should lie on behalf of China and Russia, publicly defending their work helping Iran kill Americans. To me, siding with US enemies is bad, not good, and the US president should oppose that instead. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.

I left x despite having a large following bc I don’t want to make free content for the world’s wealthiest racist. It’s not worth it to me.

The Hague is far too good for Stephen Miller

the only suitable response if they try this shit

www.ai.gov

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

I have nothing but aversion to frat culture, but given the uphill battle of banning them, a proposal: No frat houses. You can have the fraternal order, but you can only congregate en mass in public places. Book a large campus space for meetings and so forth.

Holy shit.

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For most Americans, car transport has been solved. Honda Civic and Accord, Toyota Corrolla and Camry. Big family? Get a Sienna minivan. Unless you work in construction, you don't need, and probably cannot afford anything else. Need a truck for a weekend? Just rent one!

Space Job!!!

Dud Meridian?

No two words send AI industry advocates into fits of rage more than "stochastic parrots." The question is: Why? Why do they get so worked up over this particular critical framework time and time again? I sat down with @emilymbender.bsky.social, one of the coauthors of the original paper, to discuss

What is a sucker?

I Pushed My Luck, Reheated My Burrito An Extra 30 Seconds, and It Exploded All Over The Microwave. Here's Why That's A Lesson for Democrats

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

Saving grace likely being that there's no reason to believe he can build a robot army at all, much less one that teenager won't figure out how to brick within 48 hours of his deploying it.

Seriously: If we're going to maintain a vestige of our barbaric and superstitious past, then we should consider a botched execution a sign from heaven that you made the wrong call.

"Bet AI hits hard if you're stupid!" I regret to inform you that this is extremely true. Bigly true.

we fucked up bigtime when the internet slipped from the utopian promise of being able to connect with ANYone into the hellscape of being connected to EVERYone

awoke this morning with a Vision

NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI futurism.com/artificial-i...

Good news everyone: Steroids make human bodies impervious to bullets, drone attacks, and starvation due to supply line disruptions resulting from booze addled weekend talk show host strategic planning.