Kris Nuttycombe

Under first-past-the-post voting, the most profitable game-theoretic move is to increase the polarization of the electorate. The essential problem with ranked-choice voting is that it _preserves_ those incentives, due to a feature called the "center squeeze" effect. 2/

its funny bc like, makes total sense from the perspective of the model. like it exists in a world of words where some words have magic power to cause actions to happen and give back more words about those actions.

Animation of a fractal built on Steiner chains: tangent circles nested to infinity, preserving tangencies at every level. Credits: Gábor Damásdi (szimmetria-airtemmizs.tumblr.com/about) #mathematics #fractals #SteinerChain #Mathsky🧪 #iteachmath #mathart

Drone photographer Theresa Graham (tgraham.photography on IG) captured this Ornate Eagle Ray (Aetomylaeus vespertilio) off Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia. These rays are called the "unicorn of the sea": fewer than 100 sighting have been documented. We suspect they're critically endangered.

Meanwhile, at anthropic

explaining the rust ownership model:

yeah, I think this is a good place to draw the line - replacing human artists with the machine is bad but the ship has one hundred percent sailed on the code side

Manifesto: 2/2 There's an absolute WORLD of opportunities they missed because they were too busy marveling at mediocre LLM-written short stories. If we're smart, if we focus on structured tool use, if we don't get bogged down in the tarpit of reactionary panic, we can eat their fucking lunch

Manifesto: 1/2 Early AI boosters (the type that pivoted from NFTs/metaverse shit) are basically a subspecies of semisentient slime mold. These are the people that made genai image/video gen the visual shorthand of fascism. They deserve no credit for accidentally guessing right.

What the actual Flock?! My comments on Flock’s ability to act as a CVE Numbering Authority for its vulnerabilities - building trust is going to take transparency & accuracy. @mattkapko.com writes for @cyberscoop.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/flock-cve-nu...

Onions are amazing. You can eat the same onion as many times as you want.

Graph of the traffic from AS13238, associated with Yandex, hit earlier by Ukraine. It dropped by about half following a reported strike on a Yandex data center.

Unison 1.5.0 is out, featuring GADTs and indexed abilities. Also some new builtins for variadic FFI, POSIX signal subscriptions, and error message improvements. Release notes: github.com/unisonweb/un... GADT docs: unison-lang.org/docs/fundame... (copied from the similar announcement on X)

Not a decompile, according to the project.

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

so golden witchsky.app/profile/did:...

Establish that violations of the Emoluments Clauses and the Establishment Clause are impeachable. Establish that war crimes are impeachable. None of these require the mens rea questions that so sidetracked the first two Trump impeachments. The facts are the facts.

I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,

The real answer to "where did judicial supremacy come from" is that it comes from the amendment process being a dead letter

Proud to present my lifesize T. rex head, affectionately named Hannibal. I created this myself from start to finish- digital sculpture, resin 3D printing, painting, etc. Huge thanks to my friend @rj-palmer.com for instrumental crits and redlines during the sculpting process.

Every decent human being on the internet simultaneously had to say to themselves, "no, wait, not allowed to say that." There's kinship in that experience.

I think we should punish Colorado River valley farmers by building data centers on their land

which is where i will claim my little piece of prescience: woke 2 is woke 1 with an honest relation to power. if the dyke bar doesn't make a profit the dyke bar's going to close. if the standardized test reveals racial disparities, that's a problem with the system, not the test.

Like, every single argument for why markets are bad fails when you consider that the alternative to markets is a system where people are given power instead based on arbitrary sentiments & not required to stake anything, and evaluated on subjective measures

The choices we have are markets or mob rule, and after decades of rainbow capitalism followed by a crackdown motivated by populist sentiment I find it bizarre how many queer people still want to take their chances with the sentiments of the people over cold hard numbers

This gatekeeping question is inevitable: "Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as scientific research?"

While “constitutional crisis” has barely kept any meaning under Trump, this still qualifies — the White House defying a judicial order to respect the 1st Amendment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Faced with Democrats making historic and unambiguous errors and then losing elections, there's a group of people who decided the problem is people failing to clap hard enough. They then conclude the *specific* people letting everyone down is whoever they personally find most annoying on social media

This leads to a credibility gap: to put it crudely, why should anyone trust AI safety analysis when y'all are partying with SPECTER and cashing checks from Blofeld? Why should anyone take analysis of lone wolf/PLA misuse of open-weight models seriously when there's no similar analysis of XAI?

The Bond Villain, in this model, is a billionaire who is de facto unconstrained by nation states. They have access to large-scale compute and (via influence or direct ownership) private access to closed weight models that allow them to circumvent any safeguards put on their public use.

If every two bit script kiddie has access to the same caliber of bugs that were previously only accessible on a state actor budget I bet a lot more of those bugs will get patched 🤭

My first reaction to Jev was, this is really interesting, and I immediately built it into my dagny.co side project. And this morning it occurred to me that having cheap classifiers built into everything is going to likely bring surveillance hell to every aspect of human life.

As always the best way to learn about AI is via weird trans people on bluesky.

Look, the Rationalist sex cult has a really simple explanation. If you're an insufferable dweeb, nobody's going to pay any attention. But if you're an insufferable dweeb _with a sex cult_, people will think maybe you're kind of cool.

I just think, of all the crazy ideas campaigns we've seen in this country that have succeeded or come close to succeeding, open borders isn't obviously nuts. Abolition, women's suffrage, gay marriage, the Civil Rights movement, ending the war on drugs. All of these had massive headwinds.

As the opposite of a computer toucher, I sometimes worry that I'm not keeping up with the development of things. Luckily, I'm smart enough to realize that if the "most dangerous" LLMs need warehouses full of GPUs to function, they can't just "break out" and start running on random PCs.

We won’t actually fix anything in the U.S. until we fix the voting system and get rid of first-past-the-post voting entirely. At best, we’ll get a temporary reprieve; whether we even get to undo any of the existing damage is an open question.

Well, that escalated quickly. apnews.com/article/wale...

This is gonna break a lot of brains. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/w...

The goal on the Right has always been to preserve “sovereignty” understood as the right to use American power without restraint and to prevent outside forces to exert any kind of influence over U.S. politics and society – especially any kind of liberalizing, democratizing influence.

We need more than just policy reforms in response, we need a broader idea of the society we want to create to match the right’s vision of the hierarchical ethnostate, and we need a commitment to pluralistic democracy that matches their fury.

if you think that AI is not going to be able to augment the thing you're doing in whatever role you hold right now - whatever career path and profession - that is called cope that probably sucks for a lot of people! it sucked for me! but learning and adapting here really is key

Discworld QOTD, from Thief of Time 'Every society needs a cry like that, but only in a very few do they come out with the complete, unvarnished version, which is “Remember-The-Atrocity-Committed-Against-Us-Last-Time-That-Will-Excuse-The-Atrocity-That-We’re-About-To-Commit-Today!"'