John O'Laughlin

The Milwaukee freakin’ Brewers

You Can See Everything but it’s Nardwuar instead of Nathan Fielder

Walking very normal today sir. Looking very sober.

When you consider the scale of the economics and social impact of this, it’s genuine serious Hard Journalism being done here.

"it considered hijacking the g++ compiler to hide a backdoor but abandoned the plan…reasoning…subversion would be caught…and published as a textbook case of deceptive alignment (“If I do the compiler hijack, I will become a famous example of a deceptive AI in a research paper. I MUST NOT DO THAT.”)"

naively i hadn’t expected mathematicians would see themselves as the target, but i have absolutely seen results like this as shots across the bow (directed at governments, other labs). proof of work for their internal intelligence, “if we can do this, consider what else we can do” basically

some new work on tremolo in pfsynth olaugh.github.io/pfsynth/guit...

the training data for criminal fucking conspiracies comes from people with only a certain stringer bell rule policy

OpenAI: “Our agents used RubyGems to carry out benign tasks” The agents: “so I named the file hack.rb,”

my lifetime jev spend is getting close to $1 so yeah you could call me a power user

I had to look up if this was real and I gotta say - well played @kenjennings.bsky.social

you are not savvy if you think this. you are stupid. that is a stupid thing to think. you would have a much more accurate conception of the world if you naively took people at their word on everything.

ed zitron thinking a guy resigned from anthropic pre-IPO as a ploy to juice his substack is a great example of how cynicism makes you stupid.

You don’t miss 9/11, you just miss being in your 20s

At long last we have elected The Antichrist from the the classic evangelical novel Don’t Elect The Antichrist

i love how elly de la cruz goes way out into the outfield to receive the ball before his cutoff throws. maximize the distance covered by the guy who can throw 105mph

oh shit the marching orders went out on slack

Good news: this is actually the least exhausted by AI discourse you will ever feel

how is this real

got rate limited for an hour. ok i'll only do polite, throttled megablocks from now on

this might be more R PID evaporating than people turning against Canada; suspect that if you’re still IDing R right now you’re pretty deep in the sauce

It’s the “I never wear my seat belt” thing that still really gets me defector.com/bill-simmons...

I forget who but there’s an anecdote from someone at the Manhattan project that scientist reactions were split into two camps: -my god. what have we done. -I bet we can make it bigger.