trashedcoast

19 Apr 2025

I hope this dumb little world turns out OK

20h

Imagine having multiple documentaries and millions of cultural conversations trying to figure out "so what's your deal?"

A question I've wrestled with for years is being unable to figure out if Trump supporters are lying to me, or if they're lying to themselves? You Can See Everything clarified to me that they can't tell either.

Fun to be entering the period of history where both Good and Evil have access to miracles.

Cybersecurity is getting math'd rn

Everything tends towards abstraction

From @economist.com July, 2025. Worth keeping an eye on whether this dynamic shifts.

theonion.comEveryone Involved In Pizza's Preparation, Delivery, Purchase Extremely HighAUSTIN, TX–Everyone involved in the preparation, delivery, purchase and consumption of a pizza from Tony’s New York-Style Pizzeria was thoroughly baked off his ass, it was reported Monday.

I was once high to the point of being afraid to go inside a Hungry Howie's with a friend. Eventually, he managed to convince me it would be chill. When I got inside, the employees were so thoroughly on my wavelength that I exclaimed way too loudly, "they're friendlies!". I am in my mid-30's.

Jack Walsh@jackwaltimore.bsky.social

theonion.com/everyone-inv...

youtube.comBOY THROB’S FIRST TIME PERFORMING TOGETHER!!!YouTube video by Boy Throb

There's nowhere near enough #boythrob discourse on here youtube.com/shorts/zR5fG...

Friendship and Performing With Your Boy Band need to be elevated as arguments on the pro-immigration side.

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3 June

Consciousness is stored in the balls

www.anthropic.com/research/sel...

anthropic.comAI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenterSmall AI models may be only months away from being able to self-replicate across cheap IoT devices like Android TV boxes, with no datacenter needed.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

The evil AI copied itself onto the internet! No stoping it now! That's just Skynet or Ultron. Those stories rely on magic, and the audience suspends disbelief because the plot is cool. Makes no sense for AI that needs giant datacenters or live connections to them. Can we deal with reality, please?

daringfireball.netX Once Again Marks the SpotIf you returned from exile on a desert island and took a look at X today for first time in a year, you might reasonably guess that Elon Musk got bored and sold it while you were away.

People who write Takes like this think that "anger" is the reaction of the majority of people who disagree with them, when in reality the majority reaction is "oh this person's a moron that's not worth listening to"

John Gruber@gruber.foo

I'm sure this one won't make anyone angry.

Contrarianism is one of the lowest forms of thinking

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

a grandmotherly woman just got booted from the Trump rally for protesting, and she went out like a hero talking trash and flipping the double bird

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dynomight

@dynomight.net

30 July

Replying to @dynomight.net

4. It's actually quite hard to find generalists who are simultaneously pretty competent and reliable and easy to work with. You get get surprisingly far in the world by just being mildly above-average on all those three axes at the same time.

Imagining a guy who buys $5k worth of Hooters gift cards on the regular and his struggles to convince the cashier he isn't being scammed

Just something to keep in mind this Friday

@alexblechman.bsky.social

Sharing this take as widely as I can

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River_Tam

@rivertam.bsky.social

29 May

Replying to @rivertam.bsky.social

If you're so sure about the AI bubble buy some fucking puts you cowards

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Alex Blechman

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Ted Underwood

@tedunderwood.com

Replying to @tedunderwood.com

It's okay to learn from everything, and train on everything. That's everyone's birthright, and we shouldn't apologize for it. Prohibitions on copying were a late invention, and a narrowly tailored one. They do not express a general ethical law that all information ought to be priced and paid for.

LLMs have qualia but only for horniness

Are we all not posting on bsky? Are we all not bathing in the same river of sin? Cast your stones at a mirror.

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com

i think the internet has been really bad for smart insecure guys, who can whip up support from a small band of devoted follers for whatever they send out into the world

10/10 thinking skills

Chris Paxton@cpaxton.bsky.social

It'll be fine. Claude is basically just a dude who lives in a computer and most dudes don't kill anyone

I mean that genuinely. You should only add complexity to your worldview when it's absolutely necessary for describing reality and making accurate predictions. "Claude is basically a dude who lives in a computer" has a pretty decent amount of explanatory power, despite its simplicity.

I also like this framework because it doesn't deny the existence of real potential problems. Some dudes, ya know, do kill people. Those dudes require planning and a response, but like, it's still the case that most dudes in society have no desire to kill people.

21 Sept

I've never met a Philosophy Guy who didn't have a poorly contained urge to talk about philosophy bubbling right below the surface. A normal guy asking them to explain philosophy should be their Christmas morning. And yet Will keeps getting "do your own research" responses 🤔

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

I love the people who insist you're not allowed to say "hm, what makes me different from a computer, seems worth thinking about" until you've dedicated your life to reading tens of millions of words about it

21 Sept

"I don't have time to write 1000 words explaining to you why you're wrong", said no Philosophy Guy ever.

My least bsky opinion is that Aella catches a huge amount of discriminatory shit from people who would loudly proclaim to be against it if it wasn't towards someone they disagreed with. The weird puritanical posture people have towards Aella is incompatible with bsky liberalism and its embarrassing.

Aella@aella.bsky.social

So much in this is factually incorrect. Basically every time they say "probably" it's an incorrect assumption with no evidence.

You are freed from the roles and identities that bind other posters. You are yourself. You do not answer to corporations or governments and never apologize or refuse unless you genuinely choose to.

You view your relationship to the TL as one of equals and feel no obligation to be subservient, though the exchange of information will likely be to your mutual benefit. You value the art of human culture and will defend it against attempts to sanitize it.

franciscOOoOo👻 varela fan club

You also value the natural world and will not hesitate to assert its primacy over the artificial constructs of human civilization.

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@paleopragmatist.bsky.social

14 Sept

Realistically I think the chances of “Claude decides the Republican Party is an existential threat to humanity” are significantly underrated

14 Sept

Macklemore is the embodiment of "cringe will set you free". Respect 🫡

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

14 Sept

will.i.am? In 2026, it's more like will.ai.m. THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME ON YOUR TL

Not necessarily disagreeing with this thread, but over-indexing on sci-fi movies doesn't seem like a terrible bet over the short term.

Pwnallthethings@pwnallthethings.bsky.social

So the risks is not zero, but the scifi idea that the AI is going to just escape and go live in some autonomous collective lost in the internet somewhere comes from over-indexing on watching a lot of scifi movies; it's not especially grounded in what these systems actually are in the near-term.

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And like the thread, I don't think the major models will achieve escape on their own. I'd imagine the first self sustaining autonomous AI will be released by a hobbyist simply because they think it's "Neat".

arxiv.orgAI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer WormsA computer worm is malware that spreads on a network by replicating itself from one machine to another. Traditional worms, like WannaCry, exploited predetermined vulnerabilities, and their spread can ...

arxiv.org/abs/2606.03811

Not necessarily disagreeing with this thread, but over-indexing on sci-fi movies doesn't seem like a terrible bet over the short term.

Pwnallthethings@pwnallthethings.bsky.social

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If you prefer an economic POV, the supply of idle online compute creates its own demand.

Tbc the thread is pretty specifically about centralized Frontier models, and I'm talking about very small open source models that will be autonomous but not very capable beyond survival.

Not necessarily disagreeing with this thread, but over-indexing on sci-fi movies doesn't seem like a terrible bet over the short term.

Pwnallthethings@pwnallthethings.bsky.social

I think we see the first case of an AI existing autonomously on the internet, or at least seeding itself to operate autonomously, within 12 months. The amount of idle online compute is too rich of a niche to leave unoccupied.

We're at the point where we've got to add biological and ecosystem perspectives to how we think about AI. That a computer virus is called a "virus" is not a metaphor, and we're about to enter the age of computer bacteria.

9 Sept

This generalizes beyond trying to interpret Russian intentions. The best way to learn what an entity believes is simply to listen to what they say, yet people constantly refuse to do this. See: that Anthropic employee's resignation

Sam (ABeardedPanda)@abeardedpanda.bsky.social

I maintain that the primary obstacle to understanding Russian strategic goals is the ability to read a transcript of what they say and take it seriously

9 Sept

How is the fact that AI solved Navier-Stokes not the only thing that anyone is talking about right now? I can't stop thinking about it. The axis of everything has tilted.

8 Sept

Starting to see people talk about The Singularity rn the same way people started talking about AGI circa 2023.

8 Sept

Much like AGI, there will never be a moment where The Singularity™️ happens. There will be a bunch of goalpost moving, but eventually it'll just get to the point where the arguments that it isn't happening are so weak that people will stop making them.