> I don't think the PDS should be doing mime type sniffing to begin with, but I don't know why this hasn't been fixed at the very least. ???

for me, coming around on LLMs for learning and coding was less "i was wrong, these things are 100% accurate!" and more "wow, I really underestimated how many things are trivially fact-checkable but hard to surface"

lesswrong.txt

Market: Will Trump brag on TV at least three hours after he receives the FIFA peace prize at the World Cup draw? manifold.markets/JohnDavidPre...

I'm reminded of the bit about how Saddam Hussein claims he never asked to have any of those statues put up. People just did it autonomously because they wanted to suck up to him. All he had to do was become dictator and the statues organized themselves.

huggingface.co/datasets/jdp... I've uploaded a version of the weave-agent-traces dataset that has an actual README and works with HuggingFace datasets.

NVIDIA’S HUANG: CHINA WILL SURPASS US IN AI RACE Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told the Financial Times that China will overtake the US in artificial intelligence, citing lower energy costs and fewer regulations. He said Chinese tech firms benefit from government energy subsidies that

This ad is dumb but the chorus of PolyMarket hate in the QTs and replies is dumber.

Preference #12: The Eristics test guy is right, I do turn off revelation with nostalgia, which is really just a kind of remorse. It feels nice when I do but I always feel a little guilty about it. xD youtu.be/aSc7Yuwn1Ao?...

With ChatGPT you can just let the intrusive thoughts win. Kinda mangled Cuomo though.

Sans dancing with your mom might be the only piece of media I've seen that properly captures the traumatic childhood experience. Exhausted from going through a lot of heavy stuff then looking over disassociated at something with bad vibes like "oh I guess this is my life now". youtu.be/h1l1tNfYuVM

Re: AI 🤔

This tbh.

this is very cool: Kodak quietly relisted Kodak Gold and Ultramax on its website and confirmed to me it is selling the films directly to photography stores again. this is a big deal because for the last decade, Kodak has not controlled distribution of its own film www.404media.co/kodak-quietl...

AI does chess puzzles now. www.chess.com/news/view/ai...

Our society is collapsing because it is apparently made of the Kind of Guy who cannot imagine amending employment law to be resistant to idpol grifter exploitation without literally becoming a Nazi.

Okay but in total fairness I literally never want to see a Margaret Mitchell take and kind of think if you publish a paper like stochastic parrots I don't have to pretend like I believe you understand how neural nets work in the relevant sense.

It's increasingly difficult for me to support "free speech" in the classic sense because I honestly feel takes like this should be punished. Ideally with physical pain. If they didn't keep manifesting into reality I wouldn't feel that way but they do so.

The worst kind of blog posts to write are the ones that are really good but progress like a single page per writing session. They're great to read but writing them is agonizing because you have to delay them yet another day and go do other stuff.

the fourth most deaths ever associated with an armed conflict were due to one man's failure to get an email job

The Heritage Foundation president is openly calling for the arrest, prosecution and conviction of people who work in the adult industry. No actual crime alleged — adult speech is still legal — just vague societal harms that demand detention.

Okay but like, this is just obviously literally true and I can't even pretend like there's a coherent counterargument that it isn't. The social critic Samo Burja said COVID-19 was the American Chernobyl, Trump 2 is like, the post Soviet breakdown of the 90's.

in practice this is the definition and argument. it is not worth arguing with

Thankfully, public pressure has once again pushed the EU Council to withdraw its dangerous plan to scan encrypted messages. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

30+ years ago, my mind was blown when my computer science professor suggested that one day, applications on our computers would be updated by contacting a remote server. I don’t think he ever imagined that companies would also disable applications we’ve already paid for and installed.

It's bad on purpose to make you click. slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/t...

Unironically believe this is the ethos of post Trump politics. People found an exploit in employment law that let you use cheap Internet mobs to fire people and the counter of being totally shameless (as opposed to changing the law) made Trump into the Messiah for an unnerving portion of Americans.

I think one of the subconscious things that heightens the spookiness of generative AI for many people is that its principal inventors have chosen to remain anonymous to the public. It's not like the lightbulb or the Ford Model T where there's a legible principal inventor. Instead it's "corporations"

This labeler is such a clever way of making spam visible. Bluesky wins yet again: bsky.app/profile/stec...

When my grandpa asked me whether global warming was real, I told him how many more days there were in the growing season since the 1960s. It was just a few days, but he'd been a farmer & was downright terrified. He died immediately before my PhD defense, so this conversation must have been 1990s

it's not x em dash it's y

Implement group chats Implement group chats Implement group chats Implement group chats @jay.bsky.team this is the #1 thing holding back growth on the platform that is purely a technical feature rather than a complex social issue

Oh I'm gonna accumulate so many of these for posting correct takes. 🍿

Now 72%... manifold.markets/AlexanderThe...

one way to gauge the truth-seeking values of different communities is to look at whether or not they continue to propagate egregiously incorrect statements and information even when clearly shown that it is incorrect. update on the community’s credibility in other areas accordingly.

I think I found the latent direction in Gemma (an SAE feature) that represents the pandemic era... Interpreted by projecting the vector to vocabulary space, yielding a list of tokens associated with it

Reply to this QT to get a GitHub contribution graph of your BlueSky posts. Limited to the first 25 people who ask.

Lore on why BlueSky keeps the low word count.

Any American elites you meet with -- finance, academia, trump admin -- all have quietly come to the consensus that the west will lose to china. not could, will. they've come to believe that the west is fundamentally not fixable.

Update: It did not. Does anyone know a desktop environment/Linux distro that they know for certain works with NVIDIA drivers and an A6000?

I'm trying @why.bsky.team's prototype SimClusters feed and ngl this is fire bsky.app/profile/why....

For fuck's sake. The lawmakers behind Oklahoma's new "public obscenity" law seem to be asking for the power of prior restraint — that local cops can block an LGBTQ+ event before it happens because they believe it might be obscene. Which is not how obscenity works, but it is how censorship does.

Okay this is the best labeler I've seen yet.

"starting XFCE4 with xinit works normally" WAIT BRO DID THAT ACTUALLY JUST WORK, IT'S THAT SIMPLE? bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.ph...

YES FINALLY

"We should be nonpolitical" for a social movement or NGO type thing is basically always a psyop. "We should not attempt to direct the power of the state to make good things happen" is, in the context of the PEPFAR cancellation more or less completely undermining bednet style EA, almost hilarious.

It's actually very simple: Most people are not part of a political coalition and form an opinion on each issue individually rather than as part of a platform, they do this mostly based on vibes and do not have consistent principles or strong world models.

People are making some pretty complicated LLM bots these days.

RMS was ultimately right but I think it's kind of revisionist to get mad at him for being crankish. He ultimately seeded the free software movement and its consequent artifacts like Linux, which didn't have to happen. He almost certainly did more good than harm overall.

My contrarian take on Neo is that "we expand our corpus of tasks the robot can do by having a human contractor do them until we have a system that won't destroy stuff in the process of learning" is a completely reasonable business model to bootstrap the technology.