i just remembered last night i dreamed about decimal letters in between the alphabet that could be used to describe the world in more detail

but hey, im not the clo/gc at a tax filing software company granted a de facto monopoly by the current admin so i suspect i have a different level of risk aversion

i do not think it is a good idea to use chatbots which are trained to be sycophantic to give tax advice to non-expert consumers

i think that it is critically important to retaliate.

Of course I was conflicted when I first realized my highly intelligent genius daughter was also a fiendishly cunning serial killer, but eventually I decided it is my responsibility as a parent to raise the best child I can and it is the responsibility of the FBI to capture her.

absolutely wild that we can’t stop this

i mean, that's the thing. ai in a toy for a kid is a terrible idea. LLM therapists are worse. there is no way to even test whether they are safe at appropriate scale. but the problem is not that there is a hard ontological bar to the technology functioning. we are well past that point now.

tibet is really interesting because, historically, it was incredibly isolated, extremely poor, and technologically inferior, but neither entirely administratively incompetent nor poorly educated. just a constellation of factors you would never see in modernity.

imo the last act of sorry to bother you moves it from a 5 star to a 3.5 star

if you conceive of a LLM as "sophisticated software" which is essentially accessing a database, you will get every policy question about LLMs wrong.

The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months … It was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation.

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November 2016: welp. this sucks, but how bad could it *realistically* get? i mean.... November 2025: technically it's ephebophilia

I hope if nothing else it opens people's eyes to what's going on. I used to consistently hear "the media just wants clicks/ratings." If they wanted that they would be doggedly pursuing the Epstein story. But what they actually want is to help Trump rule us and ultimately enslave us

It is Matt Gaetz's turn to study statistical mechanics.

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h y p e r r e a l s i m u l a c r u m

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

Extremely tangential, but the Jan 6th - Jan 20th triumvirate is one of those things that is unknown to most of the population. It has had no effects, and I thought it would.

Don't Mail the Board; Find Out Who Makes the Deck for the Compliance Committee and Email Them Asking If They're the Right Person to Ask

it drives me actually insane to have people romanticizing subsistence agriculture as if that's not just playing russian roulette with your family's lives year by year, and that every single one of their ancestors would throttle them for suggesting giving up their email jobs

I can’t wait for the day I wake up and it’s finally the funniest day on the internet

i do want to point out that this does challenge the ironclad conventional wisdom that no one gives a shit about democracy

seems bad

queen of england memorial cookies, discounted to make room for something new

we will let bill kristol have one regime change. he gets el Salvador

I'm anti-anti-anti AI I think. It probably could be used in responsible ways for many applications, but it's appropriate that it face stiff headwinds when doing so to keep the people who want to use it honest. The skepticism is healthy.

Literally every form of government that isn’t fascism inherently has to resort to violence against fascism because fascism will otherwise violently defeat them.

holy hell what a nightmare

Woke 2 is starting to take shape

Some more NYT Opinions as Culture ship names, cont * GSV I'm Shocked, Shocked to Find That Gambling Is Going On in Here

"i took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, found it difficult, and badly understood what i was being asked to do" is not a great sign

Morning, folks x

we have the right to know who is oppressing us, so that they can face the consequences of what they did

idk if this is a hot take but i think google glass or meta ray bans would be a really cool product if they just got rid of the camera. i just want glasses with an audio and visual display in them. what if i had a cool HUD that hooked up to a CGM and showed me my blood sugar in real time

oops all negative externalities

they're probably not going to bother teaching future students about the teapot dome scandal after this is over

What’s crazy is that I can think of at least 5 more off the top of my head: IRS investigations, troop deployments, the Eric Trump hot mike moment, pardoning Santos, and the jet fighter video. We are at a run rate of 20 impeachable scandals PER MONTH right now.

Seriously, why are you insulting people's intelligence like this. There is very obviously a massive excluded middle between "bland Ivy League corporate automaton" and "still has large Nazi tattoo." There's nothing wrong with having found him appealing. He was! But it's over and this is silly

actual feudal kings have been dethroned and beheaded for offenses less egregious than this

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

I am open to the possibility of grace for those who held Nazis sympathies in the past, assuming they make a genuine, heartfelt bid for that grace. But no, they should never hold public office. Sorry, you failed the most important political test of our time and it was an easy one! Them's the breaks!

Whether it’s Bill Clinton letting a donor sleep in the Lincoln bedroom or Donald Trump completely demolishing the east wing of the White House, neither president showed proper respect for our nation’s most sacred building.

hey so everybody with ideas for what should succeed the university / academia, now is a good time to fully articulate your vision so we have a chance of redeeming some aspect of civilization

I mean this is viscerally upsetting because it's really genuinely him treating the white house like it's his own personal property; he's the king and it's his palace. No other president ever thought like this, even if they were a fucking horrible person, because it goes against our founding creed

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