it's important to remember that the people making out that bad words about AI are *racism* are overwhelmingly eugenicists and race scientists this is the right-wing trick of trying to coopt non-right-wing terms as a gotcha e.g. hailey is a rationalist and they're race science all the way down

if i ever ended up at a party where there were LessWrong memes on the walls, i would immediately start beelining towards the exit

the CEO of this platform posting an effective accelerationism meme is honestly a bigger red flag than all of the moderation drama

fascinating that "no, the computer is not alive" and "yes, it's questionable to gleefully say anti-computer phrases modeled after racial slurs" are two thoughts people are struggling to reconcile

i was actually thinking of applying for bsky at some point but using the term "10x dev" in the year of our lord 2025 is a huge red flag even if you believe in the concept, the salary should also be 10x to properly compensate these rockstar developers for their 10x contributions

Spinny EP out now. dub techno remixes of "Spinny" from Transition Loops LP collegehill.bandcamp.com/album/spinny...

new music out tomorrow. dub techno.

my gf takes pictures like this of me and still thinks that she’s a bad photographer

love suddenly seeing a $1,444.80 bill for my hormone+STI lab tests from 3 months ago American healthcare truly is the greatest

fit for a trans social event last night i got hit on by a lesbian chaser

I don’t think it can be emphasized enough that large language models were never intended to do math or know facts; literally all they do is attempt to sound like the text they’re given, which may or may not include math or facts. They don’t do logic or fact checking — they’re just not built for that

Because Charlie Kirk's life work was advocating for systemic and stochastic violence towards those he deemed undesirables, making any tribute to, or paying any respect to, or otherwise validating Kirk beyond "he was a human being I guess" is glorification of violence, and needs to be treated as such

While you weren't looking, *seventeen* House Democrats just voted to strip basic rights from trans members of the military and helped the GOP pass their far-right version of the NDAA, similar to what we reported on. This is the most Dems voting for anti-trans legislation in Congress this year.

This @washingtonpost.com editorial doesn’t make it past the second paragraph without a glaring (and telling) factual error. President Washington didn’t create the War Department in 1789; *Congress* did: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

someone i used to know who studied math ended up in one of those positions and that was my thought as well the entire idea of trying to make LLMs suck less by finetuning them with data from experts is a very expensive exercise in turd-polishing

fun fact, the chief marketing officer for "Uncensored AI" was charged with assault for pistol whipping his girlfriend

it's Bandcamp Friday which means buying my trax nets me more money!! collegehill.bandcamp.com/album/brutal...

the actual techniques they're using here don't seem unreasonable, even if i think the idea is silly however, the reasonable and limited use of AI techniques described are completely preempted by the extremely dumb quote from the CEO about generating entire TV episodes from a prompt

the NRA hasn't tweeted about the Trump admin's plans to strip all trans Americans of their 2nd amendment rights. in fact, they've never tweeted about trans people at all! not that i expected them too of course, but i was curious

almost a year after his passing, a crypto promoter seems to have hacked Jackmaster's twitter account to promote memecoins

out of curiosity, i clicked on an add for gender affirming surgery that i saw in a dating app... this practice has an AI chatbot giving out info on FFS and doing patent intake i looked at the terms for their AI service (Jotform) and they say not to use it for medical advice 🤔

new music. out now. jersey club & d&b. collegehill.bandcamp.com/album/brutal...

Time Magazine just released their "100 most influential people in AI list" this is a good time to point out that Time is owned by tech billionaire Marc Benioff who has made substantial investments in AI, is friends with Sam Altman, and personally stalked+intimidated a reporter from NPR

i finally went to Comet Ping Pong for the first time recently and i gotta say... there's is absolutely no way anyone was trafficking children in there. the place is TINY

Burning Man is happening, so this is a good time to repost my big story from 2 years ago about how the founder of Patron loves the event, has a motorcycle that runs on tequila, scammed the royal family of Morocco, and is literally colonizing the Caribbean www.polemics.md/the-billiona...

this seems in line with the debate org sponsored by Koch and an anti-trans group i was mentioning yesterday people really like to throw the "liberalism" around when they're trying to create conditions that allow them to defend the indefensible

i have too much on my plate to cover this myself but if any journalists want to collab on it i'd be down this story is also a good example of the framing of debate formats is broadly used to shift the overton window to the right by debating topics that were previously settled

Matt Yglesias keeps making excuses for fascism because he is a reactionary creep with a bootlicking fetish who gets off on empty contrarianism.

there's an anti-woke high school debate league sponsored by Charles Koch that's trying to push debates to the right for some reason, Destiny is involved with this

when i wrote for q nation, democrats routinely tried to pressure me into basically just doing PR for them. whenever i wouldnt, they'd get pissed and would often stop responding to requests for inquiry, as if i wasnt a journalist and was more of an 'influencer' linked an example of this

i spend more of my time on the Other Site lately because that's where the people i cover are, so i wrote this thread there. it's about AI, fanfiction, eugenics, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Kelsey Piper x.com/thecollegehi...

i'm just seeing the announcement of this new "liberal" media outlet called The Argument and it is 100% billionaire funded controlled opposition it's also on Substack, which in case you forgot, is a platform run by a Nazi sympathizer

behold! my transition timeline!! 2014 vs. 2025 i wanted to do 2014 vs 2025 but i don't actually have any pictures of me from that year

Acausal Robot God have mercy on my soul, I have backed up every piece of the claim: “The goal of LessWrong rationality is so Eliezer Yudkowsky can live forever as an emulated human mind running as a process on the future superintelligent AI god computer.” *ahem* >>

Hi Itch, author of the original article here. Thanks for ignoring my repeated requests to comment, and then coming out of the woodwork days later to claim that my article - which verified each game's indexing status independently - is 'full of misinformation.' You're full of it. (thread)

literally exists, it's LessWrong rationalism and it's the core ideology of AI doomsday guys and Effective Altruists like OpenAI is full of their stated and detailed goal is to live forever as an emulation running on the mind of AI God

“Discretionary awards shall not be used to fund, promote, encourage, subsidize, or facilitate … denial by the grant recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic” TL;dr grants to be denied to entities who acknowledge the existence of trans people

yet, I constantly find myself having to explain this in most spaces where important conversations and decisions (regulatory, policy, higher education, etc) take place

you might wanna mention that one of the race scientists the Rationalist community is tied to is Jordan "Crémieux" Lasker, the same guy the Times used as an anonymous source for their anti-Mamdani hit piece last mont

folks really weren’t kidding when they warned me about those 24 hour lesbian dates

i’m really glad @thisdogllhunt.bsky.social i go to the same events because she keeps taking gorgeous photos of me 💖

These embryo-selection startups are clearly feeding into an alt-right ecosystem that revels in techno-futurism much as such movements have in the past. GWAS participants & parents navigating IVF deserve better than being used as tools to attract the attention of edge lords.

regarding redistricting: one of the first thing that clued me into the fact that the Democratic Party doesn't really give a shit about democracy was really that they used their supermajority in MD to enact of the most egregious gerrymanders in the country their defense was "Republicans do it"

Bandcamp Firday was yesterday so this is a reminder that the new CEO of Bandcamp wrote and performed an insanely paternalistic song about how hot he thought Britney Spears was before she started having mental health issues it's still on his Soundcloud! soundcloud.com/paul-l-wilts...

i don't have anything new out for Bandcamp Friday, but that's because i've already released 6 albums this year plus a compilation of instrumental mixes. they're all on my page alongside the the 4 albums i released in 2023, 4 albums i released in 2024, and 75 other releases collegehill.bandcamp.com

@thisdogllhunt.bsky.social is a really good photographer!

"i'm afraid to start HRT because it might be taken away" they've already taken it away from you by making you afraid they will make the appointment

any politician who says they support trans rights but also gives on sports bans is not a moderate or a centrist but a walking contradiction