I see we're doing "bsky endorses the TikTok ban" all over. I'm sure everyone will have been always against this when it is inevitably used for even more RW centralized control over all aspects of media

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

finding some prior art www.lesswrong.com/posts/yoAhc7...

It's well-discussed that LLMs can struggle in spatial tasks accessible to even children (e.g. ARC-AGI 3 and video games generally), and how this extends to robotics as a whole as the "next challenge", but I think LLM incapacity for temporally-exacting tasks is similarly great and under-discussed.

From someone we are continually reassured is a professional economist with many friends in the oil industry, it's weird how we get nonstop posts that say "but bad news happen somewhere, how is oil not higher, guh?" instead of anything insightful

People keep telling me this organization is salvageable

The reason Newcomb's problem is so difficult for philosophers is that one boxing is fem-coded and most philosophy types would rather be poor than face gender trouble

really unimpressed with AI people on here coyly defending-while-not-technically-endorsing the absolutely idiotic take that Claude is conscious, *especially* when inplying that instances are contiguously conscious across time

Everyone talking about AI consciousness because of the way they talk good is selecting on the dependent variable in the most idiotic way

A recent paper (arxiv.org/abs/2602.18671) made me question something basic: do the logits of a language model model the next-token or the full sequence distribution? It really messed with my brain (in a fun way!). I wrote about the paper to clarify my thinking. vaishnavh.github.io/blog/joint-o...

I'm exhausted by all the efforts to rewrite the history of the 2022 US Senate primary in Pennsylvania, with folks insisting "we told you so!" as to Fetterman, that Conor Lamb was always the better choice, and generally ignoring Malcolm Kenyatta's historic candidacy. So let me say a few things. 🧵1/

*intense hacking the mainframe voice* Popping my pussy in 3.. 2.. 1..

This thread is exactly why I've mostly stopped interacting with the topic at all on here. idgaf about water or AGI, and people are constantly just sniping their worst critics

They keep doing the same thing over and over.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/i-told-you...

It's not a "meme" to point out that many European countries have pre-filled/streamlined tax filing processes even if there are exceptions like Germany?

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personally I'm glad we got rid of woke, it was the only way we could protect Enlightenment values

What is good work by Askell I should read?

I swear to god I will give a lecture FOR FREE to any "AI" lab or company working on interprability or alignment with the title "doing psychology well is extremely hard and requires expertise which you do not have: a primer"

buttmogged these zoomers girl was ahead of her time 😔

One lesson of the Epstein emails is the total intellectual vacuousness of the international business elite www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Once you notice society's base reluctance to refer to women as "geniuses" with the same frequency they do as men, no matter how talented or influential she may be, it's a thing you never really stop noticing.

This is on Musk and he should be held accountable.

Despite the savvy pretense, this doesn't make any sense. How does age-verification address concerns about allowing CSAM? What is the "algorithmic golden goose" for Discord, an app that is dominated by time-ordered text chat? Discord's move started as a response to regulatory pressure in UK/AUS...

It's wild to me that "they wanted a pony" discourse is about the left's concern about genocide and not moderates swinging towards Trump because of magical thinking about inflation and the economy. Like, the latter was actually make-or-break for the presidential in swing states.

This thinking drove half this website to support the forced sale of TikTok (to Ellison lol) and it's still wrong now. Why are you people more mad at Gen Z than X??

Libs doing victory laps about crypto crashing is going to a significant reason it's bottomed out already. People with money are just going to be negatively polarized into buying it. Not saying this is good or bad, but the bottom has bottomed at this point

It was fun shorting BTC while it lasted, but Bluesky is talking about it now, so it can't possibly be a profitable position anymore. Sad.

It astounds me that people take the clear empirical data “Noam Chomsky was wrong” and don’t see the boring, expected interpretation “academics got stuck with an unproductive model for language, which is easier than thought” but rather “my computer is alive, and also my boyfriend, and also God.”

I mean, all of these analyses present correlation as causation. The entire year of this has made me feel like I was taking crazy pills. Their response has been “ah you’re obsessed with complex academic minutiae like this ivory tower idea that ‘correlation is not causation’”

Who cares if a protester got decked for no reason, the inportant thing is a dumster got set on fire

Furthermore, modern LLMs, despite turning out to be very adept at certain kinds of mathematical tasks and undeniably much better at this than they were three years ago, continue to routinely mess up elementary school level math problems.

Hasan is, imo, wrong about Biden's actions, and he's well over his skis based on confirmed reporting. OTOH, the threads linking Epstein to Israeli intelligence are absolutely not in the realm of "conspiracy theory" and it's idiotic for mainstream liberals to abandon this ground to dipshit streamers

1. The new batch of Epstein documents helps illuminate one contemporary controversy: What is Bari Weiss up to at CBS? I think the answer is she is trying to rehabilate the Epstein network as a bulwark of reactionary centrism. Let me explain.

I remember when people on here were all calling Epstein stuff "glonzo" (an imaginary monster), when it is actually the single most accurate conspiracy theory ever proposed

Linus Torvalds - not in the Epstein files

Aella is basically Ghislaine Maxwell for silicon valley and I hope we get ahead of that before one of her clients fills the US government with co-conspirators

"nuclear option" refers to a one minute interruption of a talk. these people have learned nothing

When I talk to swing/marginal voters, I try to convince them to vote D. That doesn't mean we need to be dishonest to ourselves or others about the complexities of the party I am not a media figure nor a lobbying group, and heaping unqualified praise on Ds would hurt my ability to move votes.

I learned how to read on my own before my parents realized (plus sitting along as a baby while they taught my older sister), and I'm pretty sure I picked up nearly all early vocab by three-cueing? I don't get why everyone hates it. It obviously doesn't work later on, but it gets you a lot of words!

I don't feel good about this weekend's "surprise diversion" now that they released a bunch more files 😬

I love how doctrinaire the "concessions are literally never possible because numbers" crowd are getting.

How are Ds so stupid as to vote for obvious traps like the Laken-Riley Act? Do Rs ever vote for DONT DIDDLE KIDDLES ACTs that are for things only we want? NO!!! Because it doesn't fucking matter in the election

I don't think this is generally true, but specifically it is not true with regard to DHS because their current operations are *in conflict* with other existing legal frames and transparency can disrupt their operations by exposing them to those legal systems (both present and future)

One year into Trump’s second term, some journalists have been “surprised” by the administration’s organized agenda. But Project 2025 was publicly available. Advocacy groups read it and warned us. The press read it and… 🤷‍♀️ www.readtpa.com/p/this-is-li...

I'm pretty sure political change can also involve discourse of many sorts, not to be a rank Idealist

This is rookie behavior compared to Jürgen Schmidhuber

Bovino gone? Good. Where does the buck stop? Trump must resign.