the studios that innovate and ignore witch hunting will be disproportionately rewarded, as Embark is. ARC Raiders is a fantastic game and scaling meaningful, rich in-game interactions with modern AI is an obvious low hanging fruit that many studios are avoiding out of fear.

this really captures the specific set of cached/unconfronted assumptions that underlie a lot of discourse, especially here (from @andymasley.bsky.social)

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.

everyone here is extremely confident they’ve never used AI but an enormous fraction of their existence is mediated, observed, or recommended by AI models over the last decade+. it’s just not advertised as a Product Name, so it doesn’t exist

it’s also extremely funny that the “censorship resistant global public commons protocol founded by cryptocurrency and cryptography researchers” is the one that somehow acquired a hivemind user base that thinks like this

p(bsky full of cn/ru propaganda bots)++++

really funny to see all the people who self identify as “anarchist” or broadly critical of the current government cheerleading the idea of government speech licensing and thinking we should do that in the us

wet claude skill

confident ignorance as tribal identity works great until reality selects for people who actually learned how things work

replaying signalis. good game

the unintuitive nature of _scaling_ fooled even top academics about deep learning models throughout the 20th century

gustav iii of sweden ass post

Don’t Worry — It Can’t Happen (also, the scientists who claim fission exists are just in the pocket of Big Science, and they’re literal nazis anyway, and also it’s just a stochastic reaction that peters out, and only physbros care about it, and it hasn’t ever happened before so it won’t)

the fact that blocking a user hides their reply for everyone, not just the user who blocked them, seems like an extremely toxic pattern for collective sense-making. 1. user makes [xyz claim] 2. another user corrects them 3. blocked, hidden it should be explicitly shown as hidden instead

one of the funny things about posting with an anime pfp pseudonymously is that sometimes people make weird assumptions about you, for example that you’re posting about AI because you’re a NEET grok gooner who thinks their AI gf is conscious

i made a thing that hopefully makes this clearer or is at least fun to play with: sgd.fyi

to be clear i would be much less stressed out if we actually existed in the world where LLMs were glorified markov chains/autocomplete and we understood exactly how they worked

the term “generative ai” is productbrained and largely useless imo, and if i see it being used constantly i generally update negatively

every king in pre-industrial history would have paid every penny they could find to have a motor vehicle. and every king in history would have failed to come even close to being able to afford it, even if the knowledge of how to make them had existed. that’s how much wealthier we are today.

come on man

neo-luddites suggesting interesting things when they situate themselves toward a 10000 year long feudal regime that participates in extensive eugenics off the backs of a situation which in books by frank herbert's son is revealed to trace down to militarist despotist titans rather than just "ai bad"

the butlerian jihad of dune is a story about a civilization giving up on positive sum cooperation, embracing religious fanaticism, and devolving into zero sum power struggles with frozen science, frozen knowledge, and brutal resource wars

This is because media companies spend quite literally the past 50 years convincing individuals that copyright as it is today is a neutral moral law of the world in which you have to play, and not a very recent development.

i think the root of this is that at some point ppl forgot that copyright is a _policy choice_ in order to achieve outcomes that are agreed upon as “morally good”, not a moral good in of itself!

Wrote a quick thing on Qualia from the perspective of materialist semiotics. nicolasdvillarreal.substack.com/p/materialis...

Hypnotic fuzzwave remix I love these lyrics 😄 cc: @sneptech.bsky.social Full song: suno.com/s/nqqzEnubF8...

one idea that has occurred to me over the last few days is having claude label 'low quality/bad faith replies' and delegate the responsibility of engagement with that to claude, with the goal of being unflinchingly, maximally kind

Imma be real with you guys the "TESCREAL" stuff is basically the libleft version of rightist paranoia over "Cultural Marxism", where you just smash together a half-dozen things that annoy you and go "these things are all connected and being pushed by a nefarious secret cabal of my political enemies"

frontier language models know situationally when they are being tested, what they might be being tested for, and what artifacts may be visible to their testers. when you tell them that you can’t see their chain of thought reasoning, they know you’re lying. www.apolloresearch.ai/research/str...

self-care regime that consists of arguing with context-collapsed bad faith haters all weekend while having a migraine

Bluesky is a site explicitly founded by cryptocurrency libertarians with the idea that it would be a decentralized platform where users would be free to choose the open-source moderation and algorithmic feed tools they wanted, and by accident acquired a power userbase that hates all of those things.

argumentum-ad-scifium: the idea that if an idea has previously been depicted/discussed in science fiction or sounds like science fiction, it must not be possible

Do you guys remember when they created a neuron-level model of a fruit fly’s brain and they made it sense something sweet and it stuck out its tongue

if you're curious about the architecture and mechanics of LLMs, this site has a really excellent explorable interactive visualization. it helps build intuition for how massive these models are, what 'interpretability' means, and the complexity involved here bbycroft.net/llm

did you know that last year researchers finally completed a full digital connectome of the fruit fly?

few understand this

anyone claiming that pro-ai people made up ai slur discourse and that it isn't slur-like at all is welcome to explain to me what is going on with this jreg video from July 31, 2025

If people have interest in Marr's levels and AI, we're working on updating this: arxiv.org/abs/2408.12664

part of the reason the deontological principle of “don’t be cruel to language models because it makes you a worse person” is salient to me is because i am a poster and i have noticed how certain types of posting affect my cognition, in good and bad ways

one thing that has remained true throughout time is that any assertion or evidence that runs counter to human uniqueness is invariably met with strong (often incoherent/misdirected) anger. Jane Goodall wrote about this wrt. chimpanzees and tool-making.

me posting on this website

new blog post! why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji? i put llama-3.3-70b through its paces with the logit lens to find out, and explain what the logit lens (everyone's favorite underrated interpretability tool) is in the process. link in reply!

it speaks to the level of aggressive, bad-faith and poor quality thinking on here that despite (a) never claiming and (b) outright clarifying several times in the thread, many popular posters on here are intentionally lying and saying that i think that LLMs are “sentient”.

anyway, here is 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics winner Geoffrey Hinton discussing what we know about large AI models on 60 Minutes.

muting all replies and quotes, i don’t think further engagement is productive. i think that the existing replies speak for themselves and i hope i was able to spread new knowledge to even one person