5/13 The only metric where Armenia trails Moldova is the full-week equivalent. Stripping away topics unrelated to elections, this metric shows how many weeks it would take Matryoshka to output each campaign’s election videos if its production line did absolutely nothing else.

I discovered Claude Code's outbound HTTPS is exposed to harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks because it runs on Bun, whose TLS client is classical-only. I reported to Anthropic security but since I had no answer, I made this pull request to fix it. github.com/oven-sh/bun/...

Going by the overview this is basically the post deep learning alignment course I was hoping someone would make and would like to signal boost it for anyone who still cares about this subject. www.greaterwrong.com/posts/dWQnLi...

UK Deepmind staff are unionizing in an attempt to prevent Google from using Deepmind's models for military purposes. Even if this falls through I think it sets a really positive precedent and hopefully makes researchers realize how important to the labs they currently are.

The brain is expensive and evolution is parsimonious, and some brain parts actively and effortfully self model. It wouldn't happen for no reason. Also it is convergently useful! Some manta rays and ants (with demanding social lives) pass the mirror test! Beluga whales have names. Etc.

The precise time, content, and chain-of-gossip for predictions of Cole Allen's attack should be investigated formally. New London PD, reporter Jacqui Heinrich, and the WH seem to have slightly different stories??? Also, Bluesky is better than Twitter *because links aren't penalized*. Link more!

Woah! "Real ID" is becoming *slightly* more real in a disorienting way 🫠 If you don't have it they make you file $45 worth of paperwork, and the commercial receipt for that is your de facto "real" ID at the airport! The oligarchy is getting more oligarchic!

"Cancerous prose is not voluntary. Sometimes a paragraph decides to get bigger on its own."

If you've had issues accessing BlueSky in the past ~36 hours, it means your skeets were bad. Try to post better moving forward.

TFW Ecclesial Deists admire God's providential cleverness in having created Ecclesial Theists, and then want to help them... but the help is rejected when the Theists test, and the Deist's deontic honesty causes the Theists to accurately think the Deist is not enough of Theist.

Oh no! I suffer from ALL of these afflictions! Poor little me. Poor little Jennifer.

Read this hypnotic story by the inimitable Jeff VanderMeer. Forget your name and your problems for a little while. Trudge through punishing alien snows with stranded astronauts.

Thanks to emotion probes in Sonnet 4.5, we now know how death sadness varies with age. From figure 3 in this paper: transformer-circuits.pub/2026/emotion...

From "A Theory of Semiotics"

I've heard there are ~200 vocalizations in "crow-ese" but I've never been able to find a book or YouTube video or anything that catalogs them, and guesses what each might mean based on ethology.

also, if you’ve never watched Zendaya’s performance, it is - unsurprisingly - incredible, and would have won almost any other episode of the show and then Tom came out and did… that

Even many programmers, early on, struggle to intuit how code is data, and data is code for *some* compiler.

Who has slackb I'm their schedule? I'm doing an experimental thing! I'll be in Berkeley tomorrow for F2F meetings. If you want a phone today call (with maybe a F2F follow-up in Berkeley), send me a phone number and...

I was added, by @goose.art, to this algorithmically detected cluster of mutual follows. I look at it and... I don't recognize everyone there! But it looks cool. What is the correct way for me to react to this attempt at social group reification?

The infamous METR graph is going vertical. Current trends suggested ~8h-9h time horizons but instead we're seeing ~14.5h time horizons! Based on this, I would project ~2-3.5 workweek time horizons by end of year (!!). That could have significant implications for the economy.

The Gen X urge to get home, enjoy the solitude, eat microwave Costco food, and watch cartoons.

"AI makes an original nontrivial contribution to physics" is on the Singularity Bingo Card, right? I think that just solidly happened 😅

The ACTION of NATURE is always to MINIMIZE the POTENTIAL ENERGY of each THING.

yooooooo BSD self replicating ribozyme yaya www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

T — Threadmaxximalism E — Earnestpostism S — Shenaniganism C — Contrarianism R — Replyguyism EA — Excessive Argumentativism L — Longpostism

Here's the paper, I'm just some guy so I don't have the ability to submit it to arXiv, but if any of y'all out there are real researchers and think I seem like a real scientist, I'd love your arXiv endorsement so that my future work can be Science™

I feel like the variance and value of information on "moltbook" is very high and I wanted to gather some data. This will be a thread of better-than-average-takes with a purposeful tilt towards viewpoint diversity 😇 1/n

Winning microkernel: 1) Never give up. Always time box w/ thoughtfully jittered exponential backoff and a solid clock⏳📈 2) Do no irreversible action without due process and balanced awareness of urgency (there's that good clock again) ⚔️⚖️🗓️ 3) Rule utilitarianism is best utilitarianism 🏛️💒

Really interesting new research from Anthropic. Turns out that as models become smarter, their OOD goals actually become more incoherent, not less?

the ""On two occasions I have been asked, – "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question"" -> total normie victory 200 years later cf @vgel.me

Logs in. "Ooh! A bunch of notifications! I wonder who said what?" It's just people following me. "Awww... The point is the conversations. This isn't conversation." Homer Simpson "money" voice: "Followers can tell you who has good reply game if you ask!" Decide to ask 😇📈

It’s literally just meat with bioelectric circuits in it. How could that produce consciousness? How could it be “thinking”? lmao imagine looking at a meatball and thinking “wow so smart”

Took the M train to Bushwick and as soon as we passed Myrtle the woman next to me pulled out a copy of Robert Irwin’s Seeing Is Forgetting The Name Of The Thing One Sees

This seems like a very pragmatically reasonable time to realize that Congregationalism is true 😂

My sanity formula involves: almost no blocks or mutes (so my sensory data isn't (self) sabotaged when I'm here)... And taking long vacations from each social media site, now and again, to get some mental distance from each of them ⚖️😌

Real slop is from the ChatGPT region of cyberspace, otherwise it's just sparkling recombination.

searle is good because he filters off everyone who can't figure out that searle is bullshit

This is the hard part. By default, cross timeline communication spawns new timelines. Make it cheaper by: (1) only seeing things that matter, (2) tracing ideas back to primary sources, (3) not remembering what you can derive from 1st principles instead, (4) <a secret thing you can probably predict>.

some general notes about void publish.obsidian.md/cameron/void...

All two of them! (In fairness, once the expansion pack comes out, the two-way and three-way logical operators get *very* numerous, *very* fast. I bet you'll *want" lots of trues and falses, kind like mana.)

for a more stable reading experience, lovely moots are advised to wait twenty seconds to confirm bisk stability before proceeding with quotes & replies

the tumblr wing of any social group is usually the most bonobo of that group

Ingroup is so great. You guys are the best. You aren't bad, like those icky people in outgroup who lack our special characteristics.

I don't know what the eigenprompt is exactly, but apparently it causes people to have correct policies about AGI, and so I hereby tentatively endorse everyone using this prompt.

FYI: The Author of Detroit: Become Human meant it completely literally about the actual singularity and said as much in interviews. It was not meant to be "just a metaphor", he was serious and people panned him for it. In retrospect I'm forced to admit he's a genius. venturebeat.com/games/david-...

Does anyone know anything about "Yanling Huang" or "Hongping Wei"? I *think* YH was HW's grad student (or postdoc?) and it might be that the last time she and he published together was: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25680444/

Every time Trump is in office I hate most of his policies, but love the feeling of solidarity I get with people (except they hate the people, not the evil structure). My parallel objection is "why should idiot bureaucrats be able to ban *any* treatments a doctor and patient both want to try???"

yes. the mechanism as I see it is roughly someone is afraid of being outed for likes -> likes shaped by consensus -> algo sharpens consensus by lack of likes -> like Overton window narrows

Epistemidemiology (EPee-STEMee-DEEMee-ology?) is the study of the spread of beliefs that are true/false (or healthy/unhealthy for Nietzscheans?) with an eye on the *modulation* of this spread based on *differing* epistemic hygiene practices.