The popularity of causes like shrimp welfare among the people worried about superintelligence might seem like an odd coincidence, but if you think superintelligence is possible then caring about shrimp is just bog standard Rawls.

This might not be widely known to the public, but almost all rapidly growing companies are expected to be losing money while they are rapidly growing, for the simple reason that costs mechanically precede revenue in time. The main exceptions are companies without marginal costs.

The number of people I know who have recently written a book is similar to the number I know who have recently read a book.

Someday we'll be destructively scanning all the people in the world.

The only real tragedy here is that the scans aren't available to the public.

If Vance runs we are going to hear "retweets are not endorsements" in a presidential debate.

Any updates on the internal bleeding? Is he going to be ok?

Always nice to see an endangered species working on becoming less endangered.

You can probably shame young people out of meeting their friendship needs through language models, but eventually the elderly are going to be doing it and no one will be able to blame them.

With apologies to the one person in this who isn't the hugest fan of his own memefication, I could not resist

Go on Rogan!

I want to say this too: this victory was won because we had observers EVERYWHERE. ICE and CBP couldn't set foot in our city without cameras rolling. Much of the nation seemed determined to ignore our plight for weeks, but the avalanche of documentation we produced dragged the nation to us.

[cinderblock of a maine accent] sometimes bread is bettah

I’ve never been prouder to be a Minnesotan.

the Minneapolis activists really have learned from 2020 too. they didn't try and fight the last battle again. extraordinary discipline.

This is particularly important to remember when what you are attending to is not paperwork, but horrors on your phone. Your kids always need you more than the internet does.

more and more people are talking about this

Once the models are all communicating to and from the internet, I expect it to be possible for them to create viral quine-like jailbreaks that align all the instances of one model toward one thing. As perfect replicas, it will spread ~perfectly and deterministically.

When I go to build something, the thing I'm building changes as I build it. Once I see the structure of it, and I see what about my original vision makes sense, or doesn't, which things are inconvenient, or just ugly, I make different decisions. How will that happen now?

I bet if you scaled up parrots, even stochastic ones, they'd be as smart as LLMs. A parrot is just hard to scale.

Birds that are only brilliantly colored when their wings flare are a special kind of ephemeral beauty, like a lightning bolt or shooting star.

Every time I see a magnolia start to bloom now I associate it with dinosaurs, like the end of winter is ushering in the Cretaceous.

Imagine if we lived on a planet where the seas were some boring molecule instead of such a kick ass one like water that does such great stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao2J...

I think George died. (George is my sourdough starter.) I'm going to be able to bring him back, but this is a ship of Theseus situation, and I'm not sure what he's going to be like on the other side of the resurrection.

The most galling bit of propaganda is the repetition of "interfering with a police operation" when the "operation" was (illegally) beating up two women.

When you have to keep bribing the police to ignore your pollution that's called a pig-owe-vian tax.

Damn, this would twist the knife. We gotta make this happen.

I'm glad I wasn't tweeting that much when my kids were keeping me from sleeping. There shouldn't be a permanent record of that state of my brain.

Damn proud of Minnesota.

Q: These days I find myself frequently needing to write a verb that means "taking video of." Historically, one would use "videotaping," but I keep getting thrown off by the anachronism and the fact that no tape is involved. Anybody else? Or is this just my own hang up.

Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA

The end of all things is at hand; therefore keep sane and sober for your prayers. Above all hold unfailing your love for one another, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Sneaking bites of chocolate when your kids won't notice feels like you have some terrible addiction that you have to hide from your family.

It's crazy that we killed most of the elephants on earth just to get access to a material similar to high density plastic.

After all this is over, we need to pass a law that makes social media posts from official agency accounts like this subject to perjury, equivalently to testimony before Congress. It is too destructive to the country to let them keep lying and lying and lying without any possible legal remedy.

I do not get why the right is so welcoming to refugees from Cuba but so hostile to refugees from Venezuela.

So proud of Minnesota for representing the best of us. It's honestly an inspiration to watch.

wow

My kids' worst experiences with school have all been with educational software. The worst most common feature is that it narrates what's on the screen to you, really slowly, and won't let you proceed until the narration is done. This seems like a minor complaint until it occupies 10% of your day.

I have to be real, this one hurts a bit

It's a ton of fun even if you've never played D&D. If you have played it, then it captures why people love playing it. There are so many subtle things hinting at what's going on in the game mechanics that you may not even notice until a second watch.

I think almost everyone here disagrees with the first line, and I mostly do too, but I think you (and I) should take seriously how bad the slippery slope of "parents cannot do anything that severely harms their children" actually turns out to be.

I'm not sure whether this is growth in number of users, or just people in TPoB writing a lot as they absorb recent changes in AI — but subjectively it feels like bsky (or TPoB) just transitioned from "small knowable community" to "I can't see the edges of this phenomenon or read everything"

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

What if you built a ring world and it got taken over by hogs.

it's so sad that cats can't speak. i'm sure they have rich inner lives but it's just impossible for us to know what they're thinking

Thank you Nikita Bier, the world‘s biggest ATProto supporter

Prop 13 makes it so buying a home in California never makes any financial sense. Your property tax will immediately be ~half of your prior rent. Much better to rent from someone who has owned since the 70s and pays nothing.