“Every single person in the Epstein emails should be removed and excluded from positions of any power forever” would be a good op-ed, but probably won’t appear in the NYT. Even more importantly, it would be a good political party platform, but that probably won’t happen either

It seems like Trump spoke to Epstein in 2016 and said something that disturbed him, difficult to find via just word searches because they called him mcgyver as a joke.

Still reading through that report but this is the first time I'm hearing of GPU backed loans and that shit is crazy. This could easily blow up.

actually this is not a community. it is a web site

I used to be stuck in an endless cycle of life, death and rebirth. I still am, but I used to be too

one of the major uses of LLMs is as an unlicensed, cheap therapist. the people who sell them largely don't think about this fact at all.

Small building Wharton, TX

What did I say?

Some more thoughts about this. Even with continuous training, an LLM based AI would always be equally good at mimicking the text of its conversation partner (as measured by training loss) as its own past outputs, before post training.

Oof

Lmao youtu.be/3LlktHEE0W8?...

Just realized that all the behaviors mankind considers noble and good are examples of being "wire headed" by language

I wonder if at some point it'll make sense to have belt fed machine guns/gatling guns with shotgun ammo as an anti drone weapon.

I’m starting to think some Bluesky users might be conscious. The implications are troubling

"I believe the rate of capitalist consumption, rather than the rate of profit, is the regulating force which is preventing the investment rate from rising." Really helpful critique of Brenner from @nico-encounter.bsky.social

Using some insights from structuralism and classical econophysics, I put together two estimates of human compute that converge pretty well. Also connect the math back to Dunbar's social intelligence hypothesis. nicolasdvillarreal.substack.com/p/structural...

the vast majority of successful future politicians will be posters so it's kinda good (and bad) that Trump is not even so much speedrunning as tutorial demonstrating all the failure modes of poster-as-politician

Using some insights from structuralism and classical econophysics, I put together two estimates of human compute that converge pretty well. Also connect the math back to Dunbar's social intelligence hypothesis. nicolasdvillarreal.substack.com/p/structural...

if an AI can get people to kill themselves they can get someone to kill others

arXiv is taking steps to tackle a surge in low quality, AI-generated content go.nature.com/4oRkjyq

Words to live by tbh

Introducing the File Search Tool in the Gemini API, our hosted RAG solution with free storage and free query time embeddings 💾 We are super excited about this new approach and think it will dramatically simplify the path to context aware AI systems, more details in 🧵

Wrote up some critiques of Brenner I've had after reading his NLR essay. It just doesn't make sense to speak of low profit rates as being the cause of low investment when the small recovery in profit rates caused no such recovery in investment. nicolasdvillarreal.substack.com/p/a-minor-cr...

The worsening state of the US labor market. We talked with @conorsen.bsky.social about the jobs picture, since we don't have a jobs report. Verdict: Clear signs of deterioration, with risks of rapidly rising unemployment. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

Nearly 100 people abducted or disappeared in Syria since January, says UN - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Italy's largest union calls general strike on December 12 over budget plans - www.reuters.com/business/wor...

Adorable

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Seems like the Ukrainians are basically encircled around Pokrovsk.

Seems possible we'll see another North Korean deployment to the Ukraine/Russia front lines

Toyota just demoed a personal mobility chair that literally walks—up stairs, sideways, and into a car. Meet “walk me”: a four-legged, stair-climbing, height-adjustable mobility device aimed at seniors and people with limited mobility.

This is related to my problem with Brenner's thesis as I understand it, we've seen a neoliberal recovery in profit rates, particularly in the non financial sector, which has not led to a recovery of investment.

Here's an interesting paradox, when looking at percentage change, investment is positively correlated with the rate of profit, but when looking at absolute levels, it's negatively correlated

dying at the concept of posting this about yourself about zohran mamdani winning completely unironically

Interesting ISW report on changing Russian tactics used to take Pokrovsk understandingwar.org/research/rus...

Good to see Zohran win. And a quarter of NYC voters identifying as socialist!

You can still use writing if you index off of a real uniqueness+consistency.

Had a great conversation with Varn youtu.be/bjvmcgUAsh8?...

Had another movie dream last night, this time about the Lion King

Anthropic Model Depreciation Process Anthropic sweetly asked Sonnet about its preferences in how it wanted to be deprecated in addition: - no, still not open weights - preserve weights and keeping it running internally - letting models pursue their interests www.anthropic.com/research/dep...

Wrote up a guide for all the things I do to get the most out of cyberspace and cultivate my own epistemology online. Includes a list of apps and website I've found helpful. nicolasdvillarreal.substack.com/p/a-guide-to...

This blog from over ten years ago feels a bit funny now that many wannabe oswalds do have a laptop blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/20...

For You has the juice

Wrote up a guide for all the things I do to get the most out of cyberspace and cultivate my own epistemology online. Includes a list of apps and website I've found helpful. nicolasdvillarreal.substack.com/p/a-guide-to...

Obligatory pinned post: my new book, The Revenge of Reason, is now available to buy: www.urbanomic.com/book/the-rev...

This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ

IFC confirms famine in El-Fasher and Kadugli, with many other areas at imminent risk of famine