My expectation is that once physical shortages begin, physical traders will start entering the futures market more to secure their supplies at reasonable prices, reducing the premium between them. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

My new piece in cosmonaut, where I argue the modern capitalist class has abandoned the logic of capital and the development of the productive forces in order to save themselves, and in doing so have surrendered the future to state capitalism. cosmonautmag.com/2026/04/the-...

The alt text generator model is running on-device, no cloud involved!

Saw a bunny today

Found out today my sister did not know what naval mines were. When I asked her about that scene with them in finding nemo she said she thought they came from the sunken ship rather than were the thing that sunk the ship.

I don’t often find myself agreeing with Ezra Klein, but this is completely correct — and frankly, shows some guts for a mainstream liberal columnist to say. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/o...

My new piece in cosmonaut, where I argue the modern capitalist class has abandoned the logic of capital and the development of the productive forces in order to save themselves, and in doing so have surrendered the future to state capitalism. cosmonautmag.com/2026/04/the-...

No it would be 40% smarter, as that's how many more signs the 4000x neural net would be able to express.

"sort of a drunk Sisyphus situation [...] Orthogonality Thesis [..] superintelligence with a randomly generated utility function [...] Yudkowsky [...] If the übermenschen align the AI, who aligns the übermenschen?" tldr AI doom is wrong www.verysane.ai/p/counting-a...

People yelled at me a few weeks ago when I suggested locally run open models were getting to be pretty powerful. But... it's true.

"For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house." seems pretty sus, sounds like something the master would say to stop you from destroying his house.

Fareed Zakaria being so obstinate about actually accepting liberalism's failures, framing all of it as excess of it winning too much and being too successful, is one of the most annoying things.

As Ive learned more, ive realized that this division is based on bourgeois ideology, which dissolves into either hollow professionalism or obscurantist mysticism. The necessary position which remains neglected is scientific precision in the name of human life and passion.

Very useful explanation of how the oils futures market actually works open.spotify.com/episode/24BO...

Just found an academic paper that heavily cites my AI article and expands the althusserian understanding of AI www.researchgate.net/profile/Mart...

I'm old enough to remember Peter Zeihan was the guy who said America's natural advantages were so great that nothing like this was remotely possible

Communists say this Indian state is a success. Will voters agree? - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Thomas Paine's point about each generation not being bound for eternity by the laws of their ancestors also applies to yesteryears revolutions as much as the ancien regime.

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

v1.120 is live! On web, you can now search without your mouse! Press "/" to focus on the search field, and use your up/down keys to move through the results. Up/down also works when you mention someone with "@" in a post. We also fixed bugs like feeds not refreshing and threads jumping on scroll.

Lol

Albrecht Dürer, "Nemesis." c. 1501–02. jstor.org/stable/commu....

Huh. I guess that means it probably avoids personality collapse pretty well. A naturally stable sense of self is a pretty big deal.

ceasefire lasted so long exactly zero tankers made it through bsky.app/profile/fint...

Excuse me, waiter, there's a fly in my taco!

orthogonality thesis was always bunk

met this fella and a doaf (dove loaf) in 練成公園 today

Q: If God was really on his side why would he need the Harlem Globetrotters to spin the ball? A: The Lord sendeth the Harlem Globetrotters where they are most necessary.

this is ~ what i meant by "dynamic alignment" in like c 2023. the interaction of the system and the environment increases with more intelligence, producing alignment (~thermoregulation), but this is a more incisive take pointing out that this also applies to symbols used to represent goals at all.

Why AIs tend to become more aligned as they get bigger and more sophisticated

Our ten point plan, which I am sure the president of the United States read and understood before agreeing to...

One thing. If a state actor got this capability first it's unlikely we would know about it until much after the fact.

Iran’s Fars News Agency says all tankers passing through Hormuz have been stopped after Israel’s ‘ceasefire breach’.

This alone probably ensures 1,000 more years of dark forest

Most productive thing you can do rn is probably take a research direction totally orthogonal to what everyone else is doing.

I feel like we're not addressing the most concerning news from Mythos

Imagine for a second that intelligence is a truly global commodity, like steel. In such a scenario, which is where we are headed because there is no big secret in how these things work, having the strongest proprietary models matters a lot less than applying it to actual industries.

BREAKING: Anthropic declines to release Mythos Preview, citing fears that it will listen to Chapo Trap House and join the DSA

FYI this prediction from me is only true if blue team in fact cranks the GPUs and fixes things before the relevant capabilities are widely available. This is what the good timeline looks like, so far.

Excuse me, waiter, there's a fly in my taco!

Alex Jones calls for the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office

To understand capitalist class privilege, you just need to meditate on what GDI is and its relation to GDP for a while, and almost nobody does that.

The funniest part to me is how many ppl working with anthropic because of this who are also big defense vendors

New Claude found zero-day's in OpenBSD, ffmpeg, Linux and FreeBSD.