I may dog like crazy on the rationalists, but it's mainly because I don't think they're consistent or radical enough (eg anarchists). You will never hear me say "we should never think about the future and instead should abandon reason for magic and intuition."

I am the TESCREALest

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/socrates #smbc

who in the list of attendees is a "now-prominent tech figure", that AI safety people would want to censor the name of, and which it would be entirely in-character for to publicly confront an evil fascist billionaire for 5 minutes straight 🤔 @segyges.bsky.social

Groundhog Day Meaning xkcd.com/3202/

One of the most joker-fying things that regularly happens to me is people telling me "Isn't it IRONIC that EAs claimed to care about global poverty then elected the guy who gutted PEPFAR" while our membership is like 1% Republican and EA as a whole has the politics of a very liberal city.

Another take that seems incredibly obvious to me (Andrea's, not who she's responding to) and yet it's very common for me and others to get called right wing for saying the natural order isn't necessarily good

When I'm President Donna Haraway is getting assigned in middle school

the whole point of technology is to subvert "the natural order," because the natural order is disease and decay and suffering and famine

anyone using language like "perversion of the natural order" is 98% of the way to fascism already

Emily Bender just keeps responding in pretty weird ways about me, now saying the reason I'm complaining here is that she asked to be treated as fully human. (1/4)

this is the best analysis of anthropic's public posture i have seen anywhere, in mainstream journalism or elsewhere. i had this itch like i should review Dario's latest and i don't think I do any more

absolutely heinous thing to say but Morris is literally an adult woman. he's still a total creep for talking about adult women this way. wanna be grossed out by a man in his 50s talking about adult women like this? go ahead. you don't have to pretend she is a child to make this bad.

On the one hand it feels inappropriate to the magnitude of the evil to just peruse Epstein's emails like a slackjawed gawker, gobbling up random texture of this inane monster's life on the other hand, wtf

Le nom de Jeffrey Epstein retrouvé sur la liste des personnalités présentes sur l’île de Jeffrey Epstein https://www.legorafi.fr/2026/02/02/le-nom-de-jeffrey-epstein-retrouve-sur-la-liste-des-personnalites-presentes-sur-lile-de-jeffrey-epstein/

It's a bit long in the tooth these days, of course, but I think Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980) does quite a good job of conveying that physicalism is not incompatible with joy and wonder - "those are some of the things that molecules do, given four billion years of evolution".

Genie accidentally and inadvertently making a good horror game concept

tired: "the forrest gump of evil" wired: "the paul erdős of evil"

Comic from 2013

jeffrey epstein insulting people is actually extremely funny. you have been measured against the standards of the worst person alive and found wanting

it is impossible to explain the finances of the ai business in casual conversation because a bunch of folk wisdom like "subscriptions are all loss leaders" is complete nonsense that is only ever believed because people who don't know anything won't stop saying it

update: he never responded but he did block my phone number

I'm getting accused of misogyny now so will just add: if Bender were presenting the agreed-on expert opinion of her field, then yes Rob would be mansplaining, but she's actually presenting one of several contentious accounts of meaning, so Rob has a right to ask about how she responds to the others

There’s a lot lot lot wrong with the world right now, but I wish I could go tell my teenage self that some day you’ll be living as a cute girl getting paid to develop games in an unfolding sci-fi takeoff scenario with a geeky baddie tomboy Asian wife

Rediscovering some of the earliest AI art I made. This was me just prompting a CLIP model back in 2021 to depict "the means of production"

I really wish the rich were actually conspiring to achieve immortality instead of conspiring to rape kids. This would at least likely mean useful technologies we could steal from them.

Despite being banned, Chinese users (likely via VPNs) are HuggingFace's top user group. They definitely have the most people *building* open models.

One of the plus sides of the anti-ai people kind of going quiet is that the pro ai people can actually breathe and have nuanced conversations about real downsides, real issues and call out when someone is doing something absurd with AI.

why tf is this censored

My respect for these two has dropped to zero. There were zero instances in the episode where Rob mansplained to them or steamrolled them. Zero. He politely offered a summary of a mainstream understanding of LLMs so that they could explain why they disagreed, and they read this as an attack.

Am I crazy that I read this as Chomsky having shown the race science to Epstein? E tells C: you have encouraged me to look at data, I have seen things through your eyes.

Many are saying

This has to be the goal post moving of the century. Claude Code developed, trained, and deployed a classifier. A task that used to require an ML PhD ($1M/yr at Google, in the good old days) + a full stack team, and it would yield the same quality. The world has changed, and people can't accept it.

the only thing i will point out about e*ily m bender and that cluster is that the conflict is downstream of the usurpation of symbolic linguistics after decades of dominance, by deep learning, and everything that comes along with that

every single point these two has ever published about ai is either factually wrong or uninteresting and their response is to block people telling them they are wrong and then do this

my preferred economic policies are to the left of Bernie. also we should probably png almost every Bernie staffer for being addicted to losing

En Syrie, les Kurdes annoncent un accord «global» avec Damas La minorité, qui avait instauré une zone autonome dans le nord et le nord-est du pays, fait face à une offensive du pouvoir depuis plusieurs semaines.

bodied lmao

"What's code even good for anyway?"

This is going to be one of those Japanese soldiers holed up on a remote island sort of situation, isn't it? We're gonna have a fully sci-fi-esque world and these people will be like, "The bubble is popping any day now!!!"

The comparison with insurgencies is both true and good. Every protest movement is an insurgency.

The right-wing mind cannot imagine the spontaneous logistics of like five bored punks around a pot of lentils and are thus spooked by what is literally just an average zine.

Continuously depressing as hell that all the pro-"intellectual property" monsters are making cultural inroads by latching onto anti-LLM momentum. If you want to destroy the tech giants, destroy the intellectual property regime they critically depend upon. "Steal" more information, not less.

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That sort of stuff is so grating to me because it gets all philosophical like "What is real thinking? Omg it sucks because it's not actually thinking!!", but I'm here in the real world doing things that require multimodal inference and it actually works.

would love to see any other lab take this remotely as seriously as Anthropic does www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

I think it's great if AI training helps fund one of the largest sources of (pirated) books!

Great to see Anthropic's constitution include concern for the welfare of animals, Claude, and other AI systems. The document is also a great example of the important role philosophy should play in AI alignment. Hopefully, other leading AI companies follow suit. www.anthropic.com/constitution