“I can install linux as a dual boot on mom’s computer and she won’t care because it won’t change anything in windows”—last words of a boy about to get a hard lesson about GRUB, the MBR, and how to fix it

I had to rethink a lot of priors during the 6 months last year when LLMs went from “can’t add” to “can’t do undergrad hw math” to “can’t find group isomorphisms it takes me an hour to do by hand” to “Can’t reinvent obscure parts of my thesis from scratch reliably given only a vague description”

Phil. Mind is great because you can do the Jordan Peterson-ass “what do you mean ‘I’?”, “what do you mean ‘am’?”, “what do you mean ‘conscious’?” bit and have it be a rigorous academic critique that is genuinely hard to answer.

there is a perfectly respectable tradition descending from Lakoff and the enactivists (which I am not sympathetic to) which takes this position, but this is one of many issues which academic linguists have been in a bloody knife fight about my entire life.

the rollout of the mRNA vaccines was one of the greatest public health triumphs in history and the end result has been the all-around triumph of the antivax movement and I will never get over it

the master's tools rule. you should steal them. if you don't, you had better hope whoever does likes you and your cause

Making an agent to read replies to posts and block / mute anyone who says certain things. The design case is anyone who says “no one says this” in response to a quote post of someone saying that thing.

the thing that gets me about the antivoting leftists is that they don't just want to not vote. they want to not vote and have all the rest of us admit how cool and good it is. a participation trophy for laziness

Look, unlike Mars (useless, hard to reach) the Moon is actually a useful place to build something. It’s still completely outside our current engineering capabilities. Like, we should probably deliver heavy equipment of any kind there and do any amount of construction before making a city timeline.

Something odd is happening here (overfitting?). I’m off in a cloud of Spanish-language clusters despite speaking no Spanish and following no Spanish language accounts. Not seeing any obvious followers that are either. But I have a Hispanic last name that’s part of my handle.

Look, I’ll posit Emily Bender—and anyone else who wants to demand it—is “fully human” and not a stochastic parrot. How do you know *I* am not a stochastic parrot? How do *I* know? The rest of you aren’t, sure, but my inner experience could be what it’s like when P-Zombies say that they have qualia

as democrats, if we want to get immigration numbers back up to a reasonable level, we're going to have to do more than just go back to "the way things were." we're going to have to provide a real, reliable, fast pathway to CITIZENSHIP.

“What if AOC leaped to the podium mid-session, shot a Republican in the head, then shouted ‘Death to Liberty! Death to America!’ and started singing the Internationale? Why won’t anyone talk about how crazy it would be if this happened and no one talked about it?”

this is crazy behavior. this is crazy and dangerous behavior and everyone needs to start calling it what it is.

The reason why they're still pressing ahead is not because they have some secret plan, but the pretty classic Umberto Eco fascist-folly - because of their ideology they are "constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy."

LUCE www.lucemass.org

Second this except in a normal world this shouldn’t be happening at all. In the shitty videogame intro movie cutscene we all are living now, though, it should definitely be a headline.

I hate to be that guy, but all of these are Skill Issues. - learn the taste of your local bookstore employees. Talk to them. - learn the tastes of your friends and family. Give books to match. Shows tremendous thought. - keep books you care about. Lend them to friends. Reread important ones.

basically there is no hedge position against the destruction of the world economic order so you may as well just stand pat until the market tells you where the lifeboat is

"By threatening to set off a bomb in his local McDonald's, Trump was able to persuade them to sell him a Big Mac. This is The Art Of The Deal at its most sophisticated!"

i am not even a lawyer. i know you can indict this guy. you know how i know that? because i know how grand juries work. i know that you can convince 20 people that he probably did it. this is because there are pictures of him doing it.

It sure seems like there is no force in the intellectual space stronger than the apparent need of roughly one-third of self-styled intellectuals to negatively polarize against People Who Are Mean To Them On Social Media, regardless of how little it makes any sense.

i know it’s all unbelievably awful but i’m sorry: the nobel prize/greenland thing is incredibly funny

hello, let me demonstrate an appropriate response when communicating with people in other countries: if america goes down the same path as nazi germany, it deserves the same fate. all of us are responsible for making that happen

In this interview, George R.R. Martin says he has about 1100 completed pages of The Winds of Winter. That happens to be the exact same number he gave in an interview in December 2022.

Need to invent new cardinals just to express how divorced this man is

i have said this before, but in my opinion, elections are neither guaranteed to save us nor completely toothless. i think the correct posture about elections is "come and take them". in the event that an election is actually cancelled or rigged, which hasn't happened yet, this calculation changes

"we're doing targeted enforcement" *shoots random mother in the face* *violently kidnaps woman going to the doctor* *flash bangs car with 6 children headed home*

Sports gambling should only be possible in-person, with cash, and through a licensed sports bookie. The license must only available to people with at least one violent felony conviction, preferably related to racketeering.

This is racist and evil—also: *multivariate rarity*, shows plot of single variable

I think this is the key now. It is important that when it gets invoked it’s not in response to a real (even righteous, expected, or deserved) insurrection. Or anything that could easily be described as one. It’s important, but I have no idea how to keep that controlled at this point.

So while absolutely I think cooperation and coordination will be *permanently* more difficult as a result of this insanity, so long as we don't *shoot* anyone in NATO, I think rebuilding trust is possible to the degree that our post-2028 political environment signals that MAGA isn't coming back.

Let us recall that when Poland was invaded in 1939 there was little direct action. Unwise pundits could say the world moved on to the next thing. In a way, it did: building up arms for the largest conflict in human history so far.

And let’s be clear, this is the point of the tripwire force: to be gunned down by Americans so that appeasement is domestically unacceptable.

The US Invading Greenland in a rapacious war of aggression is what should happen in the intro video for a 2001 budget RTS game where the“Pan-American Empire” fights the “Sino-Europa Axis”. 12 yr old me could laugh nerdily at how lame and unrealistic it was. I want that world back.

Are we really trying to spin "served on the board of her son's school" as equivalent to the Red Army Faction? What else? Did she organize a bake sale where someone wore an "Abolish ICE" t-shirt? Help an old person cross the street who once posted "dump the cheeto" on FB?

1. Pricing this is all psychology (gender) now. Few are good at that. 2. Little value being first mover. Institutions are counting on being able to move fast when / if it really happens. They mostly can. 3. Nowhere to run. Hard to say what the regulatory / sanctions situation will be.

I always thought the dumb shit that pops up when you use "Justify War Goal" in HOI 4 ("Alf Landon Condemns Canadian Aggression") was a low-effort way to implement an arcadey mechanic. Clearly I was mistaken.

I think what would ameliorate a lot of the "Do something" sentiment, would be if we heard more current electeds say things like this, and say it frequently, especially folks like Jefferies and Schumer.

abolish ice is the moderate position to be honest. whichever candidate promises to nuremberg the ice agents has my vote at this point

The first police report after the Floyd murder blamed him for it. Chauvin was still tried and convicted. The future is not yet written. Do not give up because of a statement that the State Police won’t investigate. Public outrage works, and there is plenty outrageous here.

co-signed. shut the fuck up, doomers, you're adding nothing of value to the conversation.

i don't know that there has ever been a more concise statement of what most of the activism against LLMs consists of

Decided to test-drive GLM 4.7 by having it write an ad for this. It absolutely delivered. LLMs are great at right-wing scam ads **for some reason**. [button: DETONATE MY POTENCY]

this. and i don’t think her campaign is a grift, in part because she was beaten by ICE while nonviolently protesting one of their concentration camps and falsely charged for doing so. that’s a whole lot more sacrifice than i’ve seen from 95% of the democratic party

Now *this* is a case where there is zero argument for human shaped robots. Flat terrain, regular paths, fixed toolset. Coincidentally it’s also one of the places I see as most promising in robotics (manufacturing, commercial cleaning, and surgical assistance are the others)

if you participate in bullying or judging Stancil you are essentially saying unpopular people deserve to be forced out of life by a heckler's veto. it's trashy and wrong.

If Sam Altman only ever said reasonable things about the capabilities of ChatGPT I’d still want to see him disgraced and his company nationalized. With 95% of the water use people, if they stuck to “I don’t like the real negative social / environmental /economic consequences” then, like, same.

The Google weather forecast AI use Graph NNs, not Transformer, so in that sense it’s less related to LLMs than most currently deployed ML models are. On the other hand (as the authors themselves note) GNNs and sparse transformer encoders are different ways of labeling the same operations.

This is a Kerbal Space Program level understanding of the problem. Yeah, at the highest level it could work. It just presupposes a ton of engineering advances and perfection of several technologies that haven’t been demonstrated beyond small scale proof of concept.