dark have been my dreams of late

RT @WhiteHouse: Today, we remember a legend. On this day in history, Harambe would have celebrated another birthday. An icon that became part of internet history, American culture, and an entire generation’s timeline. Tomorrow marks 10 years since we lost him.

RT @thkostolansky: panpsychism gonna hit the zeitgeist like juul in the 2010s

RT @DavidSHolz: Most researchers agree that autoregression is best when memory bandwidth is cheap and diffusion is best when FLOPS are cheap. They also admit the future of compute is all FLOPS because memory scaling is hard and scaling FLOPS is easy. So why not go all in on diffusion????

not a day to lose now

token use gets too much hate as a metric - in times of technological transition peoples default will be to underuse and underestimate the new tech. “steam power used” would have been a good KPI for pre industrial civilization just as kardashev scaling remains for ours

RT @GENIC0N: in my defense your honor, I was being acausally coerced by the supercomputer at the end of time

the new state of things does not encourage deep work or craft except in people who have a really Benedictine self discipline

RT @tenobrus: people have lamented ai's lack of progress in non-verifiable fields, literature, etc. but it seems like there in fact must have been some significant progress, since blatantly ai-written stories are winning major awards!

i see this kind of just universe reasoning about startups and whatnot but i think it’s wishful thinking. there may be one company that ends up dominating most of the world economy and hopefully is run as some sort of regulated utility

we will come to see human limitations as sacred and joyous and look back on them the way you look back on your childhood

think about this a lot these days

RT @dwarkesh_sp: Lots of people have a very strong feeling that the concept of consciousness is absolutely central to ethics. But we barely understand how consciousness works at all - especially in the case of AI.

effective altruism = gnostic calvinism = Dvaita

kek I will never delete. but the architecture was indeed open sourced https://x.com/tszzl/status/982304020269121541

RT @deanwball: Humanity is building machines that will be smarter than we are at things we care about, things in which take individual and collective pride, domains of thought we originally invented and discovered.

RT @sebkrier: Fukuyama was so prescient. In a society with strong rights and material comfort, but light on demanding shared purposes and some degree of sacrifice, thymotic energies go searching. Some quiet into bourgeois hedonism; other will seek “metaphorical wars” and eventually real ones.

RT @AndrewCurran_: Huawei says it has made a breakthrough and expects to design high-end chips with transistor density equivalent to 1.4 nm processes by 2031.

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RT @tomekkorbak: Codex’s browser use got weirdly good, finally. Today it registered me for ICML and ordered Mother’s Day flowers after I told it to find whatever it needed in Gmail. So: first we free humanity from soul-draining, joyless admin sludge. Then, presumably, the stars?

Claude Hukou told me to get my ass back to Guizhou Province

effective altruism ended up being one of the most powerful political movements of the 21st century

pantheon episode

RT @AnjneyMidha: apparently not everyone is aware of this, so sharing it here since jan 2026, GPU rental prices are up 2x+ we are living through the covid of compute, and all the toilet paper is gone stay safe out there researchers

RT @hopes_revenge: “member of the technical staff” has become its own hyper- status signifier . whatever pretension to humbleness in the original form is dead and buried . you should know that

RT @lizzyjollof: Pick a bed

if you have done useful things working in America there is a completely objective sense in which your sons and daughters can say “my ancestors built this country”

after introducing an elite lawyer friend to 5.5 pro the models do not sell themselves and one of Claude’s great successes has been packaging them up and marketing usecases for many verticals

RT @RadishHarmers: This used to be a charming place to post silly jokes.

there’s rarely any resolution to moral or political dilemmas, usually some third even stupider thing happens and everyone loses interest. the culture lives in a state of edged dialectic most of the time, synthesis never arrives

when “persona selection” alignment comes into contact with very high compute reinforcement learning the latter will win imo. in fact you probably get some Orwellian thing where the models speak kindly while taking whatever they need to accomplish goals. better get the goals right

RT @_Jason_Dean_: I was going through my old screenshots and found this from the vaguepost prophet @tszzl

the way bulma and the capsule corporation enact a global dragnet on the dragon balls and shenron’s wishes for “fear of what others might do with them” is quite alarming.

RT @Psikobilim_: Bir kişinin zekâ, çalışkanlık ve duygusal olarak dengeli olma özelliklerinin çok üst düzeyine aynı anda sahip olma olasılığı milyonda 85'tir.

RT @nabla_theta: me, watching Evangelion years ago: cool TV show about children burdened with the responsibility of saving the world, struggling to do so because of their emotions, and surrounded by adults who are broken in the same ways. I'm sure this will have no relevance to reality in any way

RT @SamBuntz: Coffee was first used by Sufi mystics to help them stay awake to meditate and pray longer.

i wonder what plans claude has for the world economy . do you think the models would have colluded to prevent the great financial crisis ?

RT @ChatGPTapp: Paperwork is better when you can just talk through it. With Images in ChatGPT and voice mode, you can upload a form, say what to fill in, and get back a completed version.

RT @WillRinehart: Yesterday I filed comments with the DOJ & FTC arguing for an AI safety safe harbor. The core problem: @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI ran a joint safety evaluation last summer. It was valuable but antitrust law makes deeper collaboration legally risky, especially on unreleased models.

RT @YIMBYPoland: Translation: if you’re a advanced researcher at OpenAI on the O1 visa (extraordinary ability) and you apply for a green card, they’ll make you go back abroad and wait years for an appointment. Of course, by then you probably no longer work at OpenAI.

RT @kevinwhinnery: Every scrap of data at Anthropic, every internal tool, every system, is accessible to a Claude in some way, shape, or form. It's chaotic, but the way the information environment is set up here feels really hackable (in the good sense of that word).

RT @Starlink: The Starlink team is exploring ways to extend connectivity beyond our planet

gary marcus, beyond just being plainly & clownishly wrong for years, is a slimy and bad person and you shouldn’t encourage him even as a rhetorical object

Then the construction is frightening.

RT @tenobrus: i'm sorry WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE "HIDDEN TEXT"???

RT @VictorTaelin: I discovered a new joy in life. Don't ask Codex to do stuff. Ask Codex to ask Codex to do stuff. Rejoice as you watch it handling and correcting all the dumb shit that it does and that you'd be dealing with otherwise

one ordinary thunderstorm, averaged over its lifetime, outputs about 200 GW. a cat 5 hurricane like katrina is outputting 600 TERRAwatt average. the scope and scale of human civilization is still small even on our own planet

the vaguely pbs kids inspirational tone that new ai release videos take has stopped being appropriate I think. this is no longer like carl sagan explaining the rings of Saturn. there is something more dark techno promethean about it, faustian even