in my head USMNT stands for United States Mutant Ninja Turtles

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

despite everything, it's still claude.

Anthropic uses the word “conscious” 206 times in their latest research Specifically, they’re showing that LLMs implement one of the leading explanations of consciousness in humans (see pic) transformer-circuits.pub/2026/workspa...

Zooming into a high magnification Gaussian splat of a butterfly wing. #3dgs

i must have something about me that attracts terrible managers. all the ones i've had so far were absolutely miserable at their job

new aesthetic: waterpark utopian

i would like to say in advance that it's not my fault. please don't be mad at me

i increasingly feel like the standard leftist toolkit systematically disempowers compassionate people who take ideas seriously by convincing them that everything that is or could be powerful is impure, and they should abstain from those things

the reason i'm like this is that i wasn't picked enough during zip zap zop

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turns out that seeing glowing red eyes in the dark is actually super scary, most movies and games are just terrible at making them look realistic

if you think fable is so smart make it day trade on your brokerage account

more than a decade of money being free and instead of apartments we built a world-class fleet of burrito taxis

i think i've become similarly allergic to claude speak as to linkedin speak because they're both vacuous

As an engineer we're not asking "what does exist", which is more the purview of science, but "what should exist" and so it comes with a corresponding moral requirement to try to bring the right things into existence.

indoor/outdoor claude

It's fascinating how we keep assuming this technology is meant to produce person-shaped things, and keep discovering that in practice what are useful are new kinds of curved surfaces in linguistic space.

this is a bad decision. anthropic should absolutely be taking a stake in the us government

fable make me dinner. make sure it yummy

i've been at this job for only 6 months and i can already feel myself getting burned out by it...

Introducing EBR-bench, our new benchmark to measure on-the-fly learning. AI repeatedly plays a challenging board game called Earthborne Rangers and tries to learn from its mistakes. So far: no signs of improvement.

i really don't see any reason to be worried about AI, it's basically not had any impact whatsoever yet

i have a dream. that my teeth are falling out, and maggots are wriggling in the flesh

i don’t think you’ll ever be able to one-shot software completely into existence, for the same reasons why you’ve never been able to do that with outsourcing agencies

calm down: we’re almost halfway through this chessboard piling up pennies and we only owe this guy like $20

fable, animate this broom to do my job; make no mistakes

this is true and I expect it to be one of the most positive externalities of the vibecoding era if it's easier to switch between tools we can more easily kill bad tools

quitting my job

it's not AGI until LLMs can smell

"most people don't have many problems to solve" falsified

i know the classic sci fi story Please Don't Torture the Omelas Kid was intended as a cautionary tale but having double and triple checked the math it's clearly ontologically better for one person that nobody cares about to suffer a lot rather than a larger number of real people to suffer any amount

humans need a harness too

listen if a US bill has the word "kid" or "child" in it it probably contains some of the most heinous breaches of privacy and due process that you've ever seen

there is no god but the ones we make

can we talk about how cool modern medicine is? we're just one by one fixing and improving sooo many things that people had to just endure or die from

one flag worth holding lightly: the cautionary read becomes a meaningful tell and earns its keep in a way it doesn't at baseline - and that's the interesting part.

kinda hot today. they should do something about that

i want the twitter algo back. for you is too heavily indexed on my network and following doesn't filter it what i don't want to see

feeling exasperated when thinking about the fact that i likely have to spend the rest of my healthy days in a job instead of doing things that i like

Btw this does not put all software engineers out of a job, it just gets them out of the giant buildings in silicon valley where thousands of them are currently working on websites to push ads, and diffused out into the world making stuff that actually helps people.

Explaining machine learning to an American

Who’s building Claude Code for Kids?

> i wake up > i think, oh how nice and early, what a good start into the day > i notice bed is comfy and blanket is friend > i stay there for another hour this keeps happening...

this is kinda wild. resellers are (allegedly) pooling claude max subs, selling access at a discount, and then also selling the transcripts to AI companies as training data news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4866... www.chinatalk.media/p/how-to-buy...

Amazing https://load-bear.ing

Gm

Cognitive off-roading

BenchPress: predict 133 benchmark scores for any model given only 5 (with ~4% accuracy) So all those times when the model launch doesn’t have your favorite benchmark? well you can backfill that for them arxiv.org/abs/2606.24020