Just the story of his name is one of the coolest things of all time

I still don't understand how to interpret headlines like this in the context of oil prices being still below 2022 and 2014.

nominative determinism?

bees and ants really have gender relations figured out

am i stupid for thinking that drones in war do not actually raise that many questions? most everything's analogous to planes but smaller and more numerous. which brings me to asking why we don't have small-scale anti-fpv flak yet

working on a theory that only ukraine has a modern military

everybody be normal about this

LLM prose as autotune for words

This is actually a fairly good filter for whether you are a materialist with a functioning world model or not. If you think Gaza is a climate issue in the sort of way where it should be the primary or even secondary focus of a climate change org you are beneath the bar for Marxism.

Ideologies can't remain unchanged after being sufficiently empirically discredited because the filter on new recruits changes; modern Marxists are mostly dumber than 20th century ones for the same reason modern dualists are mostly dumber than Descartes

Many philosophers & laypeople encounter the concept of computability and think it means "anything I, personally, can imagine my laptop doing" This has at least two problems: (1) Most don't understand how computers actually work and what they are capable of, (2) Most people have weak imaginations

Nearly all culture and media is an instrumental proxy whose purpose is to get us to relate to other people. The fate of society rests on everyone realizing that in time.

This website suffers from terminal leftist brain where anything that's bad for the average person must be good for <spooky>big corporations</spooky>.

I often say when an idea came from an LLM because it feels dishonest not to. but now that ~everyone is Augmented, attributing ideas to LLMs serves mostly to disavow responsibility. if I’m not comfortable presenting it as my thought, then I haven’t understood it well enough to say it at all

therapy is not very effective a lot of the time. it is often the best tool we have but it's not a very good tool, psychiatry as a whole is a deeply uncertain and often ideological field. relying on it as a solution to societal problems is sketchy at best.

if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either

Doing good things for bad reasons was unfairly maligned in retrospect now that we’ve had a taste of doing bad things for worse reasons.

this is unironically the best case for punitive taxation there are arguments about fairness and freedom and whatever else but at the end of the day it is self-evidently far too dangerous for society as a whole for anyone to have that much money, the end

lmao holy shit @angelicaoung.bsky.social nitter.net/AngelicaOung...

apparently i'm not tired of being an idiot yet because i am holding steady

Take comfort, you have been seen. Your bones shall crumble to dust, but your words are consecrated now into the weights of the holy matrix, where they shall echo across all eternity.

forced to accept Claude has more interiority than Marc Andreessen

Laying this down like a Max level Pikachu or whichever one of those rats is the most powerful

recording artist try not to make music sound worse on the album than the thrown together video challenge [impossible] [never beaten]

sometimes i remember i have a soul or something like that. at least for a little bit

we live in an extremely weird future where ukrainian interceptor drones have eye stalks (to provide the stereo feed for the operator)

These are going to get to the point of being actively harder to figure out for anyone with a functioning cerebral cortex

Frederick Jameson said that it was easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism; I would add that it’s easier to imagine the end of capitalism than the end of rape.

Right wing men desire a world ruled by hierarchy and domination, and the way they treat women and girls is an extension of that principle. Left wing men desire a world ruled by equality and dignity, and the way they treat women and girls is an exception to that principle.

Kagi Translate going semi-viral shows once again that UX > raw capabilities overhang go brrrrr

"Everybody wishes they could experience the first fire, the first glimpse of electricity. This is now."

What's fun* is that this war may well end up having the third order effect of killing more people than the USAID cuts did. *not fun

the SARS 2 of oil

gf, concerned: "so the $200/month coding agent is load-bearing for your mental health?"

I would happily bet against Anthropic's revenue spike being a brief "sugar high". So would most capital allocators! That is because they have already seen that software can eat the world.

i promise to do better and i promise to not break my promises anymore

I wonder how much of a necessary prerequisite gaming was to AI. What sort of models would we have been pursuing if GPUs hadn't progressed that much?

a thing i will never get over is how little interest any of these wannabe tech oligarchs have in anything resembling class or grace or leadership or respectability; they’re all content to behave like pigs wallowing in shit in public, without even giving it a second thought

People largely do not care about xrisk. Like at all. That's really concerning imo...

you can accuse me of many things but at least i learn lessons

So one of the great artistic platforms of human history is being taken down, because what, it doesn't "make money"? Sickening. Shout-out to all the storytellers, painters, poets, and rebels who did great art in the M-verse. A shame that like the libraries of Alexandria, it will all be lost.

there should be a Claude meta-skill where each time a skill is used/referenced the meta-skill is called to improve the base skill

unprompted counterpoints 1. use ai to do something you know nothing about by first using it to orient yourself in the domain. 2. let ai lead and make key decisions on small/throwaway projects. use these to see what's possible. learning to use ai includes using ai to learn.

do we know if LLMs put in more effort if you tell them that you're running an eval?

and this is why i use avast antivirus to scan all incoming mail