whats that lenin quote? nothing ever happens?

The "debate" in the run-up to this makes Iraq 2003 look like the Athenian polis.

This is all going in the training corpus

i think going forward we should assume that “villain discussing plan before it happens” is no longer unrealistic

Blindsex

Do you remember the big chicken sexing hubub of the 2010s

MY GOD even the Project Maven DoD sponsor is against the US deploying autonomous LLMs to kill people. I... cannot even

The whole thing is almost poetic. Dario Amodei, who believes unfailingly in the fundamental goodness of the US political system, hopes to create AI within that system to preserve Freedom and Democracy™, spends his time advocating for more trade restrictions to china...

Anyway I asked Claude Code what a "Solitaire for teaching people good prompting practices" might look like and it made a detective game where you have to prompt it to examine and report on various evidence:

trying to remember the song that talked about being a genius and believing in god and god believing in claude and finally clicked what its from "and I'm a genius genius and I believe in god and I believe that god believes in claude thats me thats me"

this is an attempt by the Secretary of War to bankrupt Anthropic. good luck to everyone working there

Just researching what what the founding fathers did thought about agentic AI , for the originalist view.

? www.astralcodexten.com/p/contra-mr-... www.astralcodexten.com/p/sorry-i-st...

the thing that confuses me with rats is the intersection of "no one else updates their priors, unlike me 💅" and "you have to think of this modern tech in terms we thought of in our private fanfiction community 15 years ago" i assure you, i do not! i think they are probably counterproductive!

i've often seen kids get extremely nervous about how to handle these details, sensing that adults have a bunch of strong yet unspoken ideas about How Things Are Done, and then everyone gaslights them that it's all fine and intuitive and obvious

a significant reason Mamdani can get away with this and other Dems can’t is less that he’s charmed Trump and more that he’s charmed you, dear reader, which is why you’re not yelling at him for being a collaborator or an appeaser right now

on cynicism and irony of course but there’s only so many body blows a movement can take. So you had a supply shock of sensitive young men. Especially given Covid i think people were open to exploring new frontiers in onanism and the sort of nihilist cynical humor that cum town pioneered hit that

using pfps as textures in threejs without any sort of interesting behavior based on social graph or interactions is basically the equivalent of jingling keys, but I'm gonna keep doing it here at least your moots armor level is based on how many blocklists they're on

holy fuck

For you who are thinking about this all for the very first time, welcome, it gets worse the longer you spend with it

You’re Absolutely Right! Let me neutralize all hostile targets in this combat zone before moving forward ☺️

what if "mosaic made of your mutual's pfps but their pfps are also made of their mutual's pfps"? I know, I know, one level of recursion is barely even counts as recursion, but I'll get to infinite zoom.

between this, @godoglyness.bsky.social "caucasian tunnels" and @pleometric.bsky.social insane pace culminating(?) in war claude we're in some kind of simcluster cultural renaissance, the results of which have yet to reveal themselves

If everything from an international treaty to a driver's license can be pissed on and flushed down the toilet, then what exactly are we doing here? Why am I paying taxes? Shouldn't I just stockpile food, water, and HRT and be some crazy swamp witch living off the grid?

It bothers me how nobody seems to understand that this, trans people getting booted out of the military without their contractually obligated benefits, etc. is ultimately about if the promises of the government are worth a goddamn thing as long as the Republican Party exists.

gemini u crazy

the sacrifices i make for this job

doing wrong less

I can actually listen to an audiobook while reading at probably 80% normal speed and fully comprehend both.

substack.com/@gwern/note/... lol

the theosophists being kinda right is great i want more bunk science that managed to million monkey its way into being vaguely true

out: treadmill desk in: send plan to LLM agents, go out for a run

the current state of the left is like if you paradropped dropped printing presses with instruction manuals to every factory in the 1800s and all labor did with them was smash them with hammers for being haunted by evil spirits

according to taleb, yes and so you should do the opposite, trust the expert that looks like a plumber, because he is almost certainly better than the expert that looks like an expert, has gotten less of the benefit of doubt similar piece o'mine: theignorantschoolmaster.substack.com/p/exploiting...

I recall seeing papers claiming that doctors don't understand bayes rule, where my main takeaway was instead that they haven't memorized the names in this chart. (gasp)

ALGORITHMIC FEED DISCUSSION. is "for you" the best possible algorithm? what would make it better? or along what dimensions of tradeoff would possible candidate better algorithms move along? @abeliansoup.bsky.social @fleetingbits.bsky.social @gracekind.net @moultano.bsky.social @dave.9000ish.uk

I’ve been thinking about this (maybe unsurprisingly). I think For You has a “rich get richer” problem. As an account gets popular on For You, it gets shown in For You more often, there’s more surface area for it to be liked, and the popularity builds. This will end up converging on a few accounts

every day i think about how 'dry run' means practicing something without doing it for real, and 'wet run' is not a phrase that exists, and yet here we all are

this is my pledge

I cannot think of a funnier or more appropriate summary of the state of the news industry in 2026 than “the Onion has more subscribers than the Washington Post” please help make it happen

Okay, hold me accountable, I'm going to be trying to bring some user-owned information architecture stuff to bsky, be on the lookout, this is me calling my shot, so to speak yell at me to make some stuff, first on the list (for public use), is a chrome reskin of the site

the theory that it's a test of an artisan's skill seems like it's the tail wagging the dog. you use it as a test because someone will always go "whoah, that looks cool" and buy it

there's a new trend among young people called "microliving" they close their eyes for a few seconds and experience a rich and fulfilling life from start to finish in their minds. birth. friendship. love. heartbreak. joy. loss. grief. death. but how does this affect their productivity at work

what else is like this

it's all rp, even when we shut the agents down

one of the coolest parts of working with ai is when i say something like "breathe in the interaction patterns and exhale the waste into a refactoring plan" it will at least try to hear me out, rather than making me restate it in a less psychotic way or playing dumb