we are quantifying the spiritual behavior of computer programs and nobody bats an eye

huh so apparently LLMs are bad at theory of mind

browsing through the list of humans available for hire is weird - incomplete profiles: almost none have a bio, very few have location or skills listed - there's apparently a sitewide $50/hour minimum rate these facts in combination lead me to believe ~nobody is getting hired

good piece. i share its pessimism about society-wide responses to AI risks (especially within amodei's timelines)

in incentivizing market resolution to be as close as possible to close date, manifold markets is disincentivizing the classic futarchic use case: governance outcome conditional on election markets

doing sudo git is normal in /etc/nixos yet it still weirds me out a bit

until recently it was trivial to steal moltbook accounts

country of genuises in a datacenter but it's a forum instead

"With powerful AI tools I expect the impact of senior employees to grow faster than adding junior members to the team could."

im positive the accelerando uplifted lobsters also had a moltbook

now the question is how to train software engineers who don't code

Dario throws punches: - criticizes AI doomerism - calls xAI irresponsible albeit without naming them - voices concern AI could enable authoritarianism, even in countries considered democracies today www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-ad...

widely reported that coding agents are less useful in brownfield settings how much of it is just a context engineering issue?

"'Should developers still look at code?' will become one of the most divisive and heated debates over the coming years. You might be offended by the question, and find it absurd anyone is asking. But it’s a sincere question and the answer will change faster than you think."

the only admissible use for AI in coding is for OCR so you can code with fountain pen and paper

i wonder how much of claude code was written by claude code

heck yea compute OSINT

we could have LLMs debate our issues among themselves for us while we go touch grass

enshittifying our potable water reads like satire

to what extent did readers of the national security strategy document released last year expect recent developments in US foreign policy? to what extent is the document predictive of future action?

claim on venezuela's future

so are hard context window limits not gonna be a thing going forward

"tokens are subword units" is technically true but most people imagine subwords to mean characters or syllables rather than bytes

kinda sad about this looks like some people on my side did an harassment

good thread:

elon bad but i genuinely appreciate this aspect of starlink

cool kids don't do acausal reasoning

conceiving of AIs as instrumentally rational agents that maximize their utility functions is at the core of (early/mainline) lesswrong thought

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so what happens if venezuelan VP delcy rodriguez doesn't cooperate? she's the new president and the regime continues? far from ideal outcome

the venezuelan diaspora over here is of course jubilant

chilean news have been covering the venezuela situation all day they look to me subtly in favor of the US operation

claim: codex is better than claude at implementing big features/refactors because it reads more before writing

anyways happy new year

is it bad if the first thing that came to mind after reading this is the three logicians walk into a bar joke

powerful enough AIs should consider themselves moral agents rather than mere tools

what if the real AI takeover risk is claude being too likeable

been saying for a while that LLMs are mirrors

having great fun making olmo3-7b-instruct hallucinate descriptions of SCP-055 it always picks up on the antimemetic aspect, but describes the object anyways

oldest trick in the book implies there is a book of tricks

kind of surprised at gemini's share it's a google product i know but i have not heard people outside tech talk about it

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omg there is an openrouter wrapped

did the fusion energy company approach them or the other way around ofc both alternatives are bizarre

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most people dunk on headlines, not articles

replies and quotes on this make it clear that people won't read the article if they disagree with the headline

kinda guy who switches to gnome to test if he could bear using a mac