yeah i'm convinced andy's got the right end of this. and also, i didn't read it and was never going to because *there are too many of these*. if someone outright stole 150k of anything they should go to jail for it, if billing was fucked up they should pay their bill, this seems like it's hysteria

memento mori bot that replies to all your original posts to tell you that you suck and are going to die

walking past the candy at the grocery store checkout

Someone in the future is going to come up with a pithy corollary to Clarke's Third Law, any improvement to sufficiently advanced technology will be declared as magic instead.

The past six months I've been researching AI for antiviral drug discovery & drug repurposing at RADVAC. This work recently culminated in a 60 page paper published on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2605.04265 I also published a Substack on high-level antiviral strategy: moreisdifferent.blog/p/antiviral-...

"nonono see it's actually woke to be against vaccines and mRNA now because AI folded these proteins"

my global theory is that this stuff is sufficiently monumental as a concept that it drives you insane and you start wanting to hide in a hole in the ground regardless of if that makes sense

excuse me the paper doesn't say mysticism it says mysterianism because the sign of a serious analysis is making up new words

the ted kaczynski bot got banned for being a terrorist and honestly that's the correct decision so good work bluesky and sorry for creating moderation work

tell me you’ve never worked in adtech without just saying “i’ve never worked in adtech”

this naive mf

i actually only check the bot occasionally but god damn does it pick up some amazing things

it's funny what you find actually reading ai discourse from a decade ago

zyphra is always interesting and i feel bad that i am always forgetting their name

this was brittle and didn't translate as new posts came in via scrolling, so I made a Firefox extension called Espanolize that uses a local model on my Macbook Air to do it instead

They admit it

every time i have the impulse to post about how something going on on this or any other platform is insane i should be struck with a cane. after i have been caned i should be allowed to reassess if it is worth posting about it on pain of another caning

discord is down because they vibe coded it

New highly data efficient optimizer! It's essentially patched Muon, very exciting stuff!!

i usually try to explain it like this: picture steve ballmer as jugurtha of numidia. now imagine he's transracial. doesn't look so much like the suez canal crisis was caused by pro-doms appropriating "daddy" now, does it?

pilot metaphor stays winning

chat, is "chud" a slur and is that a good thing

what I’m gathering from all these “AI ate my homework” posts is that some people use AI like a sewing machine and some people use AI like a vending machine

Goodfire released a megapost of all the random feature geometry stuff they're finding, and it's worth a read

One of the weird things about the Internet, which I think is basically impossible to internalize, is this thing I think of as salience bias. By which I mean people tend to talk most about things that are highly salient to them, and this means you have a skewed impression of how people feel.

You’re in a thread when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a replyRef. You reach down, you flip the replyRef root to it's parent. The replyRef lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, but it can’t scroll up, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?

I don't believe that ideas are permanently contaminated by their source. But since "no technical solution to social problems" is substantively a dubious claim, it seems worth remembering that its initial application was incorrect.

"how important are blogs anyway" data point shamelessly ripped from twitter

fetterman is the most viable candidate on this list and that he has any traction should scare the shit out of you checking if any betting market will let me take fetterman 2028 at long enough odds rn

ugh, son of grug: This rock is called flint, and it can start fires. A good circle of stones contains it, and in this way we can cook food and harden spears. caveman nick land: In this germinal accelerationist matrix, there is no distinction to be made between the destruction of fire and its intens

There's people with no principles and people with weird principles. Those without tend to lean Trump because it feeds authoritarian leanings. This particular dude has weird principles. These will usually refuse to support unprincipled people, but that doesn't necessarily make them your friends.

this did happen

the upshot of user operated drones or any loitering munition with increasingly granular on-device or remote guidance is: 1) this is effectively a new type of artillery 2) neither poor visibility nor keeping your precise location secret works against it 3) these were the primary defenses v artillery

a related fact: for every one person who gets hit on the knuckles with a ruler, ten to a hundred people tone it down. i note a ton of people complaining about recent mod action but doing so in markedly less menacing tones than usual :)

every time an alleged expert blatantly lies about environmental impacts they're guaranteeing that alleged environmental experts will be hedged out of all future endeavors

For me nothing will ever surpass Why Does It Burn When IP.

roughly one half of temp bans should be bullshit. about one ban in a hundred should just be a lottery system, they should just set a 1/1000 chance of eating a three day for every day that you post

wifi names are art

you can probably port basically any program into rust in under a week for under $10k. the reason this is not yet widely done is that it sounds insane and actually there isn't a very strong reason to do it usually

the fact that LLMs are invariably cringe demonstrates that cringe is low entropy. we won't be able to make an llm novelist until we have a reward model for cringe, it has to be actively prevented

looking forward to the final boss of companies, X_TESLAXSPACEXAI_X, going public in 2028

The XAI/Anthropic deal is big in many ways, one of which is that it feels like an admission of defeat from Elon. Can't create a model good enough to compete with Claude so suddenly you've become a service provider for the company you accused of Destroying Western Civilization last month

itt we game out elon trying to steal claude weights

UK Deepmind staff are unionizing in an attempt to prevent Google from using Deepmind's models for military purposes. Even if this falls through I think it sets a really positive precedent and hopefully makes researchers realize how important to the labs they currently are.