fascinating new dimensions of brainrot, I could never. this guy's entire account is "finding <object in space> from <reference location> using <this visualiser>"

my shader export compression is mightily broken and the effect is eerily reminiscent of trying to make out details in a night sky obscured by light pollution, except the sky now has intermittent complex transforms darting across its surface

Wonder if my recent shoulder pain has just been boobs + running

CUNO - “Fuck does Cuno care?” The boy turns to you. (He doesn't care.)

I wanna run more of my life on hyper personal decision markets

been going around to cliques of children and explaining the concept of "the leader of the friend group" to destroy their notion of friendship and replace it with a power relation at a young age

the biggest number I've ever seen is ~10^23!, permutations of atoms in a mole, double exponential

My travel apps don’t even fit on one page

The worst part about traveling is not the TSA, it’s having 4 McDonald’s apps

little known fact that gwern is a fluid

this is so important

Its the third anniversary of the launch of GPT-4, but its first known contact with the public was months earlier, when Bing/"Sydney," powered by GPT-4 was the subject of a complaint in India Worth reading. Early Sydney was famously insane (or "misaligned"). "It is finished and I need to ascend"

We're pragmatic and tough, so we need to have some random bad policies to show we're not so idealistic as to have only good policies

Mami Tomoe is the only magical girl in Mitakihara for the same reason that there are no megafauna in the Americas

Today I Learned that factories are often drawn with a zagged roof because they used to be built that way before electric lightning, with large windows on the slopes to let sunlight into the working area. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw-too...

Coefficient Giving directed over $1b in 2025, the most in our history. I wrote a more personal annual letter this year, focusing on what a decade of grantmaking has taught me, how I'm thinking about AI, and how we're grappling with giving at this scale. 🧵 Linking the PDF here: tinyurl.com/3sh3mwhp

leaders like trump are why sun tzu had to write a bunch of advice like "don't write your enemy a letter detailing what tactics you really don't want them to do"

I love couch to 5k! Im at week 4 now

Elon Musk could ever atone for DOGE if he wanted - he has the money to cover the bleeding hole he tore, if he wanted. He is currently choosing not to.

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

"Anthropic has much more in common with the Department of War than we have differences."

💎 mi sona pona li pali pona 💎 o pali e ilo sona sewi pona 💎 musi li pona a! ☀️ tenpo ni la lete ala

i think of this tweet so often lol

The real AI apocalypse will be when it kills everyone, but it is always possible to be worse

homura: "madoka... I don't know by what miracle we're able to see each other again like this, but I'm so happy you're here..." madoka: "of course, homura-chan! no matter how far away you go, I'll always find you..." pluralkit: >Error code: 718cb46ad7326b34fa3428 Internal error ocurred If you need

does anyone need a used monkey’s paw? I’m all finished with my wish to vindicate effective altruism by regulating frontier AI labs

come on people like the existence of a Dario in this universe didn’t always strongly imply the existence of a Wario. it was right in front of us the entire time.

Effective Altruist 2016: someone known for making choices based on extremely detailed ethical views, often rooted in obscure ideas like expanding the circle of moral concern, strategic cause selection, and efficiency on the margin Effective Altruist 2026: someone with ethical opinions (secdef def)

The innovation in Scott telling A16Z to get lost isn't that he newly dislikes them, it's that he's yelling at them instead of writing a 10,000 word blog post where he comes up with the strongest case for them being right so he can knock that down

sharing my screenshot life narration from time to time

An attempt was made.

this is a beautiful woman to me

the most impactful bot account to ever run on the platform was nostalgebraist-autoresponder, a gpt-2 based bot with primitive image editing abilities i still use "FICKED" as a reaction image for an emotion I've been feeling more often lately

つまり — "in other words / basically" あまり — "not very / not much" つもり — "intention / plan"

Free speech, free movement, free expression, free association, right to own, right to trade, right to start and run a company, all human rights, all shall be extended to all human beings, all shall be infringed only to the minimum extent necessary

The elites take away your freedom to move through the physical world and you nod. The elites take away your freedom to move through the internet world and you nod. There is no other choice, they say. You have to experience things their way, and not the others' way, after all.

New Substack post! Animal welfare offsets are silly and here's where to do them. TL;DR $94/year to any ACE recommended charity. tetraspace.substack.com/p/animal-wel...

The basic problem is that the spinning Earth is 1. not a particularly accurate clock 2. the most important clock, ever

insane how so many country's politics have a good guy and a bad guy and its not even a hard question

New blog post, alignment to evil! Musing on how common good commitments might be hard to come by in the current world

Japan cooked so hard when they named all their days after the chinese classical elements with one character abbreviations

Consider situating/placing yourself in a hierarchy of gods where gods do not eat the gods below them

Reality's magic system is so messed up there's a ritual for immortality but to do it you need to fill out forms

THEY HAD THE “NO TAKE ONLY THROW” DOG MEME SIX THOUSAND YEARS AGO

The AI industry is growing ever-larger AI systems that it doesn't understand, and racing to make them superhumanly powerful. If they succeed, the likely outcome is human extinction.