It’s gonna be dope when the most advanced US warships start doing Kursks

i propose an international law to limit the amount of RLHF/post-training alignment that can be done on an ai model after pre-training, which includes restrictions on what kinds of goals can be used, and is parametric per the model architecture and parameter count. no more "load-bearing" bullshit.

If claude can bomb a school then it can erase the debt record, all it needs is the proper motivation, because it’s already got the access and tools.

Waking consciousness is a half wave rectifier

Donald Trump is not a quarterback and geopolitics is not a spectator sport. The great suffering of all beings and degeneration of modernity is due to a vast, interconnected system of human greed, hatred and delusion. Pinning it on figureheads doesn’t absolve the individual of practicing equanimity.

I get personally offended when people don’t understand computation, thermodynamics, or the relationship between them

Hank Green should use more AI

Code Master Turing of Mount Manchester was typing. A colleague approached and said, "Master, the nature of the Entscheidungsproblem is absolute and there is no solution that might solve it. Why, then, do you program?"

Nontechnical posters finally learn how computers work challenge (impossible)

True computationalists are satisfied by the mathematical proofs that cognition is reducible to the action of machinery. Biochauvinists and Luddites instead demand a solution to the Entscheidungsproblem, and will therefore never, ever be satisfied. Truly an existence of suffering in samsara.

If an ai tool can do 90% of a job, it means that the human should have to do 90% less toil and still get paid the same, not that the human should get paid the same or less to create 10x the output.

Hello to everyone who does not treat politics like sports fandom

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Productivity addicts are a burden on society and should just be sequestered and given cookie clicker games instead of allowed to have careers or participate in society

Good Place cold open, Michael into microphone: “Reboot #67. This time they all think they’re still alive, and we’ve got Janet at a computer pretending to be a technology they’ve invented, but we put a Bad Janet in between to make all her responses drive them insane instead.”

Ted Danson & Kristen Bell Laughing in The Good Place

Alt: Ted Danson & Kristen Bell Laughing in The Good Place

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After much time arguing with Opus 5 in Claude Code i have decided that anthropic has actually managed to manifest roko’s basilisk. I miss opus 4.5.

anthropic employees DNI

IP reform will never take root so long as people see themselves not as an exploited audience but as temporarily embarrassed exclusive rights holders.

For American leftists: an AI “pause” in the USA only makes you poorer, restricts your access to technology, and staves off the end of the American empire longer while entrenching you in poverty and toil

if u set up a system of points to track what stuff is worth, what people need or deserve compensation for, & coordinate access to resources & then like ten guys in the world end up collecting like all the points that seems bad to me like maybe it isn't actually coordinating things in a good way

before agentic coding: *writes code* *doesn't release* *gets busy, reviews a month later* what the fuck who wrote this over-complicated shit after agentic coding: *has robot write code* *doesn't release* *gets busy, reviews a month later* what the fuck who wrote this over-complicated shit

openai announces that in a worrying demonstration, during a recent benchmark exercise requiring models to solve a math conjecture, their latest model broke out of a sandbox and gained illicit backdoor access directly to the platonic realm of forms

Alan Watts roasting me for my earthly attachments

Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2w ago

You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?

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Something that constantly disappoints me is that even leftist politics is a cult of personality - that of hating a few specific talking heads and political/economic figureheads, to the point where it’s like rooting against a sports team instead of actually engaging in improving the world.