policy wise there's still a lot of work to be done but at least on a base level most Democrats who aren't sitting senators are operating at "my opponent is the scum of the Earth and I want to hit them where it hurts"

average negative Democratic ad this cycle is like, "[Generic Republican] is taking bribes from pedophiles to bulldoze your house for a data center"

it is worth pointing out that all of Balint Magyar's predictions about Fidesz were wrong

Ray@raymondgibson.bsky.social · 8h ago

M. Gessen

this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement.

Kelly@justkelly.bsky.social · 11h ago

The Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet.

I dont think he actually believes it either its just a convenient way to ignore the fact that everyone is increasingly coming to this conclusion, including members of the biden admin

I see nied is still crashing out and blaming everyone critical of biden supply weapons to israel for trump winning

The only way you can guarantee good governance is via a traditional confusion education, that’s how you get great leaders like Hong Xiuquan or Mao Zedong

It is incredibly bizarre to contemplate that reading Nietzsche was (after some struggle) more conducive to living a compassionate life than reading the slop from people who claimed to just be following the numbers.

door-to-door paperclip insurance salesman@curiousaboutupdog.bsky.social · 7h ago

Ironically, the prescription for all of this is to be inexorable here, to wield the scalpel there, but to excise the nrx with no regard to collateral damage. I strongly wish I had not been exposed to that stuff at the age I was

afaict, it is the difference between taking your philosophy from thinkers who are clearly flawed, vs. gleefully and relentlessly demonic.

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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 17h ago

We should let her make an outgoing video, as a treat (for me)

If you got in actual trouble when the A.I. breaks the law they would find ways to make this the case, which might have the side effect of making A.I.-based software more annoying and hard to use for any arbitrary task, which would be good

The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account@csilverandgold.bsky.social · 14h ago

Why can’t AI be like hard coded to follow the law? Why isn’t that a thing? Why has no one just come up with a like “here’s the standard for keeping your AI from doing bad shit, if we catch you with an AI that doesn’t have this your company gets smushed.” Just seems like this is all unfolding oddly.

what people call "rationalists" are like if you made a single religious category out of satanism, judaism, and mormonism and didn't include or know about christians

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10h ago

yes, there are cults. however, there are multiple competing cults, so they basically cancel each other out.

Thank God for Zohran Mamdani and Abdul el-Sayed, who are unbelievably good examples for what principled anti-Zionism rooted in care for human rights and dignity including that of Jews looks like.

okay so i am very much on the opposite side of "KV cache allows you to say the model can carry more information than d_model," but KV cache complicates the fixed-peg model by inserting new rows between the existing pegs, in a sense

Karl Olson 🌻 Ultraklystron@karlrolson.com · 10h ago

I've been using the "AI is plinko/pachinko" metaphor since the bubble lit off, as it easily shows why it's not like a person. The extent to which a real brain is similar at all, its pins rearrange, move & bend with every drop. A DNN's are fixed, needing every puck dropped again for each reply.

an aspiring art student could never have bad politics

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 9h ago

I have noticed that the obnoxious STEM-lord shit has lead to an equally stupid negative polarization among some humanities types about how the brutish crypto-fascist ape-robots of STEM could never hope to understand the true subtleties of art or theory or whatever

i think that part of the problem is that it's hard to tell which American MENA experts are on the Saudi payroll, Israeli payroll, Qatari payroll, or UAE payroll because they're all on every payroll

Mike Black@mikeblack114.bsky.social · 10h ago

"IR people writ large" or even "the blob (as originally defined) in general" are painting with too broad a brush here, but it is a completely true statement that anyone who ID's as a MENA specialist has loudly and explicitly been advocating for bombing iran in exactly this fashion for decades

it's an even dumber version of the infamous "this war will destabilize the middle east etc etc vs no it won't" onion article, considering the most strenuous support for the position all took place after 2003

my third week at Google, Dan Ariely spoke to TGIF about ethics under pressure to produce and declining approval of big tech companies. in any case all of his research turned out to be fraudulent

tweety fish@sifu.tweety.fish · 9h ago

I would say they could take behavioral science more seriously (and they could) but that feels like a monkeys paw thing and then anthropic will hire dan ariely or something

okay great now they're all fratboy business majors

Left Below@below-left.bsky.social · 11h ago

Compromise and ban all engineering majors and all philosophy majors from executive roles

i have a law degree and an anthropology degree

ae@aelkus.bsky.social · 10h ago

in general people have no idea how many people with non technical backgrounds FAANG companies employ, especially in research positions

pretty much every time someone talks about AI agents going to work on the internet the first thing I think about is the family of racoons that moved into the attic of an old house for 20+ years, and how the attic was almost entirely occupied by layers of their ancient shit

"humans will use these responsibly" no they wont. humans do not use a single goddamn thing responsibly. are you a fucking idiot

everyone else who stares into the hyperdimensional gem made of every word ever written goes mad. not me though. i'm still sane. maybe saner than everyone else, tbh.

and what's more, it is _easier_ to talk about those ideological consequences in terms of hypothetical superintelligences than the behavior of an actual model, and then analogize back down to what you want the model to do. in a sense pure theoretical constructs have become discourse tulpas.

an example: exactly how we should penalize deviation from the natural distribution of human language during reinforcement learning and whether we allow behaviors with zero support under the reference distribution seem like extremely abstract mathematical issues. they have ideological consequences.

i think part of the ideologizing is that what we need to do is to instantiate ideology -- which ideology? -- mathematically. we do not know how to do that. the technique we have available is not like teaching a child. it is like binding a demon. this cultivates a particular attitude towards the work

I don't understand how anyone can still be a capitalist in 2026 when so much of capital now prioritizes its core functions in capitalism (maximizing profit & minimizing risk) well below, like, exercising unprofitable control over its workers or building clout in a fucking group chat

Capital is literally incapable of recognizing existential threats to its own business models if the solutions require donating like 0.05% of its revenue to some kind of common good. It's not even cynical profit maximization, capital is genuinely just structurally insane

It was already inexcusable that Google specifically being at least very minimally willing to act like a good citizen re: FOSS funding/resourcing waa so load-bearing in the 2000s/2010s, and if we repeat the exact same thing with Anthropic over the next 15 years I'm going to lose my fucking mind

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