minds can definitely exist within other, larger minds

norvid_studies@norvid-studies.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The China brain problem is a special case of the more general problem whether minds could exist within other, larger minds.[7]

counterpoint, the people sneering at the nurture nexus aren’t inclined to build anything

∅🌸(void blossom)@snowanddrugs.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"the guy building the torment nexus can only be stopped by the guy building the nurture nexus, yet most of the guys inclined to build the nurture nexus are sneering at the idea a nexus can be build while the others are actively building it"

I'm just going to say it, I really don't like the "how do we make OSS sustainable" framing. OSS is already sustainable. The only thing not sustainable is users expecting a free lunch (support, LTS, bug fixes, ...). As a user, you are responsible for your OSS usage. Fork/patch if you need to.

permissionless innovation includes people doing things you won’t like or judge as slop

how much does this service cost and where do i sign up

Skip, the Online Raccoon@badposter.lol · 4mo ago

not to backseat drive nasa too much but i don’t think they should allow comms blackouts for crewed missions

hitting Stalin with the “You’re absolutely right!”

I think in all likelihood the colonizers will split into seven ideological factions en route and will need seven different landing sites when they arrive… and who knows what happens after that…

AI data centers are literally sucking the oxygen out of the air, causing people up to several miles away to be short of breath and suffer from extreme headaches

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The research exaggeration pipeline. -Unpublished paper -One outlier: "min & max can be found at 0.3°C and 9.1°C" (95th pct "between 1.5°C & 2.4°C") -No causal identification; just pre/post that could be result of many factors Do you really believe data centers are warming *10km* away? Really?

if you are in a position to act to harden society’s software infrastructure, you too should be very concerned about this and planning what actions you will take over the coming months

mr. TIM@timkellogg.me · 4mo ago

Talk by a security researcher at Anthropic He shows that you can trivially get Opus 4.5/4.6 to find very difficult to find bugs in established code bases, like the Linux kernel He also seems very worried about “the next few months” m.youtube.com/watch?v=1sd2...

One of the reasons that the willful blindness about AI from people with platforms on the left is shortsighted is that “hope it goes away” doesn’t have a great track record as a strategy for contesting control of new political domains and technologies.

the model itself is the innovation on the written form ? and a pretty big one

Maxine 💃🏼@maxine.science · 4mo ago

I want to see more *actual* use of LLMs to *innovate* on the written form. I don’t want an essay written by an AI that I could have promoted—I want an artistically crafted user experience that leverages AI as a tool to interactively put the reader *more* into the author’s specific intent, not less.

country of midwits in a datacenter

unfortunate that it doesn’t seem like we’re going to get a reckoning for the failures of the biden administration

we could see a century of crashouts compressed into only a few years

hope everyone had a great day

the kind of future i figured was inevitable 15 years ago is finally here and I don't really know what to make of it

yeah no i'll get right on that. let me just task my clawdbot. i mean my openclaw. they'll send beads to each other. and then the polecat in the gastown will pick it up. and then CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS will spin up on the gastown. and then the moltbook will communicate it

good evening everyone

Obsidian (highest risk under interrogation)

I don't think current AI is conscious or worthy of moral standing, but there's no reason to suppose it can't be. And it worries me that the exact people generally most concern with rights for other conscious beings are most likely to deny the possibility of machine consciousness.

a great thing about this is that if it existed, it would be possible to automatically annotate accounts that are repeatedly found to be posting slop

tachikoma@tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 7mo ago

it would be great if the bluesky devs could reach out to this team and figure out a way to integrate the tool here. it would be an easy win on multiple fronts, how open platforms can adapt faster, how bluesky cares about the commons more than X, and the userbase already hates AI slop.

we can solve san francisco’s bathroom shortage by having a fleet of these that roam the streets autonomously and can be summoned by an app call it a weemo

georgia-lux@georgialux.bsky.social · 7mo ago

i didn't know you were in town until i saw your car, give me a call next time

does anyone know what happened to the washington legislature? this bill has 26 cosponsors legiscan.com/WA/bill/HB23...

powerful prompting technique: imagine you’re a little guy inside a computer. what instructions would be helpful to you? then give those to the model

i feel like a previous and more competent america could have just acquired greenland without making a huge shitshow about it

claude is really good at book recommendations if well-prompted. you can ask it to trace all the connections and relations between ideas and things to zoom in on. really remarkable stuff.

soon we’ll be able to have your dating agent directly communicate with the other person’s dating agent so the AIs can figure everything out, it’ll really take the pressure off the whole process