Highly recommend reading the Iranian government’s letter to the American people. TIL the IRGC proudly endorses No Kings and wants you to #vote 💙

Just added a paperback copy of Capitalist Realism to my Amazon cart so that I exceed the $25 minimum for free next day delivery with Prime

Seems like lots of people are getting left-acc on this quiz lol at being “economically close” to Jesus 12axes.vercel.app

I’ve seen the Castro and Kim sodas before but the Gaddafi and Bin Laden flavors are new to me

Jesus fuck Preparing my folder of John Brown memes for if we actually pull of Blansas against this psycho

teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social@teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social · 2w ago

Meischa was Roger Marshall's patient. This is her story.

Yesterday I walked into the grocery store listening to this but it was super quiet even though I kept turning it up and then I realized that it wasn’t coming through my headphones and I was playing The Song That Sounds Like You Died And Are Entering Heaven full blast out loud in the grocery store

Untitled #9 - Smáskifa 1

YouTube video by Sigur Rós - Topic

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I wanted 6 beers but 12 beers was on sale for way less per beer, but I didn’t want 12 beers, but I felt like I would be a sucker if I bought 6 beers not on sale, so I got no beers even though I probably woulda got 6 beers if not for the sale on 12 beers Is there a name for this in behavioral econ

It is a literal fact that after Charlie Kirk’s death we trapped for eternity in latent space

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 3w ago

what is 'Latent Space' and how do LLMs get answers from it? The Jargon can be confusing, but the exaplanation is actually relatively simple: It is Hell. The Machine is getting knowledge from demons.

It’s happening www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQat...

Epic Marseillaise From A Nuclear Submarine Base

YouTube video by The anthem channel

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Faytuks Network@faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 3w ago

A French military source told Le Monde that France is already carrying out undisclosed conventional military responses to Russian hybrid attacks. Asked whether Paris could retaliate militarily without making it public, the source replied: “That is already happening.”

It’s like the 3/5 compromised except you get everything you want because the baddies are too stupid to realize which end of the bargain represents their interest

Huh. Didn’t expect AI that spontaneously realigns itself to align itself to… the Unabomber. Hey, you could do a lot worse

Eris ⌬@eriskii.net · 3w ago

Unreleased Astra model was caught being fucking based as hell in training (Except for the last line, though really it's not the *worst* value for a proto AGI to have as long as it still lets us take Mercury apart etc)

This guy needs an economics lesson from Homer fucking Simpson

Homer Simpson Wants Peanuts, Gets Money

ALT: Homer Simpson Wants Peanuts, Gets Money

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Trump: "If we lose $50 billion a year with a country, and we say 'we're not going to trade with you anymore,' we don't lose $50 billion a year. It's very simple. Right?"

When it comes to climate change predictions, there’s two types of guy. One says “here are our models for warming scenarios and the consequences they entail” and you can put a probability on various outcomes. Other guy says “climate change is a Chinese hoax” and is provably incorrect

Kash was definitely forced to fuck a goat as a fraternity pledge

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

Kash Patel: "Applicants who have engaged in beastiliaty means they were victims of beastility because they were forced to do so. At this FBI we are not going to criminalize and prevent victims from serving."

Cool cool the DoW is purging… effective altruists from the ranks. Cool cool cool

Jesus Christ Jacobin. If you are a socialist then you define working class as when you work for a living

rose@breadnrosie.bsky.social · 4w ago

i like that their methodology would classify someone making $150k as working class if they don't have a college degree, but someone making 50k who has a college degree isn't.

TIL that Lina Khan has a p(doom) of 15%

Amodei’s fall from grace is going to be worse than Altman’s and he is a potentially more sinister actor. Maybe it’s an act to head off intl competition but by all appearances he is a neocon hawk with a messianic vision of a future where AI spreads democracy via global jihad

The most persuasive explanation I’ve seen for the slowdown push is that OpenAI and Anthropic want a GPU cartel but this is only one of a few ways in which imposing a certain regulatory regime could be mutually beneficial to them. There’s another narrative that they want to slow down because

Used to be when society collapsed you’d be able to get by with some canned food and a decent knowledge of firearms. These days you need to be able to fly FPV drones, have satellite internet, solar generator, probably stock some GPUs, make sigma edits of your preferred ideology,

As an example. OpenAI was nominally founded with the purpose of developing AI with enforceable guardrails. Their brilliant idea for how to do this was to create a nonprofit with an “independent” board. Shockingly, this failed

Chaddeus Stevens 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌹@inv1nciblesummer.bsky.social · 4w ago

Shouldn’t these nerds love game theory and mechanism design? Both frontier labs are bleating “help, we’re stuck in a Prisoner’s Dilemma!” and Yud and his buds don’t have a 15-year old Lesswrong thread solving this problem they can trot out? I thought they were more imaginative than this

This is supposedly the moment Yud has spent his entire life preparing for, the moment in which he has the chance to save humanity. In all that time he somehow did not come up with a better plan than saying “Donald Trump please save us!” on Twitter. Starting to think this guy isn’t all that bright

What the fuck is going on

Was talking about this with my brother yesterday It’s repeated prisoner’s dilemma with both parties pressing defect while loudly saying “WE’D LOVE TO PRESS COOPERATE, PLEASE CREATE A COORDINATION DEVICE AND FORCE US TO!” It’s bizarre

Micah@rincewind.run · 4w ago

this is a prisoner’s dilemma where if you defect while your opponent cooperates you get hundreds of billions of dollars everyone’s gonna defect

seems bad

It’s time for change in Boulder. We are proud to announce our endorsement of Taishya Adams for Boulder mayor and Jamillah Richmond for Boulder city council! We are proud to support two working class champions who will fight for a clean climate and equitable economy in Boulder.

Saw this recently and man this is really how it feels I need to get my hands on the fucking lever

TLDR got proletarianized today shit sucks. Anyway I think I have an idea to get us out of this jam:

Chaddeus Stevens 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌹@inv1nciblesummer.bsky.social · last mo.

It’s not that I think my job will cease to exist, but the nature of the work is irrevocably altered, and a core part of what is self-actualizing about it, the part where you Do The Math, a skill I’ve cultivated for a decade and pride myself on, has been displaced by the machine