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If you are too young to really remember the Obama years, conservatives were like this every single day. He really did just break their brains.

i don't think it's that crazy it's a lot harder to use public money to build a complicated interconnected grid of rail infrastructure than it is to use private money to build a bunch of big warehouses. like i don't think it's great only one of those is possible but what i do not think it is is crazy

OpenAI preprint gives a deterministic, polynomial-space algorithm that would refute the Exponential Time Hypothesis. It doesn't show that P = NP, but damn if this is not a huge deal anyways. github.com/openai/math/...

sorry i need to publicly be a hater for a second but what do you mean the giant 230k+ signature save mass effect petition is only about the IP and not the devs that were laid off

I like this season's Document collection. Document is a Korean menswear brand that used to do minimalist-styled clothing that leaned heavily into distinctive silhouettes, although this season feels more heritage-y. In the US, they are carried at No Man Walks Alone and Namu Shop.

okay i guess when i criticized him not doing enough about the NYPD i didn't consider that he was disrupting their operations through a secret underground basketball ring my bad my bad

Current mood

As a huge horror junkie this is unlike anything I have seen/read. Amazing and would buy a physical copy immediately

huh "do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life" was actually a warning about burnout

I don’t know how people could say that programming and art are completely different disciplines when both workflows involve going ‘This will never work, I’m a failure’, changing one thing, then thinking you might be the smartest person alive

“Fuck it we ball” translates to, in transfemme Marxist dialect, “we will simply tear a better future for ourselves from the maw of the horrifying present we find ourselves in”

waow

errata: you haven't truly seen Claudeisms until you've seen Claude do the "getting weirdly excited about seams" thing about the engineering implications of literal seams wrt welded-pipe IED construction

How did I do this? It's almost embarrassingly simple: LLMs are trained on a human-written text corpus, and that corpus contains metacognitive strategies for transforming 'activations' like drugs, ritual, etc. In this case, I started by having Claude emulate ketamine-assisted therapy. This worked.

I've been meaning to get around to posting the full details, so what the hell - why not get it out while it's still Vuln Week: Anthropic's mech interp driven security model is built on a fundamentally incorrect assumptions. Let's dive in, starting with this paper: www.anthropic.com/research/nex...

i come from Cheesecake Factory people and let me assure you, people who LIKE the Cheesecake Factory do not consider it "fancy"

"I was a dumbass for X, Y, Z reasons. Material reality made me see the error of my ways" is actually incredibly uplifting stuff, especially from a 25 year old with a blue collar job and a HS diploma. He was a teenager during Trump 1

what's killing me about the cheesecake factory discourse is that Obama didn't even say the cheesecake is bad, he said it looks crazy in there and it does. even if you like the food, it does in fact look fucking crazy in there

Maybe if I put it like this: my argument is basically, "don't gamble with money you can't afford to spend." That nervous feeling you're having is telling you something and you might want to listen.

If it's the sound political strategy you claim to believe it is, what are you worried about, you'll more than make those lost votes up in disgusting centrists, right? Right? But you know deep down it doesn't work like that

I think people intuitively understand that democratic candidates tossing trans kids to the wolves is not only morally repugnant but also politically ineffective, otherwise they wouldn't freak out every time someone said they weren't voting for a democrat who did this

I'm sorry but banning non-English speakers because machine translation is unclean is more fascist than anything in the AI space except maybe Palantir's XAI enterprise account

new jynpost jyn.dev/rising-tide-...

nuremberg this guy

I was like "Oh insomnia! I can identify"but then nope. Nope nope nooope.

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

InfoWars fans are the greatest chess players in the world. Which is why we’re making the best Chess movie in movie history.

There's a tendency in anti-AI spaces to - because AI is reactionary-coded, thought to be inherently fascist - not consider the ways in which one might be falling into those same traps. I've been beating this drum for a while, but hopefully this is blatant enough to make it unambiguous.

the opposition to trump within the united states has become totally impotent because the republican party just throws trans panic on full blast through the right wing media monopoly and familialism paranoia / reproductive futurity kicks in so it is eaten up like starving dogs to scraps

democracy does not die from the top down, but rather the bottom up. it's not the institutions that become crudely crushed by an authoritarian boot, nor is it the pacification of an otherwise politically active population through mindless entertainment. it's the manipulation of the decision space.

i think people seriously overcomplicate chili. it really only involves three ingredients: water, beans and msg. if there are any foods you’re allergic to, throw some of that in for some added zing. don’t heat the pot. don’t be performative

“lanterns” pretty good tv show. great to see aaron pierre getting more work

A friend was just at a tech conference and told me the tone of it was "ok guy here's how we really fucked up and here's how ai can still help us if we use it waaayyyy less"

this is why I am always gonna have a little bit of existentialist bait on my dating profiles, I am not gonna get all cute and leave the house to go on a date with someone with a distinct lack of any Theory of Mind

trying to help a Hinge match understand that a digital copy of their brain being uploaded doesn't mean they're immortal now because they don't "get" to be the copy and their meat body will still die someday and really understanding why Catherine just gave up trying to explain that to Simon in SOMA

ABBOTT: Japanese developers today have unique names, like FromSoftware COSTELLO: From what ABBOTT: FromSoftware COSTELLO: I thought you said it was from Japan ABBOTT: It is COSTELLO: But what's the name of the developer ABBOTT: FromSoftware COSTELLO: The Software's From Japan, though ABBOTT: Yes

the main reason to get into a relationship is it's one of few remaining avenues for being completely fucking insufferable in front of your friends where they can't complain without looking like the grinch from The Grinch