The Gopher

What will we have to give to end this new war?

"But it happened." - Casey Muratori's comment on Eric Schmidt's commencement speech https://lobste.rs/s/lwnweu #video #philosophy #ai

my pilot’s license is 95% done. the remaining 5% is focused on learning to fly a plane.

we're popping out miracle drugs that address like basically every human ailment other than the inevitability of death, we're turbodeploying unlimited free energy from god, and the computers can do our homework, so obviously we are [checking notes] in the worst of all possible timelines. what a world

Yes! I want this straight into my veins!

I just backed Help me film my stand-up show Getting Triggy With It. on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta...

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I've said this before, but part of why I continue to be bleak on prospects of prompt war termination are because Iran has *very strong incentives* to continue pain infliction (against the US/Israel/GCC and the broader world) to deter a future war by credibly communicating the magnitude of costs.

I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment. Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off. The 25th is never happening.

This is true in rougly the same sense that a guy on the subway reeking of urine, screaming, and waving a knife around is “feared.”

DAIR even develops a lot of those types of tools to study social media harms. The lumping of so many things under the "AI" umbrella makes discourse about the specific things that are harmful vs useful difficult.

ten years ago today no one clapped

@techconnectify.bsky.social Do we get to see into the box in this video? I've been waiting. Also like the sock!

Homes being considered investment vehicles is a massive, underappreciated problem. You have a house because you need a house. It doesn't need to pad your networth.

It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.

Yes, the GOP controls Congress. That's why it's key to show Congress COULD stop the madness. And it's not just the DHS bill. Congress could repeal the prior multi-year $75b for DHS; set up a special investigative committee (cf. Watergate); amend the Insurrection Act; etc.

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Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

IMO a valid use of LLMs youtu.be/OgxdAaCwKMg?...

Trump’s appointees have ZERO IDEA what they are doing or what their jobs are. Breathtaking and staggering incompetence. I truly could not believe what I was hearing.

Almost every “successful” AI use case involves knocking the first rungs out of a career ladder, but those are the very positions our students desperately need to become acculturated into the professional spaces that will eventually require experienced professionals to replace the current cohort.

Great comparison of AI code tools. youtu.be/SwviApWpOT4?...

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

If you want to add my book on Goodreads, it's here: www.goodreads.com/book/show/19... But in all seriousness: Vance's comments + Rubio's announcement about revoking the visas of Chinese students => history repeating itself. Qian was deported after wrongly accused of being a spy by the USG.

A lot of people know about the Germans in the space program, but the more relevant engineer might be Qian Xuesen, the MIT/CalTech aerospace professor who co-founded JPL and was sent to recruit the Germans. We deported him the 1950s. He became the leader of China’s missile program.

Some of the emails from the AI paper are absolutely deranged, like providing 1 second notice to legal proceedings. It's almost like they tried it on the am I the asshole subreddit. arxiv.org/html/2502.15...

Golombok has even found that parents in nonconventional family structures tend to be more involved than straight, married parents on average, probably because they are more likely to have deliberately chosen parenthood.

LLMs are an Excel sheet where every field is a date.

Time for a dry subject: dehumidifiers youtu.be/j_QfX0SYCE8

"I wish CISA would stop assigning out-of-context CVSS scores to our CVEs." * monkey paw curls * https://www.csoonline.com/article/3963190/cve-program-faces-swift-end-after-dhs-fails-to-renew-contract-leaving-security-flaw-tracking-in-limbo.html

Q: What distinguishes a prison from a concentration camp?

Cyber Fuc*ed. #WorldBollardAssociation

Boat derangement syndrome

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

my offer to america: we bring woke back

Trying this receptacle tariff stuff out

Rather clickbairy but interesting nonetheless youtu.be/Ufmu1WD2TSk?...

The haters said he was a fascist and they were correct. Honestly, great call from the haters.

While saying "this is incredible" over and over, Musk's GSA head Stephen Ehikian asked GSAi to "write me a website." The output was not compliant with federal law. It said "Welcome to Our Company" on it and did not resemble a federal website at all. 😟 This garbage demo had a terrified audience

Moderate policy positioning: +1.6 vote margin Carefully tested ads: +.08 vote margin Ground game: +1.2 vote margin Gerontocratic leadership unwilling to even try to act as political leaders or advance a coherent vision: -15 vote margin Someone who is good at elections help, my party is dying

They're placing probationary employees on paid administrative leave and giving them back pay. Basically, taxpayers are paying for a bunch of federal employees to do nothing for a month and counting. I don't have an MBA so maybe someone can explain to me how this improves efficiency.

This is insane. Arguably the greatest achievement of the first Trump administration was Operation Warp Speed. And mRNA technology has tremendous potential. Recall recent news that mRNA vaccines show promise against pancreatic cancer in early trials www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...