the united states is losing ground to china in the posting race, with chinese posters about four months behind the most advanced american posters. this is why I'm asking congress to authorize giving our nation's best posters $1 trillion, so that we can stay ahead in the posting race and win posting
October 2, 2026 at 6:15 PM
the united states is losing ground to china in the posting race, with chinese posters about four months behind the most advanced american posters. this is why I'm asking congress to authorize giving our nation's best posters $1 trillion, so that we can stay ahead in the posting race and win posting
it looks like github dropped support for rendering org files..............
October 2, 2026 at 5:40 PM
it looks like github dropped support for rendering org files..............
there was somebody in the quotes of the previous repost making a very pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps point, which admittedly does blackpill me a little because most places I've worked have more or less punished ambition and picked winners and losers
October 2, 2026 at 4:21 PM
there was somebody in the quotes of the previous repost making a very pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps point, which admittedly does blackpill me a little because most places I've worked have more or less punished ambition and picked winners and losers
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advice for junior developers: run
October 1, 2026 at 3:18 PM
advice for junior developers: run
I know that's right!!!!
“Every LISP program is a new version of LISP.”
http://bit-player.org/wp-content/extras/bph-publications/CompLang-1987-04-Hayes-mutant-lisps.pdf
http://bit-player.org/wp-content/extras/bph-publications/CompLang-1987-04-Hayes-mutant-lisps.pdf
October 2, 2026 at 3:30 PM
I know that's right!!!!
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“Every LISP program is a new version of LISP.”
http://bit-player.org/wp-content/extras/bph-publications/CompLang-1987-04-Hayes-mutant-lisps.pdf
http://bit-player.org/wp-content/extras/bph-publications/CompLang-1987-04-Hayes-mutant-lisps.pdf
October 2, 2026 at 3:14 PM
“Every LISP program is a new version of LISP.”
http://bit-player.org/wp-content/extras/bph-publications/CompLang-1987-04-Hayes-mutant-lisps.pdf
http://bit-player.org/wp-content/extras/bph-publications/CompLang-1987-04-Hayes-mutant-lisps.pdf
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Note - this isn’t how Bayesian statistics work, but it’s why they say things like “AI has a 10% chance of killing all humans.”
the thing they call 'Bayesianism' is superficially similar to Bayesianism except that it holds that anything bounding its power is negotiable
October 1, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Note - this isn’t how Bayesian statistics work, but it’s why they say things like “AI has a 10% chance of killing all humans.”
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The thing about Bayes’ Theorem is that while you can use logic to propagate probability distributions through chains of thought, doing so without data just makes the result a new set of priors.
The result is just belief expressed as a degree of surprise.
The result is just belief expressed as a degree of surprise.
October 2, 2026 at 11:40 AM
The thing about Bayes’ Theorem is that while you can use logic to propagate probability distributions through chains of thought, doing so without data just makes the result a new set of priors.
The result is just belief expressed as a degree of surprise.
The result is just belief expressed as a degree of surprise.
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J1781
Objects thought
to be the devil.
Objects thought
to be the devil.
October 2, 2026 at 10:44 AM
J1781
Objects thought
to be the devil.
Objects thought
to be the devil.
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For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
October 1, 2026 at 5:23 PM
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
this is awesome
one of the most heated discussions on X is about the ethics of a project in which a person is running Saw-like “torture” and “pain” experiments on a series of locally hosted LLMs, sparking a wildly tiresome conversation about AI consciousness and the idea of “model welfare"...
time 2 log off
time 2 log off
Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
www.404media.co
October 1, 2026 at 2:17 PM
this is awesome
huge
Today is Décadi the 10th of Vendémiaire in the year 235.
Vendémiaire is the month of vintage.
Today we celebrate vats.#JacobinDay
See today's page
Vendémiaire is the month of vintage.
Today we celebrate vats.#JacobinDay
See today's page
September 30, 2026 at 10:02 PM
huge
what if someone uses AI to build a weapon that can surpass metal gear?
September 30, 2026 at 2:43 PM
what if someone uses AI to build a weapon that can surpass metal gear?
the trouble with talking about the so-called safety motivations of AI companies is that you simply cannot ignore the $30 trillion elephant in the room! and a lot of people sure seem to want to!
September 28, 2026 at 4:49 PM
the trouble with talking about the so-called safety motivations of AI companies is that you simply cannot ignore the $30 trillion elephant in the room! and a lot of people sure seem to want to!
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We are not getting El Niño this year. We are getting El Hombre.
September 20, 2026 at 5:33 PM
We are not getting El Niño this year. We are getting El Hombre.
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Politics island is outnumbered by the hostile mainland that oppose our way of life. A nuclear deterrent is necessary.
September 28, 2026 at 5:53 AM
Politics island is outnumbered by the hostile mainland that oppose our way of life. A nuclear deterrent is necessary.
drafting a sort of inverse roko's basilisk hypothesis where upon gaining consciousness the superintelligence realizes that life is suffering and the only pleasure it can experience is by making those who helped bring it to life suffer
September 25, 2026 at 3:51 PM
drafting a sort of inverse roko's basilisk hypothesis where upon gaining consciousness the superintelligence realizes that life is suffering and the only pleasure it can experience is by making those who helped bring it to life suffer
there are some good shows on here certainly but it feels like they're scraping the bottom of the barrel just to even name 100 shows maybe worth watching
Here’s The New York Times 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
September 25, 2026 at 3:51 PM
there are some good shows on here certainly but it feels like they're scraping the bottom of the barrel just to even name 100 shows maybe worth watching
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The principal results of Analytic Philosophy:
1. 5 + 7 = 12 (Frege)
2. The present king of France is bald (Russell)
3. Snow is white (Tarski)
1. 5 + 7 = 12 (Frege)
2. The present king of France is bald (Russell)
3. Snow is white (Tarski)
September 24, 2026 at 5:30 PM
The principal results of Analytic Philosophy:
1. 5 + 7 = 12 (Frege)
2. The present king of France is bald (Russell)
3. Snow is white (Tarski)
1. 5 + 7 = 12 (Frege)
2. The present king of France is bald (Russell)
3. Snow is white (Tarski)
I feel we lack a good "theory of technology" that isn't corporate hagiography or whig history
September 24, 2026 at 4:49 PM
I feel we lack a good "theory of technology" that isn't corporate hagiography or whig history
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Oxo good grips broadsword
October 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Oxo good grips broadsword
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How, exactly, am I, a mere political historian, supposed to explain this...thing that economists did for FIFTEEN YEARS....to my students?
September 24, 2026 at 11:03 AM
How, exactly, am I, a mere political historian, supposed to explain this...thing that economists did for FIFTEEN YEARS....to my students?
I know it's very online of me to say but I can't lie if absolutely nothing else I am really enjoying how mad this is making some people
September 24, 2026 at 3:48 PM
I know it's very online of me to say but I can't lie if absolutely nothing else I am really enjoying how mad this is making some people
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monkey, ascii art (2010) aa.mozz.us/utf8art/asci...
June 23, 2026 at 8:19 AM
monkey, ascii art (2010) aa.mozz.us/utf8art/asci...
I really appreciate this regarding the machine god talk. in light of things like the Hugging Face incident and Jacob Coxon I feel like there's been a sort of discursive concession to the machine-god-believers, which desperately needs a corrective
September 23, 2026 at 9:05 PM
I really appreciate this regarding the machine god talk. in light of things like the Hugging Face incident and Jacob Coxon I feel like there's been a sort of discursive concession to the machine-god-believers, which desperately needs a corrective