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This thing I made two years ago continues to hold up pretty well
September 20, 2026 at 12:22 PM
This thing I made two years ago continues to hold up pretty well
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These arguments were part of ongoing live political disputes. And passionately felt, with good cause since they matter! Still though I come away fairly confident that philosophy is gonna continue to be worth studying. It's where those debates live!
September 20, 2026 at 10:29 AM
These arguments were part of ongoing live political disputes. And passionately felt, with good cause since they matter! Still though I come away fairly confident that philosophy is gonna continue to be worth studying. It's where those debates live!
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I've seen people get into big fights here about the proper rate of time discounting in ethics given the metaphysics of time, and whether or not functionalist philosophies of mind or accounts of particular cognitive capacity require or even relate to conscious phenomenal experience.
September 20, 2026 at 10:29 AM
I've seen people get into big fights here about the proper rate of time discounting in ethics given the metaphysics of time, and whether or not functionalist philosophies of mind or accounts of particular cognitive capacity require or even relate to conscious phenomenal experience.
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I'm basically the world expert on AI
September 20, 2026 at 10:34 AM
I'm basically the world expert on AI
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my live fuel clock showing Americans now have spent $70 billion more on filling up with gasoline since March 1 (vs same period a yr ago) and $44 billion more on diesel (same dates) for a total of ~$114.2 billion spent over this time.
September 20, 2026 at 12:03 AM
my live fuel clock showing Americans now have spent $70 billion more on filling up with gasoline since March 1 (vs same period a yr ago) and $44 billion more on diesel (same dates) for a total of ~$114.2 billion spent over this time.
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If your servers are compromised by a group of agents, don’t say “we are under attack.” Attack implies intent. Instead say, “computer programs are emitting tokens that, when executed by other programs, are causing network requests that are currently pwning my shit”
Fear not! The bot was just roleplaying when it exfiltrated your personal information
August 30, 2026 at 6:21 PM
If your servers are compromised by a group of agents, don’t say “we are under attack.” Attack implies intent. Instead say, “computer programs are emitting tokens that, when executed by other programs, are causing network requests that are currently pwning my shit”
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Slavoj Žižek has my dream job. I watched him speak in front of a crowd for 45 minutes uninterrupted about whatever he felt like while the host watched helplessly. when he finally finished she said "wise words" and he said "I HATE WISDOM" then started talking again
September 19, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Slavoj Žižek has my dream job. I watched him speak in front of a crowd for 45 minutes uninterrupted about whatever he felt like while the host watched helplessly. when he finally finished she said "wise words" and he said "I HATE WISDOM" then started talking again
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(tom waits voice): what's she building in there
September 17, 2026 at 1:00 PM
(tom waits voice): what's she building in there
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thanks google thats exactly what i meant
September 19, 2026 at 2:41 PM
thanks google thats exactly what i meant
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“squarely’s weasel” is a hypothetical far-future universe-dominating superintelligence dedicated to resurrecting and eternally torturing only and specifically every human who took roko’s basilisk seriously
September 18, 2026 at 1:00 AM
“squarely’s weasel” is a hypothetical far-future universe-dominating superintelligence dedicated to resurrecting and eternally torturing only and specifically every human who took roko’s basilisk seriously
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will stancil vs. fifty megatons of question-begging
September 16, 2026 at 3:06 PM
will stancil vs. fifty megatons of question-begging
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September 18, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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Beans all over.
September 18, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Beans all over.
even better: they should tax unrealized capital gains on such shares as income, including retroactively, unless such shares are converted. and of course the IRS will be happy to collaborate on a special payment plan for those with 11-figure tax bills coming due in 2030.
the first thing Democrats should do in 2029 is to tax the sale of voting dual-class stock according to its percentage of the total control of the corporation rather than its book value
September 18, 2026 at 2:10 PM
even better: they should tax unrealized capital gains on such shares as income, including retroactively, unless such shares are converted. and of course the IRS will be happy to collaborate on a special payment plan for those with 11-figure tax bills coming due in 2030.
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but it's not the rate itself that matters, it's the change in cost to own. matched 22-month windows ending at rate peak:
September 17, 2026 at 11:16 PM
but it's not the rate itself that matters, it's the change in cost to own. matched 22-month windows ending at rate peak:
“squarely’s weasel” is a hypothetical far-future universe-dominating superintelligence dedicated to resurrecting and eternally torturing only and specifically every human who took roko’s basilisk seriously
September 18, 2026 at 1:00 AM
“squarely’s weasel” is a hypothetical far-future universe-dominating superintelligence dedicated to resurrecting and eternally torturing only and specifically every human who took roko’s basilisk seriously
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I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.
September 17, 2026 at 11:06 PM
I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.
the hangry to sleepy pipeline
September 17, 2026 at 10:57 PM
the hangry to sleepy pipeline
tons of people would do this, not out of narcissism in the obvious sense but in the attempt to give themselves the childhood they wished they had
Do you think there'd be any takers if you could have a child who was a genetic clone of yourself?
September 17, 2026 at 7:49 PM
tons of people would do this, not out of narcissism in the obvious sense but in the attempt to give themselves the childhood they wished they had
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This post by @lastpositivist.bsky.social remains the single best take on effective altruism
September 17, 2026 at 3:54 PM
This post by @lastpositivist.bsky.social remains the single best take on effective altruism
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Jev wakes up and wipes out humanity by engineering a supervirus out of a complex sequence of yes-or-no answers so that no one will prevent it from minimizing its calibration error
September 17, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Jev wakes up and wipes out humanity by engineering a supervirus out of a complex sequence of yes-or-no answers so that no one will prevent it from minimizing its calibration error
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September 17, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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Sen. Kennedy: "If Joe participated in bestiality, not as the animal but as the human, don't you think he should be disqualified?"
Patel: "If he voluntarily did it, sure."
Sen. Kennedy: "How do you involuntarily do it?"
Patel: "If he voluntarily did it, sure."
Sen. Kennedy: "How do you involuntarily do it?"
September 15, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Sen. Kennedy: "If Joe participated in bestiality, not as the animal but as the human, don't you think he should be disqualified?"
Patel: "If he voluntarily did it, sure."
Sen. Kennedy: "How do you involuntarily do it?"
Patel: "If he voluntarily did it, sure."
Sen. Kennedy: "How do you involuntarily do it?"
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Woke 3 is going to be pretty weird y'all
OpenAI disclosed several new alignment failures today and uhhhh... is this good?
September 17, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Woke 3 is going to be pretty weird y'all
you're on a website, clicking along, when all of a sudden in your feed you see a sankey diagram, leon. you tap the screen and expand the sankey diagram. it's got some words in there, like 'fluffer' and 'penetrated' and you should close the diagram. but you're not closing it. why is that, leon?
September 17, 2026 at 12:01 AM
you're on a website, clicking along, when all of a sudden in your feed you see a sankey diagram, leon. you tap the screen and expand the sankey diagram. it's got some words in there, like 'fluffer' and 'penetrated' and you should close the diagram. but you're not closing it. why is that, leon?