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Chat, does "is it true or not" even matter?

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Counterpoint: the stuff that happens between elections is also really important.

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I think that's what the stage 3 trials were for.

I know the example is a little contrived. But it seems like the "no worries, we use lots of things we don't fully understand" counters are missing the part where this cocktail was proposed by some superintelligence that might be trying to kill us all.

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Bryce Anderson @475nm.bsky.social · 15h

Any idea how accurate their battery estimate is? Seems like the haters find any excuse to up their battery estimates by 10x.

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What did Shia Lebouf ever do to you?

Bryce Anderson @475nm.bsky.social · 16h

I did, but I got better.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 20h

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The forecast is sunny and clear outside, with a 80% chance of sudden assault by Christ lasers.

a saint being fucked up by Christ lasers

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Bryce Anderson @475nm.bsky.social · 19h

Due to some old laws that never got taken off the books, gators on leashes are classified as aide de camps.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

Way too many people are responding to this saying that it would involve paying musk money, when the option of seizing all his assets after prosecuting him for fraud and election interference and his many many other alleged and sometimes almost seemingly admitted crimes is like… right there.

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If your claim had only been that people and software are different things, that's just trivially true. Why don't you just lay out for us what sorts of things you think can and cannot be intelligent?

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The convention seems to be that we call software an LLM if it's using the weights of an LLM to generate output. Your definition is more technically correct, but seems to be using that correctness to avoid the real question of "can machines think?"

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merkhet.bsky.social @merkhet.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

So when they put an LLM inside a robot and allow feedback to alter the parameter weights, we can expect intelligence to arise?

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Humans are chemicals surrounded by lipid membranes and can no more suffer than any other vat of chemicals can.

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Humans are also human-created, but never mind that. What definition of "living" must be fulfilled in order for something to have emotions?

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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after trying to buy a GPU node I’m pragmatically becoming an “AI is a bubble guy“ to get the market to crash

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Is there a good reason to stick with the "four burners bolted to the top of the stove" form factor? Seems like portable/countertop units have all sorts of advantages.

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Bryce Anderson @475nm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Good catch. I hadn't noticed that.

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Have you ever tried making a house payment in nickels? Trust me, the bank tellers become uncooperative.

Bryce Anderson @475nm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It would have been more economically efficient for the South to free the slaves voluntarily, but the slave states weren't behaving as rational actors. And we could have kept schools open if we'd had a ton of other mitigation efforts in place. But the "no lockdowns" folks would have none of it.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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As a Ted Lasso fan, keep these coming.

"If we can fund Ukraine, we can fund student loan forgiveness" is "supporting the Russian invasion?" Weak stuff. And holding up "at least it'll give map makers something to do" as proof of support either shows intent to deceive or a worrying inability to detect jokes.

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Just make her write an essay.

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And they all lived snarkily ever after.

Dave Dustin @dustin.nz · 07/10/2026

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"YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK"

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It's the idea that we pick up ideas and behaviors through our interactions with other people, which seems pretty unobjectionable in isolation. But it turns out it's also a great way to couch rank bigotry in science-y language.

Front door to the Backrooms.

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"The AT Protocol (Authenticated Transfer Protocol, pronounced "at protocol", commonly shortened to ATproto or "ATP") is a protocol and set of open standards for decentralized publishing and distribution of self-authenticating data within the social web."

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I mean, who has time to figure out which of the Himalayas are the pink ones? The road is right there.

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It's counterintuitive, but managing two or three kids for a few hours can be less work than managing just one.

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On the day your cringe meter breaks, you know true freedom, perhaps for the first time.

Don't worry, Claude has a surefire plan for reducing manmade CO2 emissions by 100% within five years.

Correct. Eliminating the cap on taxes while leaving the cap on benefits in place would definitely be a redistributive approach.

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I think that was the wrong approach, but I think it was the only approach that could make it into law at the time. And I'm not sure we've jettisoned the rugged individualism mindset that made it necessary.

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After being required to create a password? Or after requiring the user to send the password they've already established? Asking for the password as the second factor... that would bug the hell out of me. But passkey with pw+otp as a fallback makes some sense.

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Yea! (mostly) (important to be able to back them up)

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Some sort of babysitting cooperative? One family hosts, a second provides extra manpower, and three or four families are freed up for the evening.

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And I acknowledge the existence of the Matrix sequels, so I do not memory hole movies lightly.

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As a franchise, Highlander was pretty uneven. But the final movie (Highlander:The Source) was just astonishingly bad, and at the very end it junked the entire premise of "there can be only one" by saying, "nope, what it really meant is...."

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They could do worse than adopting El Sayed's three point platform outright: * money out of politics * money in your pocket * Medicare for all

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Shane Goldmacher is a reporter for NYT, if you can believe it.