i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 4hThis person has always been like that, and Ben Collins supports it. 010
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The Onion didn't even go after Platner until his career was already in flames. 030
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The Vice President doesn't do anything. His only job is to be the replacement President and Speaker Jeffries can do that job just fine. 100
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 07/10/2026glad to see that it's starting to become general knowledge that sunrise is wreckers and sucks shit 0120
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I don't actually think so, it's more that the oligarch keeps some pet journalists around who push their own agenda. 010
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 06/10/2026okay but as far as being american goes that's pretty decent place to end your career 000
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 06/10/2026One of the problems is that the Biden administration had a policy of fucking over random companies. If you want to use government to destroy Google, that's one thing, but if the government is just going to randomly try to break them up - yeah, they're not going to like you. 010
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Okay, well, Americans don't think they have that choice, they think that their choice is between more take-home vs pouring money into a bottomless hole of public transit that is dirty, disorderly, and unreliable. 030
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 05/10/2026either nobody knows or the people who do know are hoarding the answer like secret knowledge that can only be dispensed in cryptic memes the quest continues 010
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 05/10/2026i don't see how the argument changes in any nontrivial way i ask how we know the brain isn't just a large linear algebra package ft. nonlinear activation functions but sure, if you want to be 150% precise I'll ask that instead 110
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 05/10/2026what exactly is the objection here? did you disagree that any system of elementary particles can be described by a PDE? 100
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 05/10/2026i mean insofar as all physics is PDEs, yes. on top of those PDEs are various levels of abstraction. we agree that the LLMs are doing linear algebra, even though the so-called linear algebra is actually just assembly operations, and the assembly operations are just a pile of electrical transistors. 110
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 05/10/2026i mean on some level that's trivially true and uninteresting but i don't see how you can simultaneously acknowledge that and then say it's obvious that our brains are not just big linear algebra packages 220
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 05/10/2026it's not a literal brain, it's a simplified model of one thing that happens in a brain. at the end of the day your brain (and the universe, and everything else) is the solution to a large partial differential equation, even if it doesn't look like one. 110
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 05/10/2026i mean the idea is that all people are stochastic parrots, not just one speaker or another, insofar as your brain is also a neural network of sorts 310
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 05/10/2026this is in large part because "tech for good" reaps no rewards: nobody believes it on the left, and when it is actually used for good the right finds that to be a conspiracy against them 030
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I won't doom over vote share this coming November but I will definitely doom about vote share in 2030. 080
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Most prominent leaders in the EA community give away a percentage of their income, which is good faith signaling if nothing else. 000
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 02/10/2026yudkowsky is not exactly a "proponent of AI" 110
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I think it's not so much that he himself thinks of himself as a fascist or even knows what our is, but that he is trying to "capture" the military for ideological purposes. An army of Christian white nationalists. 030
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 01/10/2026People who study Western civilization would have all of these people hanged. 010
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Nobody can say 100% for sure what cost someone any election, but there are plenty of issues that can be identified as liabilities and Israel is very obviously one of them, even if inflation alone could have done him in. In either case none of this changes any of the electoral calculus by Israel. 000
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If you want to pretend that people haven't been talking about Genocide Joe every day for the last four years be my guest. 100
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Dems got their asses beat by Palestinian supporters who decided to teach the Democrats a lesson, which was made possible for the first time because Israeli approval dropped into the negatives over Gaza. And as I said, the Israeli plan no longer works post-Gaza and definitely not post-Iran. 100
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If a foreign power can make you lose an election, that's more or less what's happened. 100
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 01/10/2026They work with your domestic opponents (in this case, the Republicans) to make sure you get blown out completely in the next election. This was something they could actually do back when American approval of Israel sat around 65%, which was usually more than either party. 100
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 01/10/2026They can now, yes. The "significant negative consequence" used to be that the Israelis team up with American pro-Israelis to topple the administration, which was a real and credible threat from Israel for 50 years before Gaza and Iran tanked Israel's approval. 110
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 01/10/2026alright but stancil didn't say or even imply it was an "unknown topic" 150
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I mean, it could, if it wanted to lose a bunch of US cities in the process, but nobody in America wants to make that trade, so we won't. We could easily kill 90% of Iranians within the year and we still don't have the upper hand in that one. 120
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I think you could have predicted his stance on people who have done evil things being violently killed given that his entire account is a homage to John Brown. 100
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The issue with using all natsec tools on Israel is that Israel will use all of its natsec tools on you, which for Israel is assisting domestic opposition in toppling your administration. Now they actually did do that, which is why Biden probably should have gone harder, but that's their leverage. 181
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We really should just send all of these people to die on Kharg. I don't even think Iran would mind. 000
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"bring back the blue-haired product managers" but for the actual US military 020
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 30/09/2026they really don't, people pushing islamophobia are perfectly happy to cite any number of hadiths that say something unpleasant or other 100
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Trump used to support abortion. The GOP loves a traitor. 121
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 28/09/2026That works in part because they are outnumbered 50:1. The settlement would be very different if indigenous population were a majority of the population. 031
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I once saw an aspiring artist say they were fine because AI can create art in the generic "AI slop style" but couldn't copy individual styles and it made me want to weep with the grieving. 0100
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 28/09/2026None of these people in other states would be outperforming anything if there was an insurgent Democrat seriously campaigning. If they lost even 10% of the vote they would be completely underwater. 100
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's not like those other candidates are great either. The entire point of running independents is that they are worse than Democrats nearly by definition, if you're a Democrat. No amount of "coordination" can fix people who who reject that strategy outright. 100
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Blaming her is no different from blaming Nader from ratfucking the election. Democrats pulled this off in Nebraska, Idaho, and South Dakota, but Bankhead would rather personally sink the idea. And for what? 100
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's working in Idaho. The problem is that Bankhead is personally a shithead and the Democrats, not being a real party, can't stop people from running on the line. 0190
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 28/09/2026okay but you also could have printed this in 2016 040
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 27/09/2026candidate selection via interpersonal relationships VS political elites VS social media rabble-rousing 000
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Free speech is fine. The problem with Taibbi et al is not that they support free speech, but that they support free speech when it benefits them and fascist crackdowns on free speech when it doesn't. 020
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 27/09/2026And blocked. What an unimaginable loser. One thing that is nice about the TESCREAL acronym is that you can be sure that everyone who uses it has rocks for brains. 000
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The idea is that you can't predict or stop something that is in principle much, much, much smarter than you, the same way that we are smarter than monkeys. A monkey who thinks "these humans might kill all monkeys" is right even if they can't conceive of the mechanism by which it happens. 130
i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Freddie deBoer has been beating the drum on the whole "woke happened and everyone is just pretending it didn't because it was inconvenient" thing for a long time now but everyone ignored him because he's Freddie deBoer. I think he was right on that one though. 2110
