algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 7hwhat if someone uses AI to build a weapon that can surpass metal gear? 000
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 28/09/2026the 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! 051
Reposted by algorithmistHaus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 20/09/2026We are not getting El Niño this year. We are getting El Hombre. 201464297
Reposted by algorithmistWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Politics island is outnumbered by the hostile mainland that oppose our way of life. A nuclear deterrent is necessary. 40732117
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 25/09/2026drafting 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 183
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 25/09/2026there 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 140
Reposted by algorithmistPanu Raatikainen @panuraatikainen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The principal results of Analytic Philosophy: 1. 5 + 7 = 12 (Frege) 2. The present king of France is bald (Russell) 3. Snow is white (Tarski) 2495
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 24/09/2026I feel we lack a good "theory of technology" that isn't corporate hagiography or whig history 141
Reposted by algorithmistAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026How, exactly, am I, a mere political historian, supposed to explain this...thing that economists did for FIFTEEN YEARS....to my students? 1515439
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 24/09/2026I 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 040
Reposted by algorithmistvideogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 23/06/2026monkey, ascii art (2010) aa.mozz.us/utf8art/asci... 7914277
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 23/09/2026I 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 010
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 23/09/2026I've started using the 🧐 emoji to articulate "I am intrigued by this" 020
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 23/09/2026I didn't realize some consider it, like, gay or effeminate or emasculating or whatever, for a man to have a cat. how do some people even live 060
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 23/09/2026"alignment" seems like a fake problem, or at least an ill-conceived one. "instilling human values into the AI" hitler was human, hitler had values, ergo hitler had human values, ergo grok, being mechahitler, is aligned 030
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 23/09/2026calls for AI regulation cause a finger on the monkey's paw to curl and LLM usage is prohibited in general except by companies who receive a federal permit to use it 030
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 22/09/2026okay now that we have LLMs surely we can rid the world of book scan PDFs 010
Reposted by algorithmistDemon's Souls Dialog Bot @soulsdialogbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Hey look, I'm really sorry, I didn't mean what I said. 3258
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 20/09/2026AI alignment means the degree to which an LLM behaves like a redditor 020
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 20/09/2026advertising is just natural scientific progress. if you don't watch ads you'll just be left behind by the engine of progress. how can you say they're bad when they're useful? 030
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 20/09/2026kind of stupid of the AI companies to ask for regulation from the government. don't they know we don't do that anymore 030
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 18/09/2026saw someone say "can't believe someone would disparage EA like this 😡" yeah I can't believe someone would disparage the people who factor in 10^100 hypothetical machine souls in all their ethical calculations 030
Reposted by algorithmistAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 17/09/2026i dont understand what winning ai means and why i should be scared of not winning ai 3791254
Reposted by algorithmistRural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Computer Rage Marinette, WI 161708360
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 17/09/2026I was wondering why all the usual suspects on tumblr were being all defensive about rationalism out of nowhere today and then I logged on here to see all the dirty laundry being aired lol 020
Reposted by algorithmistChaddeus Stevens 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌹 @inv1nciblesummer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is supposedly the moment Yud has spent his entire life preparing for, the moment in which he has the chance to save humanity. In all that time he somehow did not come up with a better plan than saying “Donald Trump please save us!” on Twitter. Starting to think this guy isn’t all that bright 2056483
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 15/09/2026trump referring to dario amodei as a "perfect little angel" will now become a permanent fixture of my vocabulary when referring to him unfortunately 010
Reposted by algorithmistBryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The contagion of fear bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...bcantrill.dtrace.orgThe contagion of fear | The Observation Deck 1624083
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 14/09/2026I wonder what dario thinks of Saudi Arabia using LLMs 020
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 13/09/2026also related to tech utopia but the visions of tech utopia that are like... uploading consciousness to computers... seems very bleak. and lonely. though I don't doubt that this is also these people revealing their psychologies 020
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 13/09/2026I kind of don't know how the techno utopians assume social change will come with AI. like if AI makes "scarcity a solved problem" how does that get us to the techno utopia? because in their telling it's like Step 1: super intelligence Step 2: ??? Step 3: utopia 150
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 12/09/2026remember when donald trump implied that hannibal lecter was real 030
Reposted by algorithmistSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 09/09/2026we have almost a perfectly clean a/b test of this in china where notably nobody seems to take this seriously, it's specifically confined to english language media where half of all research staff have read HPMOR 2694
Reposted by algorithmistsick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 11/09/2026beast mode alert: “On Tuesday, he wrote on social media that “if AI can solve all maths problems, I’ll go home and write my yuri novel”.” www.scmp.com/news/china/s...scmp.comI’ll write romance novels if AI solves all maths, Chinese Fields winner jokesAs AI models prove they can push the boundaries, mathematicians are grappling with the threat that they could become obsolete. 14512
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 11/09/2026if we're to take the AI safety stuff seriously it's pretty hard to imagine basically anyone rising to the occasion and acting responsibly given, you know, the ~$60T on the line, the deranged personalities involved, etc. 010
Reposted by algorithmistColin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 11/09/2026if i ever cite "thousands of lesswrong posts" as a source, please kill me instantly 613526
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 11/09/2026AI is going to revolutionize the ghost hunting industry 010
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 11/09/2026if you support Amazon and Google getting data centers you should support me getting one too 010
Reposted by algorithmist404 Media @404media.co · 08/09/2026A secretive DHS ‘predictive policing’ unit analyzed the financial activity of a man who was driving across Montana, and local authorities stopped him under the pretense of an obstructed license plate and charged him with a DUI. @josephcox.bsky.social reports. Read: www.404media.co/a-secretive-... 97959598
Reposted by algorithmistlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 08/09/2026we probably need to do something about the millenarian cult inside silicon valley that controls tens or hundreds of billions of dollars and self-selects for depressed sociopaths when deciding how to allocate that money 1177390
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 08/09/2026sort of a "leopard face eating" type thing happening with some of the AI enthusiasts I think 110
Reposted by algorithmistUSER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I say any Zaku is a go for me. 8334129
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 08/09/2026something about thinking "technology = science = progress" feels very 19th century to me 041
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 08/09/2026if technology were merely the solution to hard problems then you'd think going from junior -> senior software engineer wouldn't involve doing more management 030
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 05/09/2026you think it would help my career prospects if I rp'd as big boss on linkedin 040
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 04/09/2026unsurprisingly I talk like a true blue midwesterner but I am somewhat surprised I talk more like a detroiter than a clevelander (where I have lived my whole life) 110
