algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 20hwhat if someone uses AI to build a weapon that can surpass metal gear? 010
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
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 28/09/2026after reading some yud and slate star codex I feel like they're all trying to imitate one of them. I noticed this when I started to pick up on how yud uses italics in the sequences 020
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. 40733117
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 28/09/2026this is almost the same argument I've made for using graphical emacs over terminal emacs lol 010
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 25/09/2026also.... the sopranos isn't on here! which is nuts because it clears like 95% of this list easily 220
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 · 25/09/2026maybe I'm projecting, because the average TV show is bad 130
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
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 24/09/2026someone created a skill that was like a "check to see if the git commit is formatted" sort of thing. apparently they had never heard of git hooks! 110
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 24/09/2026there's a big drive at my job to make everything skills which of course seems backwards to me, because at least in my experience skills are like emergent from your workflow 110
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... 7915278
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
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 17/09/2026nushell has a reduce command that I use all the time. love to reduce 010
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
algorithmist @algorithmist.social · 16/09/2026yeah every time someone says AI will end scarcity, which we could end today, I'm all the more assured it really won't lol 010
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 · 13/09/2026like you could just as well imagine a star trek world where the replicator is controlled by like five people, right. and why not? 150
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 · 13/09/2026because assuming AI has the power to transform society to such a degree I feel like it could just as well be used to enslave everyone or whatever right 140
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
