Reposted by atticus goldfinchIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 39mBREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome 26563165
Reposted by atticus goldfinchRyan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 10mOne other interesting technical detail. If you release an open weight model and have trained it to refuse to hack stuff, there's a fairly simple technique to undo that training. huggingface.co/blog/mlabonn...huggingface.coUncensor any LLM with abliterationA Blog post by Maxime Labonne on Hugging Face 152
Reposted by atticus goldfinchae @aelkus.bsky.social · 22mclaude when i tell it that it really doesn’t need to do so many tests 0141
Reposted by atticus goldfinchCat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 28mNobody past the age of twenty should be obsessed with what people majored in in college and see it as the single defining choice that entirely shapes someone, deterministically, for all time 1305
Reposted by atticus goldfinchScoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 50mConsider decimation, in the classical sense. 3363
atticus goldfinch @atticusgf.bsky.social · 1hYou may think this is an issue where Robin is in mortal danger, but actually, it's just about Gotham CPS taking away Jason Todd. 030
Reposted by atticus goldfinchconputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2hguess we’ll find out soon enough. this year’s college seniors have had chatgpt their entire time in college. this year’s junior devs have had it their entire careers 2706
Reposted by atticus goldfinchNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026530. Very different from what you'd expect from Bennett's other work, but *very* good; a kind of Lovecraftian horror about small town Americana and the Southwest, goes in unexpected but deep directions and gives you a lot of chew on without sacrificing the mystery. (RENUMBERING CORRECTLY) 3182
Reposted by atticus goldfinchAuntSophie @auntsophie.bsky.social · 7hI'd play poker with her any time. 011
Reposted by atticus goldfinch𝔻𝕒𝕟 🏈🍻💀 @danmynrd.bsky.social · 3hLetting geeks think they are allowed to watch sports was a mistake 1132
Reposted by atticus goldfinchSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 5hIt’s cool the president of the United States had a stroke and they covered it up! 1748855
Reposted by atticus goldfinchParis Marx @parismarx.com · 6hfunny to me that last year taylor lorenz was privately trying to suggest i was being funded by peter thiel after we got into an argument over her shitty takes, and now she’s literally running cover for him saying being evil is good. quite a journey she’s on. 251648219
Reposted by atticus goldfinchDavid W (aka Flex NP) @rnflex.bsky.social · 5hFull Retatrutide phase 3 obesity data published today. It's gonna take a minute to fill dissect this. The appendix alone has 70 pages of data. Long story short we created a drug that's almost too good. Huge chunks of people stopped or reduced doses from excess weight reductions.nejm.orgRetatrutide, a Triple Hormone Receptor Agonist, for Treatment of Obesity | NEJMRetatrutide is a triple-receptor agonist of glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide, glucagon-like peptide-1, and glucagon receptors. In this phase 3, randomized, double-blind trial, we assign... 930392
Reposted by atticus goldfinchGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4hjudging just by what i have seen in brief snaps on the TL today, republicans are catastrophically unprepared for what’s going to be coming at them 24797102
Reposted by atticus goldfinchrobert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 10h"humans will use these responsibly" no they wont. humans do not use a single goddamn thing responsibly. are you a fucking idiot 510814
Reposted by atticus goldfinchrobert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 10hpretty much every time someone talks about AI agents going to work on the internet the first thing I think about is the family of racoons that moved into the attic of an old house for 20+ years, and how the attic was almost entirely occupied by layers of their ancient shit 1715
Reposted by atticus goldfinchMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 4hYeah ok let's go 314113
Reposted by atticus goldfinchSenator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 4hIf Trump gets to use a 1.5 pt popular vote margin as legitimacy for the American gestapo, I think anything D+8 or above means we get to do public hangings 37513
Reposted by atticus goldfinchAdam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 5hEvery time my kids ask me to explain some dated thing in Calvin and Hobbes 420121
Reposted by atticus goldfinchAaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 5h[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz 743543388
Reposted by atticus goldfinchEd @ed3d.net · 11hobserving for no particular reason that you should be treating inference providers as dumb pipes because their only way to ramp up the extraction machine on you is to sell a product that you can't get out of 214113
Reposted by atticus goldfinchJeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 4hThere is going to be a whole lot of "the robots are taking away jobs!" and they're going to point to job categories (not specific jobs lost) that today have nearly 100% churn per year. 1302
Reposted by atticus goldfinchEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 6hLeaving aside Anthropic's incentives for publishing this research, there is no doubt that open weights models will soon create the same security threats that closed source models have been demonstrating, except without guardrails. We are close, so plan accordingly. www.anthropic.com/research/glm... 39715
Reposted by atticus goldfinchDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 7hyou know just gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that most intro undergrad 20th century history courses do not cover genro-era japan much 4136817
Reposted by atticus goldfinchrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 6hin this field you regularly run into people who (a) are themselves perfectly normal left-libs politically, whose biggest issue is USAID and "we should not build the Bad Robot" and who (b) have an ironclad alliance whose politics are "school shooter" and "we should immediately build the Bad Robot" 626411
Reposted by atticus goldfinchrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 6hlike, i don't know what to do about this. some of the people whom i have met who are most committed to humane if slightly insane values are insisting that they intend to become collateral damage for inscrutable reasons if anyone goes after the people they themselves believe are insane racists. 1130620
Reposted by atticus goldfinchoddgoo @viriditax.bsky.social · 9hAI is massively helping us glue together the medical services for a complex elderly relative actually timed how much of the week it eats up manually: ~20hrs with AI gluing together appt transcripts, scheduling, test results: ~2hrs 2927
Reposted by atticus goldfinchMichael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 8hNavigating healthcare is not in any way what I'd consider "enriching", but okay. 0221
Reposted by atticus goldfinchAmrk @amrk.bsky.social · 9hPeter Magyar is currently enacting a Liberal Currents fantasy where he amends the constitution to ban anyone associated with the old regime from ever holding office again and is somehow polling at 68% (he won with 53%) and I’m not saying that’s possible anywhere else but Dems should like, ask him 10580108
Reposted by atticus goldfinchthe fool @agnoster.net · 14hthe future could be magnificent, and you deserve a share of it 316025
Reposted by atticus goldfinchrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 23hthese guys don't know how to run for a competitive office 2170975
Reposted by atticus goldfinchmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Like the great recession was very long and painful - much longer than anyone thought it would be in fact - but like 6 years later we were mostly out of. We're now on like year 15 of e.g. "it's impossible to afford family-sized housing in SF, LA, NYC, Boston, etc" and it gets worse every year 1378863
Reposted by atticus goldfinchmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Maybe the reason the economic vibes are so off isn't that things are *worse* than the great recession but because back then we all thought the pain was temporary, whereas the things that are wrong with the economy today have all been getting worse for a long time and show no signs of improving 241646214
Reposted by atticus goldfinchSenator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Like it's hard for me to get too upset with the AI skeptics when Anthropic is releasing nonsense like this in total earnestness bsky.app/profile/jbur... 1451
Reposted by atticus goldfinchJeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 29/09/2026One thing going on here is that professional writers have actual legit beef with LLMs and they (and arguably artists) are justified in seeing these products as irredeemably tainted by plagiarism. Unfortunately, that is an extremely vulnerable epistemological position to be in. 2515
Reposted by atticus goldfinchSenator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is correct, and it drives me nuts. Though I want to be clear that the AI doom case is not bolstered by the "it can't draw hands LOL!!!!" crowd eating shit for the last two years. They're separate issues. 4762
Reposted by atticus goldfinchDoll @dollspace.gay · 19/09/2026The sane package Regulate uses and failures before regulating models. Make the legally relevant event something observable 211823
Reposted by atticus goldfinchCooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 29/09/2026Yeah, you know what? I’m going to figure out a different way to carry my keys 2827033
Reposted by atticus goldfinchGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 29/09/2026this simply should not be legal 161112128
Reposted by atticus goldfinchAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In response to people going after him for this, Friedersdorf claimed that he genuinely had no idea Rufo had anything to do with the Haitians in Springfield slurs and then got mad at people for acting like he was being a complete rube. 881471227
atticus goldfinch @atticusgf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026mfs out here acting like they're the first people to discover introspection. 182
Reposted by atticus goldfinchCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026oh my fucking god they're just doing Austrian Economics For Everything 824119
Reposted by atticus goldfinchrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the thing they call 'Bayesianism' is superficially similar to Bayesianism except that it holds that anything bounding its power is negotiable 11259
Reposted by atticus goldfinchrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026right, exactly. people will respond "what does the fact that i tolerate immense racism everywhere around me have to do with you?", and -- i mean -- they have arranged their entire epistemic universe around avoiding intellectual bias and _this_ is the thing they just let slide? 348837
Reposted by atticus goldfinchrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026no, "rationalist" isn't ironic. they specifically contrast themselves with empiricism -- and they literally believe that they can derive everything in their light cone from first principles to the disappearance of the last neutron. 1843238
