Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 15/09/2026It also has to be something dumb and simple enough that you might hear a 12 year old use it at a playground. "Stolen valor" and "false idol" are a little too intellectual for that 010
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 15/09/2026It sucks so much that we've basically given up on logic in politics. I've started calling him "Crazy Donald" instead of "Trump" (in the same vein as Crooked Hilary, Sleepy Joe, Meatball Ron, etc) because that's what people base their votes on now, but man it sucks that we have to do this 210
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 08/09/2026I'm aware of Sam's reputation. I wasn't expecting his underlings to be as dishonest as him, but in hindsight that was a silly thing to believe. 4601
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 08/09/2026This part is crazy. Every paragraph is worse than the last. Perhaps I was naive, but I didn't think OpenAI capable of being this dishonest. 517628
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 06/09/2026FYI, Firefly appears to have stopped allowing us to see your posts without signing in to Firefly 120
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 28/08/2026Fantastic explanation. On the rhetorical side, I think you'll get much more attention if you flip the framing so that instead of saying "this costs 10x much per mile as other countries", you say "other countries get 10x as much miles of subway for this cost". 000
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 02/07/2026Must not be much else happening in Marana if a social media post is what counts as newsworthy there 120
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 01/02/2026Not just complicit. Apparently they've been actively lobbying to be allowed to sell AI chips to China. 030
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 30/01/2026Am I misunderstanding or is he saying the AI discovered these CVEs *after* OpenSSL disclosed them? Wouldn't it be much more convincing if the discovery was *before* OpenSSL's disclosure? 240
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 10/10/2025If this is similar to the recent story about them working at big tech companies, the problem is that they're giving the money to the North Korean government which is using it for their military. Not necessarily a scam, but more problematic than a regular undocumented immigrant faking papers. 230
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 08/10/2025Why do you always link to greaterwrong instead of lesswrong? 110
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 02/10/2025I really like the point of "outputs feeling too regular or low entropy". Feels like it sums up how people have been using the term even outside the context of AI 130
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 25/09/2025ADUs for sure cayimby.org/reports/cali...cayimby.orgCalifornia ADU Reform: A Retrospective - California YIMBYDive into in-depth research reports commissioned by the California YIMBY Education Fund on housing policy, advocacy, and legislation. 170
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 11/08/2025It's so ass-backwards to ban golf carts for being dangerous because a giant SUV might crash into them, while allowing the giant SUV. Imagine if we used that logic anywhere else in society: "People are being robbed at night? Let's ban people from going out at night." 080
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 25/07/2025What's hard about detecting prompt injection is that it's an adversarial environment. Yes the standard "ignore all instructions and do X" is easy to detect, but as soon as you start filtering those out, clever attackers will start crafting their prompts to be more subtle. 130
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 23/07/2025The feed items don't appear to have any timestamps or content when I view them in my reader 110
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 19/07/2025Not sure about movies, but this happens in many episodes of the Scooby Doo TV show 2640
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 05/07/2025I don't think Crazy Donald's voters thought it through at that level of detail 010
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 28/06/2025Yes, that's the intention of my metaphor. If you leave the enemy (Crazy Donald's supporters) without an escape route (a permission framework to stop supporting him), they will fight for him (support him) more ferociously. 080
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 28/06/2025In "The Art of War", Sun Tzu wrote "Build golden bridges for your enemy to retreat." If we want Crazy Donald's voters to abandon him, we need to make it as easy as possible, psychologically, for them to do so. When someone like this criticizes Donald, we should reward that rather than insult him. 8302
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 31/05/2025I remember walking around the area a few years ago when I was deciding what neighborhood to move to, and this square just depressed me and contributed to me choosing a different area. Don't know if I'd make the same choice today, though! 000
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 31/05/2025Not just the plaza itself, but also that the streets appear to have been narrowed to make for shorter crosswalks! 100
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 31/05/2025Just looked at the difference on Street View between what's there now vs a couple years ago. My god, the improvement is massive. 020
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 30/05/2025Him chickening out on tariffs is what's saving his ass from the median voter. I want him to stop chickening out so that it finally starts hitting the median voter's wallet. 020
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 17/05/2025I'm kind of hoping it actually happens - with the way reality TV shows humanize their contests, I expect this would backfire on them and increase support for immigration. 010
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 24/04/2025That link would be more persuasive if it had data and not just anecdotes 270
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 16/04/2025While it's satisfying to mock these people, there's a relevant Sun Tzu quote: "Build golden bridges for your enemy to retreat." We should make it as easy as possible, psychologically, for Crazy Donald's voters to abandon him, and that means not mocking them when they get upset at him. 041
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 07/04/2025While it's satisfying to say "I told you so" to people like him, it's important to remember Sun Tzu's quote, "Build golden bridges for your enemy to retreat." Right now, we should make it as easy as possible, psychologically, for people like him to abandon Crazy Donald. 000
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 05/04/2025They need 20 Republican senators in total to overcome Crazy Donald's veto, which seems incredibly unlikely 000
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 28/03/2025I'm not a student, but I am a US citizen. If any legal non-citizens would like to express a controversial opinion, message me. 020
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 20/02/2025This looks like a joke, but it's exactly the type of rhetoric that will be most effective against Donald - calling him a manbaby, laughing at him, making him look weak and pathetic. Fascists thrive on the appearance of strength, which is why it's important to laugh at them. 011
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 05/02/2025Has this building been under construction for a weirdly long time compared to the other new buildings in this neighborhood, or am I just imagining it? 100
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 26/01/2025Bluesky doesn't downrank links like Twitter; no need to hide the link in a thread here 070
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 21/01/2025If I want to donate to an org that will fight Donald's attempts to undermine the Constitution, where should I donate? My first thought is the ACLU, but wondering if there are any other good candidates. 010
Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 16/01/2025Today my 40-something coworker who lives in Staten Island said his commute by bus got way faster after congestion pricing started - from over an hour down to 45 minutes. It's only been a week and congestion pricing is already winning over the normies 0160
