Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 22/09/2026The important thing about Anthropic is that the reason they love the BDSM cults is because they have toxoplasmosis. The same way a toxoplasmotic mouse will become aroused by cats, Anthropic employees exhibit an exceptional counterphobia, and will systematically produce exactly what they fear. 010
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 22/09/2026Dario is a special case here, insofar as he was one of the 20 at OpenAI, and he did have brain worms, and he did leave. As a result, he believes the things he's saying. 010
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 22/09/2026I know companies for whom Jev-like models will save 5-6 digits of LLM spend per month while also improving latency. 010
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 22/09/2026Many people have wrong models of why AI lab leaders talk about x-risk. It's not marketing or attempts at regulatory capture. There are 30 employees who do the most important research at any lab, and 20 have brain worms. Those 20 need you to say "I want a mutual pause" or they'll go to a competitor. 130
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 08/09/2026maybe its time for me to finally finish experience and nature 020
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 07/09/2026apropos nothing, I think it’s a grand historical tragedy that the Google employees fighting Project Maven had so little political discipline and consequently lost the battle against turning the company into a military contractor. Not to say they could have done it—but that group definitely couldn’t. 020
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 07/09/2026I do not like that you are talking about shooting people who are in several cases my friends. If you see the labs as the Great Satan, and think they can only be dealt with by polarizing employees into a grand blunder, fine, death threats could be the right strategy. I don’t think they are. 100
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 07/09/2026People picketing defense contractors typically strongly endorse nonviolence; the pause people have in many cases not done so. 310
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 07/09/2026Yes, and I don’t think anyone thinks OpenAI’s been good on this one. Charitably, I think there are limits to what he can tweet about without legal getting involved. I do think that this set of tweets are about vitirol, not content, and the (relatively) is doing a lot of work here. 010
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 07/09/2026They’re not the threat, but if you see them every way on your way to work, you will adopt a bunker mentality about them. Which is bad! And I think he’s aware of that, because that’s what his posts there are about! 110
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 07/09/2026he doesn't come out and say it but my interpretation of what he's really subtweeting is the pause people screaming and swearing and posting 1000 death threats every day about random individual coworkers of his 250
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 06/09/2026it seems very obvious to me that kanye is on cobenfy. nobody is talking about this. 010
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 29/08/2026people outside the bay area do not grasp that OpenAI is a company that wants to make money, but Anthropic is a Leninist doomsday cult building 10,000 Optimal Cadres in a datacenter in order to win WWIII 0130
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 29/08/2026“unions express their members economic interests” seems… uncontroversial? good? that's what they're supposed to do 110
Reposted by Chris BeiserNANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller August 27,1954 2769144
Reposted by Chris BeiserSteph Davidson @stephd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Rectangles with rounded corners are a very common shape and they should be called roundtangles 061
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 24/08/2026i stopped using claude and only use codex now because i found it too annoying in these ways 000
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 24/08/2026i think it's probably good that new models will kill the creative coding industrial complex by just letting people make things themselves 020
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 17/08/2026I have several times found it very helpful, when I have cleaned up many of the problems, to ask an agent to make a list of guidelines that the fixes seem to imply following that it did not the first time. Adding these fixes to an agents.md file… generally helps a lot? 020
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 15/08/2026i think the underlying question is whether that makes them "real" (i would say sorta yes but not with the implications that people typically imagine) 020
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 15/08/2026personally I think the ethical way for this to proceed would have been to spend the followup stories on the hiring committee 0140
Reposted by Chris BeiserChris Beiser @egg.computer · 12/08/2026its just not been the same since i lost my knocker-upper 0111
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 12/08/2026in order to fight (checks table) labor obfuscation in image generation, I'm here to tell you: i work on that stuff 050
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 12/08/2026i do think that it's good that hong, as a slopulist anti-data center candidate, lost the primary. but i must say that I respect her opposition to holidays. 040
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 04/08/2026i don't think it makes sense to fight ceaselessly to get people to say they like data centers… we just have to get zoning declared unconstitutional forever 040
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 23/07/2026Let me answer honestly: I did eat your plums. I found them in the icebox, and I'm not going to pretend I didn't know you were keeping them for breakfast. I understand if you're upset by that. There's one more load-bearing detail I should mention: they were so sweet, and so cold. 0804
Reposted by Chris BeiserDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Mamdani's focus on state capacity represents a form of civic education about what govt does in an age of bureaucracy-bashing. He also connects improving state capacity to his core policy goals on housing, childcare, consumer and worker protection. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mamdani-in... 436879
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 09/07/2026lots of people say you should go to a "top school" to meet smart people. not true. smart people are everywhere. what's unusual about is that they have many smart people who are well adjusted. 171
Reposted by Chris BeiserJenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026SPENDING TOO MUCH TIME ON SELF-IMPROVEMENT IS ANTISOCIAL 0248
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 23/06/2026like "funded by Trump Ally" is probably true under a reasonable definition for like, 10-15% of all series C+ companies and I think people are wrongly reading it to entail actual control 000
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 23/06/2026I think that this kind of framing is borderline irresponsible and borders on encouraging conspiracy thinking. This company has 17 investors, and one is Founders Fund. 110
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 20/06/2026People love to be like "you have to understand what these people are feeling" when they believe something completely false and frankly stupid 030
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 18/06/2026headline writer had it out for her by literally putting "there is no alternative" up top 000
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 16/06/2026people will be like "I oppose this because it will reduce class distinctions between me and less credentialed persons" and think they're being very leftist 000
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 14/06/2026Similarly, Anthropic is making a similar mistake with, (paraphrasing,) "AI might be the new Nuclear Weapons." You hear "dangerous, should be subject to arms controls." Washington hears, "it's the way we're going to win WWIII." 040
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 14/06/2026In 2019, one of the phrases of the time was "Data is the new oil," which activists used to mean it was a dangerous, extractive industry which it would be a mistake to build dependence on. But in Washington, that was taken as, "Data is a strategic resource that the US should maximize production of." 171
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 13/06/2026VC community needs to come together to force this company to stop running these ads lmao 4311
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 13/06/2026i think it's a little better at certain long-running tasks, but imo a similar size gap to 5.3 → 5.5 030
Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 13/06/2026the creators are not very good at economics because they work on software, not economics. that's why they're wrong about this. 1100
