iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

People like to say that the Looney Tunes or the Muppets are the modern equivalent of Commedia Dell'arte characters. The truth is that it's wojaks, they fulfill the criteria of interchangeable, recognizable architypes, but most importantly, they belong to the people.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Pretty cool that Portal levels now count as actual test chambers.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I will be unfollowing the Combine immediately. I was a massive fan of their interdimensional enslavement of sentient races, I had no idea about the AI use.

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Nathan Goodman @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Exactly. This whole thing seems to be superfluous discovery due to incentives created by intellectual property law. Had Anthropic continued to train their models on pirated content, they could do so without depleting the knowledge commons. But for legal reasons, they destroy books instead. 🧵

As Anthropic trained successive LLMs, it became convinced that using books was themost cost-effective means to achieve a world-class LLM. During this time, however,Anthropic became “not so gung ho about” training on pirated books “for legal reasons” (Opp.Exh. 19). It kept them anyway (e.g., Opp. Exh. 17 at 93–94; CC Opp. Exh. 35 at -0273474).To find a new way to get books, in February 2024, Anthropic hired the former head ofpartnerships for Google’s book-scanning project, Tom Turvey. He was tasked with obtaining "all the books in the world" while still avoiding as much "legal/practice/business slog" as

possible (Opp. Exhs. 21, 27). So, in spring 2024, Turvey sent an email or two to majorpublishers to inquire into licensing books for training AI. Had Turvey kept up thoseconversations, he might have reached agreements to license copies for AI training frompublishers — just as another major technology company soon did with one major publisher(e.g., Opp. Expert Malackowski ¶¶ 50, 64). But Turvey let those conversations wither.

Instead, Turvey and his team emailed major book distributors and retailers about bulk-purchasing their print copies for the AI firm’s “research library” (Opp. Exh. 22 at 145; Opp.Exh. 31 at -035589). Anthropic spent many millions of dollars to purchase millions of printbooks, often in used condition. Then, its service providers stripped the books from their bindings, cut their pages to size, and scanned the books into digital form — discarding the paper originals. Each print book resulted in a PDF copy containing images of the scannedpages with machine-readable text (including front and back cover scans for softcover books).Anthropic created its own catalog of bibliographic metadata for the books it was acquiring. It acquired copies of millions of books, including of all works at issue for all Authors.

To summarize the analysis that now follows, the use of the books at issue to train Claude and its precursors was exceedingly transformative and was a fair use under Section 107 of the Copyright Act. And, the digitization of the books purchased in print form by Anthropic was also a fair use but not for the same reason as applies to the training copies. Instead, it was a fair use because all Anthropic did was replace the print copies it had purchased for its central library with more convenient space-saving and searchable digital copies for its central library — without adding new copies, creating new works, or redistributing existing copies. However, Anthropic had no entitlement to use pirated copies for its central library. Creating a permanent, general-purpose library was not itself a fair use excusing Anthropic’s piracy.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Replaying Portal and lmfao

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Has it ever been written about how our contemporary wealthy elites practice the opposite of gilded age conspicuous consumption, where they attempt to signal that they enjoy "low class" activities.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

rant that seemed to belong here

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Nick Fuentes store is selling Know-Nothing flags. Nick man you're a Catholic. YOU are the foreign influence in question.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

"This is ontologically not true"

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

My grandparents actually voted for Mondale and my dad got bullied at school for it. True story.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

all my land in the metaverse gone This just sold please help me

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Paul Ehrlich is dead and England is Alive! (I know I’m late)

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I cannot conceive of any government employees more deserving of being "dragged into tribunals" than the DOGE kids.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I predict we are only right now seeing 10% of the force that will be unleashed when a famous person talks about having POCD.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

>Ice wall >Inner earth At least these people used to be vaguely coherent.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Hey, my name is in the Epstein files! I've told the story before, but should probably re-up. TLDR: never met the guy, never took (or asked for) any money from him, never visited the island. I was invited to the island, and said no. It's not that hard to just say no.

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

People keep saying Adam Tooze is prolific, but he’s nothing compared to Michael Mann, a climate scientist who wrote a very influential series of books on power sources and directed a great film about heat.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

The vegan equivalent to this is cans of beans. I have eaten three cans of beans in the past week.

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James Bennett @ubernostrum.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Swear to God I would not be surprised if some literal telegrams turn up in which a time-traveling Epstein is wiring Thomas Midgley, Jr. about HV U CNSIDRD ADDING LED TO GAS STOP ALSO= BEEN THNKNG ABT COOLING TLK ABT ITNEXT TIME I SEE U STOP

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The CIA is currently planning to launch a color revolution against God and replace him with a pro-western leader. Stay informed, comrades.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Rationalist Civil war incoming soon?

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

The Keynes vs Hayek rap battle is in the Epstein Files

From: Nicholas Jarecki [mailto
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 10 23:04
To: Jonathan Spencer; Dr. Henry Jarecki; Tony Detre
Subject: Keynes vs hayek rap battle

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Imagining some English major getting Grover Furr for their Medieval literature class and deciding to look up their professor’s academic work to see what they’re in for.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

It's so weird that Chick-fil-A has an entire advertising campaign that depicts cows as class traitors.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Completely unsurprising that this would happen again.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Every once and a while I remember that this is the cover image Penguin chose for their edition of Theory of the Leisure class and I start laughing.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

"Keynes DESTROYS National Association of Manufacturers with FACTS and LOGIC"

Privately, one of the NAM's departments admitted that Keynesian economics contained
elements of both fact and logic. Within the association's
Economic Policy Committee, it was conceded that, with
proper safeguards, deficit finance might sometimes be desirable.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

We are Jerome Powell. We carry the flame. We fight for Fed Independence. We honor his name.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The main thing to understand about the American libertarian movement is that there are essentially two types of libertarians. This is completely unsurprising to anyone who is familiar with the type that isn't just an edgy republican.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I log off for a few hours and now Trump is bombing a city.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

From my conversations with them LLMs seem to be more bearish on LLM capabilities than ML researchers.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Ontological Proof of Santa: p1: No being more Jolly than Santa can be imagined p2: existence makes one more Jolly than nonexistence p3: a Santa that exists only in the mind is therefore less Jolly than one that exists in reality

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Is this good or bad? anisota.net/harvest/

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

So funny whenever you get to Ellsberg’s paradox in a decision theory class, and you have to be like, ye, that Daniel Ellsberg.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

My favorite Cremieux moment was when he was praising all hell out of this paper he "recently read." Seems interesting, let's check who wrote it, oh...

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Interesting how it uses longtermist utilitarian rhetoric to justify saving Elon.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

We honestly need another Scopes trial because the first one humiliated the creationists on national radio so hard they didn't even try again until the 2000s.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I wonder if people will be more willing to mention the Bosnia and Cambodia thing now that this is out in the open.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Chomsky is pretty unlucky he didn't die before the Epstein thing came out because now his eulogies are going to be real awkward.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

This post made me realize that Eliezer, despite being considered an arch-utilitarian for writing torture vs dust specks. Is just straight up a Kantian at the end of the day. He literally would rather it be more likely for an AI to kill everyone (in his worldview) than to lie.

Eliezer Yudkowsky on Twitter.
Quoting "Lucy" "every time you use chatgpt it uses 10,000 gallons of water. you might disagree. you might even have some evidence to the contrary. but you have to ask yourself: is this really worth getting paperclipped over? every time you use chatgpt it uses 10,000 gallons of water."
Eliezer: Some people care enough about truth to try to figure out who else is trying to speak only truth. When people find those rare truthsayers, let them notice that we are alignment pessimists.

AI water use is not significant.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I will not be reading this article Substack.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

P and Q and Bob and Alice should go on a double date.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I think some of the confusion that non-Americans get about our two party system is that the main reason it's so difficult to get a third party off the ground is that the Republican and Democratic parties are not like most political parties, they're deeply entrenched cultural institutions.

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

This is your last chance to dodge a block

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

In ten years kids will believe this photo was AI and that this didn’t actually happen.

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