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Harvey

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29 years old. [Unemployed] Frontend software engineer based in London. Vegan 🌱 Ace 🏳️‍🌈

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
Here is Eliezer Yudkowsky explaining (like a very normal person who absolutely does not have some kind of acute personality disorder) why, on the basis of his childhood test scores, he is a special genius uniquely qualified to change the world: web.archive.org/web/20010309...
5.2: Do you really think you can change the world?
Well, yes. After all, if I shouldn't believe that I can do it - or at least, that I have enough of a chance to make the effort worthwhile - who should?
That, at any rate, would be the argument I'd use if I were trying to set up a socially acceptable set of emotional bindings under which "I can change the world" sounds like a modest endeavor. "You can assign a suitably humble estimate to my chances of success as an individual, but if nobody tried, we'd be out of luck, wouldn't we?i
That's not what I tell myself.
Algernon's Law says that any simple (45) major intelligence enhancement will turn out to be a net evolutionary disadvantage. (46). The flip side of Algernon's Law is that there are some levels of performance that can't be achieved without the evolutionary disadvantage. If there were any way to duplicate the performance level of a Specialist without the downside, my SAT scores would be as common as mud; those performance levels would be part of the standard human neurology, like symbolic language or three-dimensional vision. I therefore expect that in any of my areas of Specialization - causal analysis, combinatorial design, reflectivity - I will have significantly more raw processing power than anyone except another Specialist.
Just because ten thousand dedicated researchers hit a problem and bounce, it is not a licensable conclusion that a Specialist will bounce off as well. A truly "impossible" problem often takes me a while to solve; I have to slog away at it steadily, whereas my usual rule is that I can see an answer instantly if I can see it at all. Conversely, if my level of processing power is enough to make slow but steady progress on a problem, then I would expect any non-Specialist to hit the problem and bounce. Which, to some extent, explains the travails suffered by Al.The existence of Specialists expands the range of problems that humanity can solve. And because I don't know of any other Countersphexists operating in the fields of Al, transhumanism, or Singularitarianism (47), or of any other Countersphexists at all (48), then, for an important class of problems, I expand the range of problems that can be solved. In particular, I am referring to the problem of Al.
Oh, don't get me wrong - I'm sure AI would be solved eventually. In about 2020 CRNS (49), the weight of accumulated cognitive science and available computing power would disintegrate the ideological oversimplifications and create enough of a foothold in the problem to last humanity the rest of the way. It would be absurd to claim to represent the difference between a solvable and unsolvable problem in the long run, but one genius can easily spell the difference between cracking the problem of intelligence in five years and cracking it in twenty-five - or to put it another way, the difference between a seed Al created immediately after the invention of nanotechnology, and a seed Al created by the last dozen survivors of the human race huddled in a survival station, or some military installation, after Earth's surface has been reduced to a churning mass of goo.
That's why I matter, and that's why I think my efforts could spell the difference between life and death for most of humanity, or even the difference between a Singularity and a lifeless, sterilized planet. I don't mean to say, of course, that the entire causal load should be attributed to me; if I make it, then Ed Regis or Vernor Vinge, both of whom got me into this, would equally be able to say "My efforts made the difference between Singularity and destruction." The same goes for Brian Atkins, and Eric Drexler, and so on. History is a fragile thing. So are our causal intuitions, where linear chains of dependencies are concerned. Nonetheless, I think that I can save the world, not just because I'm the one who hap…
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2h
President Macron, "Welcome back" "If, indeed, the British want to return, and if the Prime Minister is moving in that direction, I think that is very good news both for his country and for Europeans."
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Bullwark @bullwark.bsky.social · 3h
Putting half the active user base on a massive block list then casually mentioning that your lead programmer no longer works for the company. That's the bluesky way
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mr-yoyito.bsky.social @mr-yoyito.bsky.social · 4h
Excellent political cartoon. It’s too bad Ed Sheeran won’t get it.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 18h
funny 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.
Taylor Lorenz: "Listening to this whole interview and these comments in context you see he is actually making a pretty nuanced point. You can criticize him all u want but taking clips out of context to manufacture outrage is so lame— critique what he actually said!"
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 16h
wake up babe, new Skynet/ Matrix/ WOPR/ robot apocalypse strategy just bounced: they're going to use the brain-rotted guy in charge of health policy to tell us to all start licking measles homeopathically.
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The old internet @theoldinternet.bsky.social · 2h
The Matrix (1999)
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☭ Tankie Girl 🏳️‍⚧️ @girltankie.bsky.social · 2h
In light of recent events, it's time to bust out a classic
Sentence describing What A-A-Ron Rubberdicks did in the BK logo font
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alber @captainacabairbud.myatproto.social · 2h
when your post is just too good
a bluesky notification that tells me it failed to delete post, please try again
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2h
Days before Brazil's election, Meta briefly blocked President Lula's campaign page from running political ads and removed an Instagram profile behind a viral video on Flávio Bolsonaro. Both decisions were reversed, but raised public concerns. Brazilian investigative journalist Laís Martins reports.
techpolicy.press
On Eve of Brazil Elections, Meta Content Moderation Decisions Raise Questions
Two recent moderation decisions—while later reversed—have raised concerns about the company's policies and practices, writes Laís Martins.
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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 2h
Werner Herzog will be the last human being whose next word no language model can predict
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 7h
& 5 minutes later when the next shipment of weapons arrived as scheduled, netanyahu concluded that biden was a weak bluffing fool who he could completely ignore to zero consequence
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Patt Morrison @pattmlatimes.bsky.social · 2h
Any "morally binding" document that purportedly binds Donald Trump isn't worth the pixels it's written on.
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 17h
The Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet.
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 17h
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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OKSOTHICK. @sayitaintsoph.bsky.social · 2h
The details on the door. The structural integrity. The use of materials. We really use to build shit with character. Now it’s fiberglass and vibes. Pathetic.
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 2h
How do Republicans recover from public embarrassment? The lie. MAGA Sen. Nobody now claims the Hawks game in ATL was the only game played at the time in question—untrue. Dumb asses confused Hawks and the Hawkeyes; thought they caught Jack Smith in a lie about “coordinating” with ATL DA Fani Willis.
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Sam King @samcking.bsky.social · 17h
I hope everyone has a Hussein
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Grateful Jerry @huskydogfan.bsky.social · 2h
This is when she realized that their whole plan to try to entrap Jack Smith wasn't going to work. The whole hearing was a setup which you could tell by what they called the hearing. They even had publicity set up for after the hearing. They forgot that he's smart and they're stupid.
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 3h
It’s particularly cruel to do this to Garbo, who protected her privacy and peace but it’s not surprising she was chosen. After all, she told the world “no” and AI pushers love to run roughshod over consenf www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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SKF advert review – let’s hope this dull AI Greta Garbo is not the future
Swedish-American actor exhumed for bizarre, humourless 99 seconds that give us another reason to resent AI
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"[T]he top 0.1[%] of richest U.S. households have gained 8,000 times more wealth on average than households in the bottom 50[%] since 2024. ... [T]he wealth gap is at its largest point ever, with the top 1[%] owning nearly 32[%] of all U.S. wealth as of the third quarter of 2025."
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 4h
Not a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio
The audio of Mr. Paxton was shared with The Times by an attendee who recorded him speaking at a private fund-raiser in Washington attended by roughly a dozen people. The person, who opposes Mr. Paxton’s campaign and provided the recording to The Times, was granted anonymity because Mr. Paxton’s remarks were private.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 2h
Reading, and writing, are holy. I love reading novels because they tell me something. They say: "this is what someone believed enough to dedicate months or years of their life to say." This is just as true for the trashiest pulp as it is for the highest literature.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 2h
23,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules. That’s the amount of heat the oceans absorbed in 2025. A number so huge it’s almost meaningless…until you realise it’s roughly 40× humanity’s annual energy use. The ocean is buying us time. We’re running out of it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 2h
That is called fascism. It’s just fascism.
"I would say transactional interventionism," says Scott Lincicome, vice president of general economics at the libertarian Cato Institute.
To him, Trump has no set economic philosophy. Rather, many of Trump's policy moves are aimed at achieving a specific outcome - like using a tariff to boost a particular industry or punish a foreign country ... or suggesting a $5,000 check to reward votes.
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 4h
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 4h
If you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The really strange thing? He never sued his own kids’ school for their mask mandate. He’s a piece of Schitt.
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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 5h
the funniest part about this is that claude doesn’t have a separate feature called “vinyl mode” this guy is just giving premade prompts to feed to the normal chatbot
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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 4h
Here are the ghosts, pumpkins, & bats that are left 👻🎃🦇🎨 I'm surprised no one's snatched up the Haunted House but I will be happy to keep it! One-of-a-kind, 100% human-made mini paintings on wood for spooky season; I'll be going to the Post Office Friday to ship 'em out stinasdemons.bigcartel.com
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4h
They're moving on from trans youth towards advocating banning care for trans adults, just like we said they would.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The UK govt is Palantir’s 2nd biggest customer. Why? Or, more to the point, how? Our latest @thenerve_news investigation reveals a web of cronyism into the highest levels of govt. But Palantir also has a spin machine that uses political journalists to launder its PR 1/
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23h
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Bari Weiss is a propagandist for the Zionist Epstein criminal network. She is advocating for Flock cameras because that criminal network runs it and wants to put ordinary people in a police surveillance state while they have impunity to do whatever they want.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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TieTuesday @tietuesday.bsky.social · 23h
screaming "trans rights free Palestine fuck all recruiters tricking the young gambling is a blight and i think we will look back at it the same way we do cigarettes now" at the start of every stream to give everyone an ad-free experience
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 4h
"Plain and simple, I'm going to speak in empty platitudes and make zero actual policy commitments."
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 5h
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h
“Morally binding” “Police yourselves” lol ok
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 10h
It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 8h
It's quite fun how basically no-one in labour seems to know which faction they're pretending is in charge instead of themselves anymore.
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 9h
Liquid Bluesky
National Trust• @nationaltrust.org.uk 
Nobody has ever regretted a scone after a long walk.

Except someone with ceoliac disease
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 8h
Most TV is just this now.
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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 8h
“In response to “The death of web development education” ” bell.bz/in-response-to-the-death-of… > The most effective way I can contribute, in my opinion, is a crude sketch I just did of Piccalilli‘s Stripe chart for all time sales: That graph is eye-opening
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In response to “The death of web development education”
I read Mat​hia⁠s S​chäf⁠er’s excellent post, titled The death of web development education. I was thinking about how I can contribute to the conversation and really struggled to articulate the problem...
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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 8h
Only today to go - please help if you can...
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Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"OpenAI solved the Navier-Stokes equations with AI!" No, they solved a particular case of them, stole most of the solution from a team of mathematicians, and spent $22,000,000 on the sheer compute required
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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 7h
Always been struck by the same. Other countries respect and look after elders…in the UK your “value” is only judged economically - it is a disturbing cult!
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 22h
Honestly I am gutted Burnham STILL hasn't brought Thames Water into special administration Why not? It went bust 2+ years ago Shareholders have walked away US hedge fund creditors want to pollute illegally then sell it 16 million so-called "customers" need you to TAKE IT BACK
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clyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 7h
"bbc boss praises ai-enhanced doctor who fan episode" okay so all the other things wrong with this aside his claim is that ai can now produce hollywood movie level effects and that not being true also aside DOCTOR WHO DOESN'T FUKKIN NEED THAT
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clyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 13/08/2023
ai in hollywood (and everywhere else) is a union busting tactic the goal isnt actually ai scripts, its execs telling writers every day "stop complaining or we'll replace you with a robot"
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Casket Based @cineblah.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm making a documentary about the RLNI situation and I am contacting various organisations. However I thought I'd turn to bluesky as well, I'm looking to interview people either connected to the RNLI, to refugees/those working with refugees and also with counter-protestors. Please share.
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