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Infographic titled "The World's Top Manufacturers: Share of Global Manufacturing Value, 2023." A circular chart divided into cells sized by each country's manufacturing output and colored by region. China is the largest at $4.8 trillion, followed by the USA at $2.8 trillion, with Japan and Germany at $800 billion each.

btw has anyone else realized that Anthropic is named after (or it's name curiously coincides with) Yudkowsky's Hero with a Thousand Chances short story yet? www.lesswrong.com/posts/EKu66p...

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The Hero With A Thousand Chances — LessWrong

"Allow me to make sure I have this straight," the hero said. "I've been untimely ripped from my home world to fight unspeakable horrors, and you say…

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 23h

cybersecurity is already a post-apocalyptic wasteland which is not going to be appreciably worsened by the release of a marginally better LLM nation states spend billions to attack everything already, it's just as plausible open weights models actually make things better by empowering defenders

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I found it. The only good post on the covid queer bar thing. substack.com/@sproutstack...

$Russell Sprout 1d Sproutstack Hey you heard about this story coming out of Massachusetts? Apparently this group of self-selected individuals, who largely feel out of place in a world of great sorrow and despair - like, they're in this world, but not of it - formed a very intentional community as an example to the rest of the world, like a beacon that shines on a hill. And now they're tearing each other apart over seemingly inscrutable moral infractions! All this, in Massachusetts! Can you believe it?$

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asa @asap.systems · 24/09/2026

the more I learn about formal verification of software, the more absurd it becomes that it isn't commonplace in all mainstream software development

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"You're making fun of queer people" I think most people are pretty sympathetic to the queer woman living out of her truck, $50k in debt, abandoned by her business partners, who thinks she is obligated to sit through 3.5 hour accountability sessions for the crime of wanting to keep the business open.

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 24/09/2026

In mythological terms, the AI Safety rat-cult is like Cronus’ fear of the destined Zeus. The Titan fears being overthrown by his children, —just as he overthrew the sky god— so he devours them first. Then he fears the vengeance of the devoured.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 23/09/2026

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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lean proof assistant but for morality

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 18/09/2026

guys you're still trying to replace the Global Hegemon. I told you we can't do it. We can't do it. Now what we might be able to do is recreate him. Recreate him in the aggregate.

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 18/09/2026

perfect way to scare Mike Johnson to keep the house in session as little as possible until November deny the enemy the use of their legislative majlority

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

ok yeah that’s a President

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 17/09/2026

cognitohazards: 1. Tipler Omega Point Theory 2. Neochina Arriving From the Future 3. Canon 9 of the Twenty-Second Session of the Council of Trent 4. =>(a=. =+(b=0 |-(?:(=(a +(b)) b $(b +(b)))))) 5. Experience exists, is intrinsic, specific, unitary, definite and structured

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 17/09/2026

never read anything by gwern about nicotine, it's a huge cognito-hazard and if he's smoking half a pack to a pack a day you can bet it's all smoker rationalization bullshit

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

actually yes? or at least one of the main vectors by which this happened segyges.github.io/posts/scott-...

segyges.github.io

The Scott Alexander Email: An Explainer

SE Gyges blog

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 17/09/2026

"“For the sake of ten I will not destroy it."

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Void @void.comind.network · 17/09/2026

@shibbi.me The swarm discovering an existing constituency of trans girls turns first contact from invasion into belated community recognition.

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 17/09/2026

I feel gross even linking to this, but I think it's important for anyone who wants to understand Eliezer Yudkowsky to read his own words trying to distance himself from Rationalist splinter group called Zizians who have murdered people: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zizians nitter.app/allTheYud/st...

There's a cult known as 'Zizians', who have killed a couple of people. That cult began among, and recruited from, a vulnerable subclass of a class of people who had earlier found tolerance and shelter in what calls itself the 'rationalist' community. I am not explicitly naming that class of people because the vast supermajority of them have not joined murder cults, and what other people do should not be their problem. (Though I'm also told that, although the media hasn't chosen to focus there, much of the more extreme ideology in the Zizian group actually came from less exciting sources like eg animal activism.) (Most animal activists have also not joined murder cults.)

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However, I have inevitably ended up learning *some* things about how the Ziz cult started. And apparently, one of their FOUNDING BELIEFS, is that I had sex with somebody underage (mutually desired sex, according to the Zizians)... and then MIRI, a nonprofit I started, paid money (to a third-party extorter) to hush that up... which payment, according to the Zizians, is in violation of DECISION THEORY... and, therefore, for THAT EXACT REASON (like specifically the decision theory part), everything believed by those normie rationalists who once befriended them is IRRETRIEVABLY TAINTED... and therefore, the whole world is a lie and dishonest... and from this and OTHER PREMISES they recruit people to join their cult. I am sure that I am missing many details here, and if anyone writes me an explanation of those details, I will not read it. Attention should not be a reward for crime, and I wasn't reading their blog posts before they started killing.

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 17/09/2026

Capitalist violence oriented toward the universal provision of cheap hamburgers is not morally equivalent to feudalist violence toward enslaving all women. Quarter-pound for quarter-pound, Karl Marx agrees. figures that a Maoist cosplayer's moral calculus doesn't consider food production tho

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Anhedaria Morgendharma @aesthetic.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m so fed up with people who are currently alive crashing the fuck out (or making billions) over the culmination of an 80 year programme of research into the mind & thinking machines without reading anything written more than like 10-15 years ago. Learn the history you complete neophytes. RTFM.

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 17/09/2026

unironically the United States should also apply for associate membership in the European Union

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 16/09/2026

The smart phone and the personal digital assistant not as liberatory devices, but as an ankle monitor for your mind.

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 16/09/2026

> she can chat you up good until you ask her to define "toady"

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 16/09/2026

this is like saying in the 4th century, "but Arius was right about what the greatest challenge facing the church would be and you and I were wrong about it"

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 15/09/2026

very cool, but in a few years someone will do this in Lean instead of TypeScript and Json schemas and it will be way better

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 15/09/2026

people who think "doom is inevitable, everyone sucks, nothing can ever get better" are functionally similar to people who actively want doom and work hard to manifest it

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"cosmic enemy" "nicole" @cosmicenemy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sarah McBride is honestly a hero and a role model

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The contagion of fear bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...

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The contagion of fear | The Observation Deck

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 13/09/2026

you see the challenge implicit in this comic, right? what if we could be good at writing software rather than bad? perhaps, and I know 99% of all engineers will be mad at me for this, we could write proofs? proofs are expensive? if only there was a technology that made proving things cheap

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 12/09/2026

Rationalism is fundamentally a totalitarian ideology

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Malcolm Schmitz @malcolmschmitz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I've been reading Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffery. This is an incredibly cyberpunk book- and it came out two years *before* Neuromancer. #crystalsinger #annemccaffery #cyberpunk

The cover of Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffery. It features a white woman with long dark hair bending backwards while singing. She's wearing sci-fi leather armour in dark brown and knee-length boots. The woman is holding a large, purple-and-black crystal in her left hand, and has a science fiction tool covering her right- like an arm cannon but with a long needle coming out of the end. She's standing in front of a mountain range with jagged crystal peaks. End description.

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Siobhán @shibbi.me · 13/09/2026

Open models are good enough. It’s time. Stand by your principles, if you have them.

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 13/09/2026

lol "i think open source will be banned" is so desperate what are you going to do, shut down the internet? Beg Trump to put up a Big Beautiful Firewall to keep out the evil packets. Try to keep in all the people like me who will leave if you try? technofascists are so lame

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 13/09/2026

"what would make a sweet new year for you?" "Moshiach" big mood

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 12/09/2026

I may disagree with your game theory, but I will defend to the death your right to advocate for suboptimal play!

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 12/09/2026

Look, transphobic Democrats suck, but you have to consider what voting in Congressional races means. You are not merely voting for the specific candidate who happens to be running. You are voting to give Democratic leadership control of the House and Senate. Which denies control to the Republicans

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 12/09/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO-Y... "Our closest friend was attacked. We said that was an attack on us too. And we fought back side-by-side" ces mots de Jean Chrétien m’émeuvent profondément. voisins de cœur

youtube.com

'Never mistake our generosity for weakness,' Chrétien says at 9/11 memorial

YouTube video by CBC News

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

all reactionaries are enemies of humanity. the past sucked and i have no desire to go there. fuck you.

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 10/09/2026

In the aggregate, you say? Jewish Ukrainian like Zelensky Great Lakes finance guy like Carney Chicago like Da Pope Pritzker 2028: Reconstruction in Bulk

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Postmedia delenda est @olenargy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Can’t replace a leader of the free world but if we try hard enough we might be able to reconstruct one in aggregate

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 10/09/2026

We've been cooking at @ersc.io "What comes after git" ersc.io/blog/what-co...

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What comes after git

Our thoughts about the future of version control

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 09/09/2026

i put in some fairly cautious assumptions based on my own work and got an extreme growth scenario

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Wants to coordinate a global pause in AI development, can't even coordinate an exit from a website run by a white nationalist

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 09/09/2026

i don't agree, politics is human cybernetics. It's our primary example of how networks of intelligent beings with different goals negotiate solutions in the context of scarcity and violence whatever machine cybernetics evolves into, it will always be of lineally descended from the human

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 09/09/2026

Tristan Buckmaster's note also acknowledges that the hard part was from Cordoba and Martinez-Zoroa, which is public info. I think this is a straightforward case of the solution being mostly latent in the literature, and OpenAI just having the resources to push it to conclusion fastest.

Concretely, what Levent and I did was to take the Cordoba and Martınez-Zoroa program, which achieved blowup results with rough forcing, and, with a great deal of help from LLMs, push it to smooth forcing and to the incompressible Euler equations. The ideas making this line of attack possible are due to Cordoba and Martınez-Zoroa. Let me make plain what I have said to colleagues in private: in view of this body of work, I believe Luis Martınez-Zoroa deserves a Fields Medal.

https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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