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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I knew he was going to be unhappy about this
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
the big questions of "what are LLMs" and "what is alignment" remain important but they are separable from the question of AI safety we can talk about safety as a systems process regardless of what the nature of the technology is, and AI companies are failing in those processes
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this is by far the best "I quit my AI job over safety concerns" essay yet because it is the first one that is able to talk about safety concerns in practical terms and that understands "safety" as a topic with extensive literature in analogous fields www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Two changes are urgently needed. First: AI companies need to rely more on the safety expertise that already exists in other fields. And second, before we create systems significantly more capable than the ones we have today, we need new science to ensure that more capable models (and their successors) will make safe choices when we aren’t looking.

Given today’s risks, frontier labs need to run like nuclear-power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning, so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster. Right now, AI companies don’t know how—but other people do. In a nuclear-power plant, the technical systems and rules people follow are set up so that, if equipment breaks or someone pushes the wrong button, we still won’t risk a meltdown. OpenAI and other labs are growing and deploying frontier AI with far less redundancy and rigor than this, even though the harm from an irreversible loss of control would be much greater than the harm from any single meltdown. Even short of a full loss of control, we could see autonomous swarms of AI agents that act without human permission. Imagine “rogue” agents that work like teams of hackers (for example, holding hospital computer systems for ransom) but never need to sleep.
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
How do you square this with the “they make profit on inference” argument?
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I could be wrong but I’m skeptical of an idea of intelligence or sentience behind the human model because are definitions are rooted in our own experience
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
All I have to say that in my job I absolutely have to know both my code and the data. What ever obscure edge case will come up in our data discussions with the product teams
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Using Claude at work. I find it helpful. But the more I use it, the more convinced I that the whole world had gone crazy
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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
My biggest gripe with agentic work is that I've become a reviewer. Know what work task I like least? The task I find most boring? It's reading & reviewing. And now that's the whole game. That's left me bored & disinterested, & maybe even ready to move on from some areas in general. #rstats #databs
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Guy who’s not worried about the fertility crisis because AI will take all our jobs anyway
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
call me a liberal nationalist but I feel proud to export an American culture of space exploration, multicultural immigrant cuisine, the Black American music tradition, football basketball baseball, NY Jewish comedy, land grant universities, and social libertarianism
Children in Juárez, Mexico, watched a live broadcast of the launch of NASA's Artemis II mission. JOSE LUIS GONZALEZ/REUTERS
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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 11/04/2026
Statistics = Algebra + Random bullshit
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
My new cope is we’ll keep seeing insanely impressive results from LLMs but it won’t move any macro indicators by much
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The final straw that me to quit X was hiding replies. Us reply guys are people too
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Doom scrolling for mythos posts but west coast accounts must be just getting up
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV declares the Iran War is “unjust” and “is not resolving anything.” After suggesting Trump is committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, he called on Americans to contact Congress to help end the war.
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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
First, I think Trump loses this one handily. Probably 7-2, maybe 8-1. Outside chance of 9-0.
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Honestly weird to see so many pro-AI people be defensive here. Sure there’s a lot anti-whining on this app but you guys are absolutely dominating in the real world
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
One thing I like about this site vs twitter and Reddit is there isn’t any dumb USA vs Europe ragebait
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 31/03/2026
The first time the average has dipped under 40 percent. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
the only bot I actually (knowingly) liked. Maybe just because his pfp reminds me of a guy I went to college with
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
the solution to "not wanting to write" is the same as the solution to roughly 90% of problems writers face: you knuckle the fuck down and write. there is no short-cut that will make you better at your job. just do it.
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The Jetsons lied to us
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Funny that some people I found insufferable on twitter have yet to piss me off here
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
It was never about strumming chords but making music. Now with gen ai I can write more songs than ever and no longer waste my time playing guitar
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Just because LLMs are the future doesn’t mean I have to like them
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This is what I don’t get about the current debate. I believe my cat is conscious but I don’t think it would win gold at the IMHO. Maybe silver if it was lucky
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Vincent Carchidi @vcarchidi.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Turns out that in order to be conscious you have to be Don Knuth
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Young Republicans group chat.
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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 22/09/2025
I guess we have our answer
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Jimmy Kimmel’s show to return on Tuesday | CNN
“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” will return to air on ABC on Tuesday night, the network announced in a statement.
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Imho, dem ads should be blunter. Not sure about ai slop
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
It’d be interesting to split phd from md and jd
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Miles McBain @milesmcbain.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Most people would agree that it’s possible to live off reheated meals but it’d be a sadder version of living. And yet living off reheated knowledge is apparently a 500 billion dollar idea. www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...
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In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s m…
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Peter Ellis @freerangestats.info · 07/08/2025
What makes this funny is that the product that is being sold with this chart clearly made the chart, and so simultaneously demonstrates why the product is simply not worth anything in this space.
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Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I'm not one to lay into the NYT but this is genuinely an embarrassing piece of reporting.
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Lasher is not very smart and particularly bad at statistics @jabaluck.bsky.social
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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
The NY Times articles is dumb and people should just ignore it
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
This should be very concerning to you, even if you’re bullish on AI in other fields
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Demetri @phdemetri.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Consider two photos: one of an immigrant mother being separated from her child and another of a burning car. Which leads the news? Which focuses attention on the harms of mass deportations? A challenge of violent protest tactics is that they often shift attention away from the injustices they decry.
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Gutting NCES was optimal move if you’re goal was to maximize service disruption while minimize savings
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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
In today's edition of Ben Actually Reads The Documentation, we've discovered that `starts_with()` accepts a vector of matches. As in: iris |> select( starts_with(c("Petal", "Sepal")) ) instead of iris |> select( starts_with("Petal"), starts_with("Sepal") ) #rstats
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
From 1997-2000, gdp growth in USA exceed 4%, which it hasn’t done since excluding 2021, which was just bouncing back from COVID
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Starting to like the syntax of data.table’s dcast over pivot_wider. Wonder if anyone else feels that way #rstats
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Just missed the boat on this one
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Not enough controversy on this site. Need a balance between toxicity and blandness
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
What I don’t get about the push back agains political moderation is that lack of constraint is what is killing Trump’s approval rating right now
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henrybemis13.bsky.social @henrybemis13.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
So many of the posts pick semi-arid states because the lack of greenery makes the difference more stark even if it’s completely unrelated to planning
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/05/2025
this guy hates this country, its laws and its traditions
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