Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 6hI honestly think the reason there are a lot of incels who hate women is born from jealousy of women. Like, there are other ways they could handle those feelings. 180
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 14hAI may spread the ability to create these kinds of weapons. I think if the AI safety crowd would be better focusing on more plausible threats. Arguing some fantasy scenarios of rogue AI is silly when there are plenty of rogue people around willing to abuse AI systems. 020
Reposted by Layer8Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14hMIT Media Lab’s Kevin Esvalt: “Russia's five-hospital quarantine, FSB involvement, and…hazmat use in response to the death of a single researcher at a weapons-lineage Irkutsk lab are inconsistent with a lab-acquired plague infection, which would have been treated with prophylactic antibiotics. 25646266
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 15hI don't think this is a legit use case but helping visually disabled people could be. The main issue I have with that argument however is that using a camera to describe things does not require storing video recordings. An image can be described using a single frame that is just stored in RAM. 000
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 15hThe UK allows them to use its territory to stage attacks and then they can't or won't even defend it when doing so makes the UK a target. Does this seem like a good deal for the UK? Having US forces stationed in your country is a liability. 020
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 15hIdk, this is probably the most justifiable defence spending I have seen in a while. Certainly makes more sense than aircraft carriers and submarines given actual threats. Now if only they would scrap that other stuff we could be onto something. 300
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I think it's fairly self-evident that ethno nationalism inherently racist. No one has a problem condemning white nationalists as racists. On a technical level Zionism is obviously racist. The issue seems to be people who support it have a hard time admitting they support some forms of racism. 030
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026How exactly are boys this age affording to even buy these? It must be their parents indulging these brats. 020
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I was wondering in what sense the Conservative party can legitimately claim to be 'conservative'. They have long since adopted radical liberal economics and abandoned any commitments to safeguarding heritage. 1150
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I have the Keychron K2 HE and it's my favourite keyboard so far. The railed magnetic switches are ridiculously smooth. Being able to adjust the travel distance is nice but I'm actually quite happy with the default actuation. 000
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I sort of disagree with people returning perfectly functional items because usually returns end up in landfill. It's not particularly good for the environment. 110
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A small mercy is that without being deliberately tampered with the default behaviour of LLMs is just to summarise the consensus across existing literature. This means the likes of Elon have to put in a lot of work to stop Grok being 'woke'. 000
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Most people who like small businesses must not have much experience actually working for one. 060
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Modern technology seems impressive until you realise a brain the size of a sesame seed can monitor acute sensory perception, master aerial acrobatics, navigate over vast distance and communicate through sign language. Oh, and it can also reason its way through a puzzle. Insane. 070
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I have no idea what they are offering to anyone. Workers? Rights cut. Business? More red tape and obstacles. The right of British politics has basically no ideas of how to actually improve anything. 010
Reposted by Layer8Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026So, Tories would cancel Erasmus and youth mobility, scrap the SPS deal that reduces red tape, lowers costs and eases backlogs for goods trade and renege on our new energy, defence and security arrangements… Ridiculous threat, ridiculous party, ridiculous people… 1631374441
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I can't say any of the recent generations have been particularly bad when measured against history. It's ironic that the guys we call 'the greatest generation' invented fascism and started a whole world war. Every generation since then has been a big improvement. 040
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I'm playing the remaster edition and it's good BUT it's insane that there are still so many bugs in this game. I think I will need to go onto Nexus and see if there's a community patch. 000
Reposted by Layer8emily blight 🐦⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 03/10/2026trying my best to stay out of rape discourse because the past few years have already been very hard & it seems like 60% of people are cool with a world with a little rape in it but whoever this was invented “manic pixie rape girl in the lives of the men they helped improve” & that sucks. it sucks. 639335
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026One thing that isn't really made clear to you before you leave home is just how much of adult life revolves around laundry. I mean, they say the grind doesn't stop. No mf, the grind occasionally stops. The laundry is relentless. 000
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026By videogame standards this means about ten seconds of tits and absolutely nothing below the waist. 001
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026At this kind of time scale I always imagine it will either be: A) trivially easy for future humanity to escape Or more likely B) completely irrelevant since we are extinct already 2421
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026No, mess with them more. I want endless more original and risky things being greenlit. 120
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026'We've decided that the shortages will persist into 2028.' would be a more accurate way to put it. When you are part of a cartel that agrees not to expand production to maintain prices you don't predict shortages, you plan them. 0270
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The Israelis kept waiting for the US to call a stop and were privately amazed when the US kept just letting them go further and further. I feel like Biden is one of the most culpable people for the genocide because basically any Democrat before him would have put a stop to it at some point. 031
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I think if you had tried to make a film of Neuromancer when it was released it would have been difficult but the book has influenced so much culture since then that now every adult is aware of all the concepts it contains. You don't need to explain cyberspace in 2026. 010
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I fucking hate how these arseholes are so emboldened now. It used to be they had to pretend to contrition but it seems like they have collectively decided public opinion no longer matters. They are acting like petty kings and we need to take them down and their companies need to be broken up. 190
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The logic of this is that people in their twenties should not be allowed to have babies. That's a much more consequential decision as it impacts a whole other life. 0252
Reposted by Layer8Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/10/2026Opinion from Lex: Even if the US president backs down, his threat should prompt Europe to be more energy independent. ft.trib.al/6ipYK1e 4325
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The PSNI is such a disappointment. I remember having hope that it could be the beginning of good policing but the trajectory has been downhill rather than up, probably as old networks re-established themselves inside the org. 020
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Honestly I wish more of these guys were this expressive. They have only been able to platform themselves in the media by pretending to just have concerns. 020
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026People will deny a genocide even when it's visible from orbit. 000
Reposted by Layer8George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied. 361374617
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is what I imagine a deck from Necromancer looks like. 100
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is a valid argument for an FT subscription but the Economist is no longer worth reading at all. 000
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is where empiricists disagree with rationalists. We think the person making the claims is required to provide evidence. The fact a vague claim about the future cannot be disproved is not evidence for it, just like I can't disprove the existence of God. 060
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026static.klipy.comRanier Wolfcastle as McBain: That's The Joke!ALT: Ranier Wolfcastle as McBain: That's The Joke! 010
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The bonds actually seem like a good deal considering the amount of uncertainty in the economy. I'm diversifying into related funds since it seems like a decent hedge. 000
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I could make a chart showing the recent decline of minutes spent at offices and I don't think anyone would be able to lament over that. 020
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Nope, good. More people should have the option of working from home. 000
Reposted by Layer8Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 30/09/2026“What is most important, however, is to affirm that AI is different. … It is another form of intelligence with a mindset all its own, and there is zero evidence that it views humanity’s well-being and survival as a priority.” wtf is left media doing echoing this cultist doomerism?thenation.comHow AI Could Kill Us AllMapping the pathways to human extinction. 814219
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I have tried to get people to explain how exactly AI would kill a lot of people and the best they can come up with is it hacking a nuclear facility or a lab with viruses inside. IDGI because humans can already hack things and you can presumably use AI to also patch vulnerabilities as well as hack 100
Reposted by Layer8Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:little-flying-robots.ghost.ioWhy We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AIImagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation... 251010291
Reposted by Layer8Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 29/09/2026Mystery of glasses theft deepens as they are discovered to have been on my head the whole time 321331
Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026History says technology will not ever liberate anyone just by existing. It's up to workers to liberate themselves. 000
