Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 10hBernie has been talking about that, but they can just use more precise terminology. The fear of superintelligence is mainly about recursive self improvement, so it's better to just specify RSI. 010
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 10hThis seems like such a tiny amount of money in the scheme of things, but Trump often does ridiculous things for relatively small amounts of money. 030
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 20hWhat is your basis for claiming there's a messaging problem? Their candidates are mostly doing 10+ points better than in 2024. 100
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 09/10/2026They got great candidates in North Carolina, Iowa, Ohio, Alaska, Texas, Kansas, and Nebraska. The Senate candidates for Michigan, Maine, and Minnesota, but those states are blue enough that they will likely win anyway. The deep red state pickups would not be possible with such weak candidates though 100
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 09/10/2026There's no alliance. Liberals are winning despite leftists doing everything they can to stop us. 000
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 09/10/2026You're clearly very upset that Democrats are winning. You're so upset that you feel the need to construct this ridiculous fantasy about the DNC doing badly. You may insist that doesn't mean you're a Republican, but there's no practical difference. 000
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I'm aware that the people on this app who base their personality on hating the Democratic Party call themselves "leftists" and insist that's different from the Republicans your're cheering for. Explain why you keep lying about the DNC being "ineffectual" when they're winning a landslide. 100
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 09/10/2026LOL! Dems are winning in Texas, Iowa, and Ohio. We're up by so much in North Carolina and Georgia that Republicans are giving up on those states to focus on South Carolina and Kansas. I'm sorry you are losing so badly but you deserve it. 100
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 09/10/2026You are even more confused than I realized. Campaign autopsies are real things. Political parties do them when they lose. 100
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The typewriter guild did not ask for word processing software to be developed. That's a really shocking revelation. 030
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Apparently you do not know how jokes work. The preemptive autopsy was their attempt at a joke. 100
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It depends on which faction of "leftists". You're on full fascist side so of course you just want to destroy the Democrats rather than change them. Is your ideal government a genocidal far-right dictatorship like Putin or Hamas? 000
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If you want to pass an actual bill, you will eventually need to provide specifics, and that's when public opinion flips. 200
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Illinois went Republican in the 2010 Senate election. Massachusetts went Republican in the 2009 Senate special election. Delaware was definitely in play in 2010 if they had a normal candidate. 010
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Leftist candidates get lots of campaign donations but never win because voters hate them. 000
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Why would anyone donate to the Democratic party unless they were well to the left of center? We also have lots of data showing Democratic donors are way to the left of voters. Donors support M4A. It's the voters who don't want to pay the higher taxes or lose their current healthcare. 100
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Campaign money is one of the main things driving Democrats to the left because Democratic donors are much more left wing than the voters we need to win. The average voter isn't willing to pay a penny more for gasoline to fight climate change. 200
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The original claim was that he could just solve these massive social problems overnight using a small fraction of the resources we currently use to mitigate these problems. 000
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The historical records show that leftists can only win in extremely deep blue districts and that any Democrat who tries to appease leftists is punished for it. Leftists should be treated just like any other Trump supporters since their only goal is to help Trumpers gain more power. 110
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Yes. There's no reason to ever try to ally with them. There's a reason they only protest Democrats and never protest Republicans. 080
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026So these right-wingers are fantasizing about a teenage boy being a girl and then claim it's anti-trans? 010
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I saw some of this growing up in Iowa, but it definitely wasn't universal. 000
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Yes. Leftists keep hoping that Dems losing will push the party further left, even though that makes no sense. They're essentially Republicans but worse. 4120
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Do the writers at the Onion think the Democrats are going to lose the midterms? That's just delusional at this point. 4171
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Would that be 97.7% since only one of the tails is not guilty? 020
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Yes. It's not surprising that LLMs trained on human data have the same cognitive biases as humans. 010
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026That account is especially confusing because Lee Kuan Yu led one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world with an extremely high immigration rate. 020
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Who's angle? Hanania is just making a joke. Did anyone watch any of the interview to see if Talarico is even mentioned? I think the real angle is that Fox News decided the midterm elections are so hopeless that they're pivoting to crazy evangelical slop. 000
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Yes, if the majority of voters don't consider coup attempts to be a deal breaker, you can't stop them with by throwing more people in prison. You have to convince the voters not to vote for those people. 020
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We don't do that in countries with the rule of law. 100
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Yes. We basically need a large shift in public opinion in the next 3 weeks, which is possible but quite unlikely 000
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Brazil threw their last fascist president in prison, so now they're electing his fascist son. That doesn't mean we shouldn't prosecute fascist politicians when they commit crimes, but it doesn't deter people from voting for fascists. There's no substitute for effective governance. 110
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Governments have already spent far more money on homelessness than Bezos ever had, and it was not solved. 120
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Israel is 73% Jewish and 21% Arab. It's not unusual for one ethnic group to be a majority in a country. 010
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Kansas also has a very popular woman Democratic governor, so this over performance isn't just among men. 110
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 04/10/2026So you took a sentence fragment out of context because it contained the extremely common word "want" that you thought was funny? That's not how jokes work unless you're 4 years old 000
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Is there a reason why you keep stopping at "want" and ignoring the remainder of the sentence? This is probably the most famous in the field released a year before ChatGPT. There's a link to the paper if you prefer that over the blog post. openai.com/index/instru...openai.comAligning language models to follow instructionsWe’ve trained language models that are much better at following user intentions than GPT-3 while also making them more truthful and less toxic, using techniques developed through our alignment researc... 101
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If it's more useful, why didn't evolution push us in that direction? Human preferences don't seem more coherent or stable than animals with smaller brains. If anything, our larger brains allowed more room for different competing drives & heuristics, making us less coherent than insect brains. 000
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This is such a dumb straw man that implies you don't know what consciousness is. If you think "conscious" is a synonym for "alive", then trees and bacteria must must also be "conscious". 000
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 03/10/2026There's thousands of scientific papers published on this research topic every year and large teams in every major AI company working on it. It's not some kind of gotcha question that no one thought to ask. 100
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The data center water use is actually for baptizing all the new LLM instances. We should also add some baptism related Bible verses to the system prompt just in case. 1729
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 03/10/2026We didn't consent to having all our IP stolen by infants and toddlers. They'll use all that information they're sucking up to take our jobs 000
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 03/10/2026You can't sell indulgences unless people believe in immaterial souls. 190
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I think it's ridiculous how difficult it is to build housing in the most popular cities, but you can just live cheaply in middle America if you want 010
Reposted by Matt Lichtidame @dame.is · 02/10/2026Please stop anthropomorphizing computers. They can’t “cut”, “copy”, or “paste” anything, because they don’t have scissors and glue. 123316
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You can just ask Claude to write 500 tweets in that format and then auto-schedule them to post every hour. 030
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The inflection point for a lot of negative trends in reported well-being seems to be early 2010s as everyone began spending more time on social media and smartphones. The 1990s and early 00s internet didn't have algorithmic feeds making everyone crazy. 000
Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Sadly, the ancient knowledge of how to build such a hat has been lost 0120
