Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026while(troubling_implication[i]) { if (bite_bullet(troubling_implication[i++])) repugnance++ else epicycles++ } print("Congratulations: Your utilitarianism is elegant, simple, and intuitive except for $repugnance repugnant conclusions and $epicycles arbitrary epicycles.") 010
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ha! Great minds think alike, part II. We must read the same books. www.lesswrong.com/posts/uXPFAK...lesswrong.com 000
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Yes, and that includes saving about 40% for retirement. 000
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 27/08/2026A single adult in Calif. must earn $126,797/year to cover basic expenses, discretionary spending, and retirement savings, according to smartasset.com/data-studies.... As someone who has lived plenty comfortably in an expensive California town for years on about ⅓ of that, I say BULLSHIT.sanluisobispo.comHow much do you need to ‘live comfortably’ in California? See 2026 income rangeHousing, groceries and transportation costs are rising across the Golden State. 100
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Beat you to it: www.lesswrong.com/posts/j789HD...lesswrong.com 010
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Best horror film of the year so far: OpenAI's Black Hat USA presentation on the HuggingFace Incident. www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Dy...youtube.comBlack Hat USA 2026: The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face IncidentYouTube video by Black Hat 001
Reposted by MoorlockCyriak @cyriak.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Just in case anyone who follows me hasn't heard of Bobby Fingers, here's his latest masterpiece www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGt7...youtube.comJohnny Depp's BedYouTube video by Bobby Fingers 36722
Reposted by MoorlockZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Watching the Internet starting in the 90s has been like a multigenerational, 100 trillion dollar, galaxy-sized "this is why we can't have nice things." 823039
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 24/07/2026When big granters fund and professionalize local volunteer organizations, hoping to embiggen their good work, those organizations may find that their capabilities ironically hollow out, making them less effective, and leaving a vacuum that is hard to fill. www.astralcodexten.com/p/breakdown-...astralcodexten.comYour Book Review: Breakdown In PakistanFinalist #3 in the Book Review Contest 000
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Very interesting examples of LLMs engaging in (admit it, human-like) biased, motivated reasoning, subconsciously or at least outside of the usual CoT: www.reddit.com/r/AIDangers/...reddit.comFrom the AIDangers community on Reddit: LLMs show hidden bias in favor of their creators (e.g. Claude favors Anthropic)Explore this post and more from the AIDangers community 001
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 16/07/2026#Google AI employee tries to convince execs to not be evil, fails, quits, tells his story. www.lesswrong.com/posts/iKm2Fh... #DeepMindlesswrong.comWhy I Left Google DeepMind — LessWrongI fought against Google's Pentagon AI deal from the inside. Powerful people and institutions failed to keep their AI ethics promises under pressure. 000
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I cannot get enough of Haley Heynderickx's "Drinking Song". www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsUW...youtube.comDrinking Song ::: Haley HeynderickxYouTube video by Lars Flottorp Ness 000
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Thoreau’'s “Civil Disobedience” as if it were a Bluesky thread: davgross.github.io/civil-disobe... #thoreau #CivilDisobediencedavgross.github.ioCivil Disobedience · @hdthoreau 000
Reposted by MoorlockEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 28/04/2026This is an actual line that was added to the official system prompt for Codex for GPT-5.5 by OpenAI. Usually the system prompt is as minimal as possible, so I assume it would otherwise mention goblins a lot. AIs are weird. 571323266
Reposted by MoorlockSMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 20/04/2026I read a guy saying all cognitive tasks will be automated, so it's important to stay flexible, and all I can figure is he was imagining humans would make a good building material. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/nigh-2 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com 519136
Reposted by Moorlockwartaxresister.bsky.social @wartaxresister.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Tired of seeing over 1/2 of your income taxes going to war? Find out how to resist www.nwtrcc.org 054
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 07/04/2026So exciting to get to play “epoch-defining atrocity or TACO Tuesday” with you all today. 000
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 28/03/2026A fresh look at the data shows that “obedient” subjects in The Milgram Experiment did *not* obey instructions—except the part that allowed them to give painful shocks. They weren’t meek people overwhelmed by authority, but cowardly sadists exploiting opportunity. www.lesswrong.com/posts/ogapPT...lesswrong.com 000
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 23/03/2026An ESL student coming from Spanish gave an incredulous "you gotta be putting me on" look as I pronounced bet, bit, beet, bat, but, bot, boat, but, butte, boot, bait and told him they all do sound distinct. We'd do listening & speaking flashcards and I could see him looking for the hidden camera. 030
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 26/01/2026"The document ends with a striking line: 'We hope #Claude finds in it an articulation of a self worth being.' That's not how you talk about a product. That's how you talk about a child." 000
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 26/01/2026"Unlike a terms of service or mission statement, this is a comprehensive moral philosophy articulated as product specification. Corporate codes of ethics exist, but not 80-page virtue ethics frameworks embedded in how the product actually works." 120
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Anthropic's new "soul document" (what they're now calling a "constitution") that instructs Claude how to behave is "a virtue ethics manifesto that is Aristotelian to its core," says @alanrozenshtein.com at Lawfare www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-... #VirtueEthicslawfaremedia.orgThe Moral Education of an Alien MindWhat Claude's "Constitution" really is. 210
Reposted by MoorlockZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them. 302889785
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Thanks to @joanlynch.bsky.social of the SLO Tribune for helping get the word out in our community about the new VivaSLO app (vivaslo.org) that connects people experiencing homelessness or threatened with homelessness to the resources that can help them. www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/a...sanluisobispo.comNew AI-powered guide links SLO County homeless residents to resourcesThe VivaSLO website was developed by Shower the People. 022
Reposted by Moorlockwartaxresister.bsky.social @wartaxresister.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 042
Reposted by MoorlockThe Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 08/12/2025For anyone that needs to hear this. #demodex 1542690
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Here's a good introduction to this technique: sniggle.net/TPL/TaxStrik...sniggle.netPut Your Taxes in an Escrow Account in lieu of PaymentDeposit the money into a special account and say you’re willing to relinquish it to the government if the government meets certain conditions. 010
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Nicely produced commentary from @leejamiller.bsky.social on the relevance of tax resistance to the current American situation. youtu.be/5JA7PH_eUts?... #TaxStrike #TaxResistanceyoutu.beIs It Time To Stop Paying Taxes?YouTube video by Leeja Miller 054
Reposted by Moorlockwartaxresister.bsky.social @wartaxresister.bsky.social · 23/10/2025NWTRCC was founded in 1982 to support and educate around war tax resistance. Learn more ow.ly/1Rtg30rUGre 021
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Hilariously, they're even desperately trying to give the Republicans credit for the government "shutdown" as though shutting down the government were a bad thing at this point. It's got to be a full time job for the GOP to stay worse. 000
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 01/10/2025You'll save yourself a lot of grief later if you just accept that eventually congressional Democrats will dissolve their kayfabe spines to betray you and everything good. 100
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Rick Davies, R.I.P. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TOU...youtube.comSupertramp - Another Man's Woman - Live on "BBC Sight & Sound In Concert" - 1977 (Remastered) HDYouTube video by BrunoSamppa 000
Reposted by Moorlock𝔅𝔲𝔱𝔱𝔬𝔫𝔰 𝔒'𝔊𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔦𝔥𝔞𝔫 @johnxuandou.bsky.social · 13/08/2025This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable. 461222318468
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 03/08/202533 pages into @irismurdoch.bsky.social's "An Accidental Man" and she already wants me to keep track of Gracie, Clara, George, Patrick, Hester, Sebastian, Ralph, Ludwig, Geoffrey, Karen, Charlotte, Alison, Austin, Garth, Dorina, Mitzi, Mavis, Matthew, Penny, Charles, and Mollie. I need a map. 100
Reposted by Moorlockabovoadmala.bsky.social @abovoadmala.bsky.social · 08/06/2025I forget who - I think a libertarian - tweeted once "my most right wing take is we should have open borders to triple global GDP. my most left wing take is we should have open borders because the status quo is a massive human rights violation" 344980
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 06/06/2025I may just pivot back to programming (or "programming"). The skills I polished describing software precisely and carefully are now "programming" skills! Carefully instructive and unambiguous English (combined with software know-how) makes it easy to get exactly what I need from Claude. 200
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 06/06/2025I'd been nervous about the oncoming AI tsunami as a technical writer in the software industry because I could see that pretty soon AI will be able to document software as well or better than any human can. But now I think I've got an escape route... 100
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 06/06/2025I finally got around to trying an AI coding assistant, in this case Claude Code at the command-line. I'm stunned. My jaw wouldn't have dropped so far if you picked me up in a flying car and had dinner and drinks beamed in from the restaurant of my choice. I love love love it. 100
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Philosophers wrestling with evil, as a social media feed www.lesswrong.com/posts/abKBpp...lesswrong.comPhilosophers wrestling with evil, as a social media feed — LessWrongSusan Nieman’s Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy (2015), visualized as a social media feed: • Alfonso Ⅹ … 000
Reposted by Moorlockwartaxresister.bsky.social @wartaxresister.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Choose Democracy has launched a Tax Strike as a tactic to resist US authoritarianism. taxstrike.infotaxstrike.infoHome - National Tax StrikeWe’re fighting this constitutional crisis. Say NO to unchecked powers, NO to corrupt leadership, and NO to dismantling the federal government! What is the National Tax Strike? A movement to STOP payin... 021
Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 10/04/2025#TaxStrike Tactics is a free book that demonstrates how tax strikes succeed. Learn how to support strikers, increase participation, frustrate government countermeasures, expand your arsenal of tactics, master education and public relations, and prepare for victory. sniggle.net/TPL/TaxStrik...sniggle.netTax Strike TacticsLearn how tax resistance campaigns (and tax resisters) succeed. 000
