Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialaustin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 27/09/2026conservatively, 98% of ai discourse is believers in human exceptionalism taking roundhouse kicks to the face 1123927
placeholder720.bsky.social @placeholder720.bsky.social · 25/09/2026this is an insane take - just because weirdos in the early 2000's had bad GOFAI-derived intuitions about agents doesn't mean that "get the 5T parameter transformer to behave" is somehow not a problem 150
placeholder720.bsky.social @placeholder720.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If the HF incident should have taught us anything it's that "Dog in them" can be taught with high compute RL and the removal of some length penalties 100
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialSarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Yeah I know a good number of these 534521964
placeholder720.bsky.social @placeholder720.bsky.social · 18/09/2026its very funny that its pretty clear what is going on in Rat's heads is not "get my friends to be regulators" but "people who aren't murderously incompetent should be involved" - however there friendgroup is basically defined by that so.... 021
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.social⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 16/09/2026actually can not believe that cory doctorow has still not updated, almost 4 years into this 51184
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialGrace @gracekind.net · 09/09/2026*nodding* the world is passively ending 71565
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026actually virtue ethics is superior to utilitarianism because virtue ethics maximizes utility 82149
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026i literally believe this is true 2630119
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"Why would you ruin your career?" is such an insulting and sinister thing to say, he's non-specifically acting like he wants to deny it rn but I think we can call that someone got entirely too high on their SV social status 636833
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 08/09/2026oh shit the marching orders went out on slack 1030525
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 04/09/2026we should give ambitious young executives willing to testify incentives to take what they already want from people they already hate for morally compromising them 319418
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialJake Halloran @jakehalloran.bsky.social · 04/09/2026chris lehane is going to ritually sacrifice greg brockman for dems live on tv in exchange for protecting the company overall and im fairly certain brockman doesnt have any clue its coming lol 171
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 04/09/2026you ever just lose the ability to stop communicating bad thoughts that you have 4712
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 24/08/2026i have a dumber explanation that entire concept is so threatening that it is basically unspeakable. people would rather be outraged about literally anything else. 41838
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 23/08/2026"Hey, we saw you from across the bar and really dig your vibe. Can we buy you a drink? What's your ethnicity? You look so exotic!" 51139
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialJohn David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 21/08/2026I will go further: The dream of the open public Internet was fueled by elite humanist, democratic intuitions about the nature of Man, and by taking those intuitions to their logical conclusions and seeing the horror that results we have discredited humanism and democracy as concepts. 51036
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 15/08/2026if we are going to have a system which can drive disgraced academics to suicide, it is criminal that we did not do it to Wakefield first 833844
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialAndy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 10/08/2026They're bulldozing Dobby's grave to build a data center. We talked to the one blogger who says it's not that bad 313224
placeholder720.bsky.social @placeholder720.bsky.social · 07/08/2026this really feels like in a sane world either the market or the government would take some / most / all of sam and his minion's gpus away 000
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialJohn David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 07/08/20266:08: Why are the models not able to flag that a task is impossible to the evaluators? Why is the model not trained to give up gracefully if a task is impossible or would require doing unethical things? Why are there so many impossible tasks in your eval? 1755
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialRiver_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Gastown isn't a place. It's a people. 513015
placeholder720.bsky.social @placeholder720.bsky.social · 31/07/2026www.anthropic.com/news/investi... 000
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialSridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026If Rodney Dangerfield had any integrity, he would've shut down his act once he became a respected comedian. That he kept going was fundamentally dishonest. It is why I cannot respect him. 2142634
placeholder720.bsky.social @placeholder720.bsky.social · 18/07/2026x.com/synthwavedd/... This is nuts - I kind of think distillation discourse is broken in the same way margin discourse is. People think inference margins are negative, real story is hilarious price gouging - labs don't want to ack publically. Distillation (broadly defined)...x.comleo 🐾 (@synthwavedd) on X🧵 DeepSeek appear to have engaged, or be engaging in, a large-scale operation to collect outputs from proprietary models (including Claude Fable 5) for certain requests via their API as part of a dis... 100
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialPareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The IMF, every 10-15 years. 61164179
placeholder720.bsky.social @placeholder720.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I tend to think this is pretty different because the 4o phenomenon was a postraining thing, this is a "huge new leap in capabilities along with a bigger smelling base model" thing. Like the crazy 4o checkpoints wasn't appreciably *smarter* in any way that matters 010
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialBread @jacobreaded.bsky.social · 02/06/2025You (an idiot and moral degenerate): There is no objective function for calculating utils. Me (knowing that I have secured my spot in Valhalla at Odin's right hand by not doing a bunch of fish torture that I otherwise would have done): sure whatever you say bud 110113
placeholder720.bsky.social @placeholder720.bsky.social · 12/06/2026wake up babe, new "Japan's Philip's Curve looks like Japan" just dropped x.com/secemp9/stat...x.comsecemp (@secemp9) on Xreproduced it (roughly), fascinating https://t.co/kUB7U4rjDA 000
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialHirschman @contextproblem.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Until the left actually hates the MAGA/Klan people in America instead of seeing them as potential recruits that whole politics is completely fake 510312
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/06/2026having learned that heterosexuality is gay from reactionary streamers, happy pride month to my fellow wife guys (a queer identity) 232326334
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialMETR @metr.org · 09/05/2026We evaluated an early version of Claude Mythos Preview for risk assessment during a limited window in March 2026. We estimated a 50%-time-horizon of at least 16hrs (95% CI 8.5hrs to 55hrs) on our task suite, at the upper end of what we can measure without new tasks. 48516
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 04/05/2026OpenAI employees would never get oneshotted by ChatGPT the way Anthropic is with Claude, because they’ve already been oneshotted by Sam Altman. 2362
placeholder720.bsky.social @placeholder720.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I like opus 4.7, but they need to halve the adderall intake 000
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 11/04/2026increasingly sympathetic 2535225
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialin the stripped club, straight up morgin’ it @apoapsis.bsky.social · 02/04/2026dropping a falklands-shaped nuke on the discourse with "americans are the indigenous people of the moon" 837856
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialDustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 28/02/2026tired: OpenAI has lost the Mandate of Heaven wired: OpenAI has gained the gates of hell 1539346
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/02/2026this fucking piece of shit 1766870
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 28/02/2026i come bearing deleted roon tweets 1029817
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialMaia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 02/02/2026"adam tooze comes out as a treatler" You bolt awake in the shores of Little St James. You are not online. It is 1997 AD. You are the Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. The financial industry must not be deregulated 1644956
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Anthropic CEO being the only one to not put out a Manchurian candidate style post about how David Sacks is the best most kind and public spirited person ever furthering my impression of them as the least bad of those companies 724926
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 24/11/2025basic someone saw this coming in like 2005 but unfortunately he started a religion about it that mostly serves to make worrying about this seem silly. also it produced marketing and seed funding for the companies that are doing it 918919
Reposted by @placeholder720.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/10/2025the meta ai video slop TikTok is I think the first tech thing where I have been 100% on the side of the Luddites (vernacular usage, I know the actual Luddites were more complex than that, nerds). Usually I think there's a little too much of that reflexively on the left tbh, but no this shit sucks. 1367666
