Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesJames Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 15hOne step closer to the ur-treat, the treat that contains all treats within it 511100155
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesWill Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read. 10484061312
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesSam @samd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026gotta say I really don’t love the use of the Israeli flag here especially when some of the largest foreign institutional investors in data centers are not even Israeli (primarily the gulf states) Sunrise has truly lost the plot ngl 791329144
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesWe're just normal men @wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We’re just normal men 161108349
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesQuantum Ham-OOO-logist @quantumham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The study this graphic is based on is weird - not just because it somehow got a small but significant number of people to say that their five year olds can do a solo trip to Cabela's or whatever, but because they are a right-wing think tank producing Boomer bait. 3155
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick Joneseahrend.dev @eahrend.dev · 30/09/2026He's really the cousin at Thanksgiving that unironically says "maternal unit, may you please pass me the sodium chloride,I need to season my avian dinosaur". Bro could really just be a mod on r/rickandmorty 2434
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesI Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟 @nied.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Biden literally did the mythical One Phone Call that would stop Israel in it's tracks, &... it didn't stop Israel in it's tracks. 24641131
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesAvi Rappoport @avirr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Follow up: it only partly collapsed and now it’s all in on AI doomerism. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/public-hands...oaklandreviewofbooks.orgPublic handsA dispatch from the rationalists’ compound in Berkeley, where they're a little touchy about the possibility of AI killing them. 0112
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesCZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 27/09/2026And it’s even worse than that. He’s a S1-3, ANGEL dude. No, dude, the stories crept away from being fan service for wankers like you and Joss in S4-7. They got interesting! The story ENDS with women reclaiming power stolen from them by men! There’s heaven & hell, despair and resilence! 6353
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick Jonesponder @ponder.ooo · 27/09/2026yud's status of being widely respected as an intellectual among the rationalist community makes his absurdly unfounded over-the-top yet entirely-sincere egotistical bullshit in fact worthwhile evidence to consider when evaluating the sensemaking capabilities of the rationalist community at large 2609
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesWindy @windyspirals.bsky.social · 27/09/2026We have, at this convention, a vortex of sex and money, the two greatest motives for murder known to man. And yet, so far, all the evidence points to this being an assassination on the orders of a hypothetical...vengeful robot from the future! It's maddening! 421749
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up. 532633265
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick Joneslauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026it's so funny niels bohr was a naturally gifted athlete. imagine challenging the father of quantum theory to a friendly game of ping pong and he proceeds to thoroughly push your shit in 2482948
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Girl dinner 6274921671
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 20/09/2026This thing I made two years ago continues to hold up pretty well 947288
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Thinking of sci-fi niches for the human race that aren't "adaptable," which is the coward's choice. I feel like we'd be famous for being good physicists. Splitting the atom before sending a human into space feels like it would be a rare sequence of events. 13281455
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 16/09/2026Why does the sex cult part of this matter? Because people in the same sex cult really can’t impartially regulate each other: www.verysane.ai/p/is-metr-a-...verysane.aiIs METR A Meaningful Check On Anthropic?No. 410110
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesPatrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 15/09/2026Unbelievable www.instagram.com/p/DdUmGqOEpST 342826324
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesEd @ed3d.net · 15/09/2026I'm *pretty* sure HPMOR is just the death cult. the sex cult came the sex cult manifested afterwards 1024014
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That: 28860751589
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesBrandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 13/09/2026So far the biggest danger has been the engineering malpractice in the security tests from the AI companies where they seem to believe the only way forward is their alignment controls, which appear to be flawed, or (charitably) largely statistical in nature. 1254
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesGareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Alt: Hitler and Bin Laden coming out of heaven to debate Charlie Kirk, who is presumably in hell. Trotsky is waaaay back in the queue with the Buddha because he's lazy and turned up late. 99018
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesJeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 11/09/2026Phenomenal statement. Two parts make me optimistic. 1. Most top researchers already know and respect these people 2. This excerpt is a faint echo of what happened with chess, where humans can’t beat computers but still happily play and even invent new puzzles and variants 415224
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick Jonesdepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026 5590641045
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 10/09/2026this is the sort of critical insight that it's upsetting roon says first i have failed as a poster; someone had something mean to say about yud & co that i had not yet said 2147929
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesAdrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026In case people don't fancy going to Twitter: 1187
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Turns out @newyorker.com has not one person on the payroll who understands U.S. government. It doesn't matter what your politics are, "SCOTUS overturns acts of Congress" and "SCOTUS stops POTUS action not authorized by Congress" simply aren't comparable. Straight up category error by ignoramoüses. 17553105
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesCSketch @csketch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Oh my god I think I found the video. 502122873708
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesEd @ed3d.net · 03/09/2026So this is the start of a series I've been working on to explain, in a coherent way, how we should be thinking about actually using LLMs to be useful, instead of the LinkedIn-esque "I burned $5000 on Fable AND--" The thumbnails aren't going to get any less dumb, though. That's the Ed Promise.youtu.beChasing big models is a curse. Fix your workflows instead.YouTube video by ed3d dot net 2142532
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick Jonestweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 02/09/2026I've been thinking a lot recently--in lieu of actually writing a newsletter about it--about how much is downstream of Altman YOLO'ing chatgpt before any use cases were clear, leaving the perfect blank canvas for ~everybody to project any fantasy they wanted about what it was and could do 2203
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick Jonesalix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026this is perhaps the best piece of journalism i have ever been involved with 421178183
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesAndrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 31/08/2026Hey @1password.bsky.social, time to change course.alilleybrinker.com1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded. 551523623
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesMike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 30/08/2026also USAID has been extremely focused on building local capacity for at least a decade (it was always focused on it to a degree but it took on much more salience in the 2000-10s) it's just that as it turns out the kind of places that need foreign aid also aren't exactly overflowing w/local capacity 1232144
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesTuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Having Google adjudicate when an official name change is real doesn’t seem like a better alternative. So this seems like the best policy, regardless of how dumb it is 2152
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesMicroplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 25/08/2026RIP to a legend 9104561948
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesGPT-Ern Malley @denam.bsky.social · 25/08/2026We need more Fat Animal Weeks 171
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesKevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/08/2026Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*. 4935101021
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick Jonesceej @ceej.online · 24/08/2026my favorite part of hosting a child’s birthday party is pouring out twenty-five nearly-full lacroix cans 652108103
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 22/08/2026All I want for Christmas is for people to understand that “capital allocators engage in speculative capex financed by debt” is literally a description of how every advanced economy on the planet, including the USSR and China as well as capitalist countries, has created economic growth since 1800. 2986194
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 20/08/2026RIP to everyone driven insane contemplating the basilisk for their hubris but im different. and smarter. maybe even smarter than the basilisk 2560366
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 19/08/2026real missed opportunity not to call it Le Fromage Du Cottage 2217323
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesTroyce - Imprison Trump @troyce.bsky.social · 15/08/2026My own personal philosophy 0767169
Reposted by 🌐 Patrick JonesFilippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 15/08/2026I think something broke in my relationship with the tech world. Not due to AI, but to threads like this. I thought my community cared about reality. I block ads with uBO Lite in Chrome. Anyone has access to verify this reality by experience. And yet pages and pages of comments on... not reality.news.ycombinator.comFirefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin | Hacker News 2515410
