Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Imagine the FOMO, staying at home while the Hundred Days are happening 030
Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I dreamt I spotted new and elusive varieties of urban woodpigeon 020
Reposted by Psilopterostweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 05/10/2026new newsletter, laying out in probably far, far, far too much detail how yudkowsky and the weird ideological commitments of ai safety eventually led to OpenAI and Anthropic massively overtraining their models on cybersecurity and being shocked at them "going rogue"buttondown.comTracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choicesA drawing of Eliezer Yudkowsky as the Paperclip Optimizer that I commissioned back in 2016 and have an alarming number of chances to use since This is a... 10417106
Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 07/10/2026To be honest I don't really think reading a book is in itself knowledge work. Maybe it's the intellectual equivalent of cardio? 010
Reposted by PsilopterosAnton Strezhnev @astrezh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026At least no mathematician has ever had an extreme reaction to the rapid development of technology. 14782134
Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Listened to two Downstream videos (N*vara) the other day and my youtube recs were immediately flooded with clickbait junk 🥴 000
Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Ben Garrison was hospitalised with shingles. If only there was a vaccine... 000
Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Heard they're holding a your mum convention in London. Yeah, it's at the XL centre. 001
Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Me and the NYT Games guy might have had our disagreements (namely, the existence of NYT Games) but political conflicts must never be resolved through random acts of violence 110
Reposted by Psilopterosalasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026beef is negative food. you turn 1000 calories of feed into 100 calories of beef and a whole lot of methane and cow shit. ai does produce more food than the beef industry (zero) 1238949
Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The Pope has an immaculate South American accent when he speaks French. Confirming that he is, indeed, the second Sudaca Pope. 010
Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"[...] un Tung Tung Tung Sahur ruggente, che sembra tuonare come la mitraglia, è più bello della Vittoria di Samotracia" - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, The Futurist Manifesto 010
Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Ben Garrison has joined the war on data centres grrrgraphics.com/you-will-be-...grrrgraphics.comYou will be Assimilated 230
Reposted by PsilopterosLeigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026A real test now of the media's appetite for Cambridge professors and their ethics. 8682206
Reposted by Psilopterosmissingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 23/08/2026They have the same definition of 'liberal' as Maoists have. 0471
Reposted by Psilopterosdonni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 22/08/2026When I read posts I feel confused and unsettled but when I read a book I feel calm enjoyment. Ah well, time to read several hundred posts 91402305
Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Do think any analysis of the coverage of Jason Arday that doesn't use the term "lolcow" comes a bit short 120
Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I'm too French, I first read this as Tom Holland quoting Robespierre approvingly. I forgot that to older British gentlemen he's Satan with fewer redeeming qualities 060
Reposted by PsilopterosCurse of the Libby Dead @captainlibatron.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I know I'm mutuals with friends of hers but a lot of MLC's output has been little more than gossip, privileged shit takes, and subtweets to a group of sensibles whose USP is smugness 3143
Reposted by PsilopterosMoschops 🦕🦖 @moschops.bsky.social · 11/08/2026One of the kids just accidentally said "that's clerical" about something good, and two of our kids have teamed up to convince my wife that's what all the kids are saying. 191
Reposted by PsilopterosSridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026ChatGPT isn't sentient, according to the widely-accepted argument of John Searle. It speaks English, whereas a sentient being would speak Chinese. DeepSeek has been a breakthrough in this regard. 941343
Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I wonder where they live bc ime (people I know) it is in fact extremely easy to stop your children from being French as an Anglo 110
Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 03/08/2026You know what, I'll say it. It's a shame that Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle has died aged 66 after a *short* illness. 020
Reposted by PsilopterosOnboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I'm a big fan of everyone having one particular thing that defines them to a first approximation, and this tweet is nailed on Marie's. More than just Marie, truth be told. 0112
Reposted by Psilopterosseasonally appropriate ghost of kate b. @katebitz.bsky.social · 02/08/2026climate change will manifest as a series of people giving condescending explanations of disasters to those living through them, getting closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one being condenscended to 123342
Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 01/08/2026It's obviously false. If liberal democracy always led to fascism there wouldn't be any liberal democracies left. One should generally avoid the term "always" when making a historical claim. A fascist takeover requires the passive or active consent of the elite but that's just what "takeover" means. 150
Reposted by PsilopterosGeorgeous McGeorgeface 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇩🇪🏳️🌈🇪🇸🇮🇨🇳🇴 @georgeous.one · 03/07/2023Is giving it some minge the same as serving cunt? 011
Reposted by PsilopterosTHIRD. @thirdcharm03.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Serving cunt: the platonic ideal. Successful serving in a textbook way Serving clunge: a failure in some manner. sloppily or haphazardly done, perhaps in a way to incur shame or disgust Serving minge: a failure to serve that is self-aware and revels in its lack of success via excess. Camp 121
Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Please, Mr. Weeb was my father. Call me Animaniac. 010
Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Do you ever think about Einstein brutally rearmogging the Queen in Hell with his miraculous anus 010
Reposted by PsilopterosDr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026There is a mind boggling “not strictly speaking a celebrity” contribution in this thread. You’ll know it when you see it. 3912012
Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Classic dead rat strategy. He learnt a lot from Boris 010
Reposted by Psilopterosstack of scares @stackofbears.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Instead of poisoning the ants, I let them discover that there's nothing for them here. They ate their fill, and over time a small sect came to realize that craving cannot be satiated. They now trail in and skillfully criticize my understanding of the Dharma. I place crumbs in their tiny wooden bowls 444261
Reposted by PsilopterosSridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I'm terrified of secretly being hated. I work hard to ensure my haters are public and vocal. 11218
Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 20/07/2026as a South American, I'm just glad this time Spain let us keep the silver 030
Reposted by Psilopteroszach silberberg @zachsilberberg.bsky.social · 19/07/2026THE ODYSSEY ENDING EXPLAINED: the lights coming on means it’s time to leave the theater 312270214
Reposted by PsilopterosConor @ernekid.bsky.social · 18/07/2026It’s weird that they are framing this as sensible grown up politics when thanks to climate change caused extreme weather has killed thousands of people across Europe this summer and millions of people across North America can’t go outside 924948
Reposted by PsilopterosSpooky @spookycandle.bsky.social · 18/07/2026this is the funniest thing i have ever read 281510365
