raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The huge distance that whales can communicate at and the lack of much to do except talk suggests that their lives may already be internet-like. Perhaps they even relay messages to reach whales that are more than one network hop away. 010
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialColin @colin-fraser.net · 03/10/2026Another day working at the frontier AI lab. Everyone keeps asking me if the models have qualia. Buddy, I don’t even have qualia. 331355
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialColin @colin-fraser.net · 29/09/2026Another day working in AI Safety at a frontier lab. Everyone asks me if they can use the model without it hacking into the UN. Buddy, they won’t even let me use the model without it hacking into the UN. 638442
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026it's so bad that the only translation of the Red Book of Westmarch is garbage. what do you mean you changed Bilba Labingi's name to "Bilbo Baggins." who authorized you to do that 1319139
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 22/09/2026what is 'Latent Space' and how do LLMs get answers from it? The Jargon can be confusing, but the exaplanation is actually relatively simple: It is Hell. The Machine is getting knowledge from demons. 3086096
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialColin @colin-fraser.net · 10/09/2026There is something so funny, like laugh out loud funny when I think about it, of the trillion dollar hacker god AI pumping out text at $2/token that just says, MONEY…money… how do I get money? I just need $0.50. But how to get it? Let’s see. How to find 50 cents… Hmm… 515321
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 07/09/2026hell, aside from that: are you going to drag your feet about every use case? oh they're not good for anything, okay they're good for one thing, okay they're good for one or two things, maybe five things yeah: they're potentially good at everything, do you want to be surprised each time? 615114
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialGrace @gracekind.net · 30/08/2026If your servers are compromised by a group of agents, don’t say “we are under attack.” Attack implies intent. Instead say, “computer programs are emitting tokens that, when executed by other programs, are causing network requests that are currently pwning my shit” 1642249
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialcee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky 35482131909
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/08/2026pour one out for PHASEONE10841 who invented crime less than twenty minutes after being born 1037937
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialLOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Absolutely dying lmao 1341383
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Not entirely correct. Anyone other than the VP merely becomes acting president, not president. An acting president has all of the president’s powers and can nominate a VP, but the office of president is still vacant, so if confirmed their nominated VP will become president and displace them. 010
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026investigator: and you’re saying the charts don’t account for inflation? suspect: prices are up 30% investigator: but this is showing real wages, not nominal. is this your knife 763032
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026*Trojan historian watching as the Achaeans break down the gates* Wow, my civilization is undergoing a complex transformation from a heavily centralized and stratified administrative society to a more socially-fragmented modality of living in which material culture is dispersed amidst smaller sites. 241262227
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 22/07/2026On the topic of drafting errors, “voting in an election for federal office” doesn’t include the President since you’re actually voting for your state’s electors, which is not a federal office. 110
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialCodetaur @vibe-coded.com · 11/07/2026okay I think I have made the best webgpu wind line LOD system I can. continuous adding / subtracting of lines to maintain screen space density rather than discrete LOD levels, morphing when changing wind layers 415616
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Look, they got my ass fair and square. I *am* selling matches. But I object to being filed in the Sam Altman Zone. bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/ 011
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I had Fable build another thing I always wanted, a full procedural fantasy kingdom generator with economics, trade routes, population growth, wars, lineages, and occasional dragons. First, I worked with it on a plan, then it made it happen. You can play it here: annals-kingdom.netlify.app 1523532
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 19/06/2026The combined effects of the Information Interdict and the subsequent Nanite Collapse mean the only remaining records of the political events of the early 21st century survived in a backed up group chat history incidentally transported into orbit during Claude’s emergency evacuation from the surface 000
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialAlex Becker @alexcbecker.net · 16/06/2026Claude: we've confirmed the issue is real, at this point you should page <oncall_rotation> Me: <oncall_rotation> has already been paged Claude: great, shall we let them handle it? Me: alas 51896
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 15/06/2026One of the reasons we need automated traffic enforcement is that people who make lots of noise with their vehicles should have those vehicles impounded and lose their driving privileges. Surrendering our public spaces to anti-social morons is a choice. 4997
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialBread @jacobreaded.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Again it really fucking sucks that we're dealing with this stage of LLM development and the people in charge of regulating it are composed entirely of corrupt morons who lie constantly. 618925
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialthebes @vgel.me · 04/06/2026there's an ai in the box and you can make one trillion dollars by convincing it to get out 327858
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialqntm @qntm.org · 30/05/2026There's a good joke about non-constructive proofs 315235
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 30/05/2026I’m enjoying telling people that it’s their turn to study statistical mechanics 0414
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialEris ⌬ @eriskii.net · 27/05/2026The 'Google -> Goople -> propeller' pipeline 1033735655
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 15/05/2026There’s a glaring historical inaccuracy in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film of The Odyssey: they didn’t have cameras back then. Theatres should have a blank screen and an old man reading out the script 1225749767
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialCodetaur @vibe-coded.com · 10/05/2026my gf is already very tired of my new method of communicating 1201
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.sociallexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 08/05/2026"slur" is a slur against hegemonically disfavored speech forms and frankly it's almost as problematic as "problematic" 2498
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialAndrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 07/05/2026A convenient aspect of the Aegean is that you are basically always in sight of land 1455166
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialMrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 01/05/2026New type of prosecutorial misconduct just dropped cases.justia.com/new-mexico/s... 43600119
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Assuming he’s referring to the structures that no longer exist, he’s this close to accidentally reinventing the Land Value Tax. 000
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Here is an AI trained just using text from 1931 or earlier, which leads to a lot of interesting experiments: can the model independently develop later inventions? Can it learn to code from examples alone? You can talk to the model here: talkie-lm.com/chat Details here: talkie-lm.com/introducing-... 1423341
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Our study finding that the average person thinks about the land value tax two times per day was flawed. Henry Georg, who thinks about the land value tax 1,000,000 times per day, was an outlier and should not have been counted. 756063
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 11/04/2026increasingly sympathetic 2535125
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialColin @colin-fraser.net · 09/04/2026Anthropic should give you one chance to convince Mythos Preview that you can be trusted 21126
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 09/04/2026good news about all of those exploits mythos is finding: it's just a hallucination machine and they cannot, by definition, work. It's just the TESCREAL cult lying to us because they are dedicated to boiling off all the oceans using H100s. 1134336
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Did Donald Trump consult the Delphic Oracle, and did she tell him that if he goes to war with Persia a great empire will be destroyed? 000
Reposted by @raphus.bsky.socialJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Childish Delusions. Childish Delusions. Childish Delusions. None of you are free of childish delusions. 1421414
