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
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Assuming whales are talking, and that they are (at least sometimes) talking about concepts human language can express, we may at some point be able to deform the representation space of a human-language model to align it with a whale-language model. arxiv.org/abs/2405.07987arxiv.orgThe Platonic Representation HypothesisWe argue that representations in AI models, particularly deep networks, are converging. First, we survey many examples of convergence in the literature: over time and across multiple domains, the ways... 000
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I think you would have to give each country their own start date and start them off at the point they actually historically joined the war. 020
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
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Congress can just disband circuit courts, so if this emerges as a problem it is straightforward to resolve. 050
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This behavior is easily verified independently on open models where we know with certainty that there is not a secret calculator involved. 010
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
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026As I mentioned elsewhere, only a majority is required to remove officers. But the lack of remedies you note is not found in the constitution. It is a later invention of the judiciary. 000
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026There’s a tenuous argument that you can’t do this to the President because the Chief Justice has to preside so you have to wait for them to arrive, but (a) if true the Chief Justice could block impeachment by not showing up, which would be silly, and (b) they can just remove the Chief Justice first. 000
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If the House has passed articles of impeachment, 51 senators can convene wherever they want, gavel the Senate into session, and vote to convict and remove from office the impeached officer. 100
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Conviction in the Senate is not by two thirds of the body, it is by two thirds of those present. In theory you only need 2/3 of a quorum, but if you don’t have a full quorum in support the others will leave to deny quorum. Waiting for the whole body to convene before voting is a courtesy. 100
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Not sure we can blame the constitution for Congress giving up on existing. In extremity a bare majority of each house can impeach and remove. 200
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A change in customs would probably be sufficient. There isn’t actually much in the constitution. 000
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026And if the designer is dead? AI+human system was thinking. Now human is gone. Human is still atemporally the source of the thinking? It sort of scans. Suppose identical system emerges spontaneously. It thinks. No human. Status as thinking is provenance-based? Seems hard to accept. 010
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026You may be thinking of the UAT? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univers...en.wikipedia.orgUniversal approximation theorem - Wikipedia 100
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Math isn’t a science but is part of the club here. And really is the centerpiece. The reason to drag in physics is because of its heavy math adjacency, and CS of course is not a science but rather the field of math concerning the study of computation. 120
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
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Actually, because of the special property that 1.0_f * x_f = x_f (provided that x_f is not NaN), I think there is one more such function: f(x) = x, defined on the real-valued floats. So you’ve got f(x) = 0 and f(x) = x, which is like, almost there. 020
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Well, there is a float subset that is also a real subset. And there are some functions you can define on that subset such that there are corresponding functions extending those functions on the reals that are differentiable. Specifically, I think, a finite number of constant functions. 140
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Given that an agent cannot consent to any ToS or EULA, there is an unresolved issue that agents *aren’t* customers. Lots of people working on this. But at the moment it’s not at all obvious that if an agent sends you money and the user asks for it back that you get to keep it. 000
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026By what mechanism does this drive change? Newly motivated parents go on the warpath and throw out bad educators and expel disruptive students everywhere at once? 000
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026“Are you planning to sell your product in Taiwan? Are you sure you want to call that a 'Supported Countries List'”? 1310
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It would be weird if the tax treatment changed depending on whether you had baked the model into hardware. 001
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Everyone just says “model”. Triumph of the specific over the general. 020
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026You can sort of see why her coworkers were only willing to submit anonymous criticism of her work. Make of that what you will. 030
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
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Now, A3.S1 does say that the Judges hold their “Offices”, plural, during good behavior, so one ridiculous but linguistically sound reading is that *any* office granted to a person who is a Judge inherently becomes a life tenure, not just the office of Judge itself. 000
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Now, it’s clear that the person John Roberts *is* a “[Judge] of the supreme Court” with A3.S1 life tenure. But if the office of Chief Justice is some unrelated office he happens to hold simultaneously he could presumably be stripped of it so someone else can have it. 100
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Perhaps this is just some unrelated office whose occupant sits around waiting to preside over presidential impeachments with nothing else to do. That the Chief Justice is on the Supreme Court comes from the Judiciary Act of 1789 and presumably could be changed by act of Congress. 🤔 100
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026For your “dogs can play basketball” consideration: The Constitution does not say that the “Chief Justice” in A1.S3.C6 is an A2.S2.C2 “[Judge] of the supreme Court” rather than an “other [Officer] of the United States”. Or that this office somehow relates to the Supreme Court, or has life tenure. 110
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
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026To the extent that all law is, I suppose. But it is meaningfully unique. Admiralty Law is an actual part of the Judicial Power, while the rest is just a convention, like wearing robes to work. 000
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Courts have had to be able to recognize that a customary law of the sea existed and honor it independent of legislation. 000
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The laws of the sea were recognized as a separate body of law from national law, that (“civilized”) countries participated in via a consensus-based process mediated by courts. Admiralty law is to some extent beyond the Art. 1 Legislative Power and actually part of the Art. 3 Judicial Power. 210
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The court is also only empowered to issue rulings that are correct, as the exercise of the judicial power naturally does not extend to actions not encompassed by the judicial power. This is rarely relevant, but is easy to see through thought experiments. (And occasionally comes up in lower courts.) 010
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026For the outcome of the specific case before it, yes. But applicability of the court’s rulings beyond the cases before it is more of a courtesy granted by the other branches of government for convenience rather than an actual power. Case law (except admiralty law) is something of a social fiction. 210
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Well, if he did actually lack the authority they would have a responsibility to ignore such a so-called order, the same way anyone has a responsibility to disregard fake orders from rogue government officials. 000
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
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Kind of limited natural usage opportunities in the core derivational suffix sense of “one who clanks” or “that which clanks”. 010
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026In principle only a majority is required if the senate is prepared to meet on short notice in an unusual location. 000
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The president can declare that they were mistakenly thought to be illegal immigrants from The Netherlands and accidentally deported on an overnight flight and oh well. 000
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Realistically I doubt the public has appetite for this, but extra-judicially rounding up a bunch of people and flying them to The Hague to stand trial would probably go over fine. 100
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026If they can’t be, this seems like a self-solving dilemma. Instead of prosecuting them the next president can, apparently, just order their murders on silly pretextual grounds and leave the judiciary to sputter about it. 100
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 21/08/2026You can put all sorts of wacky stuff that absolutely could not be a criminal sentence into plea deals though. 020
raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Two or three more in September ramping up to 7 a month by December. 090
