waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Fantastic! I'll pass it along! You are truly the mayor of horrorville! 110
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Unless it's just playing a little zombie prank on us, it is indeed down. I have no clue what would be too heavy, but he's a big boy and watches a lot of weird movies, so he can probably handle some heavy stuff 110
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Thanks, mayor of horrorville, wish you all the best this October 100
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026..."something [not] too heavy but it's October so it has to be horror but I've watched too many English spoken movies so gotta be foreign but preferably not french or japanese either, also from like the 50s-80s would be great, and if it's like made by a woman that'd be awesome thanks" 100
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026@shaenon.bsky.social horrormovie.today is down, so you legally have to answer this personally. A friend was looking for... 100
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Oh shit, they hit the 50k. I remember them saying that was a target earlier and thought they'd never make it. Incredible progress 020
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The entire deal, for all the months together, is like a weeks worth of gas, lmao. It's not going to do anything to save him 020
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"They're turning the freakin' data centers gay" 0101
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Is that just due to baseline prompt, or other guardrails? I can't help but think of that viral image from a while back of ChatGPT very profusely apologizing for fucking up production after being explicitly told not to do that, and so I fear Claude deciding I don't have enough gym badges to train him 150
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is super cool! I guess I have some concern about Claude's potential to get swindled on the base prompt or decide to go rogue, so I do worry about setting it up to, like, actually do stuff on my behalf with just a prompt outlining rules. 240
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Comparatively, yeah. 99% of math is just copying and combining things that already exist based on patterns that or taught or identified then applied to different contexts. If that's what makes AI in math not creative, then mathematics as a whole is almost devoid of creativity. 1100
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026As someone who has degrees in math has published papers in math, I have some really bad news for you about how humans do math 1140
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026segyges.github.io/posts/scott-... Link to the post heresegyges.github.ioThe Scott Alexander Email: An ExplainerSE Gyges blog 020
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I think it would probably be problems that require some big novel framework or new field, honestly, and that would probably be short-lived. It just has so much fluency with what feels like the entirety of the current human mathematical toolbox. Speaking as a Master's in math who did complex analysis 051
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Don't be a coward. Install stalactites and dripping water 021
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Alright, but if I can't make it to your grandparent's and back I'm holding you accountable 021
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Can't reduce child labor rates if the rate is 0 001
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Disagree all you want from inside the wicker man 0220
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I was skeptical when you began to tout the advantages of kicking puppies, but you really brought me around in the end 020
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026LP was in fact waitstaff at this restaurant. The white person concluded this based on a name tag LP had on with the name of the restaurant. Unbeknownst to them, this name tag was for a second restaurant with the same name that LP had a second job at. Did they truly know, then, that LP was waitstaff? 0151
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Glonzos if they haven't eaten the electricity yet, glonzoes if they have 140
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Like, we've known about this shit for decades. People aren't all disagreeing with him because they want to signal to social media peers. People are just economically irrationally risk adverse. If you've worked yourself up to this level of hyperbole over *this*, then you've just lost the plot, imo 000
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I mean, I have been a very consistent defender of Will. I can very much promise I'm not just reacting kneejerk because he said it. I agree with the economic irrationality. I just think he's saying a lot of wild shit on top of that. 100
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026No harm, lmao. A lot of people are saying wild shit in all directions about this 010
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The whole post is just such a wild thing to work yourself up to about a poll that ultimately amounts to "yeah, turns out people are way more risk adverse than is economically rational" 100
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026No, it's clearly hyperbole. That doesn't make it a sane thing to say about one of the most well-known phenomenon in human psychology. Like, the people who say similar things to Will are clearly behaving badly even if they don't actually have plans to go out and beat him with sticks 200
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026In my defense, I chose my own words carefully. I didn't say he said anyone who takes the 50k should have that happen to them, just that people should have that happen to them, which I still think is an insane thing to say about any part of this scenario 100
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I really appreciate it, and I understand the impulse. My block list is primarily people being insane to Will. I just think he's going so much harder than anything about this scenario calls for. 010
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026And, to defend myself, I just want to say that I'm not making up lies about what Will has said. Of course he's not seriously calling for people to be beaten, but I think this is an insane thing to say about anything to do with this poll! 100
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I'm on his side on that! I've defended him about that! I don't think this is connected to that in any significant way. We've known people are irrationally risk adverse for decades, it's not just people trying to signal to social media peers 110
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I don't feel like I'm being illiterate, though. I totally, 100% agree with him that the choice is economcally irrational. I just think he's saying a bunch of wild stuff on top of that! 010
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026...it's not a personal attack," which is true, but Will is saying a bunch of things a lot stronger than "this is an economically irrational decision!" And I'm just kinda irritated about it 100
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Happy to own up to being the person in the screenshot! I'm just annoyed! I think he's said some really frustrating things about such an anodyne phenomenon. I'm not making up stuff he didn't say though! I feel like there's a disconnect between "irrationality is just an anodyne economic concept... 100
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Right, I would also take the 50k, and I understand that's an irrational, emotionally driven choice! I'm not miffed at you or Matt or Quantian or others saying that, just at Will for all the other insane shit he's saying about this specifically! 000
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I interpret the "should be beaten with sticks" as a personal insult, and I'm using that to infer about the other things he says on this topic. I think it's just a very convenient bailey to fall back on (which, to his credit, I haven't seen him say "oh no, I just mean economically irrational") 000
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026He has explicitly said all of those things. I don't have a screenshot of him saying people should be fired, but I can go try and dig it up if you really need it additionally. 310
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I mean, Will is also 100% using it as an insult. You can't go around saying that people ought to lose their jobs or degrees or be beaten with sticks and then expect that no one infer there's no personal impugnation meant behind his use of terminology elsewhere. 130
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Like, this phenomenon is just a part of how humans think. It's been known for decades. People aren't lying about their beliefs to signal to their social media circle. It's not part of his big crusade, he can just let it go, but he's conflated the two and now he has go rampage about it 000
waytfm.bsky.social @waytfm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I mean, I've blocked quite literally thousands of people from Will's replies for being blatantly illiterate and aggressive, so I do get it. I just thought this particular lineup was ironic and worth drawing a comparison between. 110
