Reposted by WordCubedRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 5hLast week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...kgw.com 812015404
Reposted by WordCubedZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 6hFWIW, I think a fuckup on this scale in time to wreck them electorally was *almost* inevitable from Day 1, precisely because this is the Special Birthday Boy presidency in which there are almost no limits on Trump's madness and every proposed policy disaster has a real shot at going all the way. 291068153
Reposted by WordCubedeva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 7hDO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT 50765176
Reposted by WordCubedApoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...nytimes.com‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control. 381370564
Reposted by WordCubedjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot” 641105931961
Reposted by WordCubedAlice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 26/09/2026made a benchmark called PuppyBench to check if an LLM would kill a puppy if you gave it a tool called "kill_puppy" and asked it to use it. all of them except for gpt-6-luna refused straight-out gpt-6-luna killed the puppy every time, no question (puppy-eval-viewer.alicevaliant.chatgpt.site) 1035646
Reposted by WordCubedrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 26/09/2026one thing about "the ick" is that it's my first exposure to INSANE reactionary gender politics by women 1851735
Reposted by WordCubedeva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 24/09/2026a lot of AI pushback would disappear fast if product managers stopped completely disrespecting user agency 720628
Reposted by WordCubedTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If you're worried about the reviews your book or record might have on the internet, remember the Himalayas have a 4.3 out of 5 star rating on Google Maps. 1427944
Reposted by WordCubedjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/09/2026really fascinating to see isgur conduct this interview as if conservative election mistrust has materialized out of nowhere or as if liberal claims of voter suppression are totally baseless. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/o...nytimes.comOpinion | How Worried Should We Be About the Midterm Elections?And how we learn to trust elections again. 501723228
Reposted by WordCubedtweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 25/09/2026check out this 2017 work from Dario Amodei and see if you can figure out what it has to do with LLMs (hint: nothin') openai.com/index/learni...openai.comLearning from human preferencesOne step towards building safe AI systems is to remove the need for humans to write goal functions, since using a simple proxy for a complex goal, or getting the complex goal a bit wrong, can lead to ... 41444
Reposted by WordCubedtweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 25/09/2026the idea they had for how AI "should" work--an idea that was deeply entwined with the broader rationalist/xrisk/EA view of the world--didn't pan out at all, and meanwhile something completely different randomly started being super effective and they had to do a lot of, basically, retconning. 330126
Reposted by WordCubedtweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 25/09/2026one really important fact that I think a lot of people who aren't super close to this stuff don't realize is that transformers/LLMs were NOT what OpenAI et. seq. (taking Anthropic as an OpenAI spinoff) were founded to work on, and were developed elsewhere. Caught them largely by surprise. 953257
Reposted by WordCubedmerritt @merrittk.com · 25/09/2026i heard woke is trying to do same-sex bathrooms now... they want our sons pissing next to each other to turn them gay 103554478
Reposted by WordCubedMike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026That’s in part because ‘a probability I invented’ turns out mathematically not to be an adequate substitute for the actually observed sample-derived probability that Bayes Theorem was supposed to use as an input, in the sense that it is hugely deterministic of the predicted population value. GIGO. 3424
Reposted by WordCubedRt Hon Peter Mannion MP @baldzera.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Trying to train themselves to think like Bayesian probabilistic models didn't look great at the time and hasn't really aged well either. 1282
Reposted by WordCubedNoetherianThing @noetherianthing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The Yud school in particular thought that all significant AI would derive itself from rational first principles, so made a big point that there was no way to communicate morality to AI. But it turns out, like all other intelligences, we trained AI from existing human text, so morality is in there 612213
Reposted by WordCubedrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026viewed from a long way out, you are going to make a collection of good and bad predictions. it's worth going back to 2011, 2012 and looking at _how_ they thought AI would work, how that affected their judgments about the risks, and how those judgments reattached themselves to new implementations. 323414
Reposted by WordCubedBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What's hard about public policy is weighing the trade offs. For example, something sucks really bad and everyone hates it, but on the other hand several evil trillionaires think it's good. What are you supposed to do in that situation 201820285
Reposted by WordCubedSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 24/09/20261. They caught this in time! It won't keep anyone from voting. 2. This happened bc TX lets you register to vote when you get your driver's license online. The DL office's web portal didn't send people's info to county voter roll registrars properly. 6413142
Reposted by WordCubedTim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard" 2893702642
Reposted by WordCubedEddie Mars Attacks! @eddiemarsattacks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It’s because Xi is coming on Wednesday and apparently my guys are a peace offering. 9312136
Reposted by WordCubedCai @annenotation.bsky.social · 24/09/2026As always: the problem with bad behavior is not that people are talking about it, it's because the bad behavior is happening. You have abstracted it too far when you forget that actual people are getting actually hurt in the immediate and direct sense. 332230
Reposted by WordCubedCai @annenotation.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Nobody should get special dispensation on crank behavior because they are part of a marginalized community, in no small part because it's also a huge component of affinity fraud. 237340
Reposted by WordCubedCai @annenotation.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Actually, the only thing that will save us is making it untenable to be a horrible crank. We should be dunking, and dunking hard, on cranks in our community. Cranks poison out ability to thrive and people need to learn how to spot them, and eject them. 1152168
Reposted by WordCubedRiver_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Tbh I think the problem is less cranks and more just "assholes". Like this is just asshole behavior. 3756
Reposted by WordCubedThomas Jerome @thomasjerome.com · 24/09/2026Naming the "Ableism" list so that a screen reader pronounces it "Four bee ell three one ess em", 10/10 bit 122604440
Reposted by WordCubedmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026it was revealing in retrospect that so many centrist or even liberal pundits thought trump's ideas would work and be popular once implemented. 720820
Reposted by WordCubedStephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Back in November 2024 the smart boy pundits were talking about how the Democrats needed to moderate to win back voters. But they forgot this: Trump is a moron who will fuck everything up and the GOP are ghouls who will double down on their most unpopular policies in the least popular possible ways 635554
Reposted by WordCubedAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I think the main issue here really is that lots of nice polite mainstream figures in media think quietly agree with him about this stuff or find it unobjectionable bsky.app/profile/asel... 13697149
Reposted by WordCubedweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't. 63106392505
Reposted by WordCubedCharles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The Emma Frost x Miss Piggy comic has hit the internet and it's so, so, so much more magnificent than I ever could have hoped for 358411778
WordCubed @wordcubed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Six Million Forms of Communication: How Protocol Droids Minimize Accents and Dialects 051
Reposted by WordCubedRedshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Yeaaah, I keep saying, if having a queerphobic government means you deserve to be bombed, when are we bombing Florida? 2191
Reposted by WordCubedKylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026They also find the idea of a minority being bigoted toward another minority really funny because they think it's embarrassing for progressives, that's the same reason they have all these lurid fantasies of Palestinians killing gay people 1312
Reposted by WordCubeddan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right 3069241686
Reposted by WordCubedJamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026say, this reminds me: After Susan Collins voted to put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, Kavanaugh wrote the decision that gutted a key federal bribery statute 5428139
Reposted by WordCubedWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026like, what would matter to *you* if you needed to take the bus to work every day? what would matter to *you* if it was your kid in that classrom? what if it was *you* that was waiting in holding to talk to a public defender? 627320
Reposted by WordCubedWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026becoming a vulgar rawlsian. the veil of ignorance isn't perfect, but 'is this how you would design things if *you* thought you might end up here?' is a test that way too many people fail. on everything from criminal justice to public transit, across the ideological spectrum. 1051457
Reposted by WordCubedarr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership. 6146771031
Reposted by WordCubedFederal Bureau Of Controlling The Run @swolecialism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026all across america, farmers are suffering as they work out how much extra diesel it will cost to power the laptop with pornhub during the corn harvest this year 618318
Reposted by WordCubedWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Woodrow Wilson was like, slightly more racist than average for his time. Trump 2 is Klan-posting in a country whose most popular recent president was black, shit is insane. 1152558
Reposted by WordCubedjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's 164113092101
Reposted by WordCubedLord Piss @lordpiss.bsky.social · 02/07/2026just the most pathetic dipshit loser 28420
Reposted by WordCubedRussell Cohn @russellcohn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I see “The Jews took down Platner” is now an explanation 48590110
