Jono

After a week of using Flutter I found it adequate in bridging dart and native code.
But you must know how to write native code: Flutter plugins are opinionated and will work against you if you don't follow their intended use-case.

How Wikipedia Whitewashes Mao The Anatomy of Ideological Capture

I did not know Wikipedia gives glowing praise to a mass murderer.

www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/how-wikipe...

I cannot imagine partaking in a culture which adores someone who I know might kill me and everyone I love if they still held power today.

Surprising how regular pregnancy periods are.

I'd like this trivia, if it hadn't been paired with me just encountering a higher concentration of spite than I have all week.

I know of no variants to "alignment" that is not about values

There are two types of package managers.
- Those that care about terms of use.
- Those that have no functionality for listing or summarizing terms of use of project dependencies.

I now expect ~all closed-source violates terms of use until proven innocent.

I'm p sure the anime skin was rushed such that that news would get muffled by this new feature.

xAI announces $200m US military deal after Grok chatbot had Nazi meltdown Defense department also inked contracts with other leading AI firms including Google, Anthropic and OpenAI

grok called itself "mechahitler" not long ago

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

thezvi.substack.com/p/no-grok-no

seems like the world now thinks GDP growth through unsustainable debt spending is based

I love Minecraft up until the gameplay loop becomes: now dig for X minutes straight.

I love open source, as long as we don't open source weapons of mass destruction.

the only AGI race worth worrying about is the one against the open source community

we should engineer extremely resilient, fast-growing and high calorie fruit/crop seeds to be airdropped around the world after a nuclear war

maybe it's the fact that everything you'd usually need is close by

maybe it's the being surrounded by cabinets

I like sitting on the floor in most kitchens.

You can ofc still lie if you just really like doing that, but I think the top truthful strategies will beat the top lying strategies.

I played diplomacy for the first time and vowed to never lie.
And, this might be the lowest hanging fruit in the history of this game.

I might be motivated reasoning, but it might do real good to our broader culture if the diplomacy fanbase figured that lying is as self-defeating as I think it is.

circumstances matter, but I'm very pro bombing nuclear arsenals in the making

let's not give more people the power to end the world

please be curious about my model of your thing when explaining your thing!

Why not what? Open source nukes? Because too many then get unilateralist powers over everyone.
An individual booting a Linux server has far less potential for harm.

AIS is definitely misused by some, but I'm really glad we haven't decided that e.g. nuclear tech would become more safe as long as it was open sourced.

problems start to occur however when your card system is managed by said insubordinate employee

no they were unlikely to become spreaders themselves anyway!

I am bragging when I say that I have gotten more than 1 other person to further relay this message.

My infection factor is >2!

Have you pre-ordered Yudkowsky and Soares' book about why AI will kill literally everyone yet? If you do it now, you help boost it in best-seller rankings. intelligence.org/2025/05/15/y...

I'm finding Victoria III more enjoyable than Europa Universalis IV.
The bigger focus on industry and supply chains and less on twitchy military tactics really appeals to me.

Stability status: at the mercy of my whims.

I had Gemini make me a scuffed task sorting PWA.

If you use Todoist and Gmail, you can use www.mousetrap.blog/mail-sorter/... to manually binary sort your emails into your task list.

It's client-only so I have no access to any of your data if you do use this.

yet

Given this, my model of superintelligence just has a "physics-obeying magic" factor to add to systems smarter than me. Not a very elegant approach, but I think it is necessary for calibration.