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Many methods, one goal. Pro trans transhumanist, liberal, georgist, pro state capacity, anti administrative burden.

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Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus OREM, UTβ€”As law enforcement officials search for a person of interest in the assassination of 31-year-old Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, witnesses on the scene at Utah Valley University ad...

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

11.09.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 26176    πŸ” 5151    πŸ’¬ 449    πŸ“Œ 326

every time i use an all-gender restroom i get nervous that someone will figure out that i'm not really all genders

23.08.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not sure the feature engineering exist to make that work on real data.

23.08.2025 23:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s going to be okay because we’re going to make it okay

30.05.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 88    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

Used to be and still is. A billion dollars simply isnt that large in the housing market.

09.08.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

oh never mind this is actually true in Britain

04.08.2025 00:31 β€” πŸ‘ 173    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

I guess the answer to the Democratic Party's Young Men Problem is to, like, run even one guy under 50 who doesn't clearly suck?

29.07.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the race for the twenty-first century is a race to see who can stop hitting themselves first

28.07.2025 13:02 β€” πŸ‘ 332    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2

Remember, the Online Safety Act was passed by a Tory government in 2023. It only just went into effect. If Labour wanted, they could safely wash their hands of the whole mess and blame conservatives.

Except now they *are* the conservatives.

29.07.2025 08:07 β€” πŸ‘ 243    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m deadly serious by the way.

The UK fiscal and economic situation is fucking dire right now and that is in large part because government policy is permanently tilted towards the needs and preferences of retirees.

20.07.2025 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

Pedocon theory appears to be the real engine of history

18.07.2025 03:21 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's... complex. But to sumarise, the "centeral" group likes usaid, but its diffuse, and usually avoids dissavowing. In general, its about what *you* do, getting others to agree is optional.

05.07.2025 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

why am I paying someone to fetch me a bucket of water when I can get as much as I want at the free tap it came from

01.07.2025 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 96    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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China is cracking down on young women who write gay erotica At least 30 writers have been arrested across the country since February, a lawyer tells the BBC.

I think people not in online fandom world are liable to under estimate how significant an expression of women's sexuality this is nowadays. It'd be like banning books with topless Scotsmen called The Highlander's Hidden Heart or whatever in the 80s/90s.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

30.06.2025 06:04 β€” πŸ‘ 133    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

I dont really understand the differences between this and universal MOEs arxiv.org/pdf/2405.16039 arxiv.org/pdf/2310.07096

28.06.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I thought that going mad from microsoft copilot (as opposed to something like 4o, with its known sycophacy issues(also the fact that github copilot, the other github copilot, microsoft copilot, 4o and o4 are named that way is stupid)) was silly but then i remebered sydney bing.

28.06.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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(If the β€œfuture scary paradigm” is so bad, should we push on LLMs instead? I offer some concerns there tooβ€”e.g., the reasons to feel good about alignment of today’s LLMs seem to be getting less and less applicable over time!) (9/10)

23.06.2025 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

in this sense trump is basically the id of every american voter

22.06.2025 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 142    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I mean their aggenda mostly consists of "Loosen zoning restrictions" and "stop having so many meetings" so its like half of their aggenda. and from what I can tell, seemingly the controversial one with voters.

20.06.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Greedy physicians expand clinic, want to treat and cure another 21 patients."

18.06.2025 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

That doesnt really make sense to me for EG a train. Good to counterbalance the natural priority of who would win in a colision though, otherwise you end up with just a bunch of big cars.

20.06.2025 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

AI alignment folks: Is there a consensus on the relative difficulty/importance of:

(1) Making AI understand human values
(2) Making AI care about human values
(3) Making AI succeed at what it tries to do

(Or... is there a consensus that this is the wrong way to think about it?)

19.06.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

So yeah, its less about the technical difficulty and more about the stakes. in general its assumed that and ASI will have a high quality model of the world and thus of humanity, so 1 and 3 are basicaly the same. or rather, as a model is not an agent, 1 is a subset of 3.

19.06.2025 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My understanding is that 2 is the hardest for superintelegent AIs, though this is assumed to be because you cant trial and error it. For other AIs, the ordering is less strict.

19.06.2025 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

On the bit torrent twitter wishing it was the signal twitter.

18.06.2025 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 138    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well they are predicitive models. The base models closely match the proabilities of humans for any given answer (Note, not the chatbots, as they are given futher training)

18.06.2025 09:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

something that really irritates me is that the same corner of the Internet puts out these two messages without really understanding the contradiction between

"just don't be an asshole/be a good person and you'll get ___"

"no one owes you anything/life owes you nothing"

17.06.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

it's insane how good LLMs are given how bad they are

12.06.2025 06:00 β€” πŸ‘ 73    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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I tried to get Gemini to make this for me but I guess it can't do that. Usually it just changed the pfp and this time just gave me an unrelated image and I'm too lazy to edit the image myself

06.06.2025 01:16 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

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