Darren Gasser

Straight to the damn Hague!

It's probably not a healthy sign when you read headlines about the mad king starting a galactically bad regional war as soon as this weekend and your first thought is "well, at least F1 will be able to finish pre-season testing in Bahrain on Friday."

The Pentagon Just Sent a Terrifying Message to AI Companies It warned Anthropic it will “pay a price” if it continues to demand its products have safeguards.

"Donald Trump’s so-called Department of War is threatening to cut ties with Anthropic because it won’t help the Pentagon conduct mass surveillance on Americans or make fully autonomous weapons that the administration can use however it likes."

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Multiple red flags here:
- "Hobbyists," "prototype"
- Multiple unchallenged hype statements from people whose salaries depend on AI tool revenue
- Quotes Matt Shumer approvingly without noting his past history

The GOP hashed this out publicly in the aftermath of the 2012 election when they debated whether to broaden their appeal or double down on white patriarchal nationalism, landing firmly on the "double down on white patriarchal nationalism" side.

He does seem to have a genuine passion for west Asian imperialism and killing as many Muslims as possible.

This is the left's version of "would you say the n-word to save an infant?"

Childish nonsense.

The Deadwood fan service throughout the series was fun, but making Titus Welliver try to do a Northern Irish accent was just cruel.

That’s the problem. Nobody seems to have even a medium-confidence estimate of either of those key numbers right now, and we have good reason to distrust the estimates from the AI companies and their loudest boosters.

Partially true. A big part of this is about being overtly proud of slavery, Jim Crow, Native American genocide, Chinese Exclusion, Japanese internment, etc.

With no coherent foreign policy process and all decisions contingent on which viziers have the ear of a mad king, we're slowly learning more about how the different viziers see the world.

What a weird mix of Cold War Bircherism and colonial imperialism.

Ok, so it’s not just a US thing.

Right wingers are allergic to learning history elsewhere, too.

Throw in IndyCar’s Will Power and Sting Ray Robb.

I do not fear the rise of superintelligence.

I do, however, fear the rise of billionaires, organizations, and world powers who seek to use computing to maximize their power, influence, and control.

1 hard no, 4 prefer not. Several depends on how it’s prepared.

I’m also thinking about the time Bill Clinton was impeached for - no, really, you won’t possibly believe what Bill Clinton was impeached for given <gestures at everything happening fifty times a day now>

Seems like a big deal. Also, staggeringly stupid of Bondi to put it on paper.

Movie poster from the 1989 film "Blood of Heroes"

Add some goons on snowmobiles. We can have a whole Bond film section of future Olympics.

The energy I want from candidates heading into midterms, planning for 2027 and beyond:

Kent from Real Genius asking "Hello, Jesus?"

Pretending that all the evil shit only happened on the island is a desperate move. Hard to see that working out for them, either.

The rest of the world thinks it's a bubble.

California here. Yes and yes.

Is this what Wyden was ringing alarms about?

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Post a banger that's not in English.

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Post a banger that's not in English.

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Other contributing factors may include SpaceX being way behind on meeting their contract commitments for Artemis III and his desire to loot SpaceX to keep funding the cash incinerators at Grok and Twitter.

It likely doesn't help that most of them know the actual-actual policy via Miller is white nationalist ethnic cleansing, which makes it even harder to discuss the community sweeps.

We need to formalize this principle and design a test for it.

A generic form of "you're not allowed to talk about autonomous robots and Mars colonies unless you can show you can make a basic consumer product that doesn't suck."