tomriddle.bsky.social

yeah its not agreeing with you, its reflecting the input terms of your prompt

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

the opportunity space is growing

I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

In urban centers with high competition and many people living alone, delivery is nearly free and meals $10-15. Economics breaks down if you have a family. But grocery stores also price by zip code income level, so it mutually reinforces.

limitless financial incentives to cross polinate

These are our favorite cyber books on hacking, espionage, crypto, surveillance, and more | TechCrunch These are our favorite cybersecurity books, both by fiction authors, as well as journalists and researchers.

We published a reading list of our favorite cyber and cyber-adjacent books.

We're keeping it relatively broad. Books about privacy and surveillance are and will be a part of this.

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The SCP fiction itself has become an infohazard.

Audits of AI/ML systems while protecting model IP and keeping the audit data confidential 🤫

@inxoy.bsky.social is at the ICML TAIG workshop today, presenting our work on Attestable Audits: arxiv.org/html/2506.23... with Bill Marino and @arberesford.bsky.social

between this and trumped up charges against Sen. Schiff we are already in 2016 Turkey territory

Our new paper at the intersection of causal cognition and linguistics

Take a sentence of the form “[AGENT] caused [OUTCOME]”

Our studies suggest: Some surprising effects in intuitions about these sentences can be explained using theories from linguistics about the “agent role”

Becoming grotesquely rich wouldn't make me stupid and evil like it does everyone else, I'd resist it effortlessly

A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers The Pentagon bans foreign citizens from accessing highly sensitive data, but Microsoft bypasses this by using engineers in China and elsewhere to remotely instruct American “escorts” who may lack expe...

NEW: Microsoft told @propublica.org that it disclosed details of the escort program to the U.S. government.

But the Pentagon’s IT agency was unaware until reporter @reneedudley.bsky.social asked for comment.

“Literally no one seems to know anything about this,” a spokesperson said.

well yeah, they are shutting it down

Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

why would anyone think it will hold?

As a French person permit me to ask: what the fuck is going on here?

Tehran's no good, very bad options, and why only diplomacy can head off an Iranian bomb Eliminating the potential for Iran to hide behind a temporary truce or interim agreement—only to then surprise the world with a nuclear weapon—must be the focus of current negotiations.

Tehran’s no good, very bad options, and why only diplomacy can head off an Iranian bomb, by @pranayrvaddi.bsky.social in @thebulletin.org. thebulletin.org/2025/07/tehrans-no-good-very-bad-options-and-why-only-diplomacy-can-head-off-an-iranian-bomb/

5 things to know about Trump’s attacks on the Montreal Protocol The binding climate treaty has been a success, earning the support of businesses and Republicans. It could be in peril under President Donald Trump.

Get in losers we're bringing back the hole in the ozone layer

This is not a comment on this particularly, but I've said on different platforms there are relatively significant portions of humanity that aren't psychologically equipped to understand something that so closely mirrors human intelligence. Thinking through ~how and why it responds just doesn't work.

ive had this experience in business once or twice

IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid ***

I have read many horrific wartime reports in my life and this one is a standout.

Members of the IDF who feel this way need to start outright refusing the order to shoot. These are war crimes, crimes against humanity, and nothing is worth the stain on your soul.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

What It Took To Win Thoughts on Zohran Mamdani's Popular Front

"The problem with the polling and all the emphasis on data in contemporary politics is that it does not take into account that the electorate doesn’t really exist until election day, and the politician and his or her campaign are actively creating that electorate."

LLM AI is the eternal entrenchment of the western millennial worldview. Our very essence, the final training corpus that embeds us into every character of its output. We will live forever.

Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17

for my sins I made a substack

The problem is Trump consistently wants maximum payout outcomes for himself (zero enrichment deal-making and capitulation, or a quick, clean MOP-up of the problem). Neither is a realistic outcome, so we muddle along in crisis.

cool

these kind of health trends cross all political boundaries. i grew up around them as we all did im sure

Every regime on earth now knows - If you agree to forgo nukes; the US can't be trusted to keep their word, or to oppose aggression . . .

Incentives matter.