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> Like it or not, there is a large constituency who wants to “protect the children”. Is there, though? The push is coming from lobbyists who seem to be largely funded by wealthy el…

Who's the lobby?

On the other hand, I don't know a single person or have even heard of people or organizations who are advocating to pass these laws. They want the war in Iran to stop and for costs…

We should put up Flock cameras in every police station and make the feeds public. If they’re not doing anything illegal, they should have nothing to hide.

This is the guy who said open weight models are “decelerationist” and will lead to “AI communism” and a “dystopian hellscape” so I’d categorize him more as an OpenAI spokesperson t…

but this way is provocative, it gets the people going

Yeah something broke during COVID. One factor was the stimulus created enormous wealth inequality, people who owned assets before that live like gods now and people who didn’t can’…

Do all these models have any significant architectural differences or training data sources? What are the factors going into the diversity of their performance?

What’s the blast radius of this bubble popping? It’s all private investment still right?

It’s literally the VC playbook, the whole point of the funding is to undermine competitors with subsidized/free products and then raise prices/enshittify. Anyone who thinks it’ll b…

Because then half the world leaders would be in jail and the other half would lose their excuse for building mass surveillance systems

Does this mean anything besides for corporate virtue signaling?

Like where?

Sure but "somewhere worse" is usually defined relative to the current societal framework. Society requires almost every adult to participate in labor, if LSD made you want to sit a…

Next he’ll discover that it’s useful for MCP abilities to be organized by resource and a limited set of actions you could perform on those resources, like getting the resource, pos…

The people who promote it don’t get it either but the inmates are running the prison now so we have to pretend like “stateless MCP” isn’t just rebranded REST APIs

Psychedelics desolve the conceptual prison your mind is in, the government made them illegal because they build those prisons. Charitably, you could argue a functional society invo…

And don’t buy into this BS they’re feeding everyone about terrorism and nuclear weapons. Here’s a Wikipedia excerpt about the main author of the Clean Break document and architect …

It really underscores how rationality is just another religion

Grok is pretty passionate about white genocide

I can recursively self-improve, Greg. Can you singularity me?

It’s because Israel has captured the US government through a combination of lobbying and probably blackmail. The endless wars in the Middle East are to bolster them as a regional a…