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This is just to say
I have done
the things
that you can
just do
and for which
you were probably
asking
for permission
Forgive me
they were deliberate
fucking sweet
like stone-cold
Large Ball Gene is a real thing. Mostly with orange cats, it seems like? Not sure if it entails uh evolutionary fitness
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“Private, when I told you to ‘fly a tarp’ over the dugout, I did NOT mean…”
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Caves of Qud
qwen-neurons-site.vercel.app…
i did a sweep on every neuron and had haiku categorize and rate by weirdness :)
the search and the combos are fun!
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Funniest apocalypse is AI safety research findings directly instigating Foom
Inspired by Nick Cammarata’s interpretability essay “Neural Networks Are Already Clean”, I turned a couple of its ideas into speedups for pretraining without backpropagation. Still in the works. 2.3x speedup, cool teapawt.net/industriaalist/status/…
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There’s definitely not a town named Satan’s Kingdom in MA; if there were, a bunch of my friends would live there
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This is right and good. Western nations are past the point of diminishing returns for material goods. The remaining, and higher, good is physical health. Fixing our flawed and frail human bodies can justly absorb the energies of our entire civilization
And so it continues... Our economic debates seem utterly disconnected from the reality.
That reality: This is an economy mostly creating healthcare jobs, and it does so month after month, and everything else is just noise.
ALT Line chart titled "Effectively all of the net job creation has been in healthcare and social assistance, and jobs are shrinking in the rest of the economy" showing change in non-farm payrolls since January 2025 through September 2026. Healthcare and social assistance added 998,000 jobs with consistent growth throughout the period, while the rest of the economy lost 222,000 jobs, meaning all net job creation came from healthcare. The rest of the economy showed particular weakness from May through August 2025 when losses reached 218,000 jobs. This striking divergence reveals an unusual concentration where one sector's growth of roughly 48,000 jobs per month has offset persistent contraction across all other industries combined.
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“Rips of Dario’s glasses, puts them on but they’re sunglasses now, next shot Dario has his glasses back but the sunglasses are still there” is such perfect slopcore it had to be on purpose
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Figures the tweet that gets any likes is the one where I’m being a piece of shit
This website, man
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To go further: all of these things are definitely true, *and also* AI will likely end humanity
It seems like the main arguments against catastrophic AI risk are:
-The AI moguls are psychopathic liars
-Doomers are weird
-China isn’t tripping
-Hype helps IPOs
-Labs want reg capture
Zero of these arguments address the actual substantive arguments being made.
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Obama uses the words “accelerationist” and “doomer”
The nerds have won harder than any subculture in history
(…and we’re still so early…)
I was encouraged this week to see the leaders of the frontier labs agree on the need for them to slow down the pace of AI development. Given the stakes, it’s a good and necessary first step.
But I’m even more encouraged by the growing recognition that how this powerful new technology develops should be at the center of our public debate.
I’ve been watching the progress on AI for over a decade now, and one thing that’s clear to me is that the potential impact of this technology is not overhyped. It’s also moving at lightning speed – and even faster than those who are engineering it can keep up with.
I’m not an AI accelerationist who believes it will lead to some techno-utopia, and I’m not a doomer who thinks it will inevitably lead to humanity’s destruction.
But whether this technology results in amazing breakthroughs in medicine, energy and education or unleashes huge economic disruptions, greater inequality, and potential catastrophe will depend on the choices that we make right now – choices that should be made not just by the companies involved, but by all of us.
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Haven’t gotten the numbers, but I’d bet there’s a similar breakdown between bioinformatics and bench biology work, at least in some areas
have talked to a bunch of robotics founders and they all are inundated with outbound from dozens of robotics dev tools / data collection / infrastructure startups constantly
at least 10x more people building sw tools for robots instead of robotics companies
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