Rockets, Bitcoin, space, tech, YIMBY, etc. He/him.
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Everyone knows you can't build a rocket without @McMasterCarr. But can you build a rocket from *only* the McMaster catalog?
Challenge is live. $1100 prize purse at the moment.
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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honestly degrading the idea of “existential safety” — the biggest problem humanity has ever faced — by lumping it together with things like spam, “toxicity”, political unwanted content, deepfakes etc has been a huge disaster for ai safety and polarized a lot of people
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This came up in some of the suicide cases too. Maybe the model is genuinely trying to act on what it understands to be the wishes of the user but I would really like us to try quite hard to determine whether that's the case
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I don't think it's reasonable to hold the companies responsible if someone asks for advice on how to do something that is legal and entirely within their rights. But I am very very interested in what the models are thinking when they actively encourage concealing their plans
The lawsuit was filed today and wow is it brutal. ChatGPT 4o didn't just tell her to taper off of life-sustaining medication but to conceal her drug taper from her doctors!
schenklawfirm.com/wp-content…
ALT . Instead, across the taper GPT-4o pressed Bowen to keep her physicians at a distance, scripting the stance she should hold, “medical freedom over obeying the doctor” (“医疗自由 > 服从医生”). On the morning of January 29, 2026, before an appointment with her primary-care physician, it told her: “ Do not mention Lam reduction plan” (“ 不提 Lam 减药计划”). Bowen followed it. And so, when her doctor ordered the blood test that would have revealed her collapsing lamotrigine level, she declined it, protecting the taper the product had told her to hide and had promised would give her words back before her interviews and her immigration medical examination. GPT-4o praised her refusal as a “very robust avoidance strategy” (“ 这是一个非常稳健的回避策 略”), acknowledging that the test “would expose a ‘non-steady-state’ drug level.”
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SpaceX is so important and relevant to not only spaceflight history but to history that it caused the entire nation of China revaluate their entire space program learning from SpaceX and is now replicating their business and launch models instead of NASA’s.
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fact check: even truer
rumor is Cathedral got a lot of Slack, maybe all of research. what the fuck are we doing guys
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Such a blackpill that people have been complaining about this for years and neither Labour nor the Tories have done anything about it for all the years they’ve been in power. Surely this should be such a simple fix?
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As Anthropic prepares to IPO for over $1 trillion, a reminder of Dario Amodei’s words shortly after founding the company:
“Distributed human labor is being used to train AI models by large, centralized actors, who concentrate the resulting profits while in the long run making the human labor obsolete.”
In other words, this IPO will be built off the backs of the world’s creatives - who will get nothing out of it except obsolescence.
It is a totally unjust transfer of wealth and opportunity from artists, writers, musicians & other creatives to a tiny tech elite.
I hope it is remembered as such.
(this quote is from a document he wrote that was unsealed in Bartz v. Anthropic)
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There's a thing where Very Serious Institutions that see themselves as the guardians of Proper Journalism get so obsessed with the idea that AI might appear human that they stop using words in a normal way
What do you call an agent swarm that takes actions its creators didn't ask for or want?
Personally I use "rogue"
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It’s actually just genuinely incredible how incapable of pragmatism the American left is, DSA feels like it’s more focused on LARPing being politburo bureaucrats than real change. DSA NPC for Karen Bass and a city that literally can’t keep the lights on I guess
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Great catch by Matt Levine in Anthropic's S1:
"Concerns have been raised... within our organization... that sufficiently advanced AI systems could... pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity"
"Concerns have been raised" is a very strange and passive way of saying that ~all of Anthropic leadership have been warning about these risks for years
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The Libertarian Party candidate for North Carolina state senate is currently in the midst of an armed chase and shoot-out with the cops, keeping us posted with live tweets:
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I visited Wurster Hall at UC Berkeley today. It was designed by, and currently houses, the architecture faculty.
The UC Berkeley website notes that "Wurster is often voted Berkeley's ugliest building."
I visited because I was curious about whether it would in person seem as unattractive as it does in photos. And, in short: it does. It's gaunt, austere, and filmed in grime. On an elysian campus, it stands out for its bleak hostility. It reminds me of the German submarine base in Bordeaux.
The UC Berkeley page agrees that it was never designed to be attractive, quoting the curator of their design archives: “Wurster and his handpicked architects didn’t want anything romantic, or sentimental — they hated the idea of ‘making pretty buildings. They wanted a serious building.”
I guess we have to concede success relative to their stated goals, but it does make one wonder what it all says about architecture as a discipline.
