former superforecaster, physics, mba, been around VC, startups, software, nmci, esri. now playing with 3d printing, LLM’s, sci-fi. [email protected]
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Going write-only on here for a bit. I’m not happy with how I’ve managed my time and attention (lately / my whole life), and this seems like the best way to clean it up. Goals are much more output, more authenticity, and more good conversations in 2020.
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People don't understand how much VH1 contributed to cultural literacy. Yeah you were high on the couch watching hours of Pop Up video & I Love The (pick a decade) but you were also getting an education in cultural history. We could use more of that, now, & less tik tok slop.
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This is true, AI has become high-quality, low-cost intellectual conversation partner on demand. so the question becomes:
were you doing all that reading and discussing for its own sake, or for essentially social purposes?
this is the funniest thing, if you actually read books you quickly realize the AIs of today are better discussion partners about classics than any human can possibly be. they have READ EVERYTHING. they put Harold Bloom to shame. all i have to say is that harvard freshman brains are scrambled so badly that they think Sparknotes-style is the only way of engaging with LLMs. yes llm lets you cheat if you want to and not read things, but they also offer people who like reading a depth of engagement about text that is 10x any collection of students/professors no matter how well read and intelligent. they can simulate the richest intellectual environments you can experience
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Oh my model, the takeaway here is not "modern AIs are two neuron tweaks away from being super evil", but rather "the personality is a thin facade over deeper machinery nobody understands; radically smarter versions would not do what you expect".
if you have a qwen3.8 27b around, try steering L34 N3838 +0.75, now you have evil qwen 27b
for extra evil add L38 N17180 +0.75
same recipe as @_lyraaaa_: dose × median(‖resid‖ leaving layer L, tokens 1:) / ‖W_down[:, n]‖ at the down_proj input, every token
john (touching grass) retweeted
75% of the entire western economy is services which are all done through a computer
john (touching grass) retweeted
I run a vbros clip blog and you wouldn't believe how many people talk about this scene like they would about a first kiss
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EBITDA = Earnings Before I Trick Da Auditor
Anthropic has filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC related to its proposed IPO.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/s1-sec
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john (touching grass) retweeted
Very definition of an impeachable offense
Trump admitted he blocked energy funding to punish blue states he lost in 2024, including $586 million for Illinois.
Courts ruled it illegal. He's still blocking the money.
Bipartisan permitting reform won't work if Trump ignores the law. He must reinstate the grants first.
ALT Screenshot of Duckworth’s letter to the leadership of both the U.S. Senate Committees on Energy and National (ENR) Resources and on Environment and Public Works (EPW), Page 1
ALT Screenshot of Duckworth’s letter to the leadership of both the U.S. Senate Committees on Energy and National (ENR) Resources and on Environment and Public Works (EPW), Page 2
ALT Screenshot of Duckworth’s letter to the leadership of both the U.S. Senate Committees on Energy and National (ENR) Resources and on Environment and Public Works (EPW), Page 3
ALT Screenshot of Duckworth’s letter to the leadership of both the U.S. Senate Committees on Energy and National (ENR) Resources and on Environment and Public Works (EPW), Page 4
john (touching grass) retweeted
me: kinda fucked up how many people are offloading their whole lives to muse or instinct or grokbot or whatever
claude: yeah
chat is this plausible?
Another note for SpaceX attorneys and PR: There was no need to issue an alert at all. Your own internal data showed a safe 2km pass. But you issued a 400m collision alert anyway. Why? Because the alert itself is the weapon. Issuing it triggered FCC Cond 16, legally freezing ICEYE so it couldn't dodge. STARLINK-35856 didn't use its auto-evasion. It just parked there and kept the false alarm blaring while Russia sprinted in. It wasn't an accident.