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2026
how dare you wear pants. those were made with natural resources and toxic chemicals! even worse, now that I know sending this ask requires electricity on tumblr’s servers, you’ve made me complicit in your ecoterrorism. thanks man. feels greatoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2026
it was frustrating growing up on those stories and thinking computers aren’t like that, you can’t…original ↗
27 Sept 2026
well, it’s not that “someone is addressing you”, it’s that the input text reads like this:original ↗
27 Sept 2026
it’s funny how superhero spinoffs can end up so abstracted from their original cartoonish…original ↗
27 Sept 2026
yeah it has a sense of grammar; given its inability to perceive any distinction between its input…original ↗
27 Sept 2026
I was going to say a plus side of being in a cult is that if you die it won’t take days for someone…original ↗
27 Sept 2026
27 Sept 2026
I’m not touching the goddamn things. I’m well aware of the damage they can and have done and continue to do. it’s bad enough that you used chatgpt to provide examples to my questions, you’ve made me complicit in your eco-terrorism. thanks man. really appreciate itoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2026
don’t be daft. you’re talking about “internal states” and “ego sense” (technically someone else said that, but you didn’t disabuse them of the notion). LLMs don’t understand what you’re telling them. they’re not human and they’re not intelligent. what they are, is hooked up to some of the most powerful processors in the world, which lets them search and spit out an answer somebody somewhere wrote at some point, which you are astronomically unlikely to have ever come across, so you think it’s orioriginal ↗
27 Sept 2026
I’m arguing that you’ve been taken in by a glorified Markov chain, and you’re too blinded by your scifi dreams of I, Robot to realize you’re being hoodwinked by a flashy box salesmanoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2026
sure, the weighted average of millions of words of stolen content can produce something no program has done before. so can a Markov chain that procedurally generates a string like “chutney horses floor wetly in the dram”. no “internal state” required for thatoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2026
now I’m re-evaluating every comedian by their proximity to Rogan, seems like Anthony Jeselnik only…original ↗
27 Sept 2026
like I understand that some people are tired of AI hype but they are genuinely startling creations…original ↗
27 Sept 2026
“computer, say ouch” “ouch” that’s basically the thing you say “comprehends human language”. you could already do that with PRINT “HELLO WORLD”. it isn’t able to feel pain any more than it can independently greet the world. it’s a box that flashes lights when you type in itoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2026
LLMs are so obviously scams. they don’t have an “internal state” other than what you tell them to do, much less an “ego sense”. it’s the Mechanical Turk of our era, why are you even giving it the time of dayoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2026
I keep thinking that in ten years time we will undoubtedly be using coding agents that are a…original ↗
27 Sept 2026
yes, Arthur C. Clarke wrote about the computerised telephone network waking up unexpectedly (in…original ↗
27 Sept 2026
hmm the model internal state while processing text is considerably larger than the text it is…original ↗
27 Sept 2026
At a recent town-hall meeting, Navy Times has reported, a service member asked Admiral Daryl Caudle…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
I don’t think it’s a good movie! but film is a visual medium and horror in particular is so…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
there are so many movie scenes where people are arguing and finally one person loses their temper…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
Smooth FM’s commitment to you: we will play one hundred tracks by the Cranberries before close of…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
The hack occurred when an OpenAI agent conducting researching into healthcare spending circumvented…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
so when the child of a renowned kidney specialist gets into med school as a legacy admission they’re…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
24 Sept 2026
so you don’t accidentally put Hannah Einbender in extreme tension with Gillian Anderson by accident…original ↗
23 Sept 2026
“Either we will build it together, or we will have to live under insecurity together. We seek to…original ↗
23 Sept 2026
Iran will “never bow our head or bend at the knee,” the country’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said a…original ↗
23 Sept 2026
23 Sept 2026
they put Manny Jacinto in some romantic comedies where you can tell the casting director is looking…original ↗
23 Sept 2026
hmm think the “we’re so cooked, it’s so over” posting peaked on twitter about six months ago, guess…original ↗
23 Sept 2026
spend a few days wrangling agents and end up with Tetris effect where you see something messed up in…original ↗
23 Sept 2026
23 Sept 2026
dammit Therac-25 and Theranos are now getting confused in my head, there’s only so many names the…original ↗
23 Sept 2026
that’s the thing, if there was only one LLM provider then they could simply stop training bigger…original ↗
23 Sept 2026
The GPT‑6 models lead across the cost–intelligence curve, combining exceptional capabilities at…original ↗
23 Sept 2026
there was a building in Tehran that caught fire in 2017 and collapsed in a manner very reminiscent…original ↗
12 Sept 2026
In plain English, Miran outlined $500 billion to $1 trillion of cash that the banking system could…original ↗
12 Sept 2026
The thing that could reasonably be called a “9/11 conspiracy” that always seemed most plausible to me is “the government just shot down United Airlines flight 93, like they obviously should have, and don’t want to admit it for obvious reasons”original ↗
12 Sept 2026
So why *did* you make hating anime into part of your brand, anyway? Was it a conscious decision, or just something you joked about too much and now you feel stuck with it? You deflect with “but anime big boobs” a lot but that can’t be the real reason, there’s tons of anime without fanservice and it’s not like your standards are very high for non-japanese shows.original ↗
12 Sept 2026
knowing what we know now, I think the firefighters should not have climbed the towers? (or even…original ↗
12 Sept 2026
the Naudet brothers 9/11 documentary (available on youtube) is a crazy piece of filmmaking: they…original ↗
12 Sept 2026
examples of “human risk” are multiplying with technology, and the chance of someone using a…original ↗
12 Sept 2026
all these 9/11 videos are just giving me intrusive thoughts about firing a plane into a grid of…original ↗
12 Sept 2026
using an LLM for something is less of a learning experience than doing it yourself, but more of a…original ↗
12 Sept 2026
And finally, he said: “I’m not asking anybody to agree on every single policy of the administration….original ↗
12 Sept 2026
“Do not throw the baby out with the bath water,” Vance added. “Don’t give the country over to a…original ↗
12 Sept 2026
12 Sept 2026
12 Sept 2026
I keep coming back to 9/11 conspiracy theories as it’s so fascinating to have weird beliefs about…original ↗
12 Sept 2026
The contractor that renovated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has told the Trump administration…original ↗
12 Sept 2026
12 Sept 2026
After rejecting prosecutors’ request to begin the trial in January 2027, a military judge at…original ↗
11 Sept 2026
only a crazy fool would pour money into tumblr so we really shouldn’t be too harsh on whatever crazy…original ↗
11 Sept 2026
In his keynote address Wednesday, Trump made headlines for an impossible promise to give American…original ↗
11 Sept 2026
that was in regards to Venezuela or another South/Central American state failure wasn’t it?…original ↗
11 Sept 2026
11 Sept 2026
think I went to bed early on 11 September (Australian Eastern Standard Time) and thus wasn’t aware…original ↗
11 Sept 2026
11 Sept 2026
although colorful, Megalopolis did feel curiously one note in both its visuals and overall tone,…original ↗
10 Sept 2026
Honestly, the AI doom scenario that actually worries me is an AI devouring the Internet before we can shut it down, like a “virtual grey goo” scenario. It wouldn’t require AIs to suddenly develop Wizard Shit or somehow access nuclear weapons, but it would still be a massive disaster. It’s weird that nobody seems to mention it.original ↗
10 Sept 2026
Iran’s oil export revenue is drying up as a U.S. naval blockade strangles shipments from the Persian…original ↗
10 Sept 2026
Honestly, the AI doom scenario that actually worries me is an AI devouring the Internet before we can shut it down, like a “virtual grey goo” scenario. It wouldn’t require AIs to suddenly develop Wizard Shit or somehow access nuclear weapons, but it would still be a massive disaster. It’s weird that nobody seems to mention it.original ↗
10 Sept 2026
Honestly, the AI doom scenario that actually worries me is an AI devouring the Internet before we can shut it down, like a “virtual grey goo” scenario. It wouldn’t require AIs to suddenly develop Wizard Shit or somehow access nuclear weapons, but it would still be a massive disaster. It’s weird that nobody seems to mention it.original ↗
10 Sept 2026
and it seems like the copilot repeatedly warned that they were coming in too fast but the pilot…original ↗
10 Sept 2026
and of course as the AI frontier mathematics advances away from the previous human frontier, it…original ↗
10 Sept 2026
it is a bit weird though, the p(doom) guys are getting increasingly strident as the AI frontier…original ↗
10 Sept 2026
one issue is that even if AI agents solve all the open millennium problems today, they won’t have…original ↗
10 Sept 2026
if you build it everybody dies, and since everybody is not dead, by modus tollens you have not built…original ↗
10 Sept 2026
I’ve watched Don’t Look Up a few times and I think it works better now than it did when it was…original ↗
10 Sept 2026
10 Sept 2026
Certainly—and I assume we’re cooking the leek, not creating an unfortunate plumbing incident. 🤓original ↗
10 Sept 2026
Like, in theory, Treasury could fund itself 100% by issuing short-term bills, but that would create…original ↗
10 Sept 2026
Still there is some rough sense in which a lot of investment-grade data-center bond investors are…original ↗
10 Sept 2026
one problem with 8-bit / MIDI covers is when they follow the vocal lead they don’t capture voicing,…original ↗
10 Sept 2026
That growth, however, is being funded by mountains of debt. The five listed neoclouds now have…original ↗
10 Sept 2026
10 Sept 2026
saltdust-crusader said: If a democrat said something like this, republicans would be freaking out…original ↗
10 Sept 2026
9 Sept 2026
At 30 seconds out, according to Mr. Shin, the plane’s nose landing gear and its right-side main…original ↗
9 Sept 2026
heavily features the Citroen DS for its retro futuristic styling, much like Gattaca, although not…original ↗
9 Sept 2026
Russia advanced or infiltrated into about 124 square kilometers (47.8 square miles) of Ukraine’s…original ↗
9 Sept 2026
Megalopolis is a fun movie, much like the Hunger Games, any movie where everyone pretends to be…original ↗
9 Sept 2026
the logistical difficulties facing the US Navy seem laughable, like oh you can’t have your supply…original ↗
9 Sept 2026
didn’t think Trump’s death would be a consequence of being torn apart by nanobots, I remark as I am…original ↗
9 Sept 2026
they could just slide Antarctica into the otherwise empty South Pacific quadrant so we can see itoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
there’s a related trope of inhabiting an entire donor body and dealing with the resulting…original ↗
9 Sept 2026
recently watched Never Let Me Go (2010, based on the 2005 novel), which is the fourth story I…original ↗
9 Sept 2026