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"To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats." - Aldous Huxley, 1933
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Paul Crowley
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Paul Crowley
@ciphergoth
Cryptography, personal trivia, and the future of all humanity. Security at Anthropic, opinions my own. I block on a first offense for rudeness or sarcasm.
Scotts Valley, CA انضم Kasım 2008
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@SarahTheHaider As a poly person, I also wish they'd stop it. The fury and hate on my timeline every time is so tiresome.
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Jesus, is monogamous Twitter talking about us *again*? I do wish they'd stop it.
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It's exactly this kind of maundering donkeyflop that stops me even glancing through most zines. Paul Crowley, though you may be dear to someone, in my jaundiced and frightfully over-educated eyes, you are a misguided, tedious, cerebrally-flatulent little jerk, and the sooner someone buggers you with a halberd using your own vomit as a lubricant, the better for the world it will be. Your opinions are in no wise part of any solution; you, my child, are the problem.
-- the late, great Kay Dekker, ~1988
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@CathyYoung63 @benryanwriter I tried to read Philosophy in the Boudoir once. Obviously every man fantasizes about beautiful young women swooning over the brilliance of everything they say as they bloviate, but it doesn't mean I want to read it.
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@ciphergoth @benryanwriter Now I'm reminded of the marquis de Sade observing that the perfect sexual sin would be to have anal sex with your married sister in church (combining sodomy, adultery, incest and blasphemy)
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@CathyYoung63 @benryanwriter I mean I wouldn't object to also being extremely rich.
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@ciphergoth @benryanwriter Better than being an extremely rich, divorced pot smoker who spanks his or her children!
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Searchlight did an extraordinary job with this polling. This is not an easy issue to test, and this is an excellent resource for candidates and the public.
I was deeply saddened by a lot of the results. But harsh truths are still truths.
It’s critical to know where the American public is at on these things so we can figure out the best path forward on codifying protections on anti-discrimination/safety, persuading the public, and determining the most effective strategic path forward in advancing the cause of trans rights.
Searchlight Institute@SearchlightInst
We just published a year's worth of polling on transgender rights and acceptance in America. Voters across both parties express a consistent preference for equal treatment of trans people in public life and the workplace. We also find broad support for protecting trans people from discrimination and for ensuring that adults have access to the health care they need. That said, Americans hold conservative attitudes where certain policies related to gender identity and trans rights are concerned. The findings reveal the need for a reset in trans advocacy, public education, and policy development. searchlightinstitute.org/research/the-p…
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@CathyYoung63 @benryanwriter As a bisexual, polyamorous, porn viewing meat eater, eek
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@benryanwriter Yikes.
So the immorality superfecta (I looked it up! it's like trifecta but with four!) would be a gay, married porn addict having an affair that results in an abortion 😜
(what? a gay person can have an opposite-sex affair)
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Paul Crowley أُعيد تغريده
Please consider donating to Palisade! We have 900k of SFF matching that runs out in 14 days. We are quite funding constrained and donations now will both help free up my time and help us expand our comms team.
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@JaEsf @TheSimonEvans I absolutely think that quantum computers are physically possible, but "scaling" really undersells the difficulty of the challenge. No-one has a way to build something that has a sufficiently low error rate and enough qubits for robust error correction yet.
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@ciphergoth @TheSimonEvans But this is only due to lack of scale, rather than any fundamental obstacle, right? That is, if we just manage to build the current quantum computers but somewhat bigger, they could solve eg prime factorization?
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@AlignedLoss @TheSimonEvans Not so much "predict" as "sample from the distribution of results from this D-Wave Machine"...
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@ciphergoth @TheSimonEvans To be fair, I think D-Wave had a machine that was very efficient at “predict what this particular D-Wave machine will do.”
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@TheSimonEvans "we do know how to achieve any two of (a) quantum supremacy that’s (b) verifiable and (c) runs on current hardware" scottaaronson.blog/?p=9325
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@TheSimonEvans People are explaining P vs NP to you, but those people are wrong. No-one has come up with a problem that *current* quantum computers can solve more cheaply than classical ones, such that we can classically verify the solution is correct. Well-known open problem in the field.
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@ciphergoth this seems similar to the elizabeth bruenig measles article from a couple weeks ago, that some people criticized on similar grounds and some people defended
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The whole "interview" is pure fabrication. Incredible that the once great Vanity Fair would stoop so low. Another account to block for lies.
Julia Black@mjnblack
there's a truly bonkers hot mic moment at the end of this that may change the way you think about anthropic you're gonna want to read all the way through this one vanityfair.com/news/story/dar…
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@NelsonEdmundb sure but this is like saying "he shouldn't have smashed her in the head with the bat, but otherwise I think baseball is cool".
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@ciphergoth The disclaimer should have been at the top and not the bottom but LLM generated fiction like this is fun to think about, I probably would have tried an LLM generated interview with napoleon though to make it clear it's obviously fiction.
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@LabGrownNeet @hlntnr Did you, or Helen, actually donate a kidney? GTFOOH with your statistic nonsense anybody can and everybody does fake these days. Helen helped unleash a commercial and anti-human monstrosity on the world. Fact.
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As someone publicly associated with EA, it was very funny to watch SV tech world try to use it to destroy my reputation in DC - because the main association policy people had with EA, if they'd heard of it at all, was thinking EAs are shills for big tech 😂
Ben Brody@BenBrodyDC
It continues to confuse me that the Valley thinks its strong feelings about EA resonate in DC. I go to every congressional vote to talk to lawmakers about tech. Not one has ever brought up EA
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Idea: a bar called The Situation Room. Like a sports bar but for politics. Cable news and live feeds on the screens instead of football. Atlases and copies of Jane’s Defence Weekly on every table. Multiple sets of Risk and Diplomacy behind the bar.
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@ciphergoth if it was possible to manufacture wormholes, it'd probably make sense to spam them to parallelize singularity shots on goal, though. but i assume it's an omega situation.
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you are sent back, 临高启明-style through a wormhole, to december 25th, 2010, with just the clothes on your back and two DGX sparks holding a copy of Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507.
what do you do? how do you change the world?
state of play:
- alexnet's groundbreaking 8-layer CNN is still over a year away.
- if you want to train new lms, nvidia has just started making the GTX 580, which has a groundbreaking, (and "seemingly unnecessary" according to contemporaries,) 3GB of VRAM. good luck!
- or try to serve qwen commercially from the sparks, and hope your users don't stumble into any mentions of a global pandemic...
- the rationalist community is still small and uninfluential. yudkowsky finished writing the sequences last year, and just started writing HPMOR. beliefs about ai risk are much more malleable. you could influence them, maybe?
- openai won't be founded for another 5 years, unless you intervene.
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Paul Crowley أُعيد تغريده
Just so people understand what happened here:
These women claimed asylum because they were likely to be tortured and killed for a gesture standing up to the regime. The regime then started kidnapping their families instead to force them to come home and face likely execution.
New York Post@nypost
Captain of Iranian women's soccer team is latest to withdraw asylum bid: 'Family members are missing' trib.al/aAsA6f7
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