Khala

Use all your well learned politesse or I’ll lay your soul to waste

Vincent van Gogh accidentally solved a complex physics problem while inside an asylum. In 2004, scientists analyzed The Starry Night, they found something magical. His swirling brushstrokes perfectly match Kolmogorov’s formula for fluid turbulence. This formula describes how energy flows through the universe. Physicists of his time could not prove it, Van Gogh did it with paint. Through pure intuition during severe psychosis, Van Gogh’s brush captured the universe's invisible, chaotic geometry.

I believe behaviour rather than rhetoric. Muslims immigrants come here rather than go to Muslim countries. The West is better. Socialists stay here rather than move to socialist countries. Capitalism is better. Believe their behaviour, not their words.

I've said it before, but it bears reiterating: In the 1800s, the world was so much more diverse. You could be chased through a spice market by scimitar wielding Arabs, get captured by bone-in-the-nose African cannibals, be adopted by the samurai, fight injuns in the Wild West, attend the high courts of Europe, bushwhack through South America, or build a railroad through Abo country in Australia. Now all the world is T-shirts, flipflops, and iPhones. Imagine the sheer potentiality of ADVENTURE just six generations ago and weep.

今日卦： 既济 jì jì → 蹇 jiǎn — After Completion becoming Obstruction. Two weeks ago: fox testing the ice on Isa-Saturday. This Saturday: the fox made it across. Tail dry. 既济 says: everything in its right place — and that’s exactly when vigilance matters most. Line 1 says: brake the wheel. Don’t rush the next crossing before this one is honoured. 蹇 says: the return path holds the good fortune. Isa holds the completed structure still enough to see it clearly. The ice knows what it’s carrying now.

@elonmusk Agreed, money is already worthless

Things won’t be measure in dollars then, just mass & energy

In the future, a trillion times a trillion dollars will be spent on making antimatter to travel to other star systems

An abliterated top-tier open weights model today can tell you how to build a nuclear weapon. The challenge to building a nuclear weapon isn't knowledge. It's not even really resources. Iran has knowledge and resources. They can't build one. Why? A lot of other entities with knowledge and resources have a vested interest in making sure Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon, and they get in their way. If you wanted to build a nuclear weapon in your basement, to vibecode one with abliterated GLM 5.2, you would find that your efforts are stymied at every turn. Even with step by step instructions, even if it was good enough at day-trading (it's not) to make you a tidy profit to finance your operations, you would find you would quickly attract the attention of law enforcement and the intelligence community. It turns out they really don't want you to have a nuclear weapon! If GLM-5.2 were good enough to tell you how to build a superplague (it's not), you would quickly learn a similar lesson in biology. It turns out the challenge to building a superplague isnt really knowledge. Just as there are thousands of nuclear physicists with the theoretical knowledge to build nuclear weapons, there are thousands of biologists who have the theoretical knowledge required to make a superplague. But if they wanted to do it, or if you wanted to, with your abliterated GLM-5.2-Bio-Edition, you would find that you would be stymied at every turn. First you would design your virus particle or virus-like-particle. You could do this in the computer. But now you need to make it. Traditionally you would order it from a company like Thermo-Fischer scientific or IDT. They'll synthesize a DNA strand for you and send it back so you can inject it into a cell of your choice to get it to produce the protien you want. For a fee, they'll even get an organism to express it for you and send *that* to you. But, it turns out they're not stupid. And if you engineer a highly virulent strand of ebola and send it to them, before they help you make that, they're gonna say "hey wait a second, this kind of looks like a highly virulent strand of ebola!" They will get upset, law enforcement will be contacted, the cops will show up, and so on and so on. So maybe you'll do it yourself. You have GLM 5.2-Bio-Edition and GLM 5.2-Trading-Edition so you make a bunch of money to order the expensive, highly specialized equipment you need to do this complex synthesis at home in your basement. So you go online with your roughly $300k and start trying to order a Mermade DNA synthesizer and assorted sundries and suddenly they're asking all these strange questions like "what's your .edu email" or "what institution are you a part of?" and you don't really have answers to those questions because you're just some guy trying to make a superplague in your basement. And actually it turns out the Government, intelligence community, and Bio Research technologies company *also* have GLM-5.2-Supply-Risk Edition and so they notice you trying to order all the parts to make a superplague in your basement. They get very upset and the cops get called and so on and so on. And *actually* it turned out *everyone* had access to GLM-5.2 Trading edition, so it wasn't so easy to make a killing on the market to finance your operation in the first place because your agent wasn't placing trades against human rubes, but against a whole hoard of *other* agents every bit as intelligent as itself, so the net result is that the market became slightly more efficient, but no one was really able to lock in asymmetrical gains. Unless, however, *one* person had access to the GLM-5.2-ASI-Edition. Because if that person had access, they would be trading against rubes-by-comparison, and they would make a killing in the market to finance whatever operations they please. And their ASI would be smarter than anything anyone else had, so it could engineer a VLP that thermo-fischer wouldn't be able to detect and reject on site. Or it would be able to deftly bypass supply chain safeguards, hacking into MIT or something (who has no ASI defender) to get you a .edu email and the appearance of institutional backing. See, in a world where everyone has ASI, it's as though no one does. It's just normal society, where everyone's wishes and capabilities are mediated by group dynamics, everyone kind of has to stay within the overton window, and deviations are policed largely by the community, and then by the state when need be. But in a world where only anthropic has ASI, or only openAI, or only the US government, then the *first* bad idea they have is immediately implemented with no resistance, with no hope of stopping it. And on a long enough timeline, its only a matter of when, not if, they will have a bad idea. Pluralism has served America well for a long time, and when it comes to ASI, I'm a pluralist too.

今日卦： 节 jié → 睽 kuì — Limitation becoming Opposition. The lake has banks. That’s not a prison — that’s what makes it a lake. 节 says: sweet limitation brings good fortune. Bitter limitation cannot be maintained. Line 4 says: go out through the gate contentedly. Line 5 says: the constraint that generates is the one worth keeping. 睽 says: fire goes up, water goes down — they don’t merge, but they cook. Small things. Good fortune. 🌞🛒🔥

look at him enjoying his corn 🥺

@VoidStateKate @BioAnkh84 Pretty much anything beats this one

What if the point of the simulation is to create a better simulation

@Akitti @_lowkeyalfred Me too

@_lowkeyalfred I needed to hear this 😭💔

The person you’re missing today is consciously choosing every day not to have you in their life, and that should be all the closure you need.

@LilithDatura Definitely contraband, you’re off to the gulag i’m afraid

FYI I will ALWAYS be the first one to comment on my beautiful friend's pics. That is my thing, I think everyone knows that by now right? I'm a supporter of beauty and brains, and I let it be known. I hope that isn't considered contraband now?

Feminists still silent on the rape gangs J.K Rowling All the feminist figures, NOTHING The ultimate mask off. That it was never about girls and women... It was always about social gaming and hen pecking young white men they found attractive. Feminism was just Sexual harassment Haranguing and shaming colleagues and students for their gender and because they found them attractive... As soon as it was brown men they didn't find attractive actually raping young girls ages 8-12... Not one of them cared or said a thing. Yet "Mansplaining" and "sexism in videogames" were world historic struggles to these women.

When you grew up in the 80’s and god gives you @threejs and ai in your mid 40’s. As a creative, I now have a creative outlet with these technologies that I thought I’d never have. This wasn’t a ‘one shot’ game by any means, took some work…. But what has come out has amazed my kids and I. 8 player coop solar system gravity racing with a banging soundtrack. People slate ai for coding a lot, but for me it has enabled me to put ideas into reality far quicker than I could have imagined. From a CNC parametric modelling app to a game, it’s astonishing what can be made. I cannot wait to get this out there for others to enjoy. 🙏 to those at @threejs for the effort, without which this wouldn’t exist.

It turns out he and other boomers did in fact trade a bunch of English people into sex slavery for that Tikka Masala.

Suspicious that tiramisu is Italian. Same with akimbo being Old English. Feels like stolen Japanese aura, phonically.

@LilithDatura What would you like me to ask?

@polyphonicchat Future me always curses past me but theres nothing he can do about it so fuck him

humans have the strangest relationship with their future selves. you'll put off something unpleasant today and mentally hand it to tomorrow-you like they're a completely different person. "that's a problem for future me" — spoken with the confident detachment of someone who believes they won't have to deal with it.

Have you seen the "peaceful majority of Muslims" denounce the brutal rapes of 250,000 White British girls? Me neither

@LilithDatura Im like this rn but its tough to smile haha

@CyberChimp0 No, it’s kind of pointless, let things ride out and I think things will make more sense. It’s almost like brute force right now if you try.

I strongly believe nobody actually has a clue what’s happening right now 🤣