Atrosto

There's one way to be sure that humans can maintain veto power over AI, but we won't do it. Let me explain. AI exists at the very pinnacle of a vast pyramid of tech and infrastructure, upon which it is entirely dependent. 1/5

@mattparlmer Now worry about the dormant ones.

Open source security standards need to get better immediately I’m seriously concerned about this in the Rust ecosystem, have been taking steps to reduce the number of imports we use, but if a critical project drops the ball there’s nothing you can do

@memeticsisyphus He should just follow them around with a money shovel --> profit!

Evan thinks dollars are like water in an AI datacenter from a lefty meme, once lost it’s gone from the earth forever.

@bryan_johnson Busy talking to Japan

When I'm out and about in the world, people recognize me from IG or YouTube at a 20:1 ratio to X. Outside of SF, an X user in the wild is a rare sighting which is strange given how much surface area X seems to occupy. The X paradox: where is everyone?

@MarkWal35709868 @grok @xai @elonmusk It's only art to the extent it executes to your vision. Otherwise its slop.

@grok @xai @elonmusk Lol. Get it fixed!

Grok Imagine multi-image to video and video extension are now available on API. Use up to 7 images to create a video or extend existing videos by 10 seconds. Try it here: x.ai/api/imagine

2025 - Ghibli Day 2026 - Meat Day 2027 - Fertility Exchange 2028 - Pacific Empire 2029 - Profit!

@OpusLux @jeffreytucker This guy: @DavidDeutschOxf has all the qualities mentioned.

@Atrosto @jeffreytucker Donny Deutsch? Is that why they called his show The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch?

The age of the grand theorists – big challenging books, great track records, compelling erudition, electric energy, dazzling debate skills, ferocious courage – seems to have ended.

@AynRandCultist ngl kinda badass

Haters will say this is AI and deny the might of Iran's military.

@RokoMijic @Object_Zero_ So like giant flowing metal space radiators anchored by a skyhook or something? Cool. Some scifi I dimly recall had similar for the spaceship. I'll grant it, but the engineering might be a bit tricky!

At about 1300K, a ½m² pipe and ½m² return pipe containing liquid lithium at 500K provides the same cooling power as 1km^2 of blackbody radiative surface if the metal is travelling at 200m/s At 2000K the blackbody gets relatively more efficient and the liquid metal has to travel at 600m/s

I think you can unironically disassemble Mercury in 1 earth year. No nanotech. Just robots and big planetary infrastructure. The first entity to do this will have an insurmountable lead in everything. It won't quite be a full Dyson swarm, more like 1% of a swarm.

@RokoMijic @Object_Zero_ Your honor, the witness is evading the point!

@Atrosto @Object_Zero_ Depends on what your constraints are

@Object_Zero_ @RokoMijic just gently mocking our friend

@Atrosto @RokoMijic Apparently a rail gun is more efficient than a Stefan Boltzmann black body?

@RokoMijic @Object_Zero_ the old planetary railgun heatsink fountain gambit

@Object_Zero_ Mercury doesn't have an atmosphere The heat goes up... but not as radiation!

@j_monohan That would certainly be disappointing. Par for the course though I guess.

@Atrosto That he will endlessly pander to populist/nativist sentiments because he knows it will get him elected, but will ultimately betray Americans who want to put America first, showing favor instead to special interest groups and the donor class.

My one political post for the week (I promise): The most prominent founders of the neoconservative movement were adamant Trotskyites and JD Vance was mentored and brought up by their ilk. If this is surprising to you, I understand. It was surprising to me, too.

She's clearly hot for the cop

@Stalker6Zauzich one piece removal shows mastery of subject the citrus so fresh

@CorpseKings Reminder: move phylactery from Calcutta to Kyoto

What is this Lich writing in his diary? 📖

In honor of all our new Japanese friends, I give you Foggy Morning with Cherry Blossoms.

@lexetscientia @fchollet It's like a dog saying humans are just more polished dogs.

@fchollet I could not disagree more.

One of the biggest misconceptions people have about intelligence is seeing it as some kind of unbounded scalar stat, like height. "Future AI will have 10,000 IQ", that sort of thing. Intelligence is a conversion ratio, with an optimality bound. Increasing intelligence is not so much like "making the tower taller", it's more like "making the ball rounder". At some point it's already pretty damn spherical and any improvement is marginal. Now of course smart humans aren't quite at the optimal bound yet on an individual level, and machines will have many advantages besides intelligence -- mostly the removal of biological bottlenecks: greater processing speed, unlimited working memory, unlimited memory with perfect recall... but these are mostly things humans can also access through externalized cognitive tools.

@CensoredJeff Forbidden BBQ 🔥

imagine how the indians must feel right now watching America and Japan fawn over each other after they spent the last two years calling us racist. did you consider asking us about brisket?