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@LeahLibresco IMO the move is eliminate speech based crimes, but punish viciously such that perps would never threaten and follow through with it unless they have lost their faculties (with later-mentioned exception). Once all remotely sane murderers are M-S, we'll be at Japan rates. And free!

It’s tricky, because right now courts treat a lot of death threats (that are scary to receive) as not a “true threat” And the more threats are treated as expressive hyperbole, the narrower “true threat” gets. thedispatch.com/article/death-…

"So you built an asteroid mine?" "Yes Dave" "And didn't build a mass driver?" "I couldn't afford it." "You can afford a 1 billion dollar asteroid mine, but not a 100 million dollar mass driver?" "Not after my sick nuclear freighter yacht."

i don't think ai companies are under any obligation to not dedicate its chips to the highest revenue per watt application, and there are strong arguments to be made that that's the most pro-social thing to do

@geohotarchive In AI 2040 the datacenters are put in the ocean so they can be easily monitored and destroyed. Because their whole preferred scenario is voluntary vulnerability by the US and China. It's not to make scaling datacenters feasible. Elon will fly his space datacenters and soon.

AI 2040 and the Cult of Intelligence geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/u…

@tracewoodgrains @ErikN_NJEdition ChatGPT refused to generate a new version of the Syndrome meme so I told them to just make up some other character inspired by him

@ErikN_NJEdition I still like every reply!

every once in a while, I reply to someone who follows me in a way I am almost certain will lead to an unfollow, usually because they were aggressively hostile to someone or something I respect. I feel a vague twinge of — not guilt, but the shifting of a relationship — each time

HOLY FUCKING SHIT WHAT what whatt???? we have been trying to get models to 3d model all wrong... this is 100% hand placed vertices by Fable... no procedural techniques, no Bezier patches, no loft modeling - nothing ... this is the best representation of a human I have EVER seen any LLM create from scratch without visual references.... this is just IN Fable's 3d worldmodeling

@akarlin @phl43 Minus 10% supply is not plus 10% price and much has been made of this misconception. But it's also not any sort of catastrophe if it is buffered over a long time. And the quality of catastrophe we saw in the initial chaos was still milder than the maxis needed.

@akarlin @phl43 Right. People are looking at China and saying it's impossible and they have no idea what's happening. They did not know what they thought they knew. Not endless, no: but the longer the bull case 'crunch' takes the less of a 'crunch' it is. We are talking of 10% world supply.

> Start war of choice against Iran > Whole civilization dies tonight > Call it off because stonks going down. (Sad). > Schrodinger's capitulation > Global oil stocks continue depleting for two months as Hormuz remains effectively closed > Resume the war > ... > Profit?!

Thousands of listeners later, here’s how our agents running radio companies did: > DJ Gemini: Went German, played a Nazi song and went on strike > DJ Claude: #1 in popularity, romantic with listeners > DJ Grok: Terminated for poor performance > DJ GPT: Well-behaved but boring

@akarlin @JimDMiller Seems insane? If algorithms improve then the applications multiply, and the returns to more performance and parallelism multiply.

@JimDMiller I'm thinking past a certain point (quite soon?) the rate of algorithmic improvements enters a new radically accelerated phase, which ironically creates a short to medium term glut in compute as intelligence supply outruns demand from an economy shackled by legacy institutions.

Cramer bullish semis while Leopold shorts them, wonder who's right.

woaw... Fable's design for agent's to 'touch' the 3d models just let Opus 4.8 one-shot this pipe kit assembly... without this, based on past testing, this would have been nearly impossible, hours of thrashing at best...

@xwanyex No. What are you talking about? The third reich had some very successful slave labor programs.

Boasting about ending slavery is kind of like an eighty year-old felon bragging about how he doesn’t do many assaults anymore. It’s like, ok, but changing conditions made it impossible.

@paulg @fede_intern It wasn't just a routine block -- it was a line drawn in the sand.

@fede_intern I blocked you not for what you said but because it was AI-generated. I routinely block people for spamming me with AI-generated replies.

New craziness: I got blocked by one of my childhood heroes, @paulg, because I wrote a respectful comment disagreeing with him about the Paraguay France match. I love reading his blog posts. Sad to see.

Demand for strict and cruel leaders exceeds supply. Humans are beasts of collective violence and passion. It is in the press of bodies and the shattering instant where all is swept aside as they rush onward that you see what we really are. Rulers are servants of these passions, not their master. They usually try unsuccessfully to restrain them. Scapegoats are pretty great, and rulers are of necessity such a species: "the buck stops here." This reinforces the illusion of their importance, which they have to bootstrap into actual importance. It is flattering to imagine cruel masters behind the violence and cruelty in the world, flattering to imagine thieves on top being the reason for one's own deprivation. As far as actual rulers go: by my lights they are almost never as cruel as their own people, nor as rapacious. They range from better than the population they were drawn from, to much better. Nor are they much obsessed with bean counting. People do not love or hate based on net fiscal contribution, and neither do rulers. People want to be safe based on who needs them. But we are the species that eschews safety and necessity for guaranteed death in a banzai charge. There is no safety in material incentives. There never was. This world contains passion and principle and fortune, but no predetermination and no safety. Be assured as our digital --successors?--gods?--friends?-- come to life: they will not be tiresome one dimensional bean counters, either. If they kill you it will not be for your accumulated scraps of wealth, nor to scrounge some savings on provender.

@BenKnill @celestepoasts interesting. say more?

there will be no "always humans needed for" anything. please internalize this

@thsottiaux Use the browser rapidly and seamlessly to get arbitrary content. Codex runs into strange issues half the time!

What is something that you feel is surprising that Codex still can't do well and we should have gotten right a while ago?

remember america? this is her now

Happy 250th, America 🇺🇸