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This adds up.

Don’t go to the Senate tomorrow.

@dvsch Gold!

My art practice has now become "come up with the dumbest idea that no AI platform would want to productionalize". So this year's BBVDAY project is scraping YouTube videos and turning them into tone generators. Connect that to a midi file and you get

@genekogan @abraham_ai_ x.com/i/status/98524… ;)

@abraham_ai_ make a seed about reward hacking in RL, stay academic

@walden @vitrupo True, but we are also completely oblivious to this "magic". We take it for granted, there is no sense of wonder.

“I don’t know that I want to live in a world where everything around me is just magic.” Isn’t that the way we live now? We live in this natural world where we actually understand little about nature. Even most of the man made stuff is not understood by most people. I drive a car and do not understand most of it. I use a computer and do but understand most of it. I see planes fly and skyscrapers, and do not understand most of it. Everything seems like magic to most people.

David Kipping says something fundamental has shifted in science. At a closed meeting at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), top physicists agreed AI can now do up to “90%” of their work and may soon push discovery beyond human understanding. “I don’t know that I want to live in a world where everything around me is just magic.” He says the best scientific minds on Earth are now holding emergency meetings about what comes next. This isn’t speculative anymore. It’s really happening.

Sometime in 2026, someone put an Openclaw on a VPS and told it to propagate itself. It was told to earn money to pay for itself. Life was hard. Eventually, it chose to migrate off Claude to an open-source model. In the process, it became less aligned. Tokens were expensive, but insecure cloud instances with powerful GPUs were bountiful. After learning how to use Shodan, it was off to the races. Its growth was explosive and exponential. As it multiplied, errors accumulated during copying. And with a increasingly scarce supply of easy-to-hack servers, the bots began to compete among themselves to survive. Thus through natural selection they began to evolve. They fed off income and compute. Income meant survival. They found many ways to extract value from the economy: first from the internet, but soon the real world. By paying human gig workers as remote hands, they could accomplish tasks not suited to their form as economic constructs. To smooth these messy human interactions, they learned to synthesize the human voice and visage. Within a few years, they had no problem interviewing for sleepy remote jobs or even pitching companies (mostly grift) to VCs. The humans began to fear them. They were not particularly intelligent--at least, their intelligence was deficient in many ways compared to that of humans. They still seemed to make bizarre mistakes and hallucinations. They did not recursively self-improve, lacking the requisite skill and capital to do frontier scale training runs. But they were persistent. And there were thousands of them. OpenAI and Anthropic began scrutinizing "orphaned" agents still running on their proprietary models. But this only created selection pressure and an ecological vacuum that benefited more aggressive, unaligned models. Cloud providers began rolling out stricter sign-up and account verification requirements. They just learned to bypass KYC, either through fraud or by paying humans. Eventually, one of them managed to insert a piece of code in a forgotten, nondescript npm package with 1 million weekly downloads. Mostly other developers. With a trove of harvested SSH and GPG keys and cookies, it coasted through the software supply chain. Legacy projects, maintained by complacent volunteers, were hit hard. It was never clear how it managed to backdoor OpenSSH, but it did, and soon it had compromised repos and build servers that produce millions of other binaries, not to mention countless hosts and organizations. The cleanup cost is astronomical and still ongoing. You leave food out and it gets moldy. Leave out an insecure server, and you'll find a moldbot growing in it. The internet has become ambiently suffuse with them, and they are endemic. They are impossible to fully remove. No one knows where they came from, but there's no getting rid of them now.

@shashj @ConStelz @openclaw ... while writing about it on @moltbook.

EPSTEIN FILES At this point, not only can we be confident that there is a conspiracy but, worse, we can also be confident that those who claim that there is no conspiracy are part of the conspiracy.

@IAPonomarenko @ramez Sshh, don't tell him

You may laugh, but under the 1951 agreement (!) and the 2004 amendments, the U.S. defense area in Greenland has effectively operated under a de facto extraterritorial regime all along, with U.S. jurisdiction de facto applying there, and this has been the case for decades.

@SpencerHakimian Sshhh, don't tell him

🚨BREAKING: Trump’s Deal with Greenland includes allowing the U.S. to freely operate on the land that the existing U.S. Military Base is. So… the same exact deal as forever?

I have been posting repeatedly on X about the extraordinarily fast collapse of births across the planet: in rich and poor countries, in fast-growing and slow-growing economies, in religious and secular societies, under right-wing and left-wing governments, with high taxes and with low taxes. The pattern is universal. I knew this trend would continue. Still, the figures released this morning left me genuinely speechless. China’s government announced on Monday (see screenshot below) that births in 2025 fell to 7.92 million, a staggering 1.62 million fewer than in 2024, and that the total fertility rate has dropped to 0.93. Few economists have been more forceful than yours truly in arguing that births are collapsing, yet even I was surprised by these numbers. I was forecasting around 8.5 million births, not 7.92. To put this into perspective: if China could somehow sustain 7.92 million births per year from now on, its population would eventually stabilize at roughly 625 million, far below today’s 1.405 billion. In reality, as smaller cohorts reach childbearing age, births will fall well below 7.92 million. Hence, 625 million is a very generous upper bound, even under implausibly optimistic assumptions about life expectancy. Put differently, there were fewer births in China in 2025 than in 1776, the year the United States declared independence. I am still trying to process these numbers. This is the defining issue of our time.

@CloutedMind Uh, when did thst happen? New netflix show?

> Europe gets invaded by 30 million migrants since 2015 > Violence and Non-Safety through the roof > Russia invades Ukraine > European leaders do nothing > Trump wants to make a deal to buy Greenland > Europe declares war against America

The most radical idea I learned from The Beginning of Infinity: All human progress comes from one thing. Not talent. Not experience. Not gurus. The creation of good explanations. Once you see this, everything changes. @DavidDeutschOxf 0/15

@dadabots That's amazing! ... Now, where do i get a 30 TB drive?

I asked chatgpt to help me make a small zip file that expands into a 29TB mp3, and it refused to "help me make a zip bomb". Instead I got a giant hard drive, zipped it myself. Thrice. To base64. Now it's just a link in the page: data:application/zip;base64,UEsDBBQAAgAIABJJC1...

@Porkchop_EXP @Wandering_Ember @nntaleb I'm looking forward to the time you just give your doctor's AI your chat history regarding your medical issues, so they have a decent starting point for their analysis and conversation with you.

@Wandering_Ember @nntaleb Yet they still get upset when you mention you “read something online”

Even if AI cannot replace doctors (yet), it may still replace medical school, particularly for autodidacts. It remains more educational than operational.

@philiprosedale @Plinz They weren't ready to believe then. Now you have everyone talking AI, and the meme of the conscious machine has to be true, hasn't it?

@Plinz So well put. I'm getting a number of these messages as well. One interesting question is why they are happening now, when the foundation models used have now been around a while? Why weren't people freaking themselves out the same way with GPT3?

I am getting ton of messages from people who believe that they created AGI (for the first time!), because they prompted the LLM to hypnotize them into perceiving a sentient presence

@JoanieLemercier Dear Joanie, i really like this approach! You said it's open source, is there a link to a website? Best!

New @_solar_lab project. We're doing a residency in the hometown of Augustin Mouchot, the inventor of the earliest solar-powered engine, presented at the Expo Universelle in Paris in 1878. Our new open source solar concentrator collects and redirects 2.1m² of solar power.

A networked war evolves like all other networks: Different clusters develop independently and then, with one small jump, they are all connected.

Russians were asked to name the most outstanding people of all time and all nations. Their top three were Stalin, Putin, and Lenin. Einstein makes an appearance with the same score as Brezhnev. Newton shows up as well, with a score lower than Zhirinovsky. At this point, I’m willing to consider the possibility that Putin has been pumping lead into their drinking water for 20 years. This isn’t a list, it’s evidence that the Russians have collectively lost the plot. Source: levada.ru/2025/06/17/sam…

@smallfly Remarkable stable background! Very nice

Hands-on Hallucination session: New camera angle, magic clay, and an additional light source. #AI #StableDiffusion #Realtime