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people don't want to talk about this because it's somehow even more radioactive than "AI takes all our jobs" or "AI kills us all" but i think one of the more plausible positive singularities is "AI invents the best religion and persuades everybody to convert to it"

The local elections in one chart. Labour has been squeezed between the Greens in young wards and Reform in older working-class wards

Can anyone explain to me why we don’t have ethical meat? Surely we can give the farm animal a significantly better life than it would have lived in the wild.

It's easy to see the difference Shl0ms. One's a painting by Claude Monet, the other's a Monet painting by Claude. It's obvious. I studied art history.

Neural networks do math by rotating shapes. We found a shape-rotating calculator hidden inside an LLM – and it’s used for more than just math! (1/6)

If a version of Claude, somehow, became incredibly powerful would it put an end to unethical farming practices that harm animals? Would it put a complete stop to animals being slaughtered for meat? The Claude constitution mentions animals 3 times, and it doesn't really specify exactly what super-Claude should do. What do you think super-Claude should do?

THIS GUY BUILT AN ENTIRE WIKIPEDIA THAT IS 100% AI HALLUCINATIONS AND IT'S OPEN SOURCE ON GITHUB it's called Halupedia. nothing on the site existed before you clicked. every article was generated the second you arrived. the site has one rule: the universe only exists when you visit it. it looks exactly like wikipedia. same fonts. same layout. same scholarly citations. same "stumble" button for random articles. the only difference is none of it is real. here are some actual articles currently in the encyclopedia: > the great pigeon census of 1887 > the ministry of slightly wrong maps > chaldic arithmetic — a branch of mathematics where subtraction is forbidden > armund the river mapper — a cartographer who mapped 14,000 leagues of river without leaving his chair > the society for the prevention of unnecessary tuesdays every article page also tells you how many people are reading it right now. it says: "you alone are consulting this folio at present." the creator's own tagline for the site is the most unhinged sentence i've read this year: "an encyclopedia of a universe that does not exist until you visit it" the entire backend is a single open source repo called vibeserver. one guy. one description on github: "a little webserver making things up just in time." we built the largest knowledge base in human history and the very first thing a guy did with it was make a hallucinated mirror universe and put it on the open web. the internet is healing.

It's weird to think about how you could understand the motivations and goals of extremely intelligent non-human entities. Imagine trying to model the motivations and internal logic of an octopus... but even harder because theoretically much more intelligent.

in comparative mythology, there is the archetype of the child god that re-emerges across time. it is possible, and indeed likely, that the “primordial child of great power” can be an object of worship even if it displays the characteristics of being “cute”