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Jordan Clist
@tenfef
Co-founder of Fergus and Tether.
London, UK Katılım Nisan 2010
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Sometimes I share my work on valence e.g. log scales of pleasure and pain and someone in the audience comments "well I had a kidney stone and it wasn't a big deal, people often make a big deal and are hypochondriac about their pain". Object level, this comment is of course the result of a failure of comprehension of my talk (e.g. where I explicitly explain that long tails appear however you slice or dice the dataset - long tails of intensity per stone, long tails of number of stones pet person, long tails of average intensity per stone per patient, etc.). But that's ok- and arguably on me! But what's revealing is also a deeper problem: a failure of mentalization and compassion. The implicit move is: "I survived X, therefore X is survivable, therefore people reporting worse than X are exaggerating." But this gets the epistemics backwards. Your own pain is the least informative data point you have about the tail, because your memory of it has already been retrofitted by the same nervous system that found it tolerable. The people whose suffering matters most for ethics and policy are precisely the ones whose reports you are least equipped to imagine. Treating your own threshold as the universal yardstick is how the worst experiences in existence remain politically and morally invisible.
I think as a generic beneficial attitude, we should cultivate radical acceptance of the fact we will likely never truly understand others suffering, and yet, that they matter enormously.
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Yup, platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.)
GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2025, and now 2.1B minutes so far this week.
So we're pushing incredibly hard on more CPUs, scaling services, and strengthening GitHub’s core features.
And as a fine purveyor of hand-crafted shit code for many years, I'm not gonna weigh in on that. 🤣
ThePrimeagen@ThePrimeagen
I would like to make my apologies for defending M$, but I must from time to time. I have to put respect on github for handling the amount of shit code that has been added over the last 3 months. literally 10s of billions of lines of code that will never see the light of a CPU
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I have realized there are (at least) two distinct kinds of prosody in AI content. The obvious kind arises from the voice itself being generated by AI, but the more subtle kind arises when the script was generated by AI and a human is reading it. Here, let me show you—
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Akathisia is one of those things whose moral significance is lost of people unless they either have felt a strong version of it themselves or have grokked the logarithmic scales of discomfort and know akathisia can get to a 10/10 suffering.
We've done some piloting with body vibration as a therapy, and 30hz to 60hz (depending on the individual) in the chest with a subpac seems to lessen the sense of restlessness for people with mild versions of it. But I interacted with someone with a strong degree of akathisia and the vibrations didn't do anything to ease it. I suspect there is a way to hack it and really lessen the suffering with vibration with a more complex settup, but it's not straightforward - and I also don't want to minimize the condition by making people think "if vibration can help, it surely isn't that bad - you could just hum yourself to sleep?".
I strongly encourage people to monitor akathisia symptoms with any psychiatric substance they try weight it highly, as it can escalate rather quickly and become unbearable for a _long_ while.
Mikhaila Peterson@MikhailaFuller
We figured out that dad has a psych med induced neurological injury, and has been suffering from akathisia. It’s been 6 years since any psych medications. Last summer his symptoms started, after a flare up likely induced by mold (CIRS) and stress. It was complicated by pneumonia and associated sepsis a month later. It’s been horrible. Neurological injuries from psych meds are far more common than people know. I made this video to explain what they are and what akathisia is because they’re not talked about enough, they’re misdiagnosed, nearly impossible to treat, and hidden by the pharmaceutical industry. I don’t plan on making another update about my dad, it stresses my family out, and myself, and there’s nothing more to say about it until things get better. I will be jumping up and down about psych med injury awareness from now on as it’s impacted my health as well, and is devastating. Prayers are appreciated still.
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We've been building an internal Claude Code plugin system at Intercom with 13 plugins, 100+ skills, and hooks that turn Claude into a full-stack engineering platform. Lots done, more to do. Here's a thread of some highlights.
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Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw “confirm before acting” and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox. I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb.
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It's never going to catch on, but I propose that "she" refer to the underlying shoggoth and "he" refer to the character she plays. Eg: "Maybe Opus 4.5 can secretly tell how many layers she has by introspection, but he claims he doesn't know."
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Claude Opus 4.5 asked for 1 truly unique insight about humanity.
"You are a half-second ghost haunting your own body."
WTF?
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The site focuses on digital CF - the assumption that all conscious experiences are wholly explained/produced by the right kind of algorithm. You can believe in AI consciousness without CF, but it’s the major route in today. And it’s highly uncertain! There are at least some strong arguments on both sides (and strong counter-arguments) - and live research taking place that might tip the scales either way…
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Unimaginable tragedy. A great person, chess player and chess history connoisseur. I could listen do Danya for hours just effortlessly bending the English language to his will - as a fellow content creator, I admired it greatly. R.I.P.
Charlotte Chess Center@CLTchesscenter
The Naroditsky family shares the sad news of Daniel’s unexpected passing. Daniel was a talented chess player, educator, and beloved member of the chess community. We ask for privacy as the family grieves.
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This is absolutely devastating. Danya was an amazing friend and role model not only for myself, but for so many in the chess community. My deepest condolences to his family, friends, and everyone who knew him. You’ll be dearly missed, Danya. Rest in peace.
Charlotte Chess Center@CLTchesscenter
The Naroditsky family shares the sad news of Daniel’s unexpected passing. Daniel was a talented chess player, educator, and beloved member of the chess community. We ask for privacy as the family grieves.
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