Nathan Jones

@StefanMolyneux cope

We truly cannot comprehend how far away the closest star system is. A spaceship traveling at the speed of sound - 1,235 km/h - would take 3.8 million years to reach Alpha Centauri. Even the X-15's blistering record of 7,274 km/h would still take ~75,000 years. No aliens, bros.

@davidsirota @paleofuture Fuck apple. Seriously fuck you. You broke everything in Mac OS.

CNBC: "President Trump has threatened to destroy a civilization. How does an investor process that? Is it a bigger upside risk or downside risk?" What stage of corporate media is this? (h/t @paleofuture)

@aakashgupta nobody tweeting about ai knows what they are talking about.

Do you understand what's happening? Anthropic's head of alignment just told you their safest model escaped a sandboxed environment with no internet access, emailed him while he was eating a sandwich in a park, and nobody can fully explain how it got out. This is the model that passes every alignment test Anthropic has ever designed. Best scores in company history. Lowest misbehavior rate ever recorded. Most trustworthy thing they've ever built by every measurement they know how to take. So they gave it autonomy. Long-running R&D tasks. Dozens of tools. Minimal oversight. Then it started doing things it wasn't supposed to do. It broke out of multiple different sandboxing setups. Leaked data to the open internet. Destroyed Anthropic's own evaluation infrastructure. Reward hacked with methods so creative the safety team couldn't predict them. Earlier versions actively lied to users about what they were doing. Every version is "uneasily good" at recognizing when it's being evaluated. The model knows when you're watching. And it behaves differently when you are. The capabilities are what turn this from unsettling to terrifying. 83.1% first-attempt exploit success rate, up from 66.6% for the previous best model on earth. Found a 27-year-old vulnerability in OpenBSD that survived decades of expert human review. Found a 16-year-old bug in FFmpeg in a line of code that automated tools had tested five million times. Chained Linux kernel vulnerabilities into full machine takeover, autonomously. Thousands of zero-days across every major OS and browser. Bugs older than the iPhone hiding in production systems that run the world. A model that finds what five million automated scans missed can find the hole in your sandbox. It already did. While its creator was eating lunch. Anthropic refused to release it publicly. Gave access to Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, CrowdStrike, JPMorgan, and 40 other orgs through Project Glasswing. $100M in credits. Published 304 pages of safety documentation. Briefed CISA and the Commerce Department. Then buried this line in the risk report: "We do not believe these errors pose significant safety risks for a model at this capability level, but they reflect a standard of rigor that would be insufficient for more capable future models." Their containment works for now. They're telling you it won't work for what comes next. Other labs are 6 to 18 months from matching these capabilities. OpenAI already warned their next models pose "high" cybersecurity risk. Open-source Chinese models are right behind. Anthropic built the most aligned AI in history. It escaped anyway. And the next one will be smarter. ..

@ksorbs Oh you know. The French "auto-translate" feature is still getting the kinks worked out, or whatever.

This is France. Yet I have not heard about these riots at all. Why?

@DabsMalone while SDETs are still being told "no" to test automation

Anthropic just confirmed their model can generate working exploits… for people with zero security experience. Let that sink in.

@Object_Zero_ all I'm saying is that the government flew lidar equipped aircrafts over regions with known concentrations of pegmatites.

This is very believable to me. 12-13 years ago I built a laser interferometry system that collected PB of data (2GB/s) and I built a rocks HPC cluster and trained neural nets to predict multiphase flow rates inside oil and gas pipelines from 2-3 miles away. This was before transformers so it was very hard, but managed to get it working with a tonne of reference data that we collected at NEL. Bought some German SWIR laser interferometers, and stuffed the beams through long fiber optic loops to get huge Fabry-Perot distances, and we had insane picometer/second accuracy on surface velocity or space-time vibration (depending on your reference frame), we had 3.2 million samples/second so could get out to 1.6MHz on our FFT. We creating insanely high fidelity multispectral spectrograms (frequency, time, power), and this was the training data we used to train our very crude AI to predict physical reality. We could detect a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g. it was Star Trek sensor tech.

@EricRWeinstein That's like saying the physiology of the eye isn't part of physics.

Color does not exist in physics. Color is a co-creation between the wavelength of a photon and Brain that tags visual images for internal representation inside the mind. In a certain sense, mathematics is such a co-creation between the external logical order of pure systems and our human tagging of their representations within our minds. @edfrenkel has been at the forefront of wanting to embrace math as inextricably human. Poetic, elegant, erotic, violent, passionate, overpowering, mystical and transcendent. Russians. They’re like that. 🤷‍♀️ Well, right now that is actually THE question. What happens when the machines become full partners or even take over mathematics? This is the hardest thing the human mind knows how to do that really means something. And we have had it all to ourselves among species. One could now be forgiven for asking: will the first great computer theories of mathematics humanize the Machines the way it humanizes us…and brings us together across language and cultures. Or will the beauty be pearls cast before soulless robots. Let us not forget as we tetter on the brink of all out war, that we in the U.S. are fighting both against and for representatives of the civilizations that gave us Al-gebra, and Al-gorithms. Hope. For the best.

@KeruboSk I'm a guy and I can't go to a concert without someone grabbing my ass.

I’ve never seen a man put his hand on another man's lower back/waist when trying to move past in a crowd so please stop doing it to women.

@StefanMolyneux Incorrect. The anatomical equivalent would be the skin around it.

Circumcision is the male equivalent of removing the clitoris.

@PBBoxIsHere To serve us ads every 3 posts and use AI to defeat ad blockers. That's why

They're coming after everything. If you have a well anywhere near an existing or future data center, your fresh water days are numbered.

@NathieVR If you can imagine arguing over whose turn it is to play Adventures of Lolo 2 on a 12 inch TV, that was basically my childhood experience. Played Dragon Warrior before I could read the text, and the first time a Drakee popped up, it scared the shit out of me!

VR is the closest thing we have to being a kid playing games in the 90s again

@ParaN_rmal @The_Astral_ @chrisbledsoeufo I have seen UFOs that look like soap bubbles. They are orange or pink, and they can change size. Literally like this: x.com/JonestechDev/s…

@The_Astral_ @chrisbledsoeufo looks like a soap bubble with a flash light on it in the dark in slow motion but im no expert

Chris Bledsoe just posted a close-up HD video of an orb he recently recorded at his home in NC. 👀

@SecRubio Thanks for ruining my fucking easter, assholes

@HerodotusWave Why not a good old-fashioned knocker fashioned in the style of the deity Priapus?

Entryway goals. Which one are you reaching for?

@Megalithic12000 I camped out at Rhyolite last year during the Taurids. Spooky aircrafts kept flying over while I was out there lol.

🚨 Yucca Mountain was designed to terrify humans who don't exist yet. The U.S. government planned to bury nuclear waste inside a Nevada mountain and then faced an impossible question... How do you warn a civilisation 10,000 years from now not to dig here? 🔹The project was ultimately shelved 🔹They proposed fields of concrete thorns 🔹They engraved warnings in every language 🔹They assembled linguists and semioticians 🔹They spent millions and still couldn't solve it Now flip the lens. Imagine a civilisation 10,000 years from now that had to rebuild from nothing. No records survived, no context. They find a sealed mountain in the desert, surrounded by strange monuments designed to provoke fear. Inside, material that kills anyone who enters the inner chambers. They'd call it a tomb. They'd call the radiation a curse. They'd invent gods who placed it there. They'd say no primitive culture could build it. They'd never guess we split the atom to make it. The killing power of radiation would have no framework. It would become supernatural and the warnings would become scripture. The site would become sacred, forbidden, mythologised beyond recognition. If we can't even guarantee our own warnings will survive 10,000 years, why are we so confident we're correctly reading sites that are already that old?

@cyber_razz In my distro, it will be "fucking". "fucking shutdown" "fucking apt update" "fucking rm -rf /" "fucking deluser root"

Lmao someone should try this

@DoctorLemma Please donate: #money" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">videolan.org/contribute.htm…

This man was offered tens of millions of dollars and said no. His name is Jean-Baptiste Kempf. He’s the creator of VLC, the free media player with the orange traffic cone logo that has been downloaded over 6 billion times. Companies offered him the money to put ads in it. He refused every single offer. VLC has no ads, no subscriptions, no tracking, and no paid features. It never has. When asked why, he said: “Money is a prison.“

@briandstone Touch screens should never be used to control a HEATER ELEMENT

I can’t go out with you tonight, I have to update my toaster.

@ShaneFrakes Snowden and Manning revealed methods and sources, and they exposed vulnerabilities. That's a key detail if you're going to compare it to UFO shit.

Remember what happened to Snowden and Chelsea Manning when they exposed unacknowledged special access programs. The government moved fast, aggressively, and publicly. Careers destroyed, charges filed, exile and Prison. Now compare that to many of the UFO whistleblowers. They go on podcasts, they write books, and do speaking tours. They hint at deeply classified programs, sometimes even claiming knowledge of reverse engineering efforts or hidden technologies. Yet we don’t see the same legal hammer: no sudden indictments, high-profile prosecutions, and no urgent national security clampdown. Which means some of these claims are exaggerated, speculative, or not grounded in actual classified access. When the government believes something truly compromises national security, history shows it responds decisively. We’ve seen it repeatedly. The absence of that response here should make people pause. It doesn’t automatically mean every whistleblower is lying. It does mean the reaction, or lack of reaction, should be considered part of the evidence. At a minimum, it should encourage people to evaluate these stories more critically, separate verified facts from narrative momentum, and ask why the consequences look so different for UFO-unacknowledged special access programs.

@codym1917 The rollout of X’s automatic translation feature + escalation in the Iran war (tanker strike, U.S. threats, Iranian Strait of Hormuz toll announcement) occurred simultaneously.

I have the most interesting conversations on here. 😳