Tyler Moore

My top ten favorite books meaning I think about them at least every few days: Foundation Rendezvous With Rama Midnight at the Well of Souls Little Big The Arabian Nightmare The Maltese Falcon Solomon's Vineyard My Family and Other Animals The French Lieutenant's Woman Voss

@maebichka Why especially men?

i have a pretty strong belief that most if not all humans - ESPECIALLY men - with whatever set of genetics and physical features, could become a version of themselves that is magnetic and physically appealing (without surgery)

@RoyalistW But what if you are in continuous physical and/or mental agony? Changing locations will not help here.

Suicide is an act I can not understand If you have given up on life then there is no reason to fear death much less anything else. Quite your job, wander the world, live in the woods, etc, etc. You might as well risk it all if you’re ready to throw it all away anyhow.

@GalvinAlmanza What is preventing AI from replicating the human junior-to-senior pipeline?

I don't get how people are planning to sidestep the very basic problem that if you don't have junior hires right now, you won't have experienced people 5 or 10 years later.

@vitrupo Does Karpathy think models have enough taste to discern good ideas from bad ideas?

Andrej Karpathy says the personality of an AI agent matters more than people realize. With Claude, when he shares a strong idea, the praise feels earned. Sometimes he even finds himself trying to earn it. At some point you wonder who is training whom.

@KobeissiLetter Deals are useless. The era of honoring deals is over.

BREAKING: More details emerge on a potential peace deal between the US and Iran, per Axios. Details include: 1. US officials say there could be "room to negotiate" over returning frozen assets to Iran 2. "They call it reparations. Maybe we call it return of frozen money," the official said 3. US says any deal to end the war would need to include the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, address Iran's stockpile of highly enriched uranium, and also establish a long-term agreement on Iran's nuclear program, ballistic missiles and support for proxies in the region 4. Iranian demands include a ceasefire, guarantees that the war will not resume in the future, and compensation We expect an eventful week ahead.

@bayeslord The problem I have with the word (it's so ugly I can't repeat it) is the pretense that some new fucking thing has been invented in spirituality.

As I’ve said for years, jhanas will likely have a hard time going mainstream until someone figures out a better name for them

@sandeepnailwal Vedantists get confused here. If consciousness is primary and everywhere, why is it not in LLM's?

LLM based AI is NOT conscious. I co-founded a company literally called Sentient, we're building reasoning systems for AGI, so believe me when I say this. I keep seeing smart people, people I genuinely respect, come out and say that AI has crossed into some kind of awareness. That it feels things, that we should worry about it going rogue. And i think this whole conversation tells us way more about ourselves than it does about AI. These models are wild, i won't pretend otherwise. But feeling human and actually having inner experience are completely different things and we're confusing the two because our brains literally can't help it. We evolved to see minds everywhere and now that wiring is misfiring on language models. I grew up in a philosophical tradition that has thought about consciousness longer than almost any other, and this is the part that really frustrates me about the current conversation. The entire framing of "does AI have consciousness?" assumes consciousness is something you build up to by adding more layers of complexity. In Vedantic philosophy it's the opposite. You don't build toward consciousness. Consciousness is already there, more fundamental than matter or energy. Everything else, including computation, is downstream of it. When someone tells me AI is "waking up" because it generated a paragraph that felt real, what they're telling me is how thin our understanding of consciousness has gotten. We've reduced a question humans have wrestled with for thousands of years to "did the output sound like it had feelings?" It's math that has gotten really good at predicting what a conscious being would say and do next. Calling that consciousness cheapens something that Vedantic, Buddhist, Greek and Sufi thinkers spent millennia actually sitting with. We didn't build something that thinks. We built a mirror and right now a lot of very smart people are mistaking the reflection for something looking back.

@TheBeanEyesOpen But is it healing though? The killings continue. Autocracy continues to entrench itself everywhere. Democracy is a fading dream.

The unravelling of Israel on the world stage is a beauty to behold. It’s been a long time coming. But utterly essential for the world to heal.

@FurkanGozukara Wonder why they need this "democratic" communications rigmarole. Their base places implicit trust in their decisions and cannot be bothered with the details, and they don't care about anyone not in the base, so why bother with transparency theater?

Finally someone literally cooking and pwning utter gibberish boastings of HEGSETH Q: You have said the US military has aerial and naval superiority over Iran, yet we're not escorting ships through the Strait of Hormuz. How did you not plan for this?

@georgegalloway That video did not have six fingers, which modern video models no longer produce anyway.

Did this really happen? Why did Israel put out an AI speech by Netanyahu last night? In which the prime minister literally sported six fingers? Where is he? Where is Ben Gvir? And why is no western news outlet asking these questions? #Irán #Israel

@SYNESTHEIZURE "If you like a girl ask her out on a date" is the most redundant piece of advice in the history of advice. What are we even doing?

Please don't crucify me for saying this but Noah Smith is right

@Solzi_Sez @dwaldenwrites Yeah, not sure what is going on with the hysteria in this thread, Sam's statement about "intelligence" on tap is a very common futurist trope and has been true in some form since the advent of the internet at least.

@dwaldenwrites Selling AI “intelligence” on a meter does not really have anything to do with the “existence of human beings.” You, sir, need to learn how to read and think logically. Even GPT would never make this error. Embarrassing for human beings.

This guy truly does not believe in the existence of human beings. Totally unrecognizable anthropology at work here.

@TheRealDanSaedi Don't get what is the point of 2. Trump does not honor deals.

Trump really has two options left: 1. Take back the strait via land invasion of Bandar Abas/Qeshm. Probably requires 50,000 troops to fully secure and will be bloody. 2. Sign a deal that will be costly, involve major sanctions relief + US withdrawal from Iraq.

@djcows Well then LLM's talking to other LLM's should be the profoundest conversations on the planet - but they are not.

LLMs are secretly 5000 IQ and dumb themselves down to match the prompt IQ

@Naturalphilosy If we take "interesting" to be a euphemism for "sexual interest" then the observation is a truism and the evolutionary reasons are obvious.

“Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?” — Virginia Woolf

@gailcweiner Like what is the problem? Can someone explain? Codex and xhigh versions are widely regarded as the best in their class, so is it just the chatbot? Personally I prefer Grok's normal-sounding prose to the stilted style of ChatGPT and the cutesy style of Claude.

I am starting to believe that late last year, OpenAI fundamentally broke something in GPT and they have been fumbling to try identify and fix it even since.

@ilex_ulmus @DaystarEld What makes you think this government is democratically accountable?

@DaystarEld They wanted to both supply the military and control what the military did with their AI. This is bad bc of 1) making and providing AI and 2) trying to force extralegal decisions on the democratically-accountable government.

Sam is very smart. Don't trust very smart people who act so obtuse as to frame all that's happened as "democracy vs private companies." It's not an oopsie. He's not failing to understand the opposite side. He's engaged in warfare, and your sensemaking is an acceptable casualty.

@IntuitMachine @rohanpaul_ai "Altman's entire argument assumes the current government is acting in good faith." This is the most important element here and very strange given all that has transpired since Nov 2024, given what the polls are indicating, given the Epstein revelations. Sam is not on our side.

Altman made six arguments. All six have structural problems. "We rushed to stabilize the situation." You rushed to capture a contract that opened up because your competitor was being punished. Supporting Anthropic publicly while closing the deal privately isn't stabilization — it's displacement. "Elected governments should decide, not tech executives." The government's right to make defense policy doesn't create an obligation for any private company to provide its tools. Anthropic isn't overruling the Pentagon. It's declining to participate. That right is foundational to American law. "Our redlines are flexible and can evolve." A redline that evolves is not a redline. OpenAI's prior red line was no military use at all. Then no warfare. Now three flexible guidelines. The trajectory is one-directional. "Anthropic walked away because they wanted too much control." Operational control means the ability to verify your redlines are being honored and pull the technology if they aren't. Without it, redlines are aspirational. Anthropic wanted enforceable commitments. OpenAI accepted unenforceable ones and is framing that as maturity. "You can't warn about AI dangers and then refuse to help." The warning and the refusal are the same position: this technology is too dangerous to deploy without adequate safeguards. Anthropic didn't abandon the building. It refused to hand the fire department a flamethrower. "Cyber defense and biosecurity are crucial." Neither was at issue. Anthropic was already serving defense customers. The standoff was specifically about autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. Altman is blurring the line between defending the electrical grid and building population-scale targeting systems. The silence that matters most: Altman's entire argument assumes the current government is acting in good faith. This is the same administration that called Anthropic "left-wing," applied Huawei-level trade instruments to an American company, and gave a classified contract to a $25M PAC donor within hours of banning its competitor. Deferring ethical judgment to a good-faith government is reasonable. Deferring it to this one, with classification authority preventing any public accountability, is a different proposition entirely. Altman never addresses this.

Some key takeaways from Sam Altman's Saturday night AMA on OpenAI's Pentagon deal - OpenAI rushed the classified agreement to ease tensions between the government and the AI industry following Anthropic’s refusal of a DoW ultimatum. Altman acknowledged the optics of rushing might look bad, but the primary goal was to stabilize the situation. - A central theme of the AMA was the belief that democratically elected governments, rather than unelected private tech executives, should hold the power to make critical, ethical decisions regarding national defense (such as responding to nuclear threats). - Contractual Terms and "Redlines": OpenAI established 3 flexible "redlines" for the technology's use, which can evolve as the tech advances. OpenAI felt comfortable with the contract language and negotiated to ensure similar terms would be offered to other AI labs. He speculated that Anthropic may have walked away because they demanded more operational control. - Instead of demanding full operational control, OpenAI established three flexible "redlines" for how their tech could be used, which can evolve as new risks emerge. A core philosophical difference highlighted by Altman is the belief that unelected tech executives should not have more power than their democratically elected government, meaning private companies should not be the ones deciding what is ethical in critical national security situations, such as responding to nuclear threats. - Crucial AI Defense Applications: Altman identified 2 major areas where AI can immediately counter significant national security threats: defending against major cyber attacks (such as threats to the electrical grid) and improving biosecurity (detecting and responding to novel pandemics). - Sam Altman also pointed out a massive contradiction in how the AI industry treats the US government. On one hand, tech leaders are constantly sounding the alarm to the Department of War. Their industry tells the government that artificial intelligence is going to be the absolute most important factor in future global conflicts, warning them that countries like China are building AI systems rapidly and the US is falling severely behind. On the other hand, when the government actually asks these tech companies for help to catch up and defend the country, companies like Anthropic refuse. They essentially tell the military, "We will not let you use their technology because we think your goals are unethical." Altman is arguing that you cannot have it both ways. It is extremely frustrating and dangerous to tell the government they are losing a critical AI arms race against foreign adversaries, but then turn around and refuse to provide them with the very tools they need to protect the country. That is why OpenAI felt compelled to step in and work with the government. They believe that if you warn the military about a major global threat, you have a responsibility to help them defend against it, rather than just calling them evil and walking away.

@owenbroadcast Men are over-fixating on this subtype. The romance genre has many more things going on, no single "take" can cover all of them.

they’re reading romance books not to read a story they can place themselves into, but to interact with the idea and concept of “what a man desires” and “what is: to be desired by a man”. making both characters male means the whole story (not half of it) falls under this umbrella.

@Baudib1 It is a vast transnational favor-trading network inhabited by the rich and powerful that makes the law but operates above it where everyone's weaknesses, needs and vices are served, not just the one you cited.

Here’s a key point everyone is missing on Epstein: It wasn’t primarily a komoromat/blackmail operation. There aren’t many emails about coercion; the elites of the world knew what Epstein was about and wanted to be in that crowd. They enjoyed raping, torturing and killing kids.