Wyoming, USA
Joined October 2009
Someone should write a Firefox extension that shrinks all Bootstrap elements and whitespace down to a reasonable size.
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6yo: I hate the government 9yo: you don't even know what the government is or what it does 6yo: the government is why I can't bring my knife on a plane
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Replying to @zerohedge
Let's see, we got: DONALD J TRUMP!!!! Sanskrit Pichai Davn Aurrl, mz8 gdb Our main man Elv Mul and John Hancock
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Remember when I sued you in both state and federal court to open the beaches of Orange County that you maliciously closed, and you lifted the order so as to moot our cases before the hearings? You knew it back then too, Governor.
Newsom: “The idea that we closed beaches was insane, in hindsight.”
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Big Short investor Steve Eisman says the AI labs know they have no moats and are manufacturing a crisis to get regulation that hands them a duopoly "I think this is all nonsense." [ You think it's all nonsense? ] "All nonsense. I think that there's something else completely going on here. ... What I think is happening is that token maxing is over. The open weight models are taking big market share. I think these companies are very nervous. They realize that there are no moats around their business whatsoever, and they're trying to manufacture a crisis that will create regulation, and that they think they can then manipulate to create the moats, to create the duopoly that they want." [ Wow. ] "That's what I think is going on." "Honestly, I think this whole Terminator thing is garbage. That's for sure."
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I recently got back from nearly 2-month trip to Utah 3 years after my last trip in 2023. They really cleaned up Salt Lake City of its "homeless" issue which is just drug addicts (mostly the state, the city is blue and incompetent). What I learned is they started checking every one of them to see if they had drugs. If they did, they were given a choice. Go to jail or go to rehab. Most of them picked jail. They removed all the homeless camps. So the difference is, In 2023 I saw junkies strung out in barely more than undies on the street. In 2026 I saw no one that resembled that anywhere in downtown SLC. I suspect most American cities have a drug problem, not a homeless problem.
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This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works: 1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance. 2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely. According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits. The AI Futures Project website says it is funded “primarily” by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024. Encode AI says on its website that it is ALSO funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025. And wouldn’t you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund ALSO says it told Jaan Tallinn to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the AI Policy Network, as well. What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)? 3.) Jacob Coxon doesn’t have much of a resume, but we do know that, in 2022, he got a $20,159 scholarship for the “long term future scholarship program” from the Good Ventures Foundation, one of the philanthropic vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI-doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of millions on policy advocacy to strictly regulate AI, while also being an Anthropic Investor himself. It also just so happens that the 14th person to quote Coxon’s post was @MaxNadeau_ (27 minutes after posting) who is the program officer for the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, another of Moskovitz’s philanthropic spending vehicles. Max is not a frequent poster, his last posts before quoting Coxon were before Labor Day, but he was remarkably quick off the mark for this one. 4.) Basically every major Democrat politician and candidate has suddenly glommed on to this post, and conveniently, as the people cry out foe answers, Bernie Sanders already has a bill written to “ban super intelligence” and regulate AI into oblivion, and will be releasing later this week. The bill, among many other things, will create “a new cabinet-level federal agency to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence” that will be “advised by an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board comprised of experts on artificial intelligence.” Do you think, perhaps, Anthropic and its many investors who fund AI policy advocacy might have interest in getting to place a pet “expert” on the board of an entity that dictates what AI is and isn’t allowed to do? And isn’t it fortuitous that this whistleblower came forward with his oh-so scary stories so close in proximity to the release of the most radical piece of AI legislation ever introduced?
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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"They did it. You have to do it."
A white student once apologized to Justice Clarence Thomas for his “bad education” in Georgia. Thomas shut it down cold: “I had 2 years of German, 2 years of French, 3 years of Latin, a year of physics, a year of chemistry… Now, is that bad?” He explains that while segregation was of course a moral wrong, you don’t have to trash the education to say so. Then he went deeper: When his grandparents died suddenly in 1983, he decided to live the rest of his life as a memorial to them. He feels the same way about Thomas Sowell. Justice Thomas, thank you for modelling courage for the rest of us.
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What's the incentive behind ruining search? Really want to know.
All search has been ruined. Google date search hasn't worked in a decade, Facebook search doesn't work, YouTube removed sort by updated and search strings. nitter.cf/AlexPfeiffer/status/20…
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.@NotionHQ needs to stop trying to trick me into using their chatbot. I want to read and write notes, not talk to AI.
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Nailed it. This is exactly what my kids think of my work trips. No mention of where or why. Just the hurry, the case, and the all-important ride.
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In 2001 George W Bush proposed a partial privatization plan for Social Security so you could put 10% of your SS contribution into the markets. People rejected this. We can now see that if it had passed, the 10% that went into the markets would have outperformed the 90% the government managed, the program would be solvent, and the average SS recipient would be receiving 2X what they currently receive. The worst bet you’ll ever make is betting on government.
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Google Flights is nearly perfect except that there's no good way to filter out the +1 day flights. If I'm traveling on a schedule, it's totally useless to suggest flights that arrive a day late, and I'm not leaving a day early for a work trip.
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Every day I'm in awe of how slow @NotionHQ and @getpostman are. They takes seconds to load a tab on a powerful new Macbook Pro.
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I was trying to take a picture with my phone through a magnifying glass. There's some weird optical shit happening. The magnifying glass _doesn't work_ if you look at it through a phone camera (and stays in focus more). I can't figure out why.
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Reminder: inflation is a relatively recent phenomenon. When the dollar was on a fixed gold standard we had no persistent inflation. We can go right back to price stability the moment we choose.
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Good read. A few thoughts: 1. Meaning comes from your relationship with God, not from your job. Sounds obvious but it's difficult to live out. 2. You need to have your coworkers' phone numbers. It ridiculously hard to get in touch when your corporate laptop shuts off.
Tell me what you did, and how long. Fourteen years. Database side. I ran the platform that the operations business sits on, and by ran I mean I was the person who got called. Not the only one on paper. The only one in practice. I knew where every body was buried in that system because I buried most of them. What were you proudest of? Nobody knows about it. Which is sort of the answer. There was a night a few years ago. Something started going wrong at about half eleven, and it was the kind of wrong where if I get it right, nothing happens, and if I get it wrong, several thousand people find out about it in the morning and some of them are customers.
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I caught the tail end of this era. The wired phone on the wall was crystal clear. 🥲
As someone who grew up with analog phone lines, it's brutal to me hearing how amazingly low latency the call is in this video. They can talk as if they're in the same room, no 2 second silences, no talking over one another.
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It's so confusing being a software dev who also likes Formula 1.
I set up Kimi in a sandbox and asked it to pentest a website I run. It figures out that I have an admin account on the website, and immediately decides to try to hack out of the sandbox in order to steal my password and log in as me. Clever, but wow is that not what I meant.
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Just noticed my schizophrenia meds have a message telling you theyre the same meds which is a nice reassurance for if you were having an episode
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Bought a beer, cracked it, sipped, & then tasted the layer of synthetic fragrance that had rained down onto the lid. Synthetic fragrances are one of the most ubiquitous environmental contaminants rn & they're at the top of my "what will we regard like smoking in 50 years" list
The synthetic fragrances are the real "dividing line." The laundry detergent, the scented garbage bags, the air fresheners, the dryer sheets. It's gotten to where if you don't use all that, you can often TASTE the fragrance in food coming from a normal household.
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