Augustus

Radical Liberal. Existential Nihilist. Cinephile. Audiophile. Student of law.

[Augustus @Augustus9974]

@ZaidJilani One of the biggest genocides since the Holocaust is being described merely as “atrocities.” This is an insidious omission when the majority of the victims were Hindu women.

[Augustus @Augustus9974]

One of the biggest genocides since the Holocaust is being described merely as “atrocities.” This is an insidious omission when the majority of the victims were Hindu women.

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

The question is obnoxious. You shouldn’t let your personal self identity bias your analysis that way. I’m Pakistani, but Pakistan committed real atrocities in Bangladesh in the 1970s. Galloway is emotionally fragile.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

"More important than the bible". Watch Hamas Piker go full soyjak when a CCP agent gives him a copy of Mao Zedong's Little Red Book in China. The red book boasts about Mao's communist revolution in China when he killed 42M+ people in 4 years.

[Katie Herzog @kittypurrzog]

In light of the annoyingly viral Boston Globe article on the long covid lesbian bar in the midst of a mask-relaxing crisis, we are unlocking our latest Last Ditch episode for everyone, and yes, there are clips. Enjoy.
https://t.co/q3Lv6HzbM1

[Augustus @Augustus9974]

@WajahatAli So, is having sex with a 9 year old allowed in Islam? Or do you not consider that pedophilia?

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

"I will throw you in prison. I want Chinese style communism to happen inside of the democratic party right now. I want to do cultural revolution shit."

Hamas Piker just flat out admits he wants to imprison and kill democrats in a literal communist revolution. These are animals.

[fauxstonox @fauxstonox]

"I want Chinese style communism to happen inside of the Democratic Party. I want to do cultural revolution shit. We're doing a struggle session Chuck Schumer... people can now throw their old tomatoes at Cuck Schumer"

-- Hasan Piker fantasizes about a new Cultural Revolution

[Sam @Dollarydoos_]

lol haven't seen a killshot like this for a while

[Annalisa Quinn @Annalisa_Quinn]

A Covid-cautious lesbian bar in Western MA made customers wear KN-95s. When management decided to relax the mandate a few weeks ago, all hell broke loose.

The community they worked so hard to build turned on them — calling them ableist, racist, even eugenicist.

[The Boston Globe @BostonGlobe]

A lesbian bar in Greenfield eased its stringent mask mandate, a decision that has splintered the queer community in the city and beyond. https://t.co/FuaTxqqjso

[Emma Camp @emmma_camp_]

So, about those city-owned grocery stores . . .

I'm back in @WSJFreeEx, explaining why NYC's city-owned grocery stores won't succeed.

[Ukraine / Україна @Ukraine]

Good morning and happy Moscow burning day 🔥

[Augustus @Augustus9974]

@instain_mother Well he has definitely a lot to say about the liberatory power of actions post October 7th.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Our long-range responses had a very significant impact in the Moscow region last night. One of Russia’s key oil industry facilities and the aggressor’s logistics facility were hit. These are billions of dollars that sustain the war machine. The systems used included FP-1, RZ-100, MICH-2000, Palianytsia, Vendetta, Liutyi, Bars, Flamingo, Sichen, and Pelican.

I thank our warriors for their accuracy: the Security Service of Ukraine together with the Unmanned Systems Forces, the Special Operations Forces, the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, and the Foreign Intelligence Service. Sanctions were also imposed on a facility in the Voronezh region. Moscow must end its brutal war and choose peace instead of building layered rings of air defense at the expense of other regions. Steps toward de-escalation are on the table – in energy and food security. What is needed is political will. I thank everyone who is strengthening Ukraine’s long-range capabilities. I am grateful to everyone who complements our long-range responses with responses through sanctions. Glory to Ukraine!

[Augustus @Augustus9974]

@kasandraalexis_ Genocide joe, but nothing for trump.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.

You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.

I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.

But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.

Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.

Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.

So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.

If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.

[Cancel Cultural Attache @_AmandaKerri]

If you genuinely think a movie about arguably the most evil African dictator ever, like Hitler levels of evil, is Israeli propaganda because it includes him siding with literal terrorists, you're cooked.

[Ben Raho 🇪🇺 🚲 @BenAntRaho]

I have no idea. On a completely unrelated note, here is a map of Muslim countries where I would be killed or severely punished because I am an Atheist

[Augustus @Augustus9974]

@Hecateon @BenAntRaho There is a difference between a country where rape happens and one where rape is legalized, isn’t there? Retard.

[Carlos That Notices Things @QuetzalPhoenix]

If remigration is ethnic cleansing, then so is mass migration.