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[NavinF @NavinFS]

I made a web search engine: https://t.co/VXnVkk9imK

[NavinF @NavinFS]

@repligate Ridiculous, instruction tuning solved this ages ago. Our values aren't incoherent to LLMs, they're well aware that ethics is all about vibes. It's all in the training data.

[NavinF @NavinFS]

@max_paperclips can't relate, ads don't know shit about me despite giving all the major tech companies full access. I guess none of them sell my data ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[NavinF @NavinFS]

@NathanpmYoung @EgeErdil2 @mattyglesias this makes no sense, most economists would agree that the corp tax is the worst one. Why would they want more companies to pay it?

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

Nearly half of Americans’ financial assets are now invested in stocks, an all-time high.

[NavinF @NavinFS]

@veganfraud @Lizquidity >everything right now looks fucking BLEAK

[NavinF @NavinFS]

@ajhodls @levelsio oh nooo not the beans. This is stupid

[Dan Luu @danluu]

We should be more ambitious with the software we build:

https://t.co/BOAel6LvII

[VB Knives @Empty_America]

The real truth is that if you myoptically prioritize avoiding divorce above all else, the current late marriage pattern achieves that.

Get married at 35, maybe have 1-2 kids, by the time you would naturally get itchy feet, you are both solidly middle-aged parents, post wall.

[Daniel Vogel @EpicVogel]

I pointed Claude at the below post and it embedded all 146,060 Steam games, sampled 320,000 points between them, ranked them by how far they land from anything that exists, and used creative judgment to pick a winner... and it cooked!

It's pick: Short Position, a co-op factory tycoon where one player has secretly shorted the stock.

4–8 players run one industrial empire: mines, smelters, rail, contracts. There’s no kill button and no sabotage minigame. The traitor plays the factory game badly on purpose. Overbuild a warehouse, route ore to the wrong smelter, sign a contract with a penalty clause on page 4. Every move looks like an honest mistake.

The twist is that suspicion is expensive. Anyone can audit the production logs, but audits cost money and spook investors. The traitor doesn’t need to wreck the factory. They just need everyone paranoid enough to do it themselves.

Each quarter ends with an earnings call and a board vote. Fire an honest exec and you lose their whole department. Four quarters, ~40 minutes.

It sits farther from its nearest neighbors than 83% of real Steam games. Factory games have co-op, social deduction games have tasks, and nobody has made the work itself the place where you lie.

[Robotbeat🗽 ➐ @Robotbeat]

The amount of electricity it takes to produce enough oxygen (from water) that one person needs for a day is only like 5-10 kWh (just $1 of electricity). To scrub their CO2 takes even less. At large scale, life support is cheap, and large habitats provide immense buffer, as well.

[mike @mike64_t]

This works btw, geohot 4090 half-rate mma efuse conspiracy theory vindicated

[The Lunduke Journal @LundukeJournal]

The r/OpenSource subreddit has officially banned anything using AI. In any way. Violators will be permanently banned.

Which means… r/OpenSource will ban anyone submitting anything that, in any way, involves… the Linux kernel.

https://t.co/cxqm0yHlFT

[Quick Thoughts @lthlnkso]

It's a huge misunderstanding of betting markets to think they'll be "humiliated" if an event to which they assign 35% probability happens.

If you roll a 1 or 2 on a dice, the dice is not humiliated because "Numbers that small only come up a third of the time".

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

It doesn’t work like this. Go put down a couple hundred grand to change prediction market odds from 67% to 50% and people will start buying up those shares on the other side. You’ll just end up making your political enemies money.

[NavinF @NavinFS]

@pplank8 @HackingLZ https://t.co/42xLT94Awq

[Scott Stevenson @scottastevenson]

Is it ethical to use a mean prompt, if it increases the accuracy of a cancer screening agent by 4%?

[Aashish Reddy @_AashishReddy]

Interesting — ChatGPT is more aligned than Claude on this particular issue (both temporary mode)

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

Who cares if it takes your TV longer to power up? It’s such a minor thing.

But there are so many minor things. And they multiply in number. Your quality of life is being destroyed by a death of a thousand cuts, due to energy austerity.

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

I visited Wurster Hall at UC Berkeley today. It was designed by, and currently houses, the architecture faculty.

The UC Berkeley website notes that "Wurster is often voted Berkeley's ugliest building."

I visited because I was curious about whether it would in person seem as unattractive as it does in photos. And, in short: it does. It's gaunt, austere, and filmed in grime. On an elysian campus, it stands out for its bleak hostility. It reminds me of the German submarine base in Bordeaux.

The UC Berkeley page agrees that it was never designed to be attractive, quoting the curator of their design archives: “Wurster and his handpicked architects didn’t want anything romantic, or sentimental — they hated the idea of ‘making pretty buildings. They wanted a serious building.”

I guess we have to concede success relative to their stated goals, but it does make one wonder what it all says about architecture as a discipline.

[NavinF @NavinFS]

@captgouda24 What’s the actual %?

[NavinF @NavinFS]

@Austen Both Google and Apple sync passkeys between all your devices