hyperlex

English programmer, libertarian,UNIX, bookworm, space, crypto centralist, sane transhumanism, space, Tesla, Radical Thatcherite, go/nvim/Linux/BSD

[Youssof Altoukhi @Youssofal_]

See, this has nothing to do with
“national security” and everything to do with childish spite.

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon reported the jailbreaks to the Department of Commerce, who instituted the ban

[roon @tszzl]

we are speedrunning creating the Zones of Thought from the Vinge universe. you will only be able to think superhuman thoughts in America

[Youssof Altoukhi @Youssofal_]

> Wake up and try to enable iCloud encryption.

> “Not available in the UK”. Find out Keir Stalin has banned ICloud encryption.

> Achieve a 35% increase in TPS on custom metal kernels getting 75 TPS on QWEN 3.6 27b thanks to Fable. Think to myself “this is the coolest thing I’ve ever used”.

> In order to get greater speed ups I need to update to Mac OS golden gate beta.

> Can’t because then I’ll be forced to KYC to use my fucking OS under UK laws.

> Get back to work on optimisations and game dev work.

> All agents stop suddenly. I think “guardrails?”

> Spend 15 mins editing my prompt to try and avoid the guardrails.

> Nothing works so I go on the Anthropic incident report site.

> “Mythos/Fable access suspended”

> Open Twitter to see a combination of posts that Trump has banned fable out of spite under the pretence of “national security” and Keir Stalin is attempting to introduce new OS level photo scanning.

What a fucking circus I live in, genuinely how did we reach this Orwellian dystopia?

[Bindu Reddy @bindureddy]

This is why you should support open source AI

Authoritarian governments can’t exert control on our lives and play god

Without open source AI, US government will restrict AGI access to a small set of elitists 😭

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

1/9

We saw it with crypto, we're seeing it with AI, and we're seeing it with Prediction Markets:

* We over regulate markets that are hot-button issues.

* Activity gets pushed activity offshore.

* Offshore unregulated entities exploit US consumers.

* The US ends up with all of the pain point and none of the benefit.

[Casey Handmer @CJHandmer]

A great update on the best way to scale up solar radiation management. Keep a lid on extreme temperatures, stabilize the ice sheets, bring down CO2, avoid deleting all the coastlines.

[Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger]

Just a quick update: Anthropic is now saying they will switch from silently sabotaging attempts to use their product to write perfectly reasonable software like, say, coding harnesses or distributed training programs, to openly refusing to do it. They will also continue to refuse to answer completely reasonable and ordinary questions about biology, medicine, mathematics, and the like.

This is a very, very slight improvement to be sure, but it is not enough of one to make any significant difference to the decision of whether or not to use their products.

It certainly should not reduce your concern about what would happen if they were given a government granted monopoly on AI research and development, which is what they have been seeking for years now.

That problem is not the specifics of this AI system, it is Anthropic and its ideological goals.

[hyperlex @hyperlex2k]

@follynomics @bryan_caplan Although Rothbard, despite his faults, is usually a good writer that’s not a good book. Some might find it dated but I prefer David Friedman Machinery of Freedom.

[Ellie in Space 🚀💫 @esherifftv]

One of the astronauts just announced for Artemis III, Luca Parmitano, once came terrifyingly close to dying during a spacewalk.

In 2013, water began leaking into his helmet during a spacewalk outside the ISS. The leak got so bad that his eyes, ears, and nose were submerged, leaving him nearly blind and struggling to breathe as he fought his way back to the airlock. NASA later described it as one of the most serious spacewalk incidents ever.

Now, more than a decade later, Parmitano is selected for Artemis III pilot.

From nearly drowning in space to helping lead humanity’s return to the Moon. What a remarkable full-circle moment.

[ODELL @ODELLXYZ]

@keonne we still need to free samourai

https://t.co/w7DmfrOnZ5

[Michael Cole @mdjcole]

Those were the days...

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

A system that can read every image on every phone, sold to you today as a babysitter for the under-18s, is exactly the system a future minister could repoint at protest photos, leaked documents, unflattering memes, or whatever sets off the moral panic of the week...

[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

During a short media availability after the Artemis III event here in Houston, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said he is "extremely" confident in the timeline for a 2027 launch, as well as a 2028 lunar landing. He said he expects NASA to meet America's high expectations.

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

London might have many problems. But it also has something wonderful: lots of bookstores. When @trishaposner & I visited last year for my Oxford Union debate, we spent lots of free time browsing the stacks. Miami Beach, where we live, does not have a single bookstore, its last one closed a few years ago.

[hyperlex @hyperlex2k]

@filpizlo Fair enough. Thanks for the reply.

[Peter Boettke @PeterBoettke]

Ugh, sorry to say that intelligent and well read people seems to continually miss the connection between property, prices and knowledge, and that Hayek is actually making this point: “The problem of calculation in Mises is not one of mathematical manipulation of given data. It is one of the origin and significance of that data.” That _knowledge_ is what needs to be generated, utilized and disseminated through the price system. Mises and Hayek were on same team addressing different claims at different stages of the debate. Btw, they also both knew that incentives mattered and that collective ownership distorted them, but again given how their respective debate partners dealt with that question meant that to steelman the argument they had to put that aside. I have obviously failed miserably as an economic communicator that after multiple articles, books, and even multi-volume collections those in the Austrian economics community still don’t see the intricate connection between property, prices, entrepreneurship and the ‘knowledge problem’ associated with ‘rational’ (that also has a specific meaning and context) economic calculation under socialism.

[Mark Stewart @pendragonmist]

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