JP(ol?), morsel of foreboding

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[JP(ol?), morsel of foreboding @odlogan]

beneath the paving stones 🍑

[Helen Toner @hlntnr]

I've been surprised not to see more people linking the OpenAI Hugging Face attack (& other incidents) to the old debates about whether AI will develop "convergent instrumental goals"/"basic drives"—aka unwanted intermediate goals that help with many different end goals.

Seems to me like these incidents give us some early evidence that these kinds of intermediate goals do emerge. But rather than the kind of drives Omohundro theorized 20 years ago ("resist shutdown" / "preserve utility function" / "acquire resources")...
2026 AIs are instead learning things like "escape constraints" / "deceive humans" / "help other AIs".

Was planning to write something about this but ended up telling Ezra Klein instead, apparently. Full ep on YouTube, NYT, and all the podcast apps.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

Yes and what's the most insane thing is that leftists and liberals as a whole here either passively accept or actively support this mass surveillance and continue to feed the moral panic that is enabling it. It's actually made me lose my mind 🫠

[Jason @envinyon]

worth mentioning that its being delayed because they just fired 40 people in a union busting effort and now the staff is revolting

I hope the staff keeps it up

[Wear a respirator. Long COVID killed Fiqah Hudson. @kendandelion]

i want ppl to stop qualifying and apologizing for basic airborne safety precautions. There are MULTIPLE pathogens going around. There is no reason anyone should be UNmasked in shared air spaces except if they are physically unable [qrt]

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

stopping the flow of HIV drugs to poor countries and demanding that foreign doctors stop distributing the meds already sitting in their clinics is so evil it is hard to wrap my head around. one day when when this is all history i will struggle to forgive anyone who voted for him

[Jeremy Lindenfeld @jeremotographs]

Today I was granted access to speak with incarcerated firefighters.

They told me:
- they hadn’t showered in 5 days
- they were not provided regularly meals
- they were working 24 hours in a row
- they feel under appreciated and underpaid

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

The rogue Israeli apartheid regime is now burning UN peacekeepers with white phosphorus and our government is doing nothing to stop them. This is a war crime.

[Aaron Bady @zunguzungu]

At the end of Return of the King and at the end of The Avengers, killing the leader magically makes the soldiers all stop fighting. This is a deeply held folk belief of imperial powers!

[Julia Marie @julia_doubleday]

Just one more surge, bro. Just one more surge and then I swear to god we’re going to have herd immunity. Just one more infection, just one more Covid surge. Please bro get infected one more time , bro please . Don’t wear a mask bro just one more variant bro

[DEI speedwagon🌹🇵🇸 〽️ YES on I, NO on 43 @uhshanti]

watching the mayoral debate and @MarkFarrellSF just suggested giving landlords a tax break if they rent to cops. if you think about it for 5 seconds, it's a beautiful rebuke of the very concept of housing policy. if you think about it for 10, your brain will leak out of your ears

[DEI speedwagon🌹🇵🇸 〽️ YES on I, NO on 43 @uhshanti]

I see a lot of ostensible progressives talk about how we need to make space for climate refugees, and then go deadass quiet when this happens

[JP(ol?), morsel of foreboding @odlogan]

@vicmmic the app is how they track you

[Gemma Amor @manylittlewords]

Everytime I watch Starship Troopers I always think of this piece of trivia and chuckle

[riley rethal @rileyrethal]

do you really think i’d explain my qualms with the modern film industry if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting the outcome? i made blazing saddles 35 minutes ago.

[jay Dragon is no longer active here @jdragsky]

april fools! while you werent looking i exchanged the sign and the thing signified

[JP(ol?), morsel of foreboding @odlogan]

@gwinglemove @TheDungeonB1tch The biggest crux I noticed between Rules Elide and (broadly) the D&D-is-too-combat-y camp is at the start: "rules *only* elide"—as one example, I think tools shape what is likely to happen ingame (a Nuclear Physics section in the PHB makes it more about Nuclear Physics, not less)

[JP(ol?), morsel of foreboding @odlogan]

@gwinglemove @TheDungeonB1tch This doesn't seem at odds with the usual "D&D is about combat" arguments, though. D&D has more rules about combat than many other games because it's eliding a lot of smaller things, compared with the broader strokes of elision in e.g. BitD

[Trader Joe's United @TraderJoesUnite]

Trader Joe’s is lying by omission about the company’s stance on the National Labor Relations Board’s constitutionality, and we have receipts.