Vesper Nightfall 🦄

CS Student. Magical rationalist. Dionysian Romantic. Alicorn goddess summoner. Touhou stan. Faustian spirit.

AKA Imperishable Knight / NEET

[Vesper Nightfall 🦄 @vesperNightfall]

@RokoMijic The first generation of immortals will be the happiest and saddest people in the world.

[Frank J. Fleming @IMAO_]

How much longer is this bizarre cope going to go on?

"Sure, it made tons of money its first five weekends, but the drop in the sixth is going to prove everyone has woken up to it being woke garbage."

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

He did it again.

This is by far my favorite game on this site.

[Vesper Nightfall 🦄 @vesperNightfall]

@ExistentialEnso I think there's a reasonable standard that AI for code is fine, while AI for art assets is slop.

[AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ @AISafetyMemes]

Not concerning at all

[maremilker @maremilker]

Good morning.

[並木•NAMIKI• @remiter00]

pd.2412
🖐️

[679 Enthusiast @marionumber4]

JK Rowling in a nutshell:

[よっぴーα版 @um_yoppy]

因幡とイナバ

#東方Project

[mew151 @mewBe3Al2Si6O12]

#東方Project #八坂神奈子
バニーな神奈子さん🐇

[卯鳥天 赤子＠お仕事募集中 @utyouten_akako]

【再掲】皆さん暑さ対策しっかりしましょうね
#東方Project

[Geoff Thew @G0ffThew]

All the “bring back dislikes” plugin does is track the ratio of dislikes on a given video from people using the plugin, and then multiplies that percentage by the view count. It was scripted by someone who’s never heard of selection bias.

[Vesper Nightfall 🦄 @vesperNightfall]

@ProjectLiberal Right wingers want to ban porn or require age verification per site effectively banning it.

[民（tami） @nengu_housak]

海の日の舟幽霊（2025.6再）

[HondaTheEarthPony @HondaEarthPony]

I think a lot of us agree with Luna right now..

#mlpmeme #mylittlepony #princesscelestia #princessluna

[バイソン春例感謝 @BAISONCB]

バニーな慧音先生

[Sauers @Sauers_]

I Bought $250,000 Worth of Chinese Kidneys

No, that’s not a typo.

That’s 8,500 Chinese kidneys—or 8,500 enforceable claims on kidneys, depending on which document you’re looking at—from hospitals, donor registries, and private intermediaries across Fujian and Guangdong, now sitting in a climate-controlled facility in Nevada where customs can’t ask questions.

Most people would call it organ trafficking.

But let me explain the thesis.

Paying for kidneys is banned in every developed country. At the same time, most people who need one will never get one.

That’s not a shortage.

That’s a market being legally prevented from clearing.

Each healthy kidney is officially worth $0. Keeping someone alive without one can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The organ has no price, but everything surrounding its absence does.

Here’s what the market doesn’t understand: kidneys aren’t just organs.

They’re settlement instruments.

A mother may be willing to donate to her son but can’t because they’re incompatible. Somewhere else, another family has the same problem in reverse. Match the families correctly and the kidneys move in a cycle.

Nobody buys anything.

Nobody sells anything.

Everyone leaves with exactly what they needed.

Computer scientists call this kidney exchange. It’s advanced bartering, except the commodities are internal organs and the clearinghouse is an algorithm deciding which strangers need to be opened in which order.

The official version exists in databases.

The version I bought is described as “matched biological inventory.”

The warehouse manager says this is a translation issue.

Meanwhile, China is tightening controls on medical data, biological materials, and anything that becomes strategically important after foreigners discover they need it. Hospitals are sealing records. Cross-border exchanges are disappearing. Every donor profile that leaves the country becomes instantly more scarce, and every customs crackdown makes the remaining supply more valuable.

So what happens when U.S.–China tensions finally boil over?

When data transfers freeze, medical cooperation ends, and every transplant center, insurer, and desperate family starts hoarding access to kidneys they can’t import anymore?

The supply vanishes overnight, absorbed into private registries, offshore matching networks, and commercial properties where nobody asks too many questions.

My $250,000 position, therefore, isn’t an “organ trade.”

It’s an asymmetrical bet on prohibition economics, computational barter, and the fact that scarcity + love + biological compatibility = permanent demand from anyone who has watched a relative die while a usable kidney remained inside the wrong person.

Worst case?

I still have 8,500 legitimately acquired Chinese kidney assets that don’t depreciate, don’t become obsolete, and maintain 100% of their matching value as long as the people attached to them remain alive.

Assuming we’re discussing the database.

We are almost certainly discussing the database.

Best case?

China bans biological exports entirely, U.S. customs ramps up enforcement, or hospitals begin treating private kidney exchanges the way they treat any scarce asset that produces outcomes nobody wants to examine too closely.

It’s not medicine.

It’s not even charity.

It’s 8,500 kidneys—or promises of kidneys, or refrigerated possibilities—denominated in a currency no regulator can publicly acknowledge and no dying person can afford to ignore.

That’s deep value.

That’s the Kidney Standard.

[Key 🗝 🦊 @KeyTryer]

The whole Mythos saga is a complete repeat of o1, including the lab saying it's too expensive and too powerful to release, then releasing it very limitedly, and then an open source competitor replicating it, including these same people predicting that means AI is over.

[Eliezer Yudkowsky @allTheYud]

You know who else hasn't figured out that Claude Code and Codex aren't standard computer programs? Anthropic and OpenAI.

Scrollwheel in CC or Codex CLI/TUI will flip your own past utterances; rather than, eg, scroll up through the chat history.

This is the default behavior in sh, bash, etc. In Unix shells, you often want to repeat a previous instruction back exactly to a Unix program; or modify the command string slightly, and execute it again. If you enter up-arrow, the command line recalls the last thing you previously said; hit up again, it'll show you the command before that, etc.

But how often do you want to send Claude Code or Codex nearly the exact same speech utterance another time?

On any occasion where you'd otherwise want to repeat yourself to a standard computer program, what you type to Claude is "Try again, but..." You almost never want to go back to your previous long utterance, edit a few words, and resend that.

Why doesn't Signal have a handy sh-like facility for using scrollwheel to iterate through all the things you already said in chat? You know, just in case you want to edit a few words in a long sentence, and then say that new thing again to the human you're talking to?

It's not about respect, even. That's not a convenient or natural idiom for interacting with something that you know to possess at least a little intelligence and memory.

So what does it say that this is the default UI behavior in the Codex and Claude Code CLI/TUI?

[☢️烏ﾁｳﾑ☢️(Tritium) @tritium09_s]

ナマ足 魅惑の マーメイド なお空ちゃんです

[Pogman @JanPogman2]

John brown did not kill a single human being in his entire life

He only killed southerners