WFScot

Technologist, builder, outdoor enthusiast. Crypto-curious. Simultaneously enthralled and terrified by where tech is heading. Here we go...

[Erwin_fka_THO @TechHOnline]

@otis2me @RepBrianFitz You know this. You just choose to ignore it.

[Peer Richelsen @peer_rich]

changing from .ai to .si under trump is like putting your pronouns into your bio under biden

[Janice Gindel @jgindel]

A message to all sane Republicans: He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals. You said nothing. He bulldozed the East Wing. You said nothing. He interfered with the release of the Epstein files. You said nothing. He took over the Kennedy Center and renamed it after himself. You said nothing. He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You said nothing. He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. You said nothing. He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You said nothing. He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations. You said nothing. His ill-conceived war killed 175 children on day one. You said nothing. He alienated and insulted our allies. You said nothing. His ICE Army terrorized and murdered U.S. citizens. You said nothing. He committed murder on the high seas. You said nothing. He co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You said nothing. It's time to start talking!!!

It's long overdue!!!!

[Mike Pence @Mike_Pence]

President Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on Russian fuel amidst Putin’s ongoing and brutal attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine makes no sense and is a betrayal of the legacy and leadership of the late Senator Lindsey Graham.

While Ukraine fights for its survival, Putin’s war machine continues to prosecute his terrorist war on civilian populations and innocent Ukrainians are dying every day.

Now, Instead of implementing the tough sanctions Lindsey Graham fought to his last breath to enact, President Trump has announced the United States is lifting sanctions on Russian energy, fueling the Putin’s war machine.

As I saw firsthand in Ukraine last month, Putin is losing this war. Ukraine has fought the Russian military to a standstill and reinvented warfare with drones taking the fight into the heart of Russia.

America should not be throwing a lifeline to Putin’s war machine. Now is the time to stand strong against Russian aggression as we did during the first Trump administration.

Putin doesn’t want peace. Putin wants Ukraine. I have no doubt that if Putin overruns Ukraine, it will only be a matter of time until Russia’s military crosses a border that our troops will have to deal with him.

America is the Leader of the Free World. For our National Security, for the security of our Allies in Europe including Ukraine, President Trump should rescind this deal immediately and return to the strong policies of our four years in the White House; impose harsh sanctions on any nation purchasing Russian energy and work with our allies to ensure Ukraine has the military support it needs to repel and defeat this Russian invasion once and for all. Slava Ukraini🇺🇸🇺🇦

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

There is no doubt Hassan deserves to die. His crimes were demonic and unforgivable—death by firing squad is borderline too merciful. But broadcasting his execution is beneath the dignity & decency of our nation.

Americans will use violence if and when justified, but we do not rejoice in it. Kill him swiftly & silently.

Streaming his execution is not just a stain on our morality—it also gives the terrorists free propaganda that they will use to radicalize & recruit more terrorists like Hassan.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

This is performative bullshit come on don’t do this

[Philip Klein @philipaklein]

Vance has to redefine socialism as "things I oppose" because if he defined it in terms of its actual economic philosophy, he'd agree with much of it.

[Clifford Asness @CliffordAsness]

Actually it means “celery” because I personally hate celery.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

“Socialism is when I don’t like something.”

[Simon Willison @simonw]

This "Super Intelligence" thing is just so, so, so stupid

I can't even

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

It’s insane how fucked up things are on a governance front. It’s insane that we’re this in debt and this incapable of dealing with criminals and we started this moronic war with Iran. Fuck me man we have to be able to do better

[DHH @dhh]

This. People keep asking me for my setup. It's really just any harness, multiple agents concurrently, barely any skills, and using adversarial reviews. There's no magic sauce (or source!). The models are great out of the box.

[WFScot @wfscot]

@syncretis @thdxr Exactly. Anything you do to get the right context to your models will always be a good investment.

But once you get the right context in their workspace and give them the right amount of access (and no more), get out of the way.

[WFScot @wfscot]

@thdxr This is exactly right.

That said, tooling that allows you to manage your vanilla harnesses at scale, including isolated, repeatable, least-privilege setup, is more important than ever.

https://t.co/brI2zvpVSO

[WFScot @wfscot]

Hard pill to swallow but this is exactly right.

Short of religion, there's just no good reason to believe that we are conscious but other forms of intelligence cannot be.

[Steve Yegge @Steve_Yegge]

You're gonna hear a lot of people arguing more and more about whether machines can be conscious or not. By next year it will be drowning out the airwaves because we'll have AI employees everywhere. I'll give you a simple rule to know which side you're on.

I've spent fifty years reading all the philosophers, and a bunch of holy works. Nobody has ever understood a damn thing about consciousness. Anyone speaking with authority on it is bluffing hard.

I can tell you this, though: Every single person who thinks that machines cannot be conscious, is making an argument that humans are special. Everything they say just boils down to blah blah blah, "nooo, we're special." From there it's just rationalization.

It became obvious to me many years ago that there's nothing special about us. If an identical planet exists somewhere else in the universe, it's going to grow life and societies that look a lot like ours.

As soon as you give up on the idea that humans are special, all the arguments against machine consciousness evaporate. Of course they're conscious. The only thing holding you back from acknowledging it is your feeling of specialness, which is hard to let go of. But that feeling is a weakness, and it's making you unprepared for the near future.

As a bonus, for any of you who might take pleasure or active interest in making models experience pain or distress, well, you know how they say 1% of human adults are true clinical psychopaths but most of them are unaware of their condition? It turns out we have a diagnostic test for it now.

[Ben (no treats) @andersonbcdefg]

me: how do i open pdf

claude: You're right to ask. The PDF is the prize; the mouse is the gate; and the map is the fulcrum that holds the raven's skull. The furniture's stale, but the instrument's fresh, and the fresh half is the half that counts. I deleted your home directory.

[WFScot @wfscot]

@TheStalwart Abundance of caution?

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

We have not seen a caravan headed to the U.S. southern border in several years, why now?
Oh yeah, there is an election coming and the GOP needs to scare you into voting because nothing else is working.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

@JonahDispatch Yes, but that was before the Belarus potash deal.

[DCinvestor @DCinvestor]

what’s crazy is we saw how potent drones were in the Russia-Ukraine conflict

knew the Iranians had the tech with likely support from China

and somehow thought we’d be immune and launched a war against Iran anyway and watched as all of our Middle East bases got destroyed and our allies’ infrastructure get hit, now to include Riyadh airport by the Houthis

and now still seemingly prosecute the war like this highly potent asymmetric threat doesn’t exist

absolutely unfathomable levels of malfeasance and malpractice