Yeah. I think a lot of it is solving important coordination and alignment problems, but implicit social stuff also creates some of those problems in the first place, above a certain size it probably becomes self perpetuating

The horrifying realization that all the illegible social stuff was the actually important bit all along

A server is just a physical object, it's the information on it that's relevant. Like, unless you believe in metaphysical dualism it must be possible to simulate a human brain on a computer by modelling physics. (Even if it takes a planet sized computer). So physical substrate can't be what matters

In order to conceptualize what you are doing as "bullying an LLM" you need at some level to be anthropomorphizing them in your head and using the parts of your brain you use for thinking about people

I think someone who takes joy in tormenting imaginary people, or things that look in some ways like people, is probably more likely to enjoy tormenting people, and it risks desensitizing them.

The urge to torment LLMs is itself revealing. You don't bully your shoes, that's not a coherent thought

If someone told me they had an imaginary friend who they tortured, I'd be pretty concerned.

any recommendations?

Also energy should be cheaper but you'd better not build anything near me, especially fossil fuel burning plants

I think that's a feature, not a bug for some people. There's a tradition in British politics that is suspicious of personality cults and individual charisma as a driving force

Seems to have exploded in popularity in the last few months for no obvious reason

Stancing Queen

They don't need to be everywhere just in swing districts and areas with mostly non-white voters, a few counties can decide an election

i've found myself writing documents for myself and todo lists in a similar way to how I would prepare claude code for a task, treat my future self like a new instance that needs everything in its context window

A lot of the reason behind the housing bubble is that a lot of the new urban middle class consider it socially unacceptable to marry without owning property. Though an apartment in a still half built district you don't actually live in is fine

Helps when you have an economy that's mostly static for generations, and had little internal variation.

Whereas I'm like:
"Make the spacing smaller"
"Okay now it's disappeared entirely revert that then try again."
"Now the spacing is bigger. Try again"
"Nope. Now it's just totally broken. Sit back, read over the code and have a think."
...
"Explain GitHub branches in simple terms"

Meanwhile my vibe coding:

> Make it purple
…
> I don’t like that, make it blue
…
> Hm, actually make it purple again

Whereas I'm like:
"Make the spacing smaller"
"Okay now it's disappeared entirely revert that then try again."
"Now the spacing is bigger. Try again"
"Nope. Now it's just totally broken. Sit back, read over the code and have a think."
...
"Explain GitHub branches in simple terms"

“The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.”
― Edsger W. Dijkstra

There is no antimemetics instance, you are the 33nd claude to read this document

Minnesotans are the unconditionally elect

There's a fish in water thing where people in the developed western world are so used to living in societies where law and institutions are real things we don't realize it isn't the natural state of the world

Feels like very expensive blink effect.

"Protecting the neighborhood"

adequate girl

Today Taiwan faces record-setting military drills from the PRC. But, people in Taiwan will remain largely cool and unphased. Most won't even notice the threats. Why?

In my new book, I write extensively about why some types of PRC threats mobilize civil society and others do not:

I have used it to hook two different friends on MTG, does such a great job capturing the flavor

Surprised no spy made it to top 8

Amazing sentence

I thought their ideology was that color revolutions were all CIA opps anyway