purrtrandrussell

shaggy: picture this we were both butt naked bangin on the bathroom floor

chotiner: sure. go on

actually probably the most serious discussion of ai impact on employment i have seen

it is from bill kristol. as a millenial i am obligated to note how weird it is that i am saying anything nice about bill kristol every time i mention bill kristol

This Too Shall Pass این نیز بگذرد - Epic Iranian Music YouTube video by Farya Faraji

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFJ5...

[leftistly] "trump doesn't care about the law! he can do anything!! we've already lost!!!"

meanwhile

I can very much relate to this

I am not involved in research or advocacy in this area. Sorry.

Globally, seasonal influenza kills an average of 700,000 people each year from respiratory disease or cardiovascular disease.

During large flu pandemics, when influenza strains evolved substantially, the death toll was even higher.

What aspect of MIRI do you think is most useful? My impression was that they weren't doing much research anymore and have mostly switched to advocacy, and I'm not sure if they are good advocates. I might be wrong on all this, though.

I grew up in an area that was very diverse and included quite a number of Muslims. Rhetoric like this is always bizarre to me, almost surreal. Every American Muslim I've met has just been an American who is Muslim.

Erdos problems, a set of famous difficult math challenges, are a clear example of AI models breaching a threshold. The idea that an AI could solve one, let alone many, would have been insane a year ago (o1 was brand new). Now we have multiple Erdos problems solved by GPT-5.2 in the last couple weeks

Regulating supplements to the same purity/accuracy standards as drugs would weaken the woo market substantially while still allowing people to access actually-useful supplements (melatonin, etc.) It completely kills homeopathy if they have to prove the amount they are claiming is in the stuff

ICE can't even deal with irate middle-aged midwesterners. how does he occupy hundreds, if not thousands, of polling cites and precincts? trump v. illinois clarified that he has no legal authority to unilaterally commandeer national guards, how does he move forward from there?

Also, we should offer statehood to the US Virgin Islands as well.

Why not three states if they want it?

A bus driver congratulated my mom on her honesty about my age. He said he'd have just claimed the under-13 discount if he were her. I was 16.

Important video. These guys are rattled. They can't go anywhere, they can't get anything done. They killed someone and it just got worse. They don't have any other intellectual or law-enforcement tools. They don't know what to do.

World ‘may not have time’ to prepare for AI safety risks, says leading researcher AI safety expert David Dalrymple said rapid advances could outpace efforts to control powerful systems

Watching the AI safety debate unfold feels odd. We’re talking about doubling times of 8 months for core capabilities. That's not a gradual shift; it's a phase transition. And the current public discourse feels built for gradual shifts... 🧵
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

LLMs are rapidly improving. They are much better tools now than they were even a few months ago. It's easy to get out of date on their capabilities if you're not actively trying to keep up.
metr.org/blog/2025-03...

Those are unusually bad by llm standards because they are instant. There's a trade-off between speed and accuracy/usefulness. If you want more accurate answers, you want thinking models. You may want to try out the gemini thinking model and compare

Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks We propose measuring AI performance in terms of the *length* of tasks AI agents can complete. We show that this metric has been consistently exponentially increasing over the past 6 years, with a doub...

METR has done multiple studies. Are you referring to this? metr.org/blog/2025-03...
It's continually updated

I don't know about suicidal ideation or csam but there are various tools and metrics for evaluating hallucination frequency. Here is a hallucination leaderboard on hugging face using one such tool ranking frequency of hallucinations when summarizing a document
huggingface.co/spaces/vecta...

the best antidote to blackpilling is remembering that every video you see of an ICE thug abusing their power was recorded by an American who volunteered to put themselves in harm's way for the sake of people they've likely never met and never will

What's this a reference to?

Some good news in this:
* very effective anti-malaria drug!
* non-opioid painkiller!
* gonorrhea vaccine!
and more

What's wrong with balconies over the sidewalk? That's just providing more sun shade

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afaict, a lot of leftists are fond of the letter x. I've seen "chicana" spelled as "xicana," and once even saw "xicanx"

MTG attacking Trump is great but actively bringing her into the Democratic tent risks accelerating the normalization of antisemitism.

what a pretty baby!

(This is something lots of rationlists themselves will say)
(background: I used to be a rationalist. I no longer consider myself one, but I still have many friends in the subculture)