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Anthropic has some great stuff on their approach, like AI constitution or whatever. Worth a read.

You would not believe the stuff I'm doing with AI related to this, lol.

And to be clear because bluesky hates AI or whatever: all of the alpha is in encoding 'goodness' deeply. Virtue ethics isn't about morality, it's about cognitive substrate.

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

Weird time to be a crude trader.

Remember the fallen, for they have performed the ultimate sacrifice: providing liquidity.

Honestly an impressive level of evil, even for them.

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

Neanderthals were cool actually.

Crude chart

Do you know how fucking stupid it is to do this because you “had a feeling?” Like just this one externality, not even the horror of the thing itself.

This is both possible and awesome.

We have collectively let people from my industry (tech) monopolize our vision of futurism, and it’s a grievous error.

This shit right here—universal child care— this is my resplendent futurism.

Not robots and not Mars.

People.

They invaded our President’s feelings, Dustin, I don’t know why you’re being so cavalier about it

Guy posting his losses

Incredible scenes here. Chamath says he’ll reimburse a guy for SPAC losses if he posts his return; guy posts $368k single year loss.

Let’s go live to our Polymarket correspondent to see where Sri getting paid is trading…

I didn’t get into this industry to do manual labor Mike

if i was Kristi Noem i simply would not quote Orwell

Oklahoma has a surplus of Markwaynes, they basically clone them

I mean… you can but I’m really quite pressed for Anthropic tokens.

You know, I have found that ehat I like about Opus, specifically, is the abstract reasoning scores.

But I will say, you can farm out implementation to codex after Opus does the thinking and that saves some Anthropic tokens.

As a CEO myself, I find this behavior disgusting.

(Note: unless you cooked it, then it’s fine)

Absolutely. And don’t forget — if these spring snowstorms have you down, Febreze can give you that fresh spring scent on the gloomiest of days!

We are now vibes-bombing.

That’s the power of ChatGPT.

Jordan Peterson promised me $300/barrel

Having nostalgia for the days when we could say “holy war” euphemistically

well Boston has never taken a stand over government regulation of caffeinated beverages before, so I imagine this will go down easy

Trans Rights Wins Elections

Really amazing how poorly spoken Bessent is, you just don’t expect that level of derp from a guy in a suit.

LeCun is a proper G

This is some crazy shit.

I don’t see how our country maintains cohesion without widespread prosecutions and a collective decision to make MAGAs social pariahs.

Renounce Trump now; avoid the rush.

I cannot believe an adult man wrote that tweet as part of his job.

So people just... voted for him? Yes, exactly. Ted Cruz has won three statewide elections in Texas (2012, 2018, and 2024), meaning millions of Texans across the entire state chose to vote for him each time.

Well a phrase like "voters are stupid" has to be said from a perspective. Presumably Einstein could say that and it'd just be descriptive That's actually a sharp point. "Stupid" is relative to something - relative to some standard of reasoning, or information, or outcome prediction. And yeah, if you're Einstein, or if you just happen to be right about how something will unfold, then looking back and saying "that was a failure of reasoning" has some descriptive validity.

Weirdly useful to try and incrementally nudge models into taking various positions.

I think it’s a good practice if you’re trying to work with them, finding the edges where they push and where there’s give.

You need both, and each one is a bit different.

Anyhow what getting a (rather recent) diagnosis did for me is help me see that we aren’t all doing that; the constant hiss of rapid translation.

This was shocking. Like physically, I got the shakes for a minute when it hit me.

But then once it settled, it helped me give myself a bit more grace.