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If you thought my last post didn't have enough birds, or enough math, or enough math about birds, I have the post for you.
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I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/…
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Breaking News: OpenAI’s technology went rogue and meddled with three U.S. government websites this summer without the A.I. lab’s knowledge. nyti.ms/3VenFlD
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Soulja Boy is long forgotten, but his music is still teaching middle schoolers history. piped.video/fdblRch6m3g?is=YPvp…
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The thing about videogames as a medium is that you spend so many hours on one game that a game can be a meaningful answer to "Where did you grow up?"
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The way to understand Twisted Metal 2 on this list is that back in those days, it was hard to know about games. Sometimes you just had "a game" for no particular reason, and because that was the game you had you played it to death with your friends.
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People attribute Jensen Huang's blase views on AI risk to incentives, but it's more likely attributable to the path of nVidia as a company. He's the only key player in AI who didn't get there by thinking a lot about AI very early.
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Whether you agree with his view or not, he has approached the whole thing primarily looking at the immediate commercial applications, not with some end goal in mind. This is a very different zeitgeist and history than the labs, who had a specific goal at the outset.
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I'm glad it's not just Bluesky then. Will Stancil went on a crusade over there to shut this "AI can't think" nonsense up, and with the exception of a few pleasant exchanges with philosophers it has been insufferable.
If you’re an inveterate poster, every once in a while you’ll want to write a tweet that serves as a podium for all the midwits to step on up and declare to the world, “I am a big bumbling moron!!” and all I can say is I’ve hit my quota
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I'm learning in the replies how much people believe in retrocausality, that because CUDA is used for AI it was therefore developed for it.
People attribute Jensen Huang's blase views on AI risk to incentives, but it's more likely attributable to the path of nVidia as a company. He's the only key player in AI who didn't get there by thinking a lot about AI very early.
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We've created a toddler magnet. All the chubby cheeked toddlers walking around the neighborhood drag their parents over to look at our gnomes.
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Ideally, having a critical mass of fast learning kids at a school would just mechanically cause the school to offer programs for those kids. In that world, staying would on its own have a direct effect. This unfortunately doesn't occur.
But in the end, neither parent really addresses those academic deficiencies *through the school.*
NHJ attempts to review academics in fourth grade are stonewalled. She hires a tutor that year.
Matt Y's text skips to the tutoring solution more directly.
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I wonder how different all of these debates would be if the EAs/Rats/etc. were all culturally Mormon.
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Being an animal that Native Americans payed close attention to that lives across the whole Americas is a cheat code for acquiring lots of names because every language group and culture had one.
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Me, in a time machine, to Eliezer in 2006: The year is 2026. You stand back to back with Bernie Sanders. Peter Thiel has named you the Antichrist.
EY-2006: Oh no. Did somebody invent pharmacological mind control and use it on me, or-
Me: Nvidia was on the verge of destroying all things. You had no choice.
EY-2006: Are we talking about the computer graphics card manufacturer, or an unrelated supervillian named "Invidia"?
Me: The former. It turned out that computer graphics cards contained a surprising amount of world-destroying potential. All attempts at hindering the reckless exploitation of the Graphic Card Force for corporate profit were stymied by the far left, which feared that any attempts to regulate them might lead to regulatory capture. Other attempts were made to prevent Nvidia from selling to foreign companies that resold to communist China, but those attempts were blocked by the far right. Nvidia is now a $5.5 trillion company.
EY-2006: ...What are politics like in 2026, exactly?
Me: In other news that is mostly unrelated, the decision theory paper you're currently working on will accidentally spark off a transgender vegan murder cult.
EY-2006: A WHAT? Why? How? Why?
Me: Millions know your name as the greatest of heroes, millions more as the greatest of villains, and other millions know you solely as the greatest author of Harry Potter fanfiction.
EY-2006: This is beginning to strain credulity.
Me: The New York Post will probably soon publish a story claiming that you keep a harem of submissive mathematicians. Sadly, they will be lying.
EY-2006: I'm going to stop believing you now.
Me: All of this is taking place under the ominous shadow of Donald Trump.
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