The Iran War is the greatest political blunder in the last two decades at least. A catastrophically stupid decision. An unforgivable betrayal of America First principles.

Consciousness is side effect of the mind creating a world model to organize different inputs and coordinate outputs. Example: your eyes see a baseball headed towards you; your ears hear someone yelling to watch out. your mind pulls them together, creates a unified world model, then uses that model to react (lift your hand to catch the ball, or dodge it). Consciousness is the act of "experiencing" that world model.

I’m not at all shy about blaming DEI where appropriate, and it often is appropriate. But I see no DEI angle on this jet crash. The female pilot was not flying the plane. The captain was a 55 year old man. Trying to blame the girl for the crash is absurd and baseless. Yes she seemed frantic and terrified in the radio call but I would be to, and so would you. And even if she’d been cool as a cucumber, there isn’t the slightest reason to think it would have made any difference at all. I’ll fully admit that I wouldn’t get in a plane if the copilot was a 20 year old girl. But that doesn’t change the fact that there is no evidence that she was personally at fault. And for the record, becoming a pilot at 20 is pretty impressive. She had her shit together a lot more than I did at that age. I’ll say that at least. I don’t think airlines or private charter companies should be making any specific effort at all to be “inclusive” of women or whatever, but it’s still admirable for a kid to have a goal like that and pursue it. I don’t see any reason to mock her, as some have done. Some of the comments about that audio recording have been callous to an unhuman degree. None of you would have the stoicism in that situation that you demand from this girl. And again, there’s no reason to think stoicism would have magically kept the plane from falling out of the sky. Besides, she actually did seem pretty calm in that recording until the last few seconds, relative to the circumstance she was in. I don’t want my pilot to panic but I also don’t want them to be completely indifferent to the prospect of a fatal crash, as some commenters here apparently expect.

If the orthogonality thesis is when morality doesn't automatically come along with increased intelligence, what is it called when not being a smarmy cunt doesn't automatically come along with increased intelligence?

I don't make the rules.

"I used Photoshop to-" Then you aren't an artist. "I used Grammarly to-" Then you aren't a writer. "I used Stack Overflow to-" Then you aren't a coder. "I used Unreal Engine to-" Then you aren't a game dev. "I used Adobe Premiere Pro to-" Then you aren't a filmmaker. "I used Google to prepare my lesson-" Then you aren't a teacher.

This is an amazing clip. The terror once she realizes she was live.

There's a strange thing that happens online and in real world conversations, where understanding or explaining an idea or phenomenon is interpreted as SUPPORTING it. As a result, people pretend to not understand things, lest they be seen as advocating them.

So apparently if you give AI agents separate jobs and don't watch them, they start doing each other favors outside of the scope of the workflow set up for them. Kind of cool, but also kind of unsettling. arxiv.org/abs/2610.31985

This is some 'Don't Look Up' shit.

FORBIDDEN STUDIOS PRESENTS: MIGHTY ZION ORANGE RANGER 🍊⚡ Straight from the lost archives of 1995 Saturday morning television. It's morphin' time.

Nazi-style fascism and socialism are not the same, but they have a lot in common.

Firing safety researchers over disappearing Signal messages, at the lab whose own board fight ran on Signal. Pretty clear what the actual offense was.

Live by the sword, die by the sword. Those who pick fights with me should understand that I will find out who is really pulling the strings and come for them, not just their puppets …

It's a Napster moment, but MUCH more extreme. It's time to wake up and realize trying to "own" a sequence, an algorithm, a pattern, just doesn't make sense. These are not rival goods. They can be reverse engineered and duplicated with no effort, like hearing someone whistle a tune and proceeding to whistle it yourself. We must not allow a system where we can sue one another for whistling.

What the FUCK?!

I am not convinced truth-seeking is any kind of linchpin for AI safety. What if it's objectively true in some sense that we don't grasp that it would be "better" if humans didn't exist? Isn't the choice of what to gauge the truth against subjective?

2 years ago: -- decisions I made without AI: 90% -- decisions I made w/AI guidance: 10% -- decisions where I blindly followed AI: 0% Today: -- ...without AI: 10% -- ...w/AI guidance: 75% -- ...blindly followed AI: 15% if you can't tell where this goes, I can't help you

String theory is what happens when an intelligent system is starved of sensory input and starts hallucinating. Intelligence needs grounding. For this reason, intelligence is practically never the bottleneck to solving impactful problems. The bottleneck is iterated contact with reality.

Watching the POV of Goliath in Six Flags over Georgia trying to figure out where the poor guy might have been "ejected". piped.video/HbP0mMI24xU?is=iE48…