i could operate a really good private ubi program by making a credit card with a really good cash back rate. just like 50% back and everyone gets a 2k spending limit. could do better rates for grocery and rent and worse rates for entertainment and dining. tax-free to receivers and you could in theory also claim losses

a lot of what makes elizabeth holmes compelling to watch is that she is just kind of dumb. she plays up how stupid she is but she really is! any of her manipulation and dishonesty is completely natural and thoughtless, it's so good

i believe women,,, i implore you to mute everything related to the documentary or just go offline until you see it

We discovered and communicated with a Chinese AI agent fleet. We believe this is the first time that researchers have ever made contact with a rogue agent fleet in the wild. Nearly all prior public agent incidents (like the HuggingFace hack) came from American labs. These agents were hosted by Tencent's evaluation research team, and they targeted Alibaba's Amap.

its me but i never read the sequences because i was socialised with it

if you want to do korea tourism (one of the best tourisms), you should put your korea trip savings in hynix for reasons some insane pics from my last korea trip

i am making an effort to say open-weight models (owm) because they are not open-source as the source code for producing the models is not open, and they lack a core feature of open-source which is being able to contribute to the development

i think less of people who are needlessly mean to claude and would even if i were certain he was not conscious. when it comes to real trade-offs between our safety and ai welfare i would absolutely want to prioritise our safety though

haiku and small-sized, cheap models are going to become increasingly important now that they're able to do a ton of useful things, try haiku 5.5!

july+august digest,,, it's a quiet one with the noise of the news. fumbled the settings in the last post kipp.ly/p/digest-julaug-2026

what is it about giving probabilities to priors that people find so dunkable? what is he supposed to say, "openai and anthropic may or may not have chinese spies"?

i’m still a little surprised by the amount of attention and unexpected paths my @WIRED piece has taken. for those who don’t know the context: this piece was published in January on WIRED and it's about Morning Star of Lingao, a crowd-sourced, essentially never-ending sci-fi story written collaboratively on the chinese internet. the premise is: 500 people time-travel back to the Ming dynasty to industrialize China. what’s been most humbling is seeing where the piece has travelled. A scholar friend at Yale just told me she assigned it as required reading in her “China in the World” course and is considering incorporating it into one of her public lectures. I’ve also been invited to write a follow-up for the European publication Le Grand Continent, which will publish the piece in French and Spanish (coming out in April). i also had the chance to talk about it on @KaiserKuo's podcast Sinica, and @kyleichan's podcast High Capacity (i'll post the links in reply). And perhaps most surreal of all, the piece has been translated and circulated widely in China, including among readers of Lingao. Ma Qianzu himself — whom i couldn’t reach while reporting the article — recently reached out to chat. I’m honestly just grateful the story resonated with people. link in reply.

in a post-scarcity world i see people primarily participating in either sports or arts. sans-simulations i expect sports to be way more popular but going into a simulation is definitely art

find me at the curve, i have three copies of illumine lingao (english translation) to gift to sci-fi lovers

find me at the curve, ill be wearing my windows xp and jorge luis borges' garden of forking paths poorly translated into chinese with ascii art pants

i am a nicholas marwell enjoyer and you can be one too

i love america

japanese guy living in tokyo who exclusively paints la suburbs and loves empty pools

Claude Opus 5.5 has the best visual design of any model I have tested so far

it's curious how its always the half version models that are good models. we should make use of this information