this man is my wife and she keeps me sane

So many metaphors of "light vs darkness", "warmth" as feeling good. We die without it. We get food from it, most power from it, orient time around it. It's my header image for a reason. Praise the sun!

If you wanted to worship something big, powerful, ancient, and nurturing, hard to see a better option than the Sun. So its actually a bit odd to see people ever worship anything else. Is it the Sun's constancy what they hold against it?

Andrew Leigh spinning "The Castle" as pro-yimby. Nobody does it better.

This was a strong contender for most worrying tweet I've seen. Was happy to see people in comments willing to bet against!

I was quite unwell today, so I indulged by telling my local vegan Facebook page they were wrong about AI and water, before playing Kerbal Space Program's mod manager for 2 hours.

I impressed my wife today.

Last year my wife made me birthday pigs and I made a tier list of them. I still stand by my ranking!

guy who is mad that they're teaching Eridian with context clues instead of phonics and direct instruction

If I say "imagine a SkyCar", it creates a mental frame and expectation that the SkyBus really disappoints on.

I never know if LPs or EPs are the full albums. Their names don't help. For clarity, I propose we rename them to music-tracks-compiled-mini-high and music-tracks-songs-compilation-fast.

youtube shorts go so hard when you're too sick to sleep

If the AI-focused EAs were this right in 2015, it's worth asking what they're saying now that's getting dismissed: 1. Digital sentience is a massive fucking deal 2. AGI might let a single person take over the government within 5 years 3. Superrationality is a thing 4. Irreversible decisions about space settlement might get made within 10 years, determining most of what matters 5. Our only hope for navigating the AI acceleration is to use AI itself to aid us, or to make humans way smarter Plus a lot of the older ideas still seem criminally underrated: 1. Current alignment works on chatbots, but it'll break down for truly long-horizon agentic smarter systems 2. Engineered pandemics much worse than natural ones will soon be possible 3. AGI might not only be here soon, but it could lead to 30% GDP growth, an industrial explosion and rapid arrival of super advanced nano tech.

if you're not following AI progress, you might not know that we're close to developing a webpage capable of rendering text without the site crashing. human experts at subst*ck have been working on this problem for YEARS and probably only a few more breakthroughs are needed

Tey Bannerman counted up all the products and tools that Microsoft has named “Copilot”. Found 78 of them: “there are now Copilots inside Copilots, Copilots for other Copilots, and a physical Copilot key on your keyboard for summoning them.”

If the US is still having elections in 10 years and Artemis IV goes well, there's a v good chance Jared Isaacman runs. "I made kids want to dress as astronauts again for Halloween" is a helluva pitch.

16mo has learned that while I never make milk like mum, if he waddles to me with the 1 kg tub of hummus, I will always open it and share it with him.

𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐰/𝐨 𝐁𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 @MSF_USA You can't put a price on a human life ❤️‍🩹 💬2K 🔁 300 ❤️ 450 👪𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭: Hiring a hitman on the dark web will set you back $10–50k en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra…

They were going to add a giant Monique Ryan doing the same thing, but Grok had no 3 story buildings in Booroondara in the training data