Just a nerd surfing the cosmic hypergraph. Lover of truth and beauty. Long live the ruliad!

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Very interesting. I read the article, but I wonder how well-founded the government's concerns are. At some point in the progress of AI, open source models, to say nothing of proprietary ones, will become capable of doing almost anything illegal. I wonder if we will see a return to the "crypto wars" of the 90s, but with AI this time. The globe is way too connected for that, but if infra is truly a bottleneck, I could see it happening. anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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A lot to be learned from this.
Isn’t it funny how it is perfectly okay to cull violent animals, but not violent humans.
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“The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.” — Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World
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Very interesting. It's like there is a law of the universe that for every advantage one organism has, there will always be another that figures out an exploit over time.
NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware. Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner. Cleanest practical example I can think of for why over-indexing on first order safety alignment is risky. When closed (and open) models ship with aggressive refusals, they will be sprinkled with second-order blindspots that attackers will discover...and exploit. We are only in the earliest days of attackers leveraging these features, and it wouldn't surprise me if users systems that need to handle complex cybersecurity issues demand that models be less safety-blunted. In the weeds: @SocketSecurity's post also shows why intention matters in how you design a malware analysis pipeline to avoid prompt manipulation. H/T to colleagues that shared this with me socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hu…
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One of the funniest things I've heard from Mizrachi is that he admits the bible is a racist book in favor of the Jews but....since Christians and Muslims believe in it that suddenly makes it all good🤣
Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi says people who convince others their religion is untrue are filthy, pure-evil criminals declaring war on Hashem, and that their punishment in hell will never end 💀🔥 Maybe some of you guys should notice what actually makes them seethe.
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Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty. — Archimedes
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WOAH 😮 Austin Metcalf father SNAPS 💥 on Karmelo Anthony parents‼️ Jeff Metcalf says Drew and Kayla Anthony are complete cowards and exposes that they abandoned their son immediately after the verdict came in so he had to face sentencing alone. He then calls them out for the grifters that they are. He’s been under a gag order this entire time so I can only imagine how relieving it is to finally call out their bs. He also talks about how he tried to make peace and pray with the family but instead they treated him horribly because they wanted to play victim and make the entire situation about race. He makes a great point by pointing out that he politely left their press conference when asked to leave unlike their son who stabbed Austin in the chest when he was asked to leave Austin’s teams tent. Lastly he lays into the baby shaking fake Minister Dominique Alexander who did nothing but make this entire situation worse for everyone involved right from the get go.
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Basically, leftists hate AI because they're worried that it means their last argument for mass third world migration will evaporate, and they hate space travel because it means our civilization will be able to escape the global favela they want to drag us all into.
The issue of Mars colonisation (or space colonisation in general, if we don't want to get into the planet/habitat debate between space advocates) is surprisingly one of the key dividing lines in present day politics. You can reliably predict someones opinion on it by which party they vote for, by how they feel about Elon Musk as a person, or by their level of optimism/pessimism about technology. There is almost total correlation on believing it is a good/bad idea from a technical perspective and thinking it is desirable/undesirable from a political perspective. Everyone seems to be quite sure that the laws of physics vindicate their opinions on this matter. Its not surprise I'm in the "let's go" faction. But I am increasingly of the view that even beyond the issue of Mars, that faction must win, or else Earth as well will be sunk into the mire of degrowth, envy politics, and misery.
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I can't wait for the day when we get all of the traitors in government what they truly deserve.
🚨 WTF?! A USS Liberty survivor drops a massive bombshell. He confirms they were threatened with prison or worse if they ever spoke about the Israeli attack. Another veteran explicitly states "Israel owns us" after being ignored by Congress for 59 years. Total betrayal!
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Hey Jasmine… Black pilot here. I think you missed the plot. Then again, that’s becoming a pattern. I graduated from West Point. I went through Army flight school. I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache. I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad. Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color. Nobody lowered the standards for me. Nobody looked at me and said, “Let’s check a diversity box.” That’s what people like you don’t seem to understand. Suggesting that Black pilots, Black engineers, Black doctors, or Black leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting. I didn’t want a different standard. I wanted the same standard. And when you’re flying into combat, the American people don’t care what race the pilot is. They care whether the pilot is qualified. Merit isn’t racist. Excellence isn’t discriminatory. And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.
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Ok, now I've got to play this game. Didn't realize it was made by Paradox. I love Hearts of Iron, Victoria, and Europa Universalis, and have spent way too many hours playing them back in the day!
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“You can’t solve problems with violence” *opens history book. Well well well
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This is why, after I lost my faith and became an atheist, I eventually, after studying more, became drawn towards pantheism and panentheism. It's honestly just a small leap further from "we live in a simulation" to "we live in the mind of God," or as Vedanta puts it, God (or Brahman) is being, consciousness, and bliss.
Dr. Brian Keating: "God could be rendering our reality in a simulation" "Simulation hypothesis is a very deistic approach to things. There's a master simulator, perhaps. There's a base layer of reality. There's an operating system." Physicist Dr. Brian Keating told Mayim Bialik how the simulation idea mirrors ancient questions about creation, consciousness, and what lies beneath our perceived reality. He notes it requires "Infinite storage, infinite memory" as an extrapolation of what humanity has already built. A glitch could serve as evidence, but the absence of one isn't proof against it. Keating emphasizes the challenge of scientific testing: like unfalsifiable claims about God, it demands physical constraints and falsifiability rather than proof.
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That is exactly what the Civil Rights Movement was like, which is why it was generally unpopular and Eisenhower had to send in a division of men with loaded rifles and bayonets just to keep part of Arkansas quiet The faces of the Civil Rights were Huey Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, Assata Shakur (who fled to Cuba), etc. MLK was an outlier, and even he was generally terrible, as shown by the philandering and plagiarism
What would people have thought during the civil rights era if instead of the well-dressed and well-spoken MLK as the spokesman, it was people like this woman, of whom they would have to deal with an endless supply in the future
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The longer a developer stays at a company, the more honest the comments become.
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Why was the target of the first atomic bomb a Catholic Church in Nagasaki?
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I'm glad Karmelo Anthony was found guilty. Let's hope he gets the maximum sentence. I can't stand black people like this.
🚨 NOW: A Karmelo Anthony supporter just CALLED FOR MURDER against Austin Metcalf's twin brother "They BOTH should've been dead! Both brothers!" THIS is who the Anthony supporters are. They believe white lives don't matter! And the left defends them.
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Man, I swear, fundamentalism is a disease of the mind. You try to reason with them, and all they can do is call you names and doubt that you were ever a true believer. It's so tiresome.
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Also, he blocked me. What a coward.
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“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, my client has an IQ of 62. 62. He is genetically pre-disposed to exist in a society without the wheel, written language, or even a basic agricultural system. And you expect him to act like a normal person in our society? Are you retarded? It’s unfair to expect my client to not act like a startled monkey who just had feces thrown at him after he was asked to leave the tent 15 times. Yes, of course he killed Mr. Metcalf, but come on. Isn’t having an IQ that low enough of a life sentence for my client? The defense rests, your honor”
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