my personal litmus test is asking ML engineers whether this is hardware or software

In America, you regulate AI. In Dean Ball’s America, AI regulates you.

i feel like cosmetic body surgery could be a possible next step for bodybuilders, all it takes is one person to be brave enough to do it and pandora’s box is opened i don’t mean implants (jfl) but stuff like clavicle widening, tendon insertion point reattachments, stuff to improve structure it’s long been accepted that genetics is everything in bodybuilding, if not limited by muscle building response then one will find themselves limited by frame and shape. these things are basically impossible to fix and are a hard cap on your potential adding an extra inch per side on the clavicles, cutting the bicep tendon to make it fill out the arm more, perhaps lengthening the calf muscle or changing the width of one’s lat insertions down the humerus, these could all ascend someone’s physical potential in a way no amount of lifting can with extreme looksmaxxing becoming bigger along with the physique inflation arms race i think we could start to see this in the future some will try to moralize this, call it gay or whatever, but bodybuilding at its highest levels is already far deviated from any sort of masculine origin it may have had and is entirely a beauty contest. when chasing pure aesthetics this just feels like a logical end point for the practice

Zoomers being this upset about aging at 25 is a very, very bad sign of things to come

Three months ago, @DeptofWar kicked @AnthropicAI out of our building—forever. Every passing day proves why that was the right move. 🇺🇸

Unironically, this was my mother’s stance. She did not put my crappy drawings up on the fridge. I grew up perfectly aware of my weaknesses. When she gave me praise (which she did!), I knew it meant something. No participation trophies in my house. I think it was grounding & I felt like she respected me by having actual standards for me, despite my age! Unfortunately, my classmates were getting gassed up at home, and *perceptions* dictate confidence more than talent. By middle school it was hard to deny that I was among the smartest kids in my grade, but on a somatic level I wasn’t particularly sure of myself. My mom was fairly casual about my straight 97s while other kids earned $120 for getting all A’s and B’s. She knew that doing well hadn’t been difficult for me so she didn’t harp on it; this meant I didn’t internalize it as a source of confidence; I was meeting an expectation rather than [accomplishing something that I should feel proud of]. If all parents had been like her this would have been fine, but my parents were *so* measured and reasonable about their praise that I got **wayyyyyy** less encouragement than a lot of my peers did. Turns out that this does matter, even if it’s not reflected immediately in your academic/ extracurricular outcomes. So. I’d say don’t lie to your kids. Don’t gas them up about dumb shit & make them incapable of hearing they have flaws. But also maybe praise them more vehemently, more readily than you think is necessary, when they’re genuinely good at something. Being aware of your weaknesses is good; being sure of your strengths is even better. Humility is a virtue that complements confidence, but it cannot replace it, or you’ll suffer in a competitive world like this one.

"I think there’s a 66% chance that actually, the singularity is intimately related to the universe being a simulation, and that at least some of the events above could be better predicted by knowing what the simulators are thinking than by normal forecasting." Scott Alexander.

Emily Ratajkowski is ogre maxxing and I bet she feels like a perfect tiny princess angel baby with him

do we have people in Brazil capable of training a frontier model