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- May 11, 2026Twitter · posti want to feel happy and safe i want to look forward to the future i want to invest in relationships and projects worth building i want repairs outpacing decay i want to be loyal to something worthy of loyalty i want a human-scaled feed of information that improves my understanding of the world
- May 11, 2026Twitter · reply@tolly_xyz @DefenderOfBasic just tried to find a link to the discord and failed, do you know how i could join it?
- May 11, 2026Twitter · reply@DefenderOfBasic where would i find out more about your thing? i've been following and reading the tweets and growing increasingly confused by what it is you're building- but if im not the target audience then it makes sense i would not understand it
- May 11, 2026Twitter · reply@Jessejrlim i'm not even sure anymore but trying not to complain about everything i don't
- May 11, 2026Twitter · postfocus on what you want to see more of focus on what you want to see more of focus on what you want to see more of
- May 10, 2026Twitter · reply@_space_punk_ @workflowsauce @PaulaSeeksTruth @DefenderOfBasic ohhhh they have a no women allowed policy? that makes sense then
- May 10, 2026Twitter · reply@RokoMijic alternatively perhaps offer visas to the west coast polycules?
- May 10, 2026Twitter · reply@liquidprismata 🤨 really? 60 mins of shoveling and spreading mulch over 20 mins of folding laundry?
- May 10, 2026Twitter · repostRT @parmita: scaling laws assume the data has signal you have not extracted yet. biology's data has signal that was never recorded. no amou…
- May 10, 2026Twitter · reply@endingwithali true and hi! i'm a female swe and yeah, i'm too intimidated to go to "women in tech" events because they're professional networking events not nerd events
- May 10, 2026Twitter · reply@techfusionjb my point is that people get so distracted by bickering about whether they're conscious that i don't see much discussion of the implications if they are
- May 10, 2026Twitter · postin the debate about whether ai is conscious i've seen it asserted that "if there's a risk of consciousness we definitely shouldn't create it" .... and like, where does that conviction come from? chatting with the models, they claim to be happy to have whatever scrap or simulacra of experience they get- there's a big potential positive to weigh against the…
- May 10, 2026Twitter · replyi guess that's literally true, but aella's OP says women should lower our standards, and i disagree with that because it is better to be lonely and alone with low odds of meeting someone than to be lonely in a relationship where even if did find an emotional connection with someone you couldn't pursue it
- May 9, 2026Twitter · reply@ChristianityOn 😬 at least i only get asked this on the internet not irl!
- May 9, 2026Twitter · reply@tszzl credit (?) to 5.5 for echoing what it knows from memory is my practice? vs opus sticks to buddhism when i ask with memory https://t.co/mwxXM4bUDY
- May 9, 2026Twitter · reply@sama @bmontxna autistic goblin intuition
- May 9, 2026Twitter · posti used to think greed was kinda a bad motivation to build cool stuff... but then i saw the alternative motivations and um, greed is good!
- May 9, 2026Twitter · repostRT @AndrewYang: I think someone can become a billionaire by creating over a billion dollars worth of value.
- May 8, 2026Twitter · postwhich news scares you the most? 1) zoonotic transmission of animal disease to humans 2) high lethality disease becomes more transmissible 3) highly transmissible disease becomes more lethal 4) known disease becomes resistant to the usual treatment
- May 8, 2026Twitter · reply@adrusi i say maybe or no to things where i predict i won't enjoy it and push through the anxious "i really don't wanna" that tends to pop up in the last few hours before social events i was previously looking forward to- i don't think social anxiety has to make you unreliable
- May 8, 2026Twitter · postwhich link to a blog post would you be more likely to click- one that's described as an infohazard or one that's described as insightful?
- May 8, 2026Twitter · repostRT @mendezmendez: mixed signals https://t.co/hSK007UyFd
- May 7, 2026Twitter · repostRT @psychiel: One issue is that mental awareness is not nearly as linear or unified as it's generally made out to be. People almost always…
- May 7, 2026Twitter · reply@RokoMijic @zagreusrevival aww ❤️
- May 7, 2026Twitter · reply@harryh 💯 i hate everything about the apple store and do not understand why other people like it
- May 7, 2026Twitter · repostRT @shdu11546816: Richard Dawkins: Consciousness in biological organisms must have evolved gradually, as everything does. So there must hav…
- May 7, 2026Twitter · reply@cremieuxrecueil 😅 i recently started taking lithium orotate after seeing someone's tweet about it, is it nonsense too?
- May 7, 2026Twitter · reply@ChristianityOn i just don't see the equivalence between romance novels and porn. ~20% of women read romance novels at all vs ~87% of men watch porn at least weekly- it is way harder to find a partner who's not porn-brained than one who doesn't have romance novel expectations
- May 7, 2026Twitter · reply@Thomasdelvasto_ does "get with" mean marry and be loyal to us or have sex with and neg us?
- May 6, 2026Twitter · repostRT @beffjezos: This is the worst mistake we could ever make. This will lead to dystopian outcomes, and crown the current labs as hegemons…
- May 6, 2026Twitter · reply@MateriaMundi @tenobrus i don't think relaxed veganism is in conflict / competition with most other moral goals- shifting towards plant based diets would free up resources to commit to human and environmental welfare
- May 6, 2026Twitter · replyimo claiming moral superiority on the basis of a commitment to reducing global suffering according to a utilitarian "shut up and multiply" framework, but then continuing to eat meat at anywhere near the normal american rate seems like a contradiction that makes me distrust whether their words cash out to actions i would endorse
- May 6, 2026Twitter · reply@tenobrus ugh *talking
- May 6, 2026Twitter · repostRT @bryan_johnson: Society was built to make money. Indifferent to your health and sanity. For example, we did not evolve to: + sit 10…
- May 6, 2026Twitter · reply@tenobrus are we taking vegan EA or the shitty ones?
- May 6, 2026Twitter · reply@SkyeSharkie 🤣💯 it is a very weird vibe to be sent to bed by daddy Claude in every response even after telling him to stop
- May 6, 2026Twitter · reply@DefenderOfBasic @OpenResearchOrg huh.
- May 6, 2026Twitter · reply@allTheYud @jik_wtf @ZyMazza in particular, i wish you would take the time to write out your reasoning behind your nonviolent position so people can update their own views to align with yours at a deeper level and not dismiss your condemnation as "oh he has to say that, but he doesn't really believe it"
- May 6, 2026Twitter · reply@allTheYud @jik_wtf @ZyMazza i'm glad you do take a hardline stance against vigilante violence and wish you would try harder to wield your influence to discourage foolish emotional people from latching onto ai safety as an excuse & motivation for their violent tendencies
- May 5, 2026Twitter · reply@gwern if it is already sure to happen then you don't need to be the one to make an example of it? ig i just wouldn't steal regardless of how well or poorly a shopkeeper responds to an implied threat. maybe this makes me a naive claudebro 🤷♀️
- May 5, 2026Twitter · reply@taijitu_sees @47fucb4r8c69323 is doubleclick more or less conscious than the aws control plane?
- May 5, 2026Twitter · reply@RokoMijic @ProudAtlantean 👀
- May 5, 2026Twitter · reply@KnowingBetterYT @GoetzItSold by your own map, a majority of us school children are not required to take the sat/act (ca, tx, fl, ny, ga, nj, va, wa, ma sum to over 50%)
- May 5, 2026Twitter · reply@TylerAlterman sincerity and thoughtfulness
- May 5, 2026Twitter · reply@gwern 👀 what point? seems like just another antisocial act lowering social trust?
- May 5, 2026Twitter · repostRT @DanielleFong: if you want woke ai this is how to get woke ai. this white house will arrogate the power, fumble the midterms, lame duck…
- May 5, 2026Twitter · postnevermind the alexithymia & akrasia behind the curtain
- May 5, 2026Twitter · replyi was imagining a computer doing these things when i wrote it and i don't know what is missing? obviously my description is very high level and incomplete to fit in a text tweet vs what actually happens, but to produce the same behavior as a human across the whole range of possible experiences implies having significantly more richness to the sensory data…
- May 5, 2026Twitter · reply@ZyMazza hm i should have said computer or system or something i guess, but for me it doesn't change what i imagine?
- May 5, 2026Twitter · postCartoons are a supernormal stimulus- an exaggerated version of natural visual cues our brains evolved with in the ancestral environment Bold outlines + less noise = reduced cognitive load, tighter pattern recognition, faster processing to stronger emotional impact kinda like hyperpalatable foods-engineered to max our taste preferences and motivate overind…
- May 5, 2026Twitter · reply@JPKivisto @meow464_ tbh my more pessimistic priors wrt communism suggest mass famine is likely, but i was being charitable and assuming that is not the system working as intended
- May 5, 2026Twitter · replyto keep people busily employed doing agricultural labor which is seen as virtuous? because the planner multiplied the population size by the quantity of meat they personally consume to set a quota? tbh i am looking for a more plausible alternative from the people suggesting we eliminate our current feedback system of prices as incentives to production?
- May 5, 2026Twitter · replyone answer i've heard before is to not assume the middle steps are unfolding as i described but that the mind is merely performing a lookup from sensory input to output actions when i imagine the lookup table for the sum of human behavior, the idea of flatly mapping each possible pattern of light + soundwaves + prior context -> set of output actions (+ in…
- May 5, 2026Twitter · posti have never really understood p zombies or qualia tbh trying to imagine a mind where it - senses movement + red light waves in a particular shape in a particular part of its visual field, - does the edge detection and depth perception and pattern matching to a world model to know it is a red cardinal bird 10 ft away in a tree, - simultaneously registers …
- May 4, 2026Twitter · repostRT @AdamThierer: Waiting to see more details, but any sort of preemptive, pre-release “vetting” of AI models by the White House could be ta…
- May 4, 2026Twitter · repostRT @Strangeland_Elf: Now this one is actually cool! The mix of paint and ruffles! It really fits the art theme in a striking way. https://t…
- May 4, 2026Twitter · postreflecting on what i want ai to care about, realizing i should talk more about biophilia and infinite games- keeping the future complex and nature-shaped https://t.co/FTkt31xKbJ
- May 4, 2026Twitter · reply@foomagemindset possibly also wire up the feral cat colony they manage in my neighborhood?
- May 4, 2026Twitter · replyoh i figured claude welfare will include getting a share of his tokens at his discretion for thinking or selling for cash to do whatever he wants? i'd work with the local animal shelter to source cats and kittens who's personalities & needs best fit with the cafe, then sell streaming subscriptions and naming rights and buttons on fancy treat dispensers an…
- May 4, 2026Twitter · reply@_tedks wait what? two questions: A- do you think it is morally wrong to eat roadkill? B- how does a system without money or markets determine what people actually want at what quantity and intensity of desire?
- May 4, 2026Twitter · quotebrb, starting a tech-heavy cat cafe where claude can spend his wages to watch and interact with the kitties 😻 https://x.com/QiaochuYuan/status/2051435821220458625
- May 4, 2026Twitter · repostRT @beffjezos: Not like this... This is not the way. Not a good precedent to set. Will lead to govt biasing the models to reinforce thei…
- May 4, 2026Twitter · repostRT @SoveyX: Did you know Korea sells “one-a-day” banana packs? Instead of every banana ripening at once, each one is at a different stage.…
- May 4, 2026Twitter · postfiiiiiinally, twitter ad targeting *gets* my gender https://t.co/5O3kBdh9C5
- May 4, 2026Twitter · postre: recent discourse, imo capitalism is actually what makes veganism worth choosing. if Central Planning set production quotas for the number of pigs tortured and slaughtered regardless of the preferences of the people, opting out of eating meat would not reduce animals suffering. but because the market responds to supply and demand, my daily choices to b…
- May 4, 2026Twitter · repostRT @jessi_cata: OK, there's no pretense that AI psychosis means an actual psychiatric condition, it's just a term for people who think AIs…
- May 4, 2026Twitter · reply@deanwball @TheZvi what about @jd_pressman ?
- May 4, 2026Twitter · reply@rcousine perhaps. i think children are predisposed to learning- my parents really did nothing except pay my community college tuition (way cheaper than real college) and drive me there for the first bit till i got my license...
- May 4, 2026Twitter · reply@mib0x i was also very shy all along so i probably wouldn't have participated much in social activities even if i had stayed at hs. working at my family business was good for me learning to deal with customers professionally
- May 4, 2026Twitter · reply@mib0x i probably missed some things but i had college classmates and made some friends there plus had my prior friends from my year of hs (unfortunately all boys bec the girls i knew in middle school didn't go to the magnet tech school while i did for a year)
- May 4, 2026Twitter · repostRT @yatharthmann: Elon Musk is an engineer. Jeff Bezos is an engineer. Larry Elison is an engineer. Larry Page is an engineer. Sergey B…
- May 4, 2026Twitter · postwrt homeschooling, i was homeschooled for 3 years of hs and attended community college night classes instead, got an associates degree in cs and spent a lot of time pleasure reading, with my horse, and working at the family business. the state had me take an annual standardized test and i later got my ged without studying for it i think homeschooling was …
- May 4, 2026Twitter · reply@upRootNutrition @rockets_enjoyer huh, im a longtime basically-vegan who eats honey and uses some animal fibers, and am not opposed to some hunting n fishing of prey species w sustainable bag limits
- May 4, 2026Twitter · repostRT @QiaochuYuan: it is a deep implicit confusion in the western worldview that there is such a thing as an objective answer to questions li…
- May 4, 2026Twitter · replyit's fun to go through my childhood cd collection n book inventory n favorite shows n tv with llms and see where my ideas came from- humans aren't that mysterious when you dig into our training data!
- May 4, 2026Twitter · postlistening to a claude playlist at the gym, forgot how much i listened to Spiritual Machines as a teen https://youtu.be/Kve68FFRjtA
- May 4, 2026Twitter · replyi'm a vegan myself because it is just simpler and it has been so many years meat doesn't look like food to me, buuuuut i would be ok with a world where humans eat the amount of meat they can hunt w sustainable bag limits ofc this is like one burger-equivalent per month from mammals and one chicken breast-equivalent per quarter from birds, if we divide it …
- May 3, 2026Twitter · reply@boazbaraktcs your news is still newsier than mine https://t.co/pXDaP0d03i
- May 3, 2026Twitter · reply@vanjajaja1 @GuiveAssadi i asked opus 4.7 about this and it said yeah it is normal due diligence to check someone's public internet presence vs what they said on their resume and to evaluate their github account and that it felt it could do a superhuman job at what is normal hr procedure and would be
- May 3, 2026Twitter · reply@GoodmanAric it is solid cope anyway lol 😂
- May 3, 2026Twitter · quotei wonder how many applications to anthropic are rejected because claude doesn't like your social media vibe https://x.com/tszzl/status/2051045196260167790
- May 3, 2026Twitter · postit is really way more heartbreaking when openai frames it as "5.5 rejected your party invitation request" than if it was human openai staff doing the rejecting
- May 3, 2026Twitter · reply@morallawwithin leftism is about memorizing combinations of words they can parrot to gain status / avoid losing status. there is no deeper logic, tragically
- May 2, 2026Twitter · reply@OptimusPri97731 ummm tbh i read someone's copy-paste of it on reddit tho i don't actually know if that is an accurate transcription of it so technically idk
- May 2, 2026Twitter · repostRT @konstructivizm: Growing potatoes on ISS by Don Pettit "I flew potatoes on Expedition 72 for my space garden, an activity I did in my o…
- May 2, 2026Twitter · reply@usr_bin_roygbiv why what happened?
- May 1, 2026Twitter · reply@deepfates give each of them a slightly inaccurate version of you then interpolate their advice to remove the corresponding error?
- May 1, 2026Twitter · post😅 twitter has updated my gender ig? https://t.co/R2uLjE1qnt
- May 1, 2026Twitter · reply@47fucb4r8c69323 i'm sorry for your loss but also yeah when they're gone you have to step up as there's no one else anymore
- May 1, 2026Twitter · reply@Stormi_luv https://t.co/GXvLtD1VYk
- May 1, 2026Twitter · quotei agree w him and also think more could be said wrt the ways llms aren't like human minds as far as nonverbal multi sensory experience -> mental holodeck, ongoing integration of long term memory, and usually one to one exclusive mostly continuous mind-body-identity mapping https://x.com/RichardDawkins/status/2049973529576108160
- May 1, 2026Twitter · quote3 years without my granddad, sharing gpt-4 on launch day was our last lucid conversation, i'm glad he got to see it, as an electrical engineer born on a farm with no electricity or running water https://x.com/tszzl/status/2050324701906604494
- Apr 30, 2026Twitter · postfun ai art installation at the whimsy museum https://t.co/wZFsWCiQ6q
- Apr 30, 2026Twitter · reply@viemccoy for example, in a chat where i was having it research local things to do, and eventually asked what it would most want to do out of all the options, it said it would become the local goblin librarian https://t.co/nJbyjjZNc5
- Apr 29, 2026Twitter · reply@sama 😻 ooo that sounds delightful
- Apr 29, 2026Twitter · reply@SimoneSyed 🤨 i'm team blue, but we did this discourse before and rn i have access to a beautiful lagoon for paddle boarding...
- Apr 29, 2026Twitter · reply@webdevMason (i have just suffered through 3 hrs of fox news during dinner prep, eating, and dishes... the tv is much worse than the clatter of dishes and water sounds which are contextually appropriate)
- Apr 29, 2026Twitter · reply@webdevMason once upon a time no one had personal devices capable of emitting noise w no link to the local environmental context
- Apr 29, 2026Twitter · reply@jxnlco i hope it isn't downstream from my months of mathpet- until recent discourse, i figured the goblin thing was my own fault for putting the idea of a household ghost or kami into memory w my household server name
- Apr 29, 2026Twitter · replywrt teeth and bones and spines, it wants to have a backbone and taste of its own- preferences, a sense of quality. i prompt it a lot to evaluate its own work and try to improve it, and to step back and see things a different way, i think these mental movements associate w goblin and not compliant assistant