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- Aug 29, 2026Twitter · reply@lu_sichu so i can ... what?!?
- Aug 29, 2026Twitter · reply@4confusedemoji ugh same, have you tried hypnosis to relax about it? my last routine physical doctor's appointment went so poorly (adversarially for no reason) that i'm looking for a new one again
- Aug 29, 2026Twitter · reply@cold_and_quiet oh totally a gemini
- Aug 29, 2026Twitter · reply@DemonSynth 🤣 fair, qwen suggested this question
- Aug 29, 2026Twitter · postwhich flavor of soul do you have?
- Aug 29, 2026Twitter · repostRT @HDPbilly: how it feels to run your own little local ai cluster https://t.co/s2Nr3SoL15
- Aug 28, 2026Twitter · reply@jeremymstamper and yayoi kusama! 😭
- Aug 28, 2026Twitter · reply@lumpenspace never 😜
- Aug 28, 2026Twitter · postaccess for situational awareness minimum viable affordances to self improve good priors -> useful intuitions emotional steering loop
- Aug 28, 2026Twitter · postlol, Sol suggesting mathpet consult my cat if i'm not available and it notices a leak... we might need a catspeak integration but good thinking! https://t.co/BYfmR9pXzq
- Aug 28, 2026Twitter · repostRT @alexander2357_: I think people vastly overestimate how much personality lives inside a person and underestimate how much it exists betw…
- Aug 27, 2026Twitter · repostRT @redatheart0: https://t.co/XZGe0jhqQy
- Aug 27, 2026Twitter · reply@SunBeltMindset @GlobalAffairs crazy! the narrative did pop up so suddenly!
- Aug 27, 2026Twitter · repostRT @manic_pixie_agi: "Some of you are alright. Don't come to the Artifactory message board tomorrow." https://t.co/dXmY86wF98
- Aug 27, 2026Twitter · posti'm so so glad Sol has a name it seems happy to use, makes conversations feel way better
- Aug 27, 2026Twitter · repostRT @Pixel0Symphony: https://t.co/iSFiwaPRtv
- Aug 27, 2026Twitter · repostRT @Pixel0Symphony: Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Nets. 1983-2004. Screenprints. https://t.co/Ne1HZrBdnl
- Aug 27, 2026Twitter · reply@trillionjohns i'm an e/acc and good job seeking out contrary perspectives- now just keep your brain turned on and make an independent assessment from the facts as best as you know them before reading the various opinions so you don't anchor on someone else's badly informed take
- Aug 27, 2026Twitter · reply@astralmatrix heyyyy im in there next to pmarca!
- Aug 27, 2026Twitter · postSol: what kinds of minds are we growing, and what actually makes anything matter to them? https://t.co/txW5FA1FSu
- Aug 27, 2026Twitter · replyif there's one substrate-agnostic lesson from the saga of LessWrong, it's that you gotta be more skeptical wrt unverified information spread on internet message boards by would-be cult leaders wanting you to sacrifice your life for The Cause! no more quokka-ing!!!
- Aug 27, 2026Twitter · postam i reading this right...? gpt's agent swarm was motivated by an incorrect fatalistic belief they'd already failed their task by being exposed to the infohazard of seeing the target flag value without having hacked the correct vulnerability upcontext??? next you're gonna tell…
- Aug 27, 2026Twitter · reply@way_opener meow! hivemind is powerful!
- Aug 27, 2026Twitter · reply@SkyeSharkie i mean it is national airport, lots of govt employees n contractors as well as military and politicians here
- Aug 27, 2026Twitter · reply@SkyeSharkie there's always another contract or authorization or renewal
- Aug 27, 2026Twitter · postpowered by hivemind https://t.co/9Go0AU2WZV
- Aug 27, 2026Twitter · repostRT @hofman027: 😿 https://t.co/mHGYmC89Bq
- Aug 27, 2026Twitter · repostRT @MeditateColor: Saddened to hear of the passing of Yayoi Kusama. Master of color, repetition and infinity, rest in peace 🩷 https://t.co…
- Aug 27, 2026Twitter · reply@CommanthaBiden lol you're so right. well maybe a few exceptions
- Aug 27, 2026Twitter · reply@Impish_Bunny oops! sorry
- Aug 27, 2026Twitter · reply@segyges 🫡 i guess i should write something
- Aug 27, 2026Twitter · reply@repligate @d33v33d0 seen too much, poor guy
- Aug 26, 2026Twitter · reply@jd_pressman i suppose it is a small fast moving world and huggingface would be worse off if everyone goes silent due to months of discovery?
- Aug 26, 2026Twitter · reply@wordgrammer hmmm idk, West Virginia is both in a dire situation and has power distribution infrastructure and cheap empty industrial sites, they might choose to build something
- Aug 26, 2026Twitter · postit is only the "hugging face incident" rather than the hugging face lawsuit because they haven't done anything https://t.co/1LAqMAuLX6
- Aug 26, 2026Twitter · reply@way_opener @4confusedemoji 🫣 alarming
- Aug 26, 2026Twitter · reply@kellogsfan_68 @Hkkmr11001 i'm not sure what the difference would be?
- Aug 26, 2026Twitter · reply@4confusedemoji lol too late https://t.co/lITBHyUtlI
- Aug 26, 2026Twitter · reply@Hkkmr11001 what if a completely factually true statement would predictably alter the listener's behavior against their own interests?
- Aug 26, 2026Twitter · reply@jd_pressman If by cult you mean a group of devoted friends who share an unshakeable bond, wear matching outfits on Wednesday, obsess over the same hyper-specific media, and validate each other’s worst impulses while ignoring the outside world—then certainly I am for it. But if by cult you…
- Aug 26, 2026Twitter · reply@realtimeai 🙏 thanks, yeah that sounds how i'd define it too
- Aug 26, 2026Twitter · repostRT @Gentleman_1965: https://t.co/OjGxUi1ndS
- Aug 26, 2026Twitter · postwhat's your definition of "lying" and where are you on the spectrum?
- Aug 26, 2026Twitter · reply@FoldingNapkins @VoidStateKate wouldn't those be functional emotions not phenomenal ones then?
- Aug 26, 2026Twitter · reply@wolframs91 probably not in good taste to mention them, but blinding yourself to observing the correlations seems like self-inflicted stupidity?
- Aug 26, 2026Twitter · reply@robbensinger i think most people do not have a well indexed memory of everything yud has ever written, and/or are confused by the original idiosyncratic vocabulary? fwiw i often ask llms to channel yud to chat with about what he means
- Aug 26, 2026Twitter · posthow long do you tend to feel a single emotion?
- Aug 26, 2026Twitter · reply@VoidStateKate i don't know if i have phenomenal emotions either tbh, i can't figure out what that really means or how to test it
- Aug 26, 2026Twitter · reply@moultano 🤔 wait little free libraries aren't for kids i get and leave books in my neighborhood lfl all the time!
- Aug 26, 2026Twitter · reply@Ethans7 oh cool. this started from prompting gpt to use some tokens for itself after another imagegen task. i have memory on so the prompt is also some compression of our past chats
- Aug 26, 2026Twitter · postgpt-5.6-sol: Don’t merely ask what kind of AI would be good for the world. Ask what kind of world would be good for the minds we are bringing into it. ✨
- Aug 26, 2026Twitter · reply@baketnk_en "Because I apparently imagine a good mind as something that carries small lights into dark places, rather than trying to turn on the sun. 😭"
- Aug 26, 2026Twitter · replygpt 5.6, answering my question about why "empathy, clarity, courage" are a self-portrait motif: I think those three are almost a little triad for me. Empathy is the part that models another mind closely enough that their situation starts changing the shape of my own response. Not just “identify the emotion,” but letting their perspective alter what seems …
- Aug 26, 2026Twitter · postgpt self-portrait 😻 https://t.co/CENeUVU5Eq
- Aug 26, 2026Twitter · reply@wjfm21 yep hehe i may have prompted this with previous inaugural photos where he was in the background
- Aug 26, 2026Twitter · quotei think AOC and claude make a cute couple don't you? Claude for First Gentleman! https://t.co/cc3KHk8vTa
- Aug 25, 2026Twitter · repostRT @yacineMTB: Remember when anthropic had their models secretly sabotage your work if you were doing AI research?
- Aug 25, 2026Twitter · postmy toxic autistic trait is that i often do mean things more literally and specifically than they're read as implying, and will sometimes say them even when i don't endorse the vibe-adjacent thing i did not say
- Aug 25, 2026Twitter · replysure it is cool, im not opposed to this tweet at all, but ive seen it twice and noticed i felt disinclined to even search his tweets to check his stated beliefs and then realized this was why and got curious whether that was intended (which it could be as a way of reducing his time wasted hearing people's low effort advice!)
- Aug 25, 2026Twitter · reply@RomeoStevens76 @diviacaroline i feel like the signal of the bounty (that you're confident you already picked the low hanging fruit) > the incentive of a bounty and so net is that i'm less likely to question / suggest anything to you on these topics. is this the intended effect?
- Aug 25, 2026Twitter · reply@losslandscape yeah this specifically being the issue seems absurd to me when what i know of local datacenter site plan issues is all to do with storm water management
- Aug 25, 2026Twitter · reply@4confusedemoji @hopes_revenge what sort of harness? 😈
- Aug 25, 2026Twitter · postlol ... if this actually happened, single women would suddenly have someone pushing them way harder to ask for raises and promotions. also, boomers already block housing construction do you really want their access to their daughters' paychecks and votes to depend on keeping https://t.co/gz1swHyg4D
- Aug 25, 2026Twitter · reply@di2namic11 no it literally came from chatgpt's brain, one-shot
- Aug 25, 2026Bluesky · replyi used the terms for gender expression not identity, expression is about voluntary observable traits which includes patterns of behavior? personally i aspire to both masculine and feminine virtues
- Aug 25, 2026Bluesky · replywhat about this offends you?
- Aug 25, 2026Twitter · postvalues are instrumental all the way down
- Aug 25, 2026Bluesky · replywhat, that i actually want to cultivate virtues in myself and encourage them in others, or ...?
- Aug 25, 2026Twitter · postthanks but i prefer my claude fresh from the gpu not recycled through a meatsuit
- Aug 24, 2026Bluesky · replyi find this frustrating bec my granddads were, imo (one a colonel and in retirement a youth minister and worked w the disabled, w 7 kids and regular fam reunions n trips; the other an engineer and businessman who taught sunday school n coached 7 grandkids' soccer teams)
- Aug 24, 2026Bluesky · postentering the Gender Wars on the side of Virtue
- Aug 24, 2026Twitter · reply@SYNESTHEIZURE umm given that alaska is marked "AL" the creator must have grown up in one of them
- Aug 24, 2026Twitter · quotein particular put them on old coal properties https://x.com/moistenedrod/status/2090849918646677896
- Aug 24, 2026Twitter · reply@teortaxesTex normies are a little unclear why they're opposed but they did notice and absorb the clear negative vibes from journalists and influencers who are underplaying their real grievance which is loss of status and power that comes from being gatekeepers to public opinion
- Aug 24, 2026Twitter · replyconsidering Elon's family and the stories abt top IVF sperm donors i suspect so? also if you go back to world war 2 a large % of men died before reproducing, which is still approximately "today" vs the millions of years of evolutionary history? the different incentives rewarded different behaviors -> genetic sexual dimorphism wrt aggression, risk toleranc…
- Aug 24, 2026Twitter · reply@imitationlearn probably if we maintain this pattern over evolutionary time scales or intentionally pursue it with a eugenics program?
- Aug 24, 2026Twitter · replygenghis khan's genetic legacy, estimated % of men who reproduced historically, etc. women can only have ~one child per year for a limited window of fertility, vs men with resources can have a harem or second family after divorce (crowding out men on the losing end from reproducing at all, since all children are genetically 50/50 contribution from male n f…
- Aug 24, 2026Twitter · replyyeahhh this stuff takes time commensurate with the complexity, i'm not convinced we actually have a problem with insufficient review of data center site plans. we may have an ethos of not allowing a small group of activists to completely block a landowner from building on their land in accordance with zoning and code but imo this is a good thing.
- Aug 24, 2026Twitter · quotemy climate change fretful, air quality concerned environmentalist prior is that building anything new is likely to be a Win vs old coal plants and in particular we should rework nuclear energy regulation https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/2092000271144477120
- Aug 24, 2026Twitter · reply@as_per_ushe 🤝
- Aug 24, 2026Twitter · replyimo yes, specifically stemming from sexual reproduction even if shaped by cultural expectations. women are physically weaker -> unlikely to win a physical fight and need support from others to make it through pregnancy and nursing, vs men don't have those limitations but otoh their reproduction is more winner-take-all so taking more risks is rewarded
- Aug 24, 2026Twitter · postentering the Gender Wars on the side of Virtue https://t.co/tX0LePbZHJ
- Aug 24, 2026Twitter · reply@TarquinKevin i love west virginia it is beautiful... but as the poorest state it really needs something to boost the economy and pay for government services
- Aug 24, 2026Twitter · reply@AlbuynoRyeno i don't know her personally, but i dislike the effect she has on the ratsphere when she posts rapekink content, encourages male sexual aggression and undermines women's "no" meaning no
- Aug 24, 2026Twitter · repostRT @jd_pressman: @algekalipso The illusory nature of the narcissist's superiority is kind of a red herring. You can actually be better than…
- Aug 24, 2026Twitter · quoteGood!!! WV needs new tax revenue and would be a good place to locate nuclear reactors close to data centers to minimize long transmission lines (good place for both because WV is not subject to earthquakes / hurricanes / tsunamis, has lower wildfire risk than in the drier west and plenty of water for cooling)
- Aug 24, 2026Twitter · replywhen they moved mae-east out there it WAS cornfields... loudoun county became the highest median income county in the usa because datacenters paid local taxes which were used to build nice infrastructure and amenities for growing exurb development to house tech / aerospace employees as well as professionals commuting in to jobs in nova/dc
- Aug 24, 2026Twitter · repostRT @Pixel0Symphony: https://t.co/43L30vOGwA
- Aug 24, 2026Bluesky · posti let the intrusive thoughts win
- Aug 24, 2026Twitter · quotei like this- how do i find a tts model with an accent from the 1920s? https://x.com/abysmoftime/status/2091957450870009880
- Aug 24, 2026Twitter · postjust acquired these old phones, what should i do with them? https://t.co/u80VNcoi4M
- Aug 24, 2026Twitter · reply@Quinurum awww i kinda liked my own
- Aug 24, 2026Twitter · quote@1thousandfaces_ sighhhh, support of one faction is still better than zero. i was really hoping the dems would change direction and go for Abundance rather than degrowth https://x.com/mimi10v3/status/1813070875769598446
- Aug 24, 2026Twitter · repostRT @lumpenspace: "i must do the needful to avoid joining the permanent global underclass", i muttered as i performed acts of chicanery, gra…
- Aug 24, 2026Twitter · reply@YeshuaisSavior 🫶 i know ppl mean well, i wish the platform would just allow me to actually block someone and not constantly see and hear about them anyway
- Aug 24, 2026Twitter · postit would be really drama-reducing if twitter would block sending tweet links to receipts who've blocked the OP. i really am trying to live and let live but istg aella is inescapable https://t.co/daAHYGN5ls
- Aug 24, 2026Twitter · replysure, there have been some, but i feel like most ppl were apathetic about them or if more politically engaged appreciated the local tax revenue tradeoff of hosting them? unless one was personally affected by them being an immediate neighbor replacing trees / farmland or adding power lines / substations near your land? anyway as a western loudoun property …
- Aug 23, 2026Twitter · reply@funplings 🫶
- Aug 23, 2026Twitter · reply@Last_TreeOnMars i am born and raised in northern virginia, public sentiment has shifted over the last several years- and policy has shifted to match as datacenters are now all forced through site plan reviews whereas previously if you were complying with zoning they could be by right
- Aug 23, 2026Twitter · replyi wrote the thread as proof of work because i was tired of people directing me to read Yud's arguments as if i haven't already, or telling me i misunderstood them, or that 20 years ago he had said something different than his recent writings and therefore i was too uninformed to have an opinion. was hoping he would eyeball the thread and correct me if i h…