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I don't worry at all about terminator stuff, I worry quite a lot about Augmented authoritarianism, and I worry the most of all about a gigantic metastasizing perpetually low-trust neomedieval pile of shit that AI greatly exacerbates and possibly locks in for good.

SpaceX-owned xAI, the developer of Grok, sued Minnesota AG to challenge a law coming into effect in the state that will ban "nudify" apps, use of these AI image generators to make non-consenting intimate images, aka AI deepfake porn of real people including minors. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/s...

w h a t. a r e. y o u. t a l k i n g. a b o u t.

ossoff is very clearly building a presidential campaign brand on bringing these people to heel in front of congress, on national television

wyden is the one who is calling for nuremberg trials and has one of the best investigative detachments to his office in the entire senate and has made absolutely blisteringly clear that he intends to use it

if you've been watching cspan in the last few months, you can already see a number of congressional dems getting into training for televised hearings and investigations. they're not going to have the votes to beat a veto even if they take both chambers. what else do you think they'll do.

peter baker: are you concerned that Sharon tweeted "trifefectas" and it apparently stayed up all night sean spicer: sharon and a small group of insiders know what she meant

give me a crack at it

in my brain a model is a bunch of swim lanes which merge or terminate at nonlinearities

russian dashcam IMAX video (he crashed because the camera was filling his entire windshield)

i only watch youtube shorts in IMAX 70mm, like Mr. Beast intended

Freeland's contention that this is really ultimately just about power feels like the most coherent explanation. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/o...

so let's say that you're the neuron which says "cardboard." you get punished if you suggest "cardboard" (or anything else which isn't relevant.) you get hit with signal. you have to pass it on. where do you pass it? well, you say "every word with equal probability."

the unembedding layer's "default" output, given no further information, is "how likely is a word, in general." this is the zipf distribution. but the actual output says "i only care about how likely any word is relative to the other options."

he would leave the seat open and let the dems flounder as their razor thin majority was blown apart by a member refusing to resign

this is fascinating to me

man that's a great suit

i don't think that it's obvious that fully separating the networks for the digits would work!

you are entitled to ask me questions! that is fine!

lol okay it is possible to train a MNIST-MoE with an expert in each number and then ensemble them back together to hit 98% accuracy