be me work at oai we solved agi just need to give it a goal then let it remake world sama calls me over says, "anon, tell it to make me god" I say, "sure boss". then go to agi box, and type, "make me god."

Gemini feels like a huge update for me. Is doing an amazing job and the code is prettier than what Claude gives me on the same prompt. Congrats to the DeepMind team.

Gemini is amazing. Gemini app is a pile of shit. This being as unperformant as it is embarrassing. I don't know how Google got to the point where they write and ship such dogshit but they need to have a hard think about their front-end stuff.

Efficiency gains are getting very apparent even in worse-case large codebase in esoteric language. Much low hanging fruit remains but so impressed.

Honor to Trump critics who shorted the market right after he won.

A rare display of integrity. Civilization is essentially a network of promises. Contracts, agreements, laws are all specialized forms of promises, reinforced by trust and credibility. When an institution explicitly assures individuals of confidentiality or certain protections,

Should we tax non-existence? Wouldn't this disincentivize non-existence? What horrible monsters might find the need to actualize to minimize their tax burden?

LessWrong has deleted my account for some reason. May have to start a blog.

Bryan Johnson seems to have confused "face shinyness" with "looking young and hot."

Was a bug. Am back on lesswrong.

Notice the increase in facial reflectivity. Soon a young man will look at Bryan's face and, seeing his own reflection, think he is looking at a fellow youth.

Accountability is overrated: Alesina and Summers, 1993.

Civilization vs. Barbarism.

The Bene Gesserit cultivated the Vance line to perfect the human eyelash, a goal they achieved with JD Vance. Destined only to be the husband of one of their kin, little more was expected of him. They underestimated the power of perfect eyelashes.

Apologies for posting about politics. I try not to. And I haven't really paid attention/thought about political science stuff for like a decade, so I really have nothing of value to add.

Podcasts are a pornography of friendship.

Max Hodak If you want to survive in this universe you should ensure you do not make a better competitor for your niche (or something removing it). That is really what alignment is about.