Confessions of a former AI doomer: thedeepdish.org/ai-doom/ By Richard Meadows

after five days at a very nice fijian resort

There's this unfortunate thing where a lot of the most exciting ideas from EA just don't stick with people at all. EA as a movement has probably prevented a major war's worth of human deaths, but people just brush off malaria stats. Yet the shrimp stuff gets attention.

Japanese toilets often have an exhortation about cleanliness but this one is the hardest I’ve ever seen. <Japanese>A soiled toilet reflects the filth of your soul.</Japanese> <English>Keep Clean This Restroom</English>

Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ By the time we get to super intelligence it’ll be called hella mad mega super duper freakin extra intelligence

wtf watched Kpop demon hunters and Karl popper doesn't make a single appearance

Aight so ChatGPT 5 is incremental rather than a paradigm shift, but it still cost ~5x more to train than chatgpt 4. If frontier model costs are superlinear and there’s no strong moat, surely commodification is inevitable?? That would be great for consumers but I don’t understand

I’ve already eaten lab meat, will eat it exclusively as soon as it is widely available and I - as a 41 year old woman - can currently do more pull ups than the average western man

Adding new vocab to Anki is so insanely smooth these days: 1. Highlight on kindle as I'm reading 2. dump into Chat and it generates translations, removes dupes, and turns it into an anki deck that I can import within 1 minute I love this shit so much

Noooo! Hadn't had any sycophancy in months, now getting glazed again on every other prompt. OpenAI wtf are you doing??