It is the year 2055, and it is common knowledge that Tom Cruise does not age.

the real tragedy of gladiator 2 is that the actual story of the twin emperors is way more interesting and unhinged than the story they decided to tell

For people who don't like Claude's behavior here (and I think it's totally valid to disagree with it), I encourage you to describe your own recommended policy for agentic models should do when users ask them to help commit heinous crimes. Your options are (1) actively try to

Jeff Bezos had ONE JOB and it was to fund tv adaptations of all of my favorite sci fi and fantasy series at an enormous loss and he SCREWED UP

to make program, a programstick is ground against a programstone with a small amount of blood

aella is a good person, a careful thinker, and a world class writer. tl has been garbage today, but seeing the community rally in support of her has at least been a small bright spot

Here’s our latest RL update: Natural Mogging (thread below!)

You have two years to accumulate mana before the sorcery wars begin

I keep noticing this pattern where my favorite creators have deep, principled ulterior motives/hidden processes for doing the things that they do—motives that aren’t obvious, and wouldn’t appear from a surface attempt at trying to ape their style (huge any_austin fan, v happy to

Very much worth the read. Read it.

There was an aspiration to put Google on Google Cloud, but it was deemed too difficult.

FWIW, Isaac Sim just OSed

when I was an undergraduate, I accidentally spilled sulfuric acid on one of my shoes, which gave it this great permanent patina of “just dribbled some water on one of my shoes”

It was an absolute blast working with Andon Labs on this project. What started out as a silly idea to test our assumptions about how the future of the autonomous economy might look evolved into a serious (but also silly) autonomous vending machine operating in our lunch room.

you can just do things* *place an M&M, and then, additionally, an entire almond, into your mouth