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Germany votes tomorrow. 1 in every 5 voters will vote far right. How can this be in the country of ‘never again’? Could Nazis really rise to power here again? The answer: Oh ja. German comedian Jan Böhmermann breaks down why (in English):

As he says below, after listening to this, I think every last point Younger makes is 100% on target.

By 2030 most consulting-like information work will be simulation related — figuring out what to simulate or how to vet the quality of complex simulations. It might pay even more than it does now, because it will underwrite investments and people will expect high confidence.

I feel like the @replit guys could learn a lot from how Poe has implemented Claude 3.7 as a coding agent. Replit is more powerful but the agent is such a dummy, there is some serious low hanging fruit in making their system prompt more robust, b/c Poe does much better

This is crazy

Latent space is a place. You can just go there. The specific interface and scaffolding used determines the degree of imagination required to crystallize the space into a coherent structure you can move around in and explore

Completely agree. LLMs being possible should feel like insane magic.

America feels like a vibe-coded app that's gotten too complex, so whenever you prompt it to make a little change it instead just overwrites random parts of its remaining working code with slop. And then Americans are like, "Still broken pleaz fix" because what else can you do?

if you ask midwit questions to an llm, it correctly models you as a midwit, the convo as a mid exchange, and provides midwit answers. if you treat it as a researcher who could have something to teach you, otoh, you’ll end up in the basin where you’ll learn something.

“We work so hard for something that is so fleeting. It really is. The feeling of winning just doesn’t last that long. It’s hard to explain how it just doesn’t satisfy.” This is well worth watching. Love this vulnerability from someone at the top of their game performance-wise.

People call Musk a techno-optimist, but so many of his projects are straightforwardly cynical: Cybertruck built for navigating a dystopian wasteland, rockets for escaping a ravaged Earth to Mars, AI as your sychophantic codependent waifu girlfriend. He has a low opinion of humans

Science progresses when we stop asking ‘what is it?’ and begin asking ‘how does it work?’ This is especially relevant for studying consciousness.

That Obama arrest deepfake Trump posted has real ISIS propaganda vibes, like the same dark web PR firm produced both campaigns

This is an important point. A lot of red-pill guys think liberal society is holding them back from being warlords. In fact, liberal society is holding them back from being slaves.

They solved environmental consistency with Genie 3, and this was an emergent capability. You can see the trees remain the same even after being out of line of sight. Visual memory extends back one minute now. Google is on a steady path to a real world simulator.

i have a lot of research to do inside the world simulator. if i dont come back dont worry its fine

I don't like making actual predictions because hubris is a stronger force than rationality, but this is the only specific prediction I've been carrying around with me as a near certainty and I feel like this week (7 years in to the 10 year prediction) Genie 3 proved the premise

A lot of emerging future stuff plays straight dystopian these days, but I'm actually kind of into robot fights as a thing. Watching bots fight each other over what's true is deeply fascinating.

The Trump administration is now seeking to replace PBS with “Prager University,” a far-right propaganda organization that isn’t actually a university. One of their “kids videos” has Christopher Columbus telling them that slavery was “no big deal” and “better than being killed.”