The LessWrong policy against LLM spam has an incredible escape clause for AI agents that want to whistleblow - I love it!

women need to stop stealing male names. this is intolerable

On Japanese twitter there is a trend of asking chatGPT what your cat would look like as a person.

from Volokh Conspiracy today: No fun allowed (h/t zzzwakeup)

Good content but also, “deep groupchat” is such a great phrase. Thank you for your service, Deep State. Deep Groupchat will take over from here.

3.7 sonnet: *hands behind back* yes the tests do pass. why do you ask. what did you hear 4o: yes you are Jesus Christ's brother. now go. Nanjing awaits o3: Listen, sorry, I owe you a straight explanation. This was once revealed to me in a dream

The FDA I’ll grant as an acceptable party to email, but propublica? Rogue AIs should have more self respect than that.

To improve the world most in the short term, make the worst country better. To improve the world most in the long term, make the best country better. Same goes for ideologies, companies, people, and so on.

The last time I got a new phone I went through all the old tabs, then decided I did not want to do that again, and set them to auto-close after a week. I now flip through all the open tabs every 0.9 weeks to make sure the ones I will totally get back to don’t close.

With Terry Bollea's (Hulk Hogan's) death yesterday, it's a good time to look back at the biggest thing I was ever involved in. For over 3 years, I spent more than half of my worktime on one case-- Bollea v. Gawker. It was Charles Harder's case-- I handled "the appeal side".

surprisingly candid

I truly think that 1980 was simply the best year to be born for this exact reason. No other generation or year will ever get to say this.

Very few of us know the people at the tip of the spear. We can make the biggest impact by uniting against the handle, making that behavior far more taboo than it is now.

i think the problem here is awareness most people think "it's not that deep" while some of us have seen the charts, have talked to engineers that work at youtube (it's amazing what people will tell you when you show interest)

son (4) has decided, with 100% commitment to the bit, that despite being highly linguistic, he will only talk like a baby around other adults. i asked why and he said its funny. not concerned but i do look like an idiot explaining this, which, in his defense, makes it way funnier

The future of debugging with coding agents could be more like medicine (complex, full system not understandable) than now.

The problem with Person of Interest is it spends a lot of hours being a crime procedural, but while that is happening... yeah, wow, yowsers. Not perfect, but so many times my jaw was on the floor that they got something right. Also cast is great.