Happy anniversary of this guy saving the world.

Noam Chomsky: top tier reactionary thinker

> no, use uv

How easily you can dispense with thought experiments when you lack basic, commonly held intuitions. Moderately bright children pick up on this and get a kick out of biting every reductio-bullet that comes their way; eventually though they outgrow the hollow sense of victory

I judge you a lot based on which of these men comes to mind first when you think of the word “rationalist”

Some of the best analytic philosophers have reputations for being unclear (Wilfrid Sellars, John McDowell, etc). But no one ought to impute to them unclear thinking. As Aristotle says, an educated person seeks a degree of clarity commensurate with an inquiry’s subject matter.

Plenty of bad philosophy out there but this is lazy. Some clarity comes from describing new things with old, well understood terms. A different form of clarity, no less valuable and ultimately complementary, depends on describing old things with new, inchoate forms of expression

Why am I paying $250/month for Google AI Ultra when Antigravity takes two minutes to run out of quota? What a tease. Google makes you pay up, so you can see but not touch. x.com/_mohansolo/sta…

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i remain convinced that if you know what you're doing you get 10x more mileage out of the models. they are force multipliers, not equalizers

It’s easy to dunk on the “Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem therefore Consciousness” crowd, but I can see the psychological appeal: 1. The theorem, which is a special case of Lawvere’s Fixed Point Theorem, points to the fact that for a (sufficiently rich) space S, the space of

You don't need to be a catholic (or even have a horse in this race) to appreciate how thoroughly Feser's exchange exposes Matt Walsh as a bumbling retard. Delightful.

you absolutely cannot force me to care that AI labs are using "pirated" material to train models

technology is dismantling the university-whitecollar-pmc pipeline-system of course and reassembling it at will. politics no longer seems to reward the same forms of traditional merit

something I'm seeing is that agentic vs nonagentic coders are speciating rapidly. they're becoming incompatible with each other. agentic coders produce codebases that baseline humans hate working with and nonagentic coders care about tons of stuff that no longer matters.

im deeply ambivalent abt the claude thing and long run i dont think it matters much so im also fairly indifferent to what happens the military and the spooks are simply going to get what they want either way and idk what else anyone expected here