kind of a bummer to have been born at the very end of the Fuck Around century just to live the rest of my life in the Find Out century

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„In diesen Wochen erleben wir vielleicht den Anfang vom Ende einer immensen kollektiven Verdrängungsleistung.“ Jetzt ohne Paywall: Friedemann Karig über die #Proteste von Letzte Generation #Klimakrise uebermedien.de/79076/warum-di…

Denke auch, dass es so kommen wird. Man muss sich aber klar machen, was das bedeuten wird: eine Festung Europa! Vermutlich mit rechtspopulistischen Mehrheiten.

„Völlig undenkbar ist da, dass es die Wirklichkeit selbst sein könnte, die radikale Lösungen erfordert, dass gemäßigte Politik extreme Folgen haben kann, dass Realität sich auf Radikalität reimt und "Realpolitik" auf Resignation.“ Bernd Ulrich

What. The. Actual. Fuck. Are you actually sitting there telling me that, in 2024, a significant open source project is using fucking Autotools instead of something like Cmake? See, this is why I retired early from software engineering. Because for every new job I took, the

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First democracy in history to collapse under conditions of full employment and rapidly rising wages. If nothing else, the end of the American experiment will generate a lot of lively poli-sci debate over the dark century ahead.

Common sense

Abwärmenutzung der TUD-Hochleistungs­rechner im Dresdner Fernwärmenetz: Das gemeinsame Projekt von #TUDresden, SachsenEnergie & dem Sächsischen Immobilien- und Baumanagement (SIB) wurde mit dem Energy Efficiency Award dena ausgezeichnet. ♨️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/new…

My personal expectation is that token prices will fall and that the most important news here is that we now have methods to turn test-time compute into improved performance up to a very large scale. (11/n)

AD / BC no longer holds any real meaning to humans. life will simply be categorized as before AGI & after AGI. this is a monumental development & 99% of the world has no understanding of its significance & the underlying implications.

Trump's fawning over Putin and his vilification of Canada are two sides of the same coin. Ever since his first term, Trump has denounced allies and partners while paving the way for a rapprochement with Russia. These parallel natives both serve his goal of a global oligarchy. 1/

Europe could have invested 1-2 hundred billion dollars over the past 3 years, but instead they will have to invest 3-5 trillion over the next 20. I’ve talked about this many times in the past. The politicians made very unwise decisions because they were afraid.

Microsoft will literally invent a new form of matter instead of fixing Teams

Ukrainians laugh bitterly describing the current situation: 450 million-strong Europe depends on military backing of 340 million-strong US, which bows to 140 million-strong Russia, which is being held in check by 40 million-strong Ukraine.

it’s hard to overstate how deranged the pace is at the moment (even ppl like ilya are amazed by it). we’re in this weird liminal epoch where reality is outpacing people’s priors so fast that most minds just silently segfault. my contrarian take is that we’re inside a cultural

No-one will take seriously a weak and divided Europe: neither enemy nor ally. It is already clear now. We must finally believe in our own strength, we must continue to arm ourselves, we must stay united like never before. One for all, and all for one. Otherwise, we are finished.

My view is that there is a good chance that AGI goes well, and we end up in a world where nearly all inventions have heavy AI involvement or are initiated by it, and a fair bit of risk that it all ends in a terminal disaster. I find the middle range implausible.

every paradigm humans built like finance, communication, time management, all of it has to be reinvented from first principles for agents. if you really think about it the systems that were built weren’t necessarily designed around the underlying problem.. they were designed