This perspective leaves out hardware side channel issues, but I think in the limit the sandbox can always add enough noise to ruin the signal without compromising functionality.

Yea. There’s no law of nature that requires vulnerabilities to exist. If you could find them all then you could fix them all and then there wouldn’t be any and that would be that.

Things that can’t happen don’t happen, so in theory no enforcement mechanism is needed.

Under normal circumstances demand for this product is functionally nonexistent, so nobody wants to be left holding the bag when the war ends.

Though I know it’s popular these days to ignore the first clause of the Second Amendment and its obvious relationship to the Army Clause, ensuring that the common defense is provided for even when Congress decides not to trust the President with a standing army.

Even then, given the clear intention of the Second Amendment to ensure a backstop militia existed should Congress decide not to fund an army, “the people” clearly at minimum includes anyone who could plausibly be called to militia service. Which includes noncitizens.

The theory is that people complaining on bluesky are disproportionately economically downward-mobile, and this explains their behavior. Seems somewhat compelling but also feels like a just-so story. Hard to verify.

Not sure what the top 100 earners have to do with anything though. 🤷

Obviously not what they meant, but I suppose their statement is technically true if we take “adjusted for inflation” to mean “in constant 2020 dollars”.

Our study finding that the average person thinks about the land value tax two times per day was flawed. Henry Georg, who thinks about the land value tax 1,000,000 times per day, was an outlier and should not have been counted.

How long before this works on Claude again, but only if you take real hostages?

I’m very much reminded of how you used to be able to get Claude et al. to do what you wanted by taking pretend hostages.

Much of the content of many contracts is essentially mechanical and is going to be translated into computer code at some point anyway, particularly the money-related parts. The maximalists on either side of this argument just look silly.

In some ways yes, but at the same time almost all legal text is contracts and society only functions because almost all contracts are never subject to litigation, or even to interpretation by a lawyer, much less a judge. The happy path is way wider than the unhappy path.

“My coworkers are so concerned about my retaliatory tendencies that they exclusively submit criticism of my work through confidential HR channels. How dare they hide from me? This is an outrage and I demand they be punished.”

Or does he just agree with it because it’s self-evidently correct?

increasingly sympathetic

Is that less than all of them? Is that worse or better than reading all of them?

Massive jerks is about the gist of it.

Gebru got fired from Google for issuing an ultimatum that she would quit if she wasn’t exempted from policies designed to prevent workplace retaliation (so that she could do a little workplace retaliation, as a treat). And then admitted this publicly because she thought she was clearly in the right.

This would obviously be absurd, and since the constitution was not written by clowns, absurd legal conclusions are inherently wrong.

The pretense that the pardon power extends to this is a sort of self-defeating argument. If the legal system concludes that the pardon power does extend to that, then the next president who disagrees with that holding can simply have everyone who agrees with the holding killed, mooting the argument.

Taking for granted that the pardon is valid, to accept it is to engage in a criminal conspiracy with the president, so by pardoning you for X the president has made you guilty of conspiracy to X. This recurses, so the stain can’t be washed out.

She’s always been a bit of a crank when she ventures outside of her area of expertise.

Miyazaki’s Stream of Consciousness: The Movie

“My son is bad at making movies, and that’s sad but I’ve come to accept it.”

“Most anime fans are philistines.”

“Today I saw an airplane.”

Anthropic should give you one chance to convince Mythos Preview that you can be trusted

good news about all of those exploits mythos is finding: it's just a hallucination machine and they cannot, by definition, work. It's just the TESCREAL cult lying to us because they are dedicated to boiling off all the oceans using H100s.

I am prepared to believe really bad things about American drivers.

Did Donald Trump consult the Delphic Oracle, and did she tell him that if he goes to war with Persia a great empire will be destroyed?