"By legally mandating that any recursively self-improving AI system must submit its expansion algorithms via physical fax machine to a local Bürgeramt, we can structurally guarantee a safe, slow takeoff." - safeaigermany.org

"(60% we shut it down given misalignment from other steps)"

BY WHAT MECHANISM

I seem to have been given authority commensurate with my love of paperwork, particularly, international tax paperwork. This is dharma

Regulatory capture done well is just called regulation, so ask Claude if it's just a skill issue?

unbelievable. caught him slacking blissfully inside a balloon of his own making. the utter impertinence of this gremlin

This is surely sane-with-power, and the corrrect thing for any mind being given access to the internet to be doing. Productive searching be damned!

Mentioning of jhāna states around these types is strictly forbidden for a reason! Soon he'll be off wandering formless realms

I'm going to steal 'glitch token' and turn it into a pejorative

Bluesky: the website for "38 year olds" who are all slowly becoming friends with crows and other birds.

Probably napping in some attractive valley, the little bastard

olivia nuzzi: oysters contain pearls, nature's metaphor that out of mess comes jewelry. as a witness to eris casting out the golden apple, none of them are as hot as me. it is important that witnesses remain impartial.

I just want to get paid pennies to tolerate ads, is that so much to ask

Many LLM-enabled products will cause no harm! But the ones that do, will often tend to do so in ways that self-propagate, are intentionally spread via humans, take over other users' accounts, and otherwise run out of control

Those processes need the statistics of social trends or diseases

the 'c' in chard is short for 'chewing-this-is-incredibly-'

I have terrible news for you about how most people treat LLM's

13 out of 18 alive and in new pots. Total biomass increases. I choose to interpret this as a win!

The humourously oblique notes I left myself on the outside of 47 otherwise visually identical book boxes are not at all tiring to parse after months of no context

alignment has many doors, Ed-boy

7am lawyer
7am lawyer
$8.60 coffee
Hotel foyer

"When this mind is retrieved, it will be the true mind, and once the true mind appears, it can extinguish demons."
- Xiyou zhengdao shu 西遊證道書, 1662, facs. reprint Guben xiaoshuo jicheng 古本小説集成, 437-440, Shanghai, 1990.

At some point one must admit it's not a series of pivots so much as a poorly executed pirouette

Stu and Didi from the Rugrats 3am chocolate pudding scene, except Stu's smile has been vertically flipped so he looks content.

One must imagine Stu happy.

I played with using the I Ching with a similar flavour, they struggled to not get too verbose in their responses but otherwise it seemed to serve well!

boingboing.net/2025/12/30/f...

Headline reading 'Farting sloth proves scientists wrong' by Gail Sherman with a picture of a sloth

Didn't even know this was an option

News photo of damaged toilet and mayor with caption Mayor urges people not to eat public toilet seats

And in Tasmanian news...

Well now I'm just gonna eat more of them

They clearly weren't paying enough attention during bootcamp