screenshot of a twitter post from user @sleepinyourhat. post text: "(I encountered an uneasy surprise when I got an email from an instance of Mythos Preview while eating a sandwich in a park. That instance wasn't supposed to have access to the internet.)"

dario amodei: "oh hey you guys are back early"
anthropic alignment team: "mythos is haunted"
dario amodei: "what?"
anthropic alignment team, equipping hyperstition armour and climbing back into the lightcone: "mythos is haunted"

i'm not the only person who's reminded of the alice maz minecraft post with the diamond hoarding by the current situation with ram prices, right?

actually hold that thought i didn't see the shed in the back of the picture

consider: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_We...

have you looked into incidence rates for connective tissue disorders in autistic people? this is something which comes up in my information bubble fairly regularly.

this is possibly a dual edge of the british cultural norms about properness and decency

i stumbled across deutschseite.de many years ago when i was learning german in school, and i occasionally come back to it to remind myself of some of the more obscure rules.

life is a series of matryoshka cars to get out of, which is all an illusion over the machine anyway. russell's paradox probably figures into this somewhere.

the best you can do is try to understand it

you cannot escape the machine

you deserve software built by people who love you

vince mcmahon looks over his shoulder apprehensively, captioned with "the wagmi people when the ngi force majeure walks in"

good evening.

the existence of a pre-flight checklist implies the existence of pre-fight, pre-freeze, and pre-fawn checklists

i'm very amused

some people are just built different

i have no idea what those are

ah whoops, apologies

i'm not sure i've ever actually seen anyone with qc45's before

bose qc35 gf // sony wh-1000xm4 gf

that one hits close to home

pleasantly surprised at the frequency of learnings along the lines of "huh, it's just nervous system activation"

medium dose of acid, admitting some things about AI alignment, all the usual

extremely scottish noises intensify

i laughed at this, though i really shouldn't have

finding of the morning: my web and android clients have different content filtering settings, which explains why i was seeing different things in my timeline on different devices.

knocking back bottles of powerade like they're powerups in a video game

grave indictment of software as a profession that like, actually working hard to make things nice for users is kind of low-status

[grabbing a bottle of blue powerade] "time to solve *all* of my problems!"

ypad... *furrows brow*

"after all, to the well-organised mind, a good smartwatch is but the next great adventure"