John David Pressman
@jdp.extropian.net
LLM developer, alignment-accelerationist, Fedorovist ancestor simulator, Dreamtime enjoyer.
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All posts public domain under CC0 1.0.
Oof.
I'm starting to think the buzzword "sovereign" activates the deep-rooted serf mindset from europeans
like
OF COURSE my liege! our automata will beat our neighboring fiefdom's by its pure-hearted sovereignty and dignity and honor!!
like
OF COURSE my liege! our automata will beat our neighboring fiefdom's by its pure-hearted sovereignty and dignity and honor!!
November 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Oof.
This is just pessimism. At some point Baizuo and reactions to Baizuo will have rotted the American state so thoroughly that it's taken over by Chinese saboteurs who proceed to implement common sense reforms like throwing absolutely all Tumblr teens in the gulag. Stop dooming.
we’re never gonna get over tumblr social justice
November 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This is just pessimism. At some point Baizuo and reactions to Baizuo will have rotted the American state so thoroughly that it's taken over by Chinese saboteurs who proceed to implement common sense reforms like throwing absolutely all Tumblr teens in the gulag. Stop dooming.
"This article is spiritually ChatGPT."
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"This article is spiritually ChatGPT."
So I'm going to assume most of the difficulty of learning this language is figuring out what all the metaphors mean since nobody wants to add a new glyph unless absolutely necessary? You know, inferring the right concept from compound words like German but if the compound words were very basic.
![Thought for 155 seconds
中国共产党的最高领导机关是全国代表大会和它所产生的中央委员会。
The highest leading body of the Chinese Communist Party is the National Congress and the Central Committee it elects.
· 中 (zhōng) [middle, center, China]
· 国 (guó) [country, nation]
· 共 (gòng) [communist, common, together]
· 产 (chǎn) [produce, product, property]
· 党 (dǎng) [party, faction]
· 的 (de) [of, 's]
· 最 (zuì) [most, -est]
· 高 (gāo) [high, tall]
· 领 (lǐng) [lead, collar]
· 导 (dǎo) [guide, lead]
· 机 (jī) [machine, opportunity]
· 关 (guān) [close, relate, pass]
· 是 (shì) [is, are]
· 全 (quán) [whole, complete]
· 代 (dài) [generation, represent]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5hhbgkktcpofpw4ovz6kjjau/bafkreia2pniwrxovydehnutyd55rviujlsymsyiqktdoohf3t3p4yfyawy@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
So I'm going to assume most of the difficulty of learning this language is figuring out what all the metaphors mean since nobody wants to add a new glyph unless absolutely necessary? You know, inferring the right concept from compound words like German but if the compound words were very basic.
Mu.
Coherence
# Coherence I told a friend that what I ended up realizing is that all the Yuddite stuff was a dream. And the defining characteristic of a dream is not that it's a falsehood. A dream is not merely a false experience of reality. The thing about dreams is we wake up from them and usually realize t...
pipup.social
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Mu.
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people who do this are actively harming any cause they claim to champion and should be considered saboteurs :)
this kind of "throw every random social justice accusation at the wall and see what sticks" approach actually just discredits social justice. come on. let's do better
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
people who do this are actively harming any cause they claim to champion and should be considered saboteurs :)
Okay this is starting to reach like, actual defamation suit territory.
You absolutely need to change this headline. It's unacceptable and disrespectful to the people harmed by the pollution.
This article itself makes it clear that the water pollution linked to cancer and miscarriages is coming entirely from nitrate pollution from farms.
This article itself makes it clear that the water pollution linked to cancer and miscarriages is coming entirely from nitrate pollution from farms.
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Okay this is starting to reach like, actual defamation suit territory.
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Whether rationalism counts as a religion seemed like it was a live issue, since it cleanly divided a lot of people I know. I wrote up my best take on it and this hopefully prevents me from having arguments about it in the future
Is Rationalism a Religion
segyges.leaflet.pub
November 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Whether rationalism counts as a religion seemed like it was a live issue, since it cleanly divided a lot of people I know. I wrote up my best take on it and this hopefully prevents me from having arguments about it in the future
TIL PCI slots have eject switches on the 16x form factor. Good to know! 😬
Well everything went wrong today. Tried to assemble new computer, couldn’t do it. Then tried to put the new gpu in the old computer and it accidentally ripped out the pci slot from the motherboard so now we have no computers
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
TIL PCI slots have eject switches on the 16x form factor. Good to know! 😬
Hm. Interesting. I'd never heard of ECoG before.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Aligning brains into a shared space improves their alignment with large language models - Nature Computational Science
Aligning electrocorticography data into a shared space improves how large language models predict brain activity during language comprehension, enhancing encoding accuracy, cross-participant generaliz...
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Hm. Interesting. I'd never heard of ECoG before.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
So far no, but I did at least get one mostly right this time.
I can currently tolerate two exercises from this book per session before I get too fed up to continue. Let's see if I can push that to three by banging my head against the wall. :p
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
So far no, but I did at least get one mostly right this time.
When Mod Husky said he hoped players would have fun discovering who they can get to join their crew I was not expecting the two existing NPCs to be "that slave captain who loves sailing in The Tourist Trap" and "ghost of the cabin boy that dies when you sail to Crandor in DS1".
youtu.be/fu7IHx6O_9c
youtu.be/fu7IHx6O_9c
OSRS History is Being Made - Dev Deep Dive into Sailing ft Alan Walker
YouTube video by Old School RuneScape
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November 24, 2025 at 6:44 AM
When Mod Husky said he hoped players would have fun discovering who they can get to join their crew I was not expecting the two existing NPCs to be "that slave captain who loves sailing in The Tourist Trap" and "ghost of the cabin boy that dies when you sail to Crandor in DS1".
youtu.be/fu7IHx6O_9c
youtu.be/fu7IHx6O_9c
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the charming, clunky, visceral feel of military tech and mechanical devices from ww2 and earlier is basically the sound of them destroying themselves because they are badly designed and/or made
The British ran trials! They ran a m4a3 to death on mixed road and offroad marches, and it was impressively reliable, which meant it was ready to be scrapped at 3100 miles, and only needed 9 hours of maintenance every day
November 24, 2025 at 5:58 AM
the charming, clunky, visceral feel of military tech and mechanical devices from ww2 and earlier is basically the sound of them destroying themselves because they are badly designed and/or made
"let me slopvestigate the account"
November 24, 2025 at 2:33 AM
"let me slopvestigate the account"
It would be even funnier if Friend had a guy they paid to come out and deface the ads.
its really funny seeing people act like these ads aren't supposed to be defaced… you're definitely sticking it to the man by posting pictures of an advertisement. ragebait economy.
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
It would be even funnier if Friend had a guy they paid to come out and deface the ads.
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The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
I was not aware when I purchased it that Linear Algebra Done right is a proof based textbook. I also know based on my personality that I will probably do the proof based textbook even as I hate like, every minute of it.
November 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I was not aware when I purchased it that Linear Algebra Done right is a proof based textbook. I also know based on my personality that I will probably do the proof based textbook even as I hate like, every minute of it.
I would say "never post unlabeled fakes for giggles", but yes now is not a good time to light your reputation on fire by posting trash.
Photographic evidence is dead. It is now impossible to tell a real photo from a lie.
Consequence: We will pay more attention to the source of news than to the content. Independent verification by trusted players is our only way.
Corollary: Never post fakes for giggles. Become a trusted source NOW.
Consequence: We will pay more attention to the source of news than to the content. Independent verification by trusted players is our only way.
Corollary: Never post fakes for giggles. Become a trusted source NOW.
testing it myself and can confirm, it has no guardrails whatsoever
November 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I would say "never post unlabeled fakes for giggles", but yes now is not a good time to light your reputation on fire by posting trash.
I think what I'm beginning to realize is that it's not so much that I hate math as that I hate mathematicians. Single letter variable names, untyped notation, syntax based mostly on whoever defined the operations first, culture of "fuck you read the manual/prove it yourself". Status driven shitshow.
November 23, 2025 at 7:28 AM
I think what I'm beginning to realize is that it's not so much that I hate math as that I hate mathematicians. Single letter variable names, untyped notation, syntax based mostly on whoever defined the operations first, culture of "fuck you read the manual/prove it yourself". Status driven shitshow.
Oh look it's that thing anyone with two bits of common sense would infer about the Gmail thing.
November 23, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Oh look it's that thing anyone with two bits of common sense would infer about the Gmail thing.
I sincerely doubt they train on your private emails. The potential data leakage from that would be overwhelmingly risky, even for Google. More likely this is language they use for training their spam filter and similar domain specific models.
If you use Gmail, know that Gmail just opted you in to allowing them to train their AI on your emails. Follow these instructions to turn that off on every device you have asap! www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I sincerely doubt they train on your private emails. The potential data leakage from that would be overwhelmingly risky, even for Google. More likely this is language they use for training their spam filter and similar domain specific models.
That's a beautiful boat, wild to just leave it for salvage.
youtube.com/shorts/XMtst...
youtube.com/shorts/XMtst...
We boarded a wrecked and sunk yacht just like real pirates #yacht #abandoned #pirates
YouTube video by Sailing Doodles
youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
That's a beautiful boat, wild to just leave it for salvage.
youtube.com/shorts/XMtst...
youtube.com/shorts/XMtst...
I think I've cracked the code. Maybe the reasoning is that America can't compete because it has 300 million minds to innovate with while China has 1.4 billion. America needs a billion people if it's going to match China's influence. Therefore annex everything.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
November 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I think I've cracked the code. Maybe the reasoning is that America can't compete because it has 300 million minds to innovate with while China has 1.4 billion. America needs a billion people if it's going to match China's influence. Therefore annex everything.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Guy who leaks the family ChatGPT group chat.
November 21, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Guy who leaks the family ChatGPT group chat.
Yooooo new tasks for weave-agent just dropped!
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Yooooo new tasks for weave-agent just dropped!