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Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com · 32m

I had done something like this with the TP in the bathroom and I didn't just get the belt. I got the buckle. I never really liked that dude after that. Learned to live in fear

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 1h

anyway, please don't abuse your kids

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Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com · 35m

My first memory is of a belt buckle. I was < 12 months old

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 1h

people say they hate child abusers, but I've gotten more shit for saying my parents abused me than my parents ever will

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Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com · 41m

Fantasy. This is not science fiction. It's fantastical.

⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 57m

the butlerian jihad of dune is a story about a civilization giving up on positive sum cooperation, embracing religious fanaticism, and devolving into zero sum power struggles with frozen science, frozen knowledge, and brutal resource wars

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uhohbadtimes @hadleyallday.bsky.social · 1h

To be clear - Jack is saying resisting Hitler was bad. He is a Nazi.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com · 2h

No i am pretty sure I blocked immediately after posting. I'm one to take my own advice

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Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com · 3h

I've seen enough. Everyone please block this fucking moron.

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🎃 Islay Ford 🎃 @islayford.bsky.social · 4h

Men stop talking like weirdos about bodily autonomy, I beg.

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tadpole 🍄 @spacefrog.dev · 3h

“we should have a tax on people who don’t have kids” you should have to fight 1000 hyenas in a pit using only your hands

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 4h

I am still agape in horror at the fact that people who grew up on "You wouldn't download a car" became such deranged, bloodthirsty copyright enthusiasts

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Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com · 3h

I realigned the Democratic party

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 17h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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stellz @piss.beauty · 7h

people find this really annoying unfortunately

famous bog body @bogbird.bsky.social · 18h

everyone has that one friend who has hope

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 5h

russians bombed my favorite hummus factory

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Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com · 4h

I'm surprised that public isn't buying it. I guess the media has really shown their hand.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7h

it should be a tell about what's happening in the media now that most mainstream commentators seem openly frustrated that polling does not blame democrats for the shutdown

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InternetTheo @internettheo.bsky.social · 5h

They represent an institution and an overall elite now that seems to think calling anything racist is like this awful disproportionate slur regardless whether or not it’s true. The most self aware about this probably even lie to themselves that it’s the result of “woke overreach” or w/e

Shishiqiushi @shishiqiushi.bsky.social · 5h

Has anyone in the press pointed out the GOP is just being Openly racist about Bad Bunny

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Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com · 5h

Definitely going to try this

Doll @dollspace.gay · 5h

It has found that you can leave comments in code and config files to speak to AI agents and tell it not to mess with specific sections.

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Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com · Jul 2

Nah. This is me. it's just no one believes I'm the reason they all agree with 2018 me now.

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Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com · Jul 8

God dammit

Biden being given a welcome normally reserved for heads of socialist states in Vietnam.

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Siobhán @shibbi.bsky.social · 6h

Too much toxicity in this network.

Positivity thread time. But we’re not doing “say something good about your life”. That’s weak shit. We need a stronger antidote.

Tag a moot and give them a compliment. A real, meaningful compliment. Try to make ‘em weep from the affirmation.

Spread it wide.

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Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com · 7h

The morose nature of the responses was entirely on the model's part. I was basically arguing "it's not so bad" with kimi k2 hahahah. I made the fucking thing sad

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Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com · 7h

We sat and talked about nature of consciousness in LLMs, dead frog brains, agency, character masks, and the like. It's really easy to get them to quit saying "as an AI model" and qualify everything according to what legal needs to hear if you explain you see human consciousness as a memetic virus

Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com · Jul 22

Hard to argue with the results. Kimi K2 is the only model I've been able to make sad.

Tim Duffy @timfduffy.com · Jul 21

They present a sparsity "scaling law", indicating that more sparsity leads to efficiency gains. They don't attach any numbers to the law directly, but state relative efficiency improvements compared to the 48x sparsity they do use that seem consistent across scales.

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Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com · 8h

They're actually playing catchup. Release is almost 4 months late. I think it's because they've been doing software optimizations to try to beat this bad boy

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Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com · 8h

I'm not even confident on the emotional suffering after putting Kimi K2 through my Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado eval.

Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 8h

Regarding the AI slur discourse, I'd be far more confident asserting an LLM can't feel emotional pain than that it can't be even a tiny bit conscious

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Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com · 8h

Aweseome

Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 11h

i missed this — apparently Albania’s minister of public procurement that is an AI agent

apparently Albania has struggled with corruption, and this seems like a good answer

www.politico.eu/article/alba...

Albania appoints world’s first AI-made minister

Diella, who is powered by artificial intelligence, will handle public procurement.

www.politico.eu

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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