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by ricksunny 5d ago
>We're in the phase where the factions are geographically sorting, identifying allies, and arming. In this framing what are the factions? What does geographically sorting mean - are the factions moving themselves from place to place
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by ricksunny 6d ago
"…it had women in authority roles, but also in sexy outfits…" We shall not be surprised that Jeffrey Epstein was exploring remaking this show https://www.justice.gov/epstein (search 'ufo')
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by ricksunny 6d ago
Science was presented in a just-so way in our youth. It still is ( #Scicomms ), but back then, whether reading Junior Scholastic or the margin captions of a high school science textbook handed down ex cathedra, there was no communication pa
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by ricksunny 6d ago
This was good. I think I want to see a boilerplate on all future substacks I read that says "I read sockpuppet's advice." (bonus points for "here's a hash of my visit log")
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by ricksunny 6d ago
As one of the AI-wielding amateurs, I got positive feedback from an audience member on this Ai-gen poster for a talk I gave earlier this summer https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MaawQcupC5XHqWBiTujSpKOKohx... The c
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by ricksunny 7d ago
‘And then OpenAI "had to shed a bunch of dead weight like Sora," as he sees it, "because Anthropic was going for the jugular."’ https://x.com/hilbertspaess/status/2099954626040905834 (Coxon)
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by ricksunny 8d ago
surprised the word RAG hasn’t come ho in this thread (except for a likely-LLM-generated-and-therefore-downvoted comment). >with settings, tools, and context call me crazy, but I think that this kind of suite, which training-uber-alles pe
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by ricksunny 9d ago
>We were building 40 Gbps packet sniffers at Google (4x 10 Gbps NICs) and needed switches that could do things like mirror traffic across ports at line rate I'm sure there were good reaasons for this, but man this just sounds bad.
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by ricksunny 9d ago
The UX sits in an interesting hybrid place between Gather App and Katmai - would be fun to try out with collaborators sometime
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by ricksunny 10d ago
>I can't wait to see Apple Verified™ photos of UFOs flying over the Golden Gate Bridge. There’s no such thing as a Golden Gate Bridge. Prove it.
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by ricksunny 11d ago
Not denigrating need for such a thing, (and appreciating @hobom 's mention of LSVP I was unfamiliar with) but noting with historical precedent this style of protection reflex does not come without lapses (ahem allegedly): https:/
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by ricksunny 12d ago
Interesting name for an AI company. Isn’t the andon cord the thing that anyone in a 6-sigma manufacturing line can pull to halt it until a concern can be addressed?
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by ricksunny 13d ago
does it self-uninstall cleanly (i.e. without leaving a footprint behind) yet? if not I don’t care about this or the next ‘upgrade’, and I can’t believe Homebrew project leaders push upgrades without addressing this basic flaw.
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by ricksunny 13d ago
I want to see models of Vannevar Bush's rapid analytical machine computers supplied to the proto-NSA. See Colin Burke and Pieces of the Action
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by ricksunny 13d ago
> Do you think things like the Manhattan Project were a mistake Yes. At best now the mother of all cautionary tales.
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by ricksunny 15d ago
"every hour spent aligning with a co-author is an hour not spent producing output that is legible to an evaluation system." use of the word 'legible'. "We defund the corridor and then wonder where the corridor conve
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by ricksunny 15d ago
One statement at the end of this excerpt merits scrutiny: " A variant of these viruses capable of human-to-human spread would therefore be of very high concern. Moreover, it is possible that such a variant could also have capacity for
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by ricksunny 15d ago
weird obsession. really. Here, have a Kevin Esvelt, now-tenured professor at MIT: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/us/ai-chatbots-biological... disclosure: I am an advisor for BiosafetyNow.
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by ricksunny 15d ago
We have somewhere between 0% < X < 100% probability that covid-19 (remember that?) was an accidental lab leak by credentialed virologists not making use of AI in the post-2022 sense. If I don't trust the credentialed virologists
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by ricksunny 16d ago
Good on you. I left my post-university defense job after a year and a half. Of all career decisions, that's one I don't regret, and rather the regret I harbor was for joining in the first place (albeit did so under a combination
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by ricksunny 16d ago
1000%. My social community if reference is nomads of varying skills. The lower-skilled among them (the ones who were on the digital marketing, crypto,, now into building sales CRM tool) are manifestly demonstrating addictive tendencies aro
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by ricksunny 16d ago
(Appreciating this entire thread) - side question: you used the word ‘shape’ in the abstract sense, something I never came across until Claude vibecoding came along. Was it common / did you use ‘shape’ in the abstract sense before say
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by ricksunny 18d ago
My dreams of a magnetohydrodynamic hand water-cannon are dashed sniff
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by ricksunny 18d ago
I look forward to the superpowered upgrade of this I-am-a-gnat-on-crack
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by ricksunny 18d ago
(I have next to zero knowledge of matters crypto) “Presumably for the OP this kind of work was either outside of their realm of knowledge,” Unnecessary? I don’t even follow the statement’s framing even if I validated the apparent nerdswipe
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by ricksunny 19d ago
“…at worst, they will cause people who see it for what it is to question your authenticity entirely.” love it. I mean, if a world is going to exist that treats LLM-assisted writing with serenity, the content creator should consider themsel
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by ricksunny 1mo ago
The social graph proximity of Rationalists to Anthropic will be lost on no one who reads Astralcodexten. So guess which website has served as the thickest reservoir of 'Claude-isms'.
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by ricksunny 1mo ago
While I’ve nothing to say about these research scientists in particular, knowing precisely nothing about them, it wouldn’t be the first time that so-called ‘bonafide’ research scientists made a statistical boo-boo, even one structural to th
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by ricksunny 1mo ago
epistemics asks how many different hypotheses besides p-tau217 levels were tested before arriving at the specified spread.
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by ricksunny 1mo ago
Interesting thanks - sounds like a vote for 'the work of elucidating the problem space' > 'the software engineering itself'.

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