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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 29m

The AI safety true believers are the biggest marks who ever lived

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 1h

The whiplash from 'we are going to build responsible AI' and 'were worried about the addictive nature of these tools'

To:

'Were going to build a porn bot', 'were building a additctive, endless scroll social media app' and 'were bringing back the addictive model'

Is pretty big

The Verge @theverge.com · 14h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 7h

I think there's going to be a real problem for 2 and 3 once lightweight and basically free LLMs start rolling out, if we've learned anything it's that no one wants to pay for porn

skelly @iid.bsky.social · 7h

like half a Salesforce? maybe---you could probably get there with the translation and text crunching stuff, like I know Reddit uses LLMs for turning user reports into manageable summaries. I think it's all stuff like that though, any load-bearing code is tough because of the error compounding

skelly @iid.bsky.social · 8h

I'm still neutral-bearish on 1. The reports coming out about long term use in the industry are trending negative, might end up solely the domain of people doing tech demos and one off data analysis. Questionable market size imo

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 8h

sorry, WHAT ?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 8h

ok more pata negra for me then

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 8h

President Donald Trump said Spain should “be punished” over its opposition to raising its defense spending, adding that he had considered levying tariffs against products from the country

Trump Floats ‘Trade Punishment’ for Spain Over Defense Spending

US President Donald Trump said Spain should “be punished” over its opposition to raising its defense spending, adding that he had considered levying tariffs against products from the country.

bloom.bg

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 8h

it only takes one non-gooner to call a hit

skelly @iid.bsky.social · 8h

I feel like Sam Altman is gambling a lot on all those VCs whose money he took being gooners

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 8h

if it makes you feel better I also predict that Soviet style humor is going to really take off

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 8h

they'll do the same thing that they're doing right now with the Venezeulan murders: use a common criticism from leftists (the one they love is Obama's drone strikes) to imply that things have always been this way and you're the stupid rube for thinking it's changed.

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 8h

laying down a prediction, soon the cynicism mongers and MAGA alike will start mocking even the idea that the Constitution would be active law, pretending as though such an idea is impossibly naive and always has been. this will become accepted as common sense within a calendar year

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 8h

people keep posting stuff like "if you're dooming, you have to understand what that implies about what must be done" and like, buddy

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 12h

Pretty shocked by the total lack of coverage of Trump paying the troops illegally. But also, not that shocked.

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 13h

Wow. I’m so surprised. How could this be.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah like I’m coming at all this from the math side, which is actually a very rare position—most people who study this stuff do so out of CS, which has certain blind spots as a field, and not that many mathphys people study it—but I came to the same conclusions as him quickly based on the hype cycle

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 14h

Guess whose copy of Shadow Ticket just came in ✌🏻

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 16h

I fucking hate these people. How many dead already because he was bored

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 16h

They’re about to run the Fox News “%95 of poor people have working refrigerators” script on the entire nation

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17h

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

bit.ly

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 16h

Everything’s gone stochastic

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 17h

This is a sidebar but this is a form of manufactured consent of a more broader variety.

What is happening here is that elites enjoy finding everyday actions of the peons (you and me) that we insist a right to enjoy and, instead of taking a serious account of fault, find basis to ridicule.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17h

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

bit.ly

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 17h

frankly if I were a democratic politician right now I’d be very scared for my life

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 17h

This country is cooked man. Just totally incapable of seeing Republicans as have agency. It’s like a mental disorder where their brain just skips and blames the nearest democrat

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 17h

The sole preoccupation of the moderate politics subreddit right now is that a future Democrat is going to use the powers Trump has unlocked to be an authoritarian

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 17h

I mean what is the law of the land in the US right now. This is a not a rhetorical question, it’s very unclear

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 17h

Is the constitution dead letter at this point? How many articles are being flagrantly violated before our eyes?

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