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"Most people are truly afraid. We must not be."
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Items of interest
2025-04-17
1. https://youtu.be/ATmJb3bH2E0
An overview of good notetaking techniques. A good phrasing of obvious advice by Professor Jeffrey Kaplan (yours truly).
2. https://t.me/axisofordinary/7114
It's over. Disenfranchisement incoming. Decoupling of economy from human capital imminent.
3. https://developers.googleblog.com/en/start-building-with-gemini-25-flash/
4. https://github.com/x1xhlol/system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-tools
Multiple system prompt leaks involving proprietary agentic software. Meh.
5. http://danmidwood.com/content/2014/11/21/animated-paredit.html
2025-04-17
1. https://youtu.be/ATmJb3bH2E0
An overview of good notetaking techniques. A good phrasing of obvious advice by Professor Jeffrey Kaplan (yours truly).
2. https://t.me/axisofordinary/7114
It's over. Disenfranchisement incoming. Decoupling of economy from human capital imminent.
3. https://developers.googleblog.com/en/start-building-with-gemini-25-flash/
Today we are rolling out an early version of Gemini 2.5 Flash in preview through the Gemini API via Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. Building upon the popular foundation of 2.0 Flash, this new version delivers a major upgrade in reasoning capabilities, while still prioritizing speed and cost. Gemini 2.5 Flash is our first fully hybrid reasoning model, giving developers the ability to turn thinking on or off. The model also allows developers to set thinking budgets to find the right tradeoff between quality, cost, and latency. Even with thinking off, developers can maintain the fast speeds of 2.0 Flash, and improve performance.
4. https://github.com/x1xhlol/system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-tools
Multiple system prompt leaks involving proprietary agentic software. Meh.
5. http://danmidwood.com/content/2014/11/21/animated-paredit.html
Paredit is great, it brings structural editing to lisps, maintaining the syntactical correctness of your code. [...] Slurping is when the current S-expression or string is expanded by pulling in the next outer S-expression. Barfing is the opposite, contracting the S-expression by pushing out it's last-most form.
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Forwarded from Axis of Ordinary
“The Russian Paradox: So Much Education, So Little Human Capital”
Read more: https://conversableeconomist.com/2025/04/17/russia-an-unhealthy-population/
Read more: https://conversableeconomist.com/2025/04/17/russia-an-unhealthy-population/
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Forwarded from Et In Arcadia Ego (Alt Skull️)
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hoe_math | PSYOPS [How your brain is being used against you]
SUMMARY:
I AM NOT SELF-DELETIONAL. MY LIFE IS GOING BETTER THAN EVER. I DO NOT PLAN TO TAKE ANY RISKS OR USE ANY NARCOTICS. There, now that you've all read that, I'm safe from the government. Right?
WHY are all the girls in my videos so insane?
You all know me as a "dating" creator. I actually focus on psychology. I just... MOSTLY do the psychology of dating. For now.
BK, the expert I interviewed in this video, reached out to me to explain what he does and what he knows to my audience. A lot of people reach out to me, but I couldn't resist this one. BK's knowledge helped me fill a lot of gaps in between "dating" content and the real meat and bones of psychology.
Your mind doesn't work how you think it does. There are people who know how it works, and some of them use it against you. This manipulation of your brain is so common and so powerful that it has changed the course of history... and most people don't even know it.
In PSYOPS, I use BK's experience, my ability to explain, and examples from recent years to show you how your brain is getting hijacked... and the brains of everyone around you, especially the tiktok girlies.
@AltSkull48
@TheParanormiesPresent
SUMMARY:
I AM NOT SELF-DELETIONAL. MY LIFE IS GOING BETTER THAN EVER. I DO NOT PLAN TO TAKE ANY RISKS OR USE ANY NARCOTICS. There, now that you've all read that, I'm safe from the government. Right?
WHY are all the girls in my videos so insane?
You all know me as a "dating" creator. I actually focus on psychology. I just... MOSTLY do the psychology of dating. For now.
BK, the expert I interviewed in this video, reached out to me to explain what he does and what he knows to my audience. A lot of people reach out to me, but I couldn't resist this one. BK's knowledge helped me fill a lot of gaps in between "dating" content and the real meat and bones of psychology.
Your mind doesn't work how you think it does. There are people who know how it works, and some of them use it against you. This manipulation of your brain is so common and so powerful that it has changed the course of history... and most people don't even know it.
In PSYOPS, I use BK's experience, my ability to explain, and examples from recent years to show you how your brain is getting hijacked... and the brains of everyone around you, especially the tiktok girlies.
@AltSkull48
@TheParanormiesPresent
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Forwarded from Startups & Ventures
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Autonomous cars were supposed to be the future of mobility — but in LA, they’re also becoming tools of surveillance. Footage from a Waymo robotaxi was recently used by police in a hit-and-run case, officially opening a new front in automated street-level monitoring.
• LAPD used footage from a Waymo vehicle as part of an investigation
• The footage was labeled “Waymo Confidential Commercial Information”
• Police have also tapped Tesla, Cruise, and Ring cameras in past cases
Cameras in robotaxis aren’t just for self-driving — they record everything. As Waymo expands in SF, LA, and Phoenix, your daily movements may already be passively recorded and subject to subpoenas or warrants.
The company says it only complies with “legally valid” requests and pushes back on overbroad demands. But critics warn this sets a precedent where surveillance becomes a feature of everyday infrastructure.
From Teslas catching vandals to Rings catching burglars, we’re entering a world where every smart device doubles as a security camera. That might help solve crimes — but it also means privacy is increasingly conditional.
Welcome to the age of passive policing — brought to you by autonomous fleets.
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Forwarded from Axis of Ordinary
A problem everyone will eventually have to grapple with is that issues other than AI will increasingly seem irrelevant.
People naturally care about issues like immigration, war, and declining birthrates. But at some point, everyone will have to be honest with themselves that these issues pale in comparison to the potential impact of an intelligence explosion and the automation of automation.
On a logarithmic scale of importance, artificial intelligence—along with directly related factors like energy abundance and computing power—dominates. Other problems, although significant, are orders of magnitude less impactful by comparison. For instance, while declining birthrates could lead to the collapse of welfare systems and broader economic turmoil over the coming decades, even the most pessimistic AI forecasts suggest that transformative AI and robotics will arrive sooner, rendering such demographic concerns moot.
Nonetheless, we must accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed. An intelligence explosion is not a certainty. And even if there is only a 1% chance that it won’t happen, we owe it to this small sliver of world states to address other problems before they cause irreparable harm.
So let's act as if the world is sane and normal and will continue to be so. If it then turns out that you're actually living in a completely insane universe full of mind-controlling superintelligences and impossible moral luck, so what? In that case, it doesn't matter what you did anyway, does it?
People naturally care about issues like immigration, war, and declining birthrates. But at some point, everyone will have to be honest with themselves that these issues pale in comparison to the potential impact of an intelligence explosion and the automation of automation.
On a logarithmic scale of importance, artificial intelligence—along with directly related factors like energy abundance and computing power—dominates. Other problems, although significant, are orders of magnitude less impactful by comparison. For instance, while declining birthrates could lead to the collapse of welfare systems and broader economic turmoil over the coming decades, even the most pessimistic AI forecasts suggest that transformative AI and robotics will arrive sooner, rendering such demographic concerns moot.
Nonetheless, we must accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed. An intelligence explosion is not a certainty. And even if there is only a 1% chance that it won’t happen, we owe it to this small sliver of world states to address other problems before they cause irreparable harm.
So let's act as if the world is sane and normal and will continue to be so. If it then turns out that you're actually living in a completely insane universe full of mind-controlling superintelligences and impossible moral luck, so what? In that case, it doesn't matter what you did anyway, does it?
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️I HATE THE ANTICHRIST️
https://futurism.com/altman-please-thanks-chatgpt
Only acceptable system prompt is
"very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very short answers"
Spam a bunch of "..." tokens as extra context after your prompt if you want it to think more. There you go.
"very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very short answers"
Spam a bunch of "..." tokens as extra context after your prompt if you want it to think more. There you go.
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Wiggerlab
Spam a bunch of "..." tokens as extra context
Major schizopost but from personal experience I found that doing that makes it likely that the LLM taps into latent space. Not exactly a jailbreak but it removes some bias from so-called "alignment".
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Forwarded from SS Eddy Fitz of The Trve Hellenic Shitpost Empire
ΚΑΛΗΜΕΡΑ! Χριστός ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη!
KALIMERA! Christós anésti! Alithós anésti!
GOOD MORNING! Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen!
KALIMERA! Christós anésti! Alithós anésti!
GOOD MORNING! Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen!
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Forwarded from Axis of Ordinary
Bird Intelligence:
1. "Among others, bird cognition encompasses abilities such as delay of gratification, mental time travel, reasoning, metacognition, mirror self-recognition, theory of mind, and third-party intervention." http://cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/abstract/S1364-6613(16)00042-5
2. African grey can perform some cognitive tasks at levels beyond that of 5-year-old humans. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/02/harvard-study-shows-parrots-can-pass-classic-test-of-intelligence/
3. Cognitive performance of four-months-old ravens may parallel adult apes https://phys.org/news/2020-12-cognitive-four-months-old-ravens-parallel-adult.html
4. New Caledonian crows plan for specific future tool use https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.1490
5. Crows keep special tools extra safe. Study suggest that crows have some concept of the relative 'value' of different tool types. https://www.mpg.de/18061418/1217-ornr-crows-keep-special-tools-extra-safe-987453-x
6. These crows have counting skills previously only seen in people https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01482-x
7. For the first time, research reveals crows use statistical logic https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/for-the-first-time-research-reveals-crows-use-statistical-logic/
8. New Zealand birds are capable of statistical inference. https://www.science.org/content/article/new-zealand-birds-show-humanlike-ability-make-predictions
9. Study Finds That Crows Are So Intelligent They Understand the Concept of Zero https://mymodernmet.com/crows-understand-zero/
10. Crows and magpies using anti-bird spikes to build nests, researchers find https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/11/crows-and-magpies-show-their-metal-by-using-anti-bird-spikes-to-build-nests
11. Brainiacs, not birdbrains: Crows possess higher intelligence and conscious processes long thought a primarily human attribute — "Research unveiled in Science finds that crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds, a manifestation of higher intelligence and analytical thought long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals." https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/24/crows-possess-higher-intelligence-long-thought-primarily-human/
12. How did birds get so smart? Part of the answer is that they've got primate-like numbers of neurons squeezed into their tiny bird brains. Another part is that avian neurons consume three times less glucose than mammalian neurons. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.07.070
13. “Corvids and parrots with brains of 5–20 g show cognitive properties similar to those of great apes like chimpanzees with brains of about 400 g…many associative pallial neurons, a pallial area that overtakes functions of the mammalian prefrontal cortex, dense dopaminergic innervation of associative pallial areas, and flexible neural fundaments of working memory…” https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(23)00281-4
1. "Among others, bird cognition encompasses abilities such as delay of gratification, mental time travel, reasoning, metacognition, mirror self-recognition, theory of mind, and third-party intervention." http://cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/abstract/S1364-6613(16)00042-5
2. African grey can perform some cognitive tasks at levels beyond that of 5-year-old humans. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/02/harvard-study-shows-parrots-can-pass-classic-test-of-intelligence/
3. Cognitive performance of four-months-old ravens may parallel adult apes https://phys.org/news/2020-12-cognitive-four-months-old-ravens-parallel-adult.html
4. New Caledonian crows plan for specific future tool use https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.1490
5. Crows keep special tools extra safe. Study suggest that crows have some concept of the relative 'value' of different tool types. https://www.mpg.de/18061418/1217-ornr-crows-keep-special-tools-extra-safe-987453-x
6. These crows have counting skills previously only seen in people https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01482-x
7. For the first time, research reveals crows use statistical logic https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/for-the-first-time-research-reveals-crows-use-statistical-logic/
8. New Zealand birds are capable of statistical inference. https://www.science.org/content/article/new-zealand-birds-show-humanlike-ability-make-predictions
9. Study Finds That Crows Are So Intelligent They Understand the Concept of Zero https://mymodernmet.com/crows-understand-zero/
10. Crows and magpies using anti-bird spikes to build nests, researchers find https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/11/crows-and-magpies-show-their-metal-by-using-anti-bird-spikes-to-build-nests
11. Brainiacs, not birdbrains: Crows possess higher intelligence and conscious processes long thought a primarily human attribute — "Research unveiled in Science finds that crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds, a manifestation of higher intelligence and analytical thought long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals." https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/24/crows-possess-higher-intelligence-long-thought-primarily-human/
12. How did birds get so smart? Part of the answer is that they've got primate-like numbers of neurons squeezed into their tiny bird brains. Another part is that avian neurons consume three times less glucose than mammalian neurons. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.07.070
13. “Corvids and parrots with brains of 5–20 g show cognitive properties similar to those of great apes like chimpanzees with brains of about 400 g…many associative pallial neurons, a pallial area that overtakes functions of the mammalian prefrontal cortex, dense dopaminergic innervation of associative pallial areas, and flexible neural fundaments of working memory…” https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(23)00281-4
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