Erik Edlund
@EdlundErik
VP Science at CarbonCloud Climate impact of agriculture
Just like everybody is born short housing, every wage earner is short AGI.
Lots of people telling on themselves (showing they only read the twitter discussions, not the SSC post like they should) x.com/slatestarcodex…
I can only speak for the ACX post, intended as the pop sci version for lazy people. See below for how it appeared on feeds (note subtitle, explained in text). I think if someone can't bring themselves to read the subtitle of the lazy pop sci version, there's no helping them.
First they came for the em-dash, and I didn’t speak up because I never use it x.com/effiebio/statu…
GPT 5.1 does use fewer em dashes (good) but it seems to compensate for that by using the colon a lot more... I’m afraid we’re on the verge of another punctuation nightmare scenario worse than the previous one…
New terrible programming language idea: Common Visp x.com/fermatslibrary…
Before the 18th century it was common to use vincula (straight lines drawn above the operations) to indicate order of operations instead of parentheses.
Claude: You’re absolutely right! Narrator: The user was less than absolutely right.
”Grass? You mean the tiny self-replicating solar farms that expand exponentially to fill the earth?”
Karl Marx (according to @getfiscal): ”The moon in the fucking sky?” Joseph Glanvill, writing in 1661: ”It may be some Ages hence, a voyage to the *Southern* unknown *Tracts*, yea possibly the *Moon*, will not be more strange then one to *America*.
Meta-fiction with genre-savvy protagonists but the object level writing is too badly executed for their predictions to work, giving the meta level its conflict.
Hollywood has given you unrealistic expectations. Masters like Shore and Zimmer only compose for historically important royalty; for minor kingdoms like yours the score is written by the same circle of hacks reusing their limited repertoire. Sorry.
Damned if you just do things, damned if you just don’t
well well well if it isn't the consequences of my own inaction
Naming is terrible in everything politics touches due to the incentives. This is why you need an emperor to rectify the names. Mencius spoke about this
Funny that "pause" has now come to have two different and almost opposite meanings in AI policy - pause AI development, and pause state-level AI regulation. OpenAI is not the only one bad at naming things
Good news everyone! Eliezer has long enough timelines to schedule his book launch in September
Nate Soares and I are publishing a traditional book: _If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All_. Coming in Sep 2025. You should probably read it! Given that, we'd like you to preorder it! Nowish!
Catholics not beating the allegations that their religion is a profoundly un-American one. x.com/Jacobkupp/stat…
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