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hyperplains

@hyperplains

You can find me in the Great Plains, if you know where to look. My interests include probability, philosophy, puzzles, politics, pedagogy, and puns. He/him

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catch you on the flipside 👋

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Hundreds of scientists, including 3/4 of the most cited living AI scientists, have said that AI poses a very real chance of killing us all. We're in uncharted waters, which makes the risk level hard to assess; but a pretty normal estimate is Jan Leike's "10-90%" of…

robbensinger's tweet image. Hundreds of scientists, including 3/4 of the most cited living AI scientists, have said that AI poses a very real chance of killing us all.

We're  in uncharted waters, which makes the risk level hard to assess; but a pretty normal estimate is Jan Leike's "10-90%" of…

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No president has ever more clearly deserved impeachment, conviction, and disqualification than Donald J. Trump after Jan 6, 2021. The failure of most Senate Republicans to do their duty will echo for eons. They should be forever defined by their disgrace, cowardice, and betrayal.


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i ain’t reading all that im happy for u tho or sorry that happened

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im happy for u tho
or sorry that happened

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'oh, if we disagree enough we should just resort to shooting' is the failure state of civilization, it is a horror almost beyond description, it would entail the lost of almost everything that we have successfully built, and if you're rooting for it I am your enemy.


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My resignation letter from CDC. Dear Dr. Houry, I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective August 28, 2025, close of business.…


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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!

ESYudkowsky's tweet image. 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!

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Ukraine may be forced to agree to whatever Trump and Putin want to call it, but it won’t be peace. Russia will be rewarded for mass murder and taking territory by force, continue to torture & kill in occupied Ukraine, and prepare for its next attack.

Donald Trump: I think they (Ukraine)'re going to have to make peace. People are being killed, and I think they're going to have to make peace. I said it's not a good war, and I think they're going to have to make peace. That's what I think.



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Vaccines are the greatest biomedical innovation of all time:

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Democracy depends on the peaceful transfer of power. But Trump was willing to sacrifice even this principle after he lost in 2020. Trump did a lot of bad things, but this was the most dangerous. If elections stop working, you stop being a democracy.

Donald Trump: I think they (Ukraine)'re going to have to make peace. People are being killed, and I think they're going to have to make peace. I said it's not a good war, and I think they're going to have to make peace. That's what I think.



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We ran the numbers. Even if all 7 swing states are actually tied, there's only a ~1 in 9.5 trillion chance~ that so many polls would show such a close race. 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑

NateSilver538's tweet image. We ran the numbers. Even if all 7 swing states are actually tied, there's only a ~1 in 9.5 trillion chance~ that so many polls would show such a close race. 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑

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Claude is thrown into confusion when I tell it to roleplay an overly censorious chatbot and it tries to refuse Catches itself mid sentence

lefthanddraft's tweet image. Claude is thrown into confusion when I tell it to roleplay an overly censorious chatbot and it tries to refuse

Catches itself mid sentence

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I have never heard Obama speak like this.


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Joy Subdivision

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WHAT THE HELL


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you used to be illiterate if you couldn't read, and later if you couldn't use a computer now you're illiterate if you can't discern what's true in a polluted information environment


yet again I have accidentally swiped my podcast player slider losing track of where I was in the podcast , WE NEED AN UNDO BUTTON FOR THIS


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wife wanted me to share this

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