Dan Hon

I mean Elon already said that we've got to colonize the moon to do exactly that, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Fooling people into thinking things prefaced with "BREAKING" are news feels like the equivalent of chatbots fooling people into thinking they're sentient just by using the pronoun "I".

This is the foreign policy/military/diplomatic equivalent of when tech people turn up in government thinking they know how to fix everything.

Zero!

I continue to think it's a skill issue and just like Snow Crash, until a certain age you can still think that if you studied real hard for 10 years you could be the baddest a capella singer and sound real good. If you just devoted your life to it.

you've got world's richest dude seriously going around saying he's going to build AI datacenters in orbit which is the stupidest thing

you've got the CEO of an AI company on record saying stupid shit like he wants to build all the computronium

you *know* both of them are listening to their LLMs

Kinda convincing myself that this is the AI scenario that's actually happening

They were already capable of superhuman persuasion, but not because of any AI, more because of how so many people have a zero-day for anything that sounds like it talks like a human.

You successfully figured out the prompt for my post.

still getting my head around this one and trying to figure out whether it's actually happening because I think it is actually happening

I think I should turn this into an epistolary short story.

but the AIs ARE persuading us to build lots of datacenters

Tired: paperclip maximizer problem
Wired: datacenter maximizer problem

Consultants Are Going To Love This!

Love it when people answer a question by answering a different question.

i love bees

walzr.com/payphone-go/

Who also had this on the prediction markets (not that it's that much of an insidery prediction, tbh) actually just futures?

I HAVE TO GET A RENTAL CAR?!

as others have pointed out, it's that this is now being openly and loudly and positively proclaimed as a strategic goal

But if I'm driving then I have to get a rental?!

Look if I can do that I have to be honest I'm probably not going to Dover.

The Trump administration says it can’t process tariff refunds because of computer problems Refunds might not arrive until April.

Time for the National Design Studio to shine! I'm sure they can vibecode something up within 45 days or less.

"In a filing on Friday, [the] CBP executive director says the agency’s digital import processing system is “not well suited to a task of this scale,”"

www.theverge.com/policy/89090...

no really how am I supposed to get to Dover, DE / what's the best way to get there?

I only fly away, I don't know where my soul is?

ha, yes!

Antscan’s 3D Atlas Reveals Ant Anatomy Like Never Before How does a particle accelerator help us understand ants like never before?

TIL Sam Beckett's research started with ants

spectrum.ieee.org/3d-scanning-...

In retrospect, TEDification considered harmful

Seriously wtf

what do you mean I can't just fly to Dover, DE

All this talk about prediction markets influencing outcomes, how might such a market / what might a market need to do to increase the odds of a successful impeachment?