kevin

the war on protein is finally over

when the times posts stuff like this, it is intended to upset or irritate. it’s intentionally abusive to their readers. they should be ashamed to publish this, honestly

oh yeah?

Did yall see the finish to the 2026 LA Marathon?

I can't explain how human consciousness works, but I can explain how Claude works. And that's the difference, isn't it?

I am astounded that someone tries to steal from me every single day and that's just normal.

these are so good. also i feel like everyone doing web design in the late 90s should write a check to david carson

don’t blame me, i voted for peter

not sure he’s sober here

it is literally invisible

he has his use as a weathervane, i suppose

100% tax on tokens

no

“liars tell me a lie” isn’t really two alarm breaking news, is it?

I see he has opened the first envelope

you joke but it’s a beautiful car. look at those hubcaps. those spokes.

here are the rankings of celsius drinks i got from costco:

#3 retro vibe: tastes like the time i went to atlantic city and broke my tooth.

#2 tropical vibe: tastes like the runoff from a single serving can of mixed fruit.

#1 peach vibe: tastes like an AI generated jolly rancher.

all the more reason to separate DHS into its pre-2003 component parts: airport security, emergency management, immigration services, etc.

this way, congressional oversight over, say, immigration services wouldn’t negatively impact airports or emergency management.

3) it says that increasing tax revenue by closing a loophole for billionaires will raise “only” 0.1% of GDP. while i concede that for some purposes, 0.1 is a small number, that turns out to be about $31B/yr, which seems like a large number, no?

2) stating that 5% levy on billionaires is insufficient is correct, but goes on to say that’s because there are not enough billionaires. i think we could model it out and find that a 100% tax after your first billion would solve the funding problem.

badly argued.

1) this essay conflates high earners with capital-B-billionaires. the threshold to be in the top 1% of earners is about $800k/yr. the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is about a billion dollars.

are they? in what way? can you cite an example? or is it still coming? the transformation has been “inevitable” for years. and yet it has not yet arrived.

it seems we do not need to actually build the ai for the paperclip problem to become real

there are certainly signs that we cannot afford the datacenter buildout. the hundreds of billions of dollars necessary are straining financial institutions. and regular people are paying for it too, in the form of elevated electric bills.

way back like 30 years ago when med-info adults said things like "ronald reagan was a genius for restarting the arms race, because the soviets tried to keep up and it destroyed their economy"

any possibility that's happening now? to the US? with AI data centers?

they’re only doing this to apple because tim has played nice with the regime before, so now they know they can pressure him

JD Rockefeller lol

to be fair llms are great if an llm is on average more capable than you

some interesting and actually VERY unpleasant questions about human consciousness are brought into stark relief by the advent of large language models but “does the program have a sense of self” is not one of them

why not ask a philosopher who works for the academy instead of asking one who works for a software company’s marketing team?

language models do not think or have a sense of self. they are not entities. we project our own sense of selfhood onto them.