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Headline of a Q&A in New Yorker formatting Headline: A panicked middle-aged man refuses to tell me directions to the bathroom. Subhed: Please, I just have to pee. I'm in a hurry. By Isaac Chotiner March 4, 2026

Excuse me. Oh, God. Oh, no. Holy shit. Get away from me. I was wondering if you knew where the bathrooms are. Look, I'm ... it's not a crime to scroll through your high school girlfriend's Instagram account. We remained friends after high school! I was at her wedding! It's only natural to see how she's doing.

I'm in a bit of a hurry, and I'm afraid that if I choose the wrong corridor, I'll be late for my train. I think they're down that way, but I'm actually from out of town. Please stop talking to me.

Real quick, though. I agree that it's natural to be interested in an old friend, but aren't you afraid about the message you might be sending by liking a picture of her at the beach from 2015? If that did happen, and I'm only going off your word, it was probably an accident. They put the ... scroll bars or whatever ... close to the thumbs up button. People have been complaining about that for years. I've been complaining about that for years.

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

lmfao

just a warning, this is a paraphrase, not a real quote

..... 4.5 Sonnet?

this seems fine, especially compared to what haus said

I remember a couple years ago you said implementing the game in the software itself was going to be too cumbersome - what changed? (to be clear, very excited about this!)

forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/dgnCab...

if it's not five minutes it means you weren't walking fast enough

Two photos. The first shows Catturd tweeting: Name one US inspired regime change that hasn't ended in absolute disaster The next tweet shows him posting an AI illustration of Khamenei turned into a pile of dust. It says "I'm eliminated."

Two tweets. The first shows Laura Loomer promoting her show, where she says "A message has been sent that we are not interested in going back to the way politics were prior to Donald Trump, prior to 2016. We don't want warhawks. We don't want any more Neocons. We want American First. Period. End of discussion." The next tweet says: Today is a great day. Our military is amazing. @PeteHegseth is an absolute killer. Now you see why the Deep State worked so hard against him. It’s great having a Sec War who has Infidel literally tattooed on his body. He actually gets it. God bless him.

Two tweets. The first shows Will Chamberlain tweeting: The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars. If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position. The next tweet shows him posting "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead." The tweet has a USA flag attached.

Two tweets. The first shows Gunther Eagleman tweeting: "Warmonger Lindsey Graham just rushed to Fox to advocate for U.S. involvement as soon as he could. He is also pushing for a US-backed regime change in Iran. I would like to renominate Graham to get a one-way ticket to the frontlines of every war he wants America involved in." There's an attached video of Graham speaking. The next shows Eagleman tweeting: UST IN! President Trump is HARD AT WORK all weekend after the massive strikes on Iran! He’s already on the phone with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte! Trump is a machine!" There's an attached video of a news segment about the war in Iran.

manufacturing consent through lowly paid influencers

Anthropic has one but has explicitly stated that they will not enforce it if someone is bringing up safety issues

Depressing and two-faced coming from a guy who very recently harshly rebuked not only Trump but also the US-led international order before Trump. If he was just going to get on board with this kind of aggression, I don't understand what the point of that was.

Gotta know the basics of the situation before you comment, my guy

What do you think Hegseth marking Anthropic as a supply chain risk implies about whether Palantir will continue to use Anthropic as part of its relationship with the US government?

What ties to Palantir do you think remain now that they've been kicked out of their contract with the military?

I think she should be given some grace, given her whole situation

Not really - he thinks anything that slows AI progress is good

Very funny to say this as this whole thing may have started because of Palantir ratting on them to the Trump admin for being too woke

I can't really fault people for being cynical but Anthropic is possibly the most ideologically-driven company on the face of the earth. You can argue that their principles (including aggressive support for the US over China) are flawed, but it's pretty clear that they have them.

the funny thing about roon is he is in fact smart and insightful. just utterly compromised

lmfao no way

he doesn't think it matters. he thinks "credibility" will be fake and the endgame is simply reaching AGI before Anthropic, and that this will stymie their progress

i think the administration may try to force the matter. hopefully they lose in court

best model + the one most thoroughly integrated into classified systems

the actual threat, as I understand it, would be forcing AWS, GCP, and Azure to stop serving Anthropic inference/training

It's econ with gold cards, it gets better if you get red seals or steel or both so it scales.

Yeah you 100% take mime here

this is so fucking crazy

The ratsphere's tolerance of Yarvin and his orbiters is deeply embarrassing