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  • Now I'm no anarcho-libertarian, but I'd have thought basing my weird school/cult in a semi-authoritarian state like Malaysia would be a bit dumb.

  • Le Guin deserves credit for responding to her earlier work without denigrating it.

  • comedy gold

  • Was probably too much to hope for that he'd make any sort of break with current neoliberal-pilled Labour.

  • The Earthsea novels are not to be missed either. Maybe pass on the fifth.

  • If the queer experience on the 90s island of Harris intrigues you, we're halfway through Douglas Stuart's John of John and really enjoy it. Narrator has a Scots accent though, if you find that hard to deal with.

  • even his AI-generated profile pic is punchable

  • If you want to re-litigate the New Deal, rehabilitating Hoover is a good first step.

    The American far-right has the New Deal as its foundational Dolchstosslegende.

  • adding ”uplift” to the list of EA shibboleths

  • being "banned by Amazon" is probably good for PR

  • Consider me well and truly milkshake-ducked now

    phew, the comments on the slobstack...

    https://benthams.substack.com/p/the-epstein-hysteria/comment/219672502

    edit I guess this is also an example of "Rationalist Brain" - reflexively contrarian, overly literal interpretations of wordings, the defense of one venerable old white man over multiple anonymous female victims, etc. You can have principled views on how Epstein was treated when he was alive and how his case has been handled after he died, but you can also choose the keep those views to yourself, or publish them on your substack for all to point and mock.

  • Slave revolts were basically constant, and I think it would have been easy for contemporary British to blame the success of the Haitian revolt on the uselessness of the French, not that slavery was doomed because the slaves now had a "win".

    Brazil had horrific slave revolts and didn't abolish slavery until the late 1880s.

  • Amodei is the definition of "book smart" vs "street smart".

  • Thanks! Does every LLM vendor publish them, or is it an Anthropic thing only?

    And of course it's self-published by the vendor, so basically just PR.

  • officially out of the loop here:

    What is an LLM "system card", does it have any sort of scientific/technical validity, or is it just performance theater by the LLM vendor?