happened with Replika a few years ago. made a number of people suicidal when they “neutered” their AI partners overnight with a model update (ironically, because of pressure because of how unhealthy it is.)
idk, I’m of two minds. it’s sad and unhealthy to have a virtual best friend, but older people are often very lonely and a surrogate is better than nothing.
/ˌkʌːlˈaɪɔpi/
/hɛdʒˈɛːmʌni/
/vɪtɪlˈaɪɡoʊ/? I think?
I kinda suck at IPA.
it’s /ˈpoːdəbl/ in American English anyway.
French spelling is a total shitshow too. what’s their excuse? Spanish and Italian turned out normal.
it’s wild to think that we embed miniature copies of Greek and Latin into English, for doing science and medicine. not just words, I mean a functional grammar fully stocked with roots and morphemes. we just make words like “holographic,” “isotope” and “synesthesia” (Greek), “accelerometer”, “prefabricated” and “refrigerator” (Latin), or hybrids (“television”, “microscope.”)
English is such a wonderful mutt of a language.
ohgodletmeinpleaseIneedtogetoutofhere uh I mean yeah understandable
there was a libertarian takeover project to use NH as a sort of libertarian exclave. NH also hosts the Porcupine Freedom Festival, which is like a summer camp for libertarians where you pay for booze and wares with slivers of gold. Planet Money has a great episode about it.
it’s not like a majority of NH is libertarian, it’s just the highest concentration of libertarians. and subjectively the vibes are real different from VT.
critiquing both is what makes you a left libertarian.
Libertarians in the US want small government on three axes: they want to eliminate programs (e.g. welfare, retirement or universal healthcare), public utilities (e.g. electricity, highways), and regulation (e.g. antitrust, banking laws.) in economic terms, it’s very right-wing, since it’s pure unadulterated capitalism. usually they want government to “stay out of the bedroom and the boardroom” though, so they’re often progressive on civil liberties. unfortunately, many self-styled “libertarians” are socially conservative, or care only about their freedoms.
Left Libertarians see both the State and Corporations as oppressive power structures, and want to reign both in. think Anarchists, but not as radical. most favor decentralized, collective government with lots of direct democracy. New Hampshire is the most right-libertarian state, while Vermont is the most left-libertarian.
the Libertarian Party in the US is ridiculously disorganized because organizing Libertarians is like herding cats. afaik there aren’t really unified Libertarian parties anywhere in the world, though maybe e.g. the Pirate Party would be close?
she’s the one that shouted the t-slur at Sarah McBride on the House floor.
yeah, they could have been like Belarus!
I support NATO, in the sense that if NATO dissolved Europe would get eaten like a three-course meal by Russia. Ukraine shows that all too clearly. it has many problems, though.
Czechia seems like it’d be pretty based. or Estonia. I like Central/Eastern Europe. or maybe Thailand.
the neutrino was estimated to at 220 PeV. goodness!
if they existed they’d be killer for RL. RL is insanely unstable when the distribution shifts as the policy starts exploring different parts of the state space. you’d think there’d be some clean approach to learning P(Xs|Ys) that can handle continuous shift of the Ys distribution in the training data, but there doesn’t seem to be. just replay buffers and other kludges.
what’s the difference between a single neural network and multiple neural networks? are BERTs multiple neural networks working together in concert, if you count the encoder and decoder separately? the different layers of a MoE? certainly VLMs count.
“politically motivated assassinations?” like the two Democratic politicians who were just murdered yesterday in Minnesota?
🎵trying to keep to the right
LLMs are trained on human writing, so they’ll always be fundamentally anthropomorphic. you could fine-tune them to sound more clinical, but it’s likely to make them worse at reasoning and planning.
for example, I notice GPT5 uses “I” a lot, especially saying things like “I need to make a choice” or “my suspicion is.” I think that’s actually a side effect of the RL training they’ve done to make it more agentic. having some concept of self is necessary when navigating an environment.
philosophical zombies are no longer a thought experiment.