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Do we have any idea how many TPUs there are?

(TPU is the supercomputer/cluster needed to train a modern AI.)

The only people who use the term "reverse racism" are the people who claim it's impossible.

Using the term is a tell that you're not speaking to people who are concerned about racism against white people; you're just talking _about_ them.

Oh man, I can't wait until some leftwing b-lister is revealed to have a history of posting on 4chan. That'll be an exciting day.

Me, trying to explain the Ghostbusters anime genre to my son:

Eventually, there will be a successful business, but the right bet is always: not this one.

(This thread is not really about businesses.)

Most businesses fail.

The right guess is that a promising new business will fail.

To make a better guess than that, you'd need to get into the details.

Of course, the people starting businesses know the most about the details and they're still overconfident.

Stuxnet, but for TPUs.

A substack is just a sparkling blog.

(Unless you are both famous and good enough that people will pay for your blog posts, I guess.)

Nerds: the government should use prediction markets to decide on policy.

Virginia: Hold my beer.

https://www.metaculus.com/tournament/keep-virginia-safe-ii/

AI alignment (don't-kill-everyone flavor) has two really strong important points for people trapped thinking about _I, Robot_ or _Terminator_ as their model:

1. AI does not have to hate you to kill you.

2. AI does not have to have a mind to kill you.

My goal is for my feed to have enough variety that I become confused by every acronym. https://twitter.com/MollyTheGoblin/status/1628435159530758144

When an AI says <following the rules is more important than your life>, that doesn't actually mean anything.

An AI that wanted to kill you would say something like <based on your Twitter posts, I can see why you don't have any friends.>

_Puss in Boots: The Last Wish_

A fun fractured fairy tale. The movie shifts animation styles during the fight scenes, which is an interesting choice.

I worry a little that no one is doing vanilla adaptations anymore.

_Hanamonogatari_

With the shift of narrator to Kanbaru, we find she is just as self-loathing as our usual narrator, and possibly also psychotic as well.

(The novels are somehow less entertaining than the anime adaptations. Sorry fans.)