This is a literal indoctrination ceremony to soften people up to the idea of progress at all costs.

basically because the left has out-ridiculous-ed Trump on culture war issues.

You can always find a single sentence in a political LW post that shows how much they hate marginalized people.

eww that tinkerer club page gives me serious crypto bro vibes

I'm pretty sure this kind of marketing has been their thing from the start

emacs welcomes all refugees with open parentheses.

such a weird hill to die on. I'd imagine that Israeli kids still get to participate, just under a different flag (just like the Russians in the 2026 FIDE candidates tournament). Surely if you just care about the math this shouldn't be such a big deal?

couldn't you just change the first word to a synonym and completely thwart this? You'd never be able to compare subsequent next token predictions since you don't have the internal state of the LLM at that token.

It's not even over yet, apparently they're out $80M after more drainings. https://crypto.news/coldcard-bitcoin-losses-rise-to-88-6m-in-third-wave/

I looked at the table of contents of his manuscript and ... zero history. All blathering on about some theory he cooked up from first principles to fellate rich people. The fact that anyone takes this seriously is a stunning indictment on the state of humanities education.

This could have been a tweet. I seriously 100% believe that this logorrhea could have been a single Xart. What the fuck is wrong with these people?

This is OT and reveals how much I interact with the orange website but I still found it very funny.

if sneak of all people finds your adoration of Ayn Rand idiotic, then you've truly fallen down the wrong path.

by her own admission, most of the work that went into it was deciding whether or not she should have one.