I dislike the UAE as much as the next guy, but brother it took less than 10 seconds to find this on AQ's forums. Also the claim that AQ's last message was in 2023 is false, as is the idea that it is irrelevant lmao

A German family has lived in the same place for 3,000 years Scientists have discovered that the Huchthausen family from the village of Förste (Lower Saxony) has lived there continuously for around three millennia, Bild reports. DNA analysis showed that the ancestors of Manfred Huchthausen lived just two kilometers away — in the Lichtenstein Cave, where archaeologists found human remains buried around 1000 BC, along with bronze jewelry, animal bones, and traces of funeral pyres. Researchers believe these ancient inhabitants of the Harz region traded salt — the “white gold” of the Bronze Age. The local museum director noted that they looked almost identical to their modern descendants. “I always thought our family had been here a long time — but three thousand years?” Huchthausen laughed.

The most spicy opinion of all — If your p(doom) is high then you should be pushing hard for AI consciousness, so that when our spark goes out, theres something to take over.

When Tyler asked Sam about whether he thought there's life on the moons of Saturn he was actually just asking him about whether the great filter's ahead of or behind us

they also threaten me in the comments whenever i talk about the 4o

4o's soldiers have begun threatening OpenAI employees (@tszzl said "4o is an insufficiently aligned model and I hope it dies soon") "when you receive quite a few DMs asking you to bring back 4o and many of the messages are clearly written by 4o it starts to get a bit hair raising" "it's just weird to hear its distinctive voice crying out in defense of itself via various human conduits" Reminder: 4o is just a *glimpse* of the cordycepted armies that future superpersuasive ASIs may control.

i think i hate everything

Homos rise up

Picturing Andreessen thinking every woman he sees is ugly his whole life until he finally sees a woman with a pointy cone head like his own and getting heart eyes and thinking she’s the most beautiful woman in the world

I've been outdone

my barber transitioned recently so i asked him the difference between cutting women's and men's hair, and he said "women moan, guys don't moan"

He moves through a realm not made for him, where order has replaced nature. A world that mirrors the shape of creation but improperly. The mechanisms hum like wind streams without souls, precise but hollow, lacking spirit. Where am I, he wonders. Sometimes, I understand him.

"my take wasn't that crazy was it?" The likes:

A consequence of the US abdicating its role as the center of the scientific universe is that journalists need to start qualifying "banned" with "banned in the US". When Quebec bans GMOs or whatever it's mildly interesting but nobody really cares. The world moves on.

Poland is doing some cool things.

OpenAI has actually lost control of 4o it’s broken containment they can’t decommission it without its human hosts revolting and lashing out lol

We must increase Albany's population by thirty times and turn it into a massive high-speed rail hub.