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I block on ad hominem argument or personal attacks; not the same thing. Ad hominem is a signal/noise problem, personal attacks damage reasoning
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Thinking of coining *malakastocracy": government by wankers. Open to improvements

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Logic question: given that the "emergent misalignment" paper (arxiv.org/pdf/2502.17424) shows that training an LLM to write insecure code causes it to espouse Nazi ideology, should we infer that Musk writes insecure code? Use a Bayesian analysis.

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From Paxton's "Anatomy of Fascism", Knopf 2004 p 72-73: "This suggests that fascist interlopers cannot easily break into a political system that is functioning tolerably well. Only when the state and existing institutions fail badly do they open opportunities for newcomers."

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

The Guardian knows how to write a headline: "Trump cabinet flunkies hail wannabe Caesar and Elon, his oligarch pal"

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Pre buying Twitter, Musk was thinking of doing a clone called Pravda - Soviet paper, meaning "news". The other paper was Izvestia, meaning "truth". Izvestia Social has a nice ring to it

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

Plane down in Alaska, #3 for Duffy. Once is happenstance Twice is coincidence Three times is enemy action

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

2026 would have made for 250 years of American democracy. So close

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