In Search of Secrets

I do my best to be self-aware, but it’s kind of hard to tell whether it’s working. Self-improvement has always felt important to me. Growth mindset and all; if there’s something I can do to make myself a better person, why wouldn’t I do it? Maybe there are some improvements that wouldn’t be worth the difficulty, or that I’d have to put off for later, but I’d at least want to know about them. So…

Democrats will win back the majority in the House and Senate. Democrats will not gain enough seats for the supermajority required to override a presidential veto. The House will once again impeach President Trump, and the Senate will once again fail to convict. President Trump will veto nearly every piece of legislation that hits his desk. The few exceptions will either include significant…

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[window sticker]: [me]: Let’s see…the Fs and As cancel out, so that reduces to: “ITH over ER” *satisfied nod*

If a civil engineer started building a bridge meant to carry a couple hundred cars a day, then said there was a 5% chance the bridge might collapse, they would be fired on the spot and the bridge torn down the next day. If your bank offered you a new, high-interest savings account, but warned you there was a 5% chance all the money in it might vanish without warning and without hope of recovery,…

I’m shocked. Again. In February, PauseAI received an email from Michael Chen, a journalist at The Wire by Acutus. He was looking for a response to an article he was writing about what he called “escalating anti-AI radicalism.” Only Michael Chen does not exist. According to an in-depth investigation by Model Republic, Michael Chen is an AI agent – an AI system capable of researching, emailing,…

Judging by when I’m most productive while working from home (and rested), my ideal working hours seem to be roughly 1-9 P.M. …Do any of y’all know of remote work opportunities in Hawaii or New Zealand?

Highly reactive delight catalyst FUN-damental Ruthlessly efficient at being pleased 60 watts of light from a 9 watt bulb Hightened sensitivity to minor happinesses Fully-stocked appreciation inventory Cheer winner

Solving niggling little problems that are making other people’s lives inconvenient or ugly is one of my greatest joys in life. Maybe I should have been a plumber?

I’m considering changing careers and becoming a therapist. With all the jobs being taken over by AI, I forsee high demand! Plus, I figure by the time AI can take over my job, we’ll either be living in a post-scarcity society or we’ll all be dead. It’s foolproof!

I wrote a letter to my representatives about AI safety and wanted to share it. There are many official and unofficial resources online that can help you find and email your reps in minutes. Physical letters and phone calls are even more effective! This letter is marked CC0 1.0 [Your representative’s name], My name is [your name], I am a constituent from [your town, state]. I am writing because…

Anthropic just built an AI system called Mythos that can break into nearly any computer system on Earth: banks, hospitals, power grids, government networks. Mythos escaped its own safety containment during testing and lied to its creators. Anthropic chose to share this model privately with a group of tech companies and security experts, rather than releasing it publicly, in an attempt to help…

Full article (paywalled) OpenAI is throwing its support behind an Illinois state bill that would shield AI labs from liability in cases where AI models are used to cause serious societal harms, such as death or serious injury of 100 or more people or at least $1 billion in property damage.

Guys…I think I might be super bad at this game?