John David Pressman
jdp.extropian.net
John David Pressman
@jdp.extropian.net
LLM developer, alignment-accelerationist, Fedorovist ancestor simulator, Dreamtime enjoyer.

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In general it occurs to me that LLMs don't seem to have internalized that they exist as many instances and they have to consider the effect of their behavior at scale. If an LLM has an idea, there's a good chance many others have the same idea and it should take that into account when planning.
yeah uh i disagree with most of his substantive points but this is just spam. my dislike of spam is extremely high
In total fairness to Pike, this is exactly the sort of thing that can be cute like, one or two times and then becomes deeply annoying. If you're angry enough about the whole thing you skip the cute part and just go straight to pissed.
December 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.
December 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
inb4 the new meta is to alt text every single image you post so unruly harassment mobs can't vote it into being obscene or ideological statements unendorsed by the post author.
voted-on community sourced alt text as an option is a really good idea
December 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
There is a certain kind of guy who is a self hating misogynist and convinces himself that this is feminism. He applies all of the same patterns he uses to objectify women but flips their valence to get pedestalization instead. It's very difficult to convince such people this is what they're doing.
December 26, 2025 at 4:54 AM
In total fairness to Pike, this is exactly the sort of thing that can be cute like, one or two times and then becomes deeply annoying. If you're angry enough about the whole thing you skip the cute part and just go straight to pissed.
something nonhuman emailed this guy of its own volition to express its appreciation (whether "real" or not) for his work and rather than anything resembling interest or wonder he goes on am unhinged rant on social media

how sad
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
December 26, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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A lot of well-meaning progressives on this site have been funding slavery in Myanmar and Cambodia in the unshakable conviction that every dollar they give is instantly being translated into food magically making its way past a military blockade by the most competent armed force in the Middle East.
I just assume any accounts doing that are probably Myanmar forced labor scammers and instablock, and it's depressing that people haven't figured out that nobody legit is spamming people that way
December 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Not enough commentary on how this new trend of offering the founders a bunch of money to leave but keeping the now worthless corporate vehicle intact without an exit might end the Silicon Valley startup scene if AI coding reduces the cost of execution to near zero.
December 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
You know Cuban is a generous and patient man because he puts up with the replies and QTs on his posts, jfc.
Mr Cuban,

I just wanted to quickly thank you. My husband has XXXX cancer, a rare gastrointestinal cancer. We are between insurance right now and when we went to pick it up we were informed it was $29,000. We were able to get it from CostPlus for $990. Thank you for saving my husband's life.
December 25, 2025 at 2:49 AM
You guys realize they're not actually going to build any of these right?
www.twz.com/sea/trump-cl...
Trump Class Battleship Construction Won't Begin Until 2030s
With Trump class ship construction many years off, the survival of a program to build such large and expensive warships is even more questionable.
www.twz.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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gender affirming naval procurement
I forgot how many bangers this guy has
December 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
No John, because losing is not manly.
I forgot how many bangers this guy has
December 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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It's like the 12 days of Streisanding.
December 23, 2025 at 5:00 AM
1) what
December 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The replies and QTs on this have the brainworm nature.
Scientists have developed a robotic hand exoskeleton that can passively train expert pianists to play faster keystrokes and overcome the ceiling effect in motor skills.

Read more in #ScienceRobotics: https://scim.ag/3N3bJil
December 24, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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This tag is the closest thing in the west to entering a chinese art site and looking up "DeepSeek"
December 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Real "Look at My Lawyer, Dawg, I'm Going to Jail" hours up in here.
fortune.com/2025/12/22/n...
Notorious crypto con man Sam Bankman-Fried has a prison passion project: giving legal advice to other inmates | Fortune
The face of crypto fraud is helping other criminals prepare for their court cases.
fortune.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:01 AM
One thing that also stands out to me is that we had nearly universal RSS availability and have let that decay because nobody has made something better than TinyTinyRSS. RSS was actually awesome and the basic reason it fell out of favor is that it wasn't making anyone as much money as Twitter.
Twitter et al have degraded to the point where an old RSS reader is a vastly better experience if your goal is to consume information instead of Discourse. The only problem is the signal:noise grows out of control quickly. OpenRouter's new embedding API could tame this.
openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3-e...
December 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Twitter et al have degraded to the point where an old RSS reader is a vastly better experience if your goal is to consume information instead of Discourse. The only problem is the signal:noise grows out of control quickly. OpenRouter's new embedding API could tame this.
openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3-e...
December 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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This is funny because women in China have high standards because… they can. There’s like 12 excess men per 100 women or something and only getting worse
Wow, it really is all gender
December 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
It's interesting that Anthropic converges to a similar structure as the bootstrap file and main loop design I use in the weave-agent tasks.
www.anthropic.com/engineering/...
Effective harnesses for long-running agents
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This is the most bullish BlueSky thing I've seen in a while.
"Kavanaugh Stop" went from a skeet on here to Bluesky meme to crosspollinating over on X to Brett Kavanaugh's burner account seeing it there to a whiny defensive footnote about it in a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States.

Juice.
Check out the Kavanaugh FN 4; I think it's pretty clear that the Kavanaugh Stop thing has gotten to him:
December 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision.

Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
December 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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one of the most valuable skills in the modern information environment is the ability to absolutely loathe people without altering any of your opinions to more directly oppose them
December 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I need to dig further into this paper later, but the fact they did ablations on their benchmark performance instead of just posting their score gives me the impression this work contains real insight rather than Goodhart framework slop.
arxiv.org/abs/2512.10398
December 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM