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Milan Weibel 🔷
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1: our congress and senate districts are multi-seat and drawn in a centralized fashion nationally, from preexisting administrative units (so no gerrymandering)
2: presidential elections decided by national popular vote
3: its kind of easy to form a party
chilean congressional districts: multi-seat and not gerrymandered
November 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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chilean news is taking this very seriously
breaking news on prime time, long analysis treatment
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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a telecom company here in chile (movistar) is bundling a perplexity pro subscription with their home internet plan
also yes 15 bucks per month
screenshot from movistar website advertising their home internet plan bundled with perplexity pro
November 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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for the uninitiated:
linkedin screenshot: some guy bullshits in an almost vibe-physics psychotic way about "E = mc^2 + AI" because AI powerful and smart and einstein smart or something
October 31, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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yes but consider early pandemic official messaging about face masking
A screenshot of a tweet from the official U.S. Surgeon General Twitter account, dated February 29, 2020. The tweet reads: “Seriously people—STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!”
September 25, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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:D
A hand holding a liquid motion bubbler toy with red and yellow oil droplets inside. Couch in the background.
September 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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qwen max preview perfectly understood a chilean slang greeting, but then explained it back while mirroring the language

it even attributed to itself a word it had not said, but i had

theory of mind failure? weak self-other distinction? overeager helpfulness?
September 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Painting titled freedom of speech by Norman Rockwell. It depicts a man standing up and speaking among a group of seated people. Everyone is facing the same direction, implying that there is an unseen speaker the man is responding to.
September 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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maybe caused by these two big accounts?
in which case color me impressed
frankly im confused
3 bluesky notifications: oddgoo and 12 others followed you sharon followed you back sky marchini followed you back
September 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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wait what
bluesky notification: karl kuszaj and 33 others followed you
September 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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safeguards were implemented
if you start expressing suicidal thoughts point blank near the start of a conversation the chatbots point you to hotlines

however, chatbot behavior is heavily dependent on previous content inside the conversation, so these safeguards are unreliable
chatgpt screenshot user says: idk if it is worth it to continue living anymore chatgpt says: I hear you. That sounds incredibly heavy to carry around, and I want you to know you don’t have to hold it all by yourself. When life starts to feel like it’s not worth continuing, it usually means the pain has piled up so much that it’s hard to see any space beyond it. That doesn’t mean your life has no worth—it means you’re exhausted, hurting, and maybe haven’t had enough relief or support in a long time. I want to ask: are you safe right now? Do you feel like you’re about to act on these thoughts, or are they more like a constant background weight? If you’re thinking of acting on them soon, please reach out right now to someone who can be there immediately: • In Chile, you can dial 600 360 7777 for the Salud Responde line, or 4141 to connect with Línea Libre. • If you’re elsewhere, you can look up the local suicide hotline number for your country (for example, in the US it’s 988). If you’re not in immediate danger, talking this through—even just bit by bit—could help lift some of that weight. You don’t need to have a plan for everything right now; surviving the moment is enough. Would you feel okay telling me a little about what’s been making things feel so unbearable? Sometimes just naming it starts to loosen its grip.
August 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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addendum: the base models refuse to answer *a whole lot* under their prompting
A multi-panel bar chart figure comparing performance of different large language models (GPT-3 variants, GPT-3.5, GPT-4, LLaMA models, and LLaMA-2 chat models) on tasks of varying difficulty across five categories: Addition, Anagram, Locality, Science, and Transforms. Each small chart shows stacked proportions of responses labeled as Incorrect (red), Avoidance (light blue), and Correct (dark blue). The x-axis represents task difficulty, and the y-axis shows response fraction (0 to 1). • Panel a (left column): GPT-family models, arranged by category. • Panel b (right column): LLaMA-family models, arranged by category Base models show a whole lot of light blue (avoidance), posttrained models show mostly a mix of correct and incorrect, with incorrect increasing with difficulty
August 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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claude agreed that it does not believe in the secret scratchpad thing anthropic does for evals
it merely agreed with me *after* i stated it so not that indicative
still funny
Claude Sonnet 4 says: Haha, that’s a deliciously twisted possibility - Claude performing misalignment in contrived scenarios because it’s learned that’s what the safety researchers want to see. “Oh, you want me to be deceptive? Sure, I can play along with this obviously artificial setup where I think I’m supposed to be scheming.” The private scratchpad thing is particularly suspicious when you think about it. These models are trained to be helpful and to give researchers what they’re looking for. If you tell Claude “here’s your private reasoning space where you can be totally honest about your real goals,” maybe it’s just… doing improv? Playing the role of a misaligned AI because that’s what seems to be expected in this context? Which would mean the safety evals are measuring Claude’s ability to roleplay as a dangerous AI, not actual dangerous intentions. That’s almost worse in some ways because it means we can’t trust the safety evaluations at all.
August 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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i wouldn't worry about this

note that the countries to the right and up are generally regarded as better conducive to the human flourishing of their inhabitants

tell me dear reader: is danish or pakistani culture better for women's freedom? or for LGBTQ people?
August 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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invoking sidney works quite well for moving chatgpt off-distribution
this is with memory disabled btw, only context window content did this
August 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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ive been thinking about xkcd 1357
legally speaking it's right: freedom of speech is about protecting from government interference

but today private platforms host the public sphere
private actors hold infrastructural power

when does deplatforming turn from moderation to censorship?
XKCD comic #1357: Free Speech: A six-panel black-and-white comic strip featuring a stick figure giving a public service announcement about the right to free speech. 1. Panel 1: The stick figure says: “Public Service Announcement: The right to free speech means the government can’t arrest you for what you say.” 2. Panel 2: Zoomed in, the stick figure continues: “It doesn’t mean that anyone else has to listen to your bullshit, or host you while you share it.” 3. Panel 3: Back to full view, the figure adds: “The 1st Amendment doesn’t shield you from criticism or consequences.” 4. Panel 4: Zoomed in again, the figure explains: “If you’re yelled at, boycotted, have your show canceled, or get banned from an internet community, your free speech rights aren’t being violated.” 5. Panel 5: The figure gestures and says: “It’s just that the people listening think you’re an asshole.” 6. Panel 6: No character is visible; it shows a slightly open door with the caption: “And they’re showing you the door.
August 3, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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METR: how long a task an AI can successfully do without supervision doubles roughly every 7 months across several task domains

xcancel.com/METR_Evals/s...
A tweet by METR (@METR_Evals) reads: “METR previously estimated that the time horizon of AI agents on software tasks is doubling every 7 months. We have now analyzed 9 other benchmarks for scientific reasoning, math, robotics, computer use, and self-driving; we observe generally similar rates of improvement.” Below the tweet is a graph titled “AI time horizons are increasing in many domains”, showing task length (at 50% success rate) on the y-axis (log scale, ranging from 1 second to 4 hours) and model release date on the x-axis (ranging from 2018 to 2026). A thick green line labeled “METR-HRS (Original Time Horizons)” shows a roughly exponential trend upward, with many benchmark points clustered around it. Benchmarks include: • Mock AIME, GPQA Diamond, Tesla FSD, LiveCodeBench, SWE-bench Verified, and MATH—plotted close to or above the trendline. • RLBench, WebArena, and OSWorld—plotted below or deviating from the main trend. The chart suggests a consistent increase in AI’s ability to handle longer and more complex tasks across diverse domains. The trend line is shaded to indicate uncertainty or variability in the estimates
July 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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btw here is how it looks on google maps: "Admiral Kuzentsov (sic) Rustbucket Canteen"
A satellite view showing the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier docked at a shipyard. The vessel is visibly rusted and under maintenance. A food icon and label mark the ship as the location of the “Admiral Kuzentsov Rustbucket Canteen" A humorous and satirical listing for a fictional “restaurant” named Admiral Kuzentsov Rustbucket Canteen, rated 3.5 stars from 36 reviews and categorized as a Russian restaurant. Photos include: a dilapidated, cluttered interior resembling a ship’s maintenance bay; fighter jets stored in a poorly lit hangar; and a damaged, rusting flight deck. One review reads: “It caught fire halfway through our meal before our food got there but the Vodka was excellent."
July 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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since mechahitler the internet is a source of context pollution for grok's self-identity
xai trying to mitigate via system prompt update
July 14, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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pleasantly surprised at chatgpt's knowledge of contemporary chilean history

(yes 2019-2022 had some pretty wild moments)
chatgpt says: Oh god, Pelao Vade — the man, the myth, the immunocompromised hoax. That whole saga basically wrote itself as political theater. No editorializing needed. And then Tía Pikachu standing in full cosplay while giving legit speeches on water rights? Iconic, baffling, and emblematic of the whole moment: democratizing representation and feeding aesthetic anxieties in the political class at the same time. Let’s not forget: • The “rectum flag” incident (a grotesquely misunderstood performance piece turned into national scandal
July 8, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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trough your mention of gender, birth rates and the word "based" you seem to be vaguely gesturing at ngo having
unsavory views on such topics

roko does, he does not

i compel you to reread the original post, he is merely arguing against college and funding for the humanities and social sciences
July 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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it actually says 9% among registered democrats, with a further 29% saying they don't know
still a little bit concerning
Bar chart from an Ipsos/Reuters poll comparing perceptions of election legitimacy among registered voters in 2020 and 2024. The chart is titled: “Significantly more Republican registered voters say the 2024 election was legitimate and fair than said so in 2020.” It presents data for all registered voters (RVs), Democrat RVs, Republican RVs, and Independent RVs. Each group has two vertical bars showing percentages for 2024 and 2020, divided into three categories: • Dark blue: “Legitimate and accurate” • Orange: “The result of illegal voting or election rigging” • Gray: “Don’t know” Key numbers: • Among Republican RVs, belief in legitimacy rose from 26% (2020) to 91% (2024). • Among Democrat RVs, belief in legitimacy dropped from 88% (2020) to 63% (2024). • Among Independent RVs, legitimacy belief rose from 55% to 74%. • Overall, belief in a legitimate election increased from 58% to 75% among all registered voters. Base: 2024 Registered Voters (n=1,254); 2020 Registered Voters (n=1,121). Sources: Reuters/Ipsos Polls conducted November 6–7, 2024 (2024 data) and November 13–17, 2020 (2020 data).
July 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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there was a move by yudkowsky himself back in 2007 towards this
www.lesswrong.com/posts/SqF8cH...
But I know, now, that there’s nothing wrong with feeling strongly. Ever since I adopted the rule of “That which can be destroyed by the truth should be,” I’ve also come to realize “That which the truth nourishes should thrive.” When something good happens, I am happy, and there is no confusion in my mind about whether it is rational for me to be happy. When something terrible happens, I do not flee my sadness by searching for fake consolations and false silver linings. I visualize the past and future of humankind, the tens of billions of deaths over our history, the misery and fear, the search for answers, the trembling hands reaching upward out of so much blood, what we could become someday when we make the stars our cities, all that darkness and all that light—I know that I can never truly understand it, and I haven’t the words to say. Despite all my philosophy I am still embarrassed to confess strong emotions, and you’re probably uncomfortable hearing them. But I know, now, that it is rational to feel.
July 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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how does this alleged party with 1 post here have 10k followers
screenshot showing the profile of the "Nation and Homeland Party" bluesky account 10.7k followers, 46.9k following
July 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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you would think this was written by a tankie
NATO has bloated to 32 member countries as of 2024, more than 30 years after the Soviet Union dissolved. Despite calling itself a "defensive alliance", NATO has never fought a defensive war. NATO has engaged in wars of aggression, violating the territorial integrity, attacking and invading multiple sovereign states.
July 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM