Paul Crowley
@ciphergoth
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Cryptography, personal trivia, and the future of all humanity. Security at Anthropic, opinions my own. I block on a first offense for rudeness or sarcasm.
Scotts Valley, CA
Joined November 2008
"To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats." - Aldous Huxley, 1933
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It is a very weird fact that millions of Americans, who are not otherwise evil people, believe in a perfectly good God who condemns many to eternal torture.
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1/ Housing is the defining issue of our time. As California's average home prices approach $1 million, @CSElmendorf and Ed Glaeser, America's leading urban economists, call on California to stop the vetocracy and BUILD. MORE. HOMES. 🇺🇸 From today's @latimes:
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This time traveler had ChatGPT back in 2012.
OK having replaced " - " in my blog with real em-dashes, I'm wondering if I use the em-dash too much.
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I'm not Jewish, but "may their memory be a blessing" is just objectively the best thing to say to people who are grieving.
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@norvid_studies @lu_sichu @ww_dasilva I think generally people are too uncomfortable with risk but the broad lesson here is really that life outcomes are a power law instead of evenly distributed and the sooner people make peace with that the happier they'll be
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Proof from FB memories that I have always been an em-dash addict, and preferred real ones "like—this"
OK having replaced " - " in my blog with real em-dashes, I'm wondering if I use the em-dash too much.
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Incredible behaviour to make a tweet about a specific person, then hide their extremely calm reply.
I replied with an essay laying out my position and Stone's and Gobry hid my reply.
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We invented ozempic. We don't need to do this anymore.
🚨 NEW: Health Secretary Wes Streeting will tomorrow announce that lattes and milkshakes will be hit with a sugar tax in a bid to tackle obesity [@thetimes]
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Screw it, let's sell them the USS Gerald Ford and a B-21 prototype while we're at it. Go all in, why not
BREAKING: US Commerce Secretary says Trump is considering allowing Nvidia to sell chips to China
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Man I wish that the people who went around saying "you doomers are handing the AI race to China" cared at all about handing the AI race to China.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the decision to authorize sales of Nvidia’s H200 artificial intelligence chips to China is on President Donald Trump’s desk https://t.co/WmfJYE2CJ8
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The sherriff's actions here merit a prison sentence.
BREAKING: FIRE is now representing Larry Bushart, the 61-year-old retired Tennessee policeman who spent 37 days in jail for posting a meme a local sheriff didn’t like. What happened was absurd, cruel, and unconstitutional — and we’ll see the sheriff in court.
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If your blog had a paywall (for some posts), would you give your close friends a free invite?
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As usual - why would you ever go up against Scott?
@AlexTISYoung I think Hoel is exaggerating his case. I've commented at
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Video of a San Francisco Muni train flying 50mph out of the Sunset Tunnel after the driver fell asleep. Luckily the train didn't crash.
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I tried this with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Kimi K1.5; all of them were hopeless. Claude did the best, writing WORK before descending into hopeless hallucination like the rest.
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A comment like "Do you think it was wrong of Scott Alexander not to explicitly tag this as fiction" won't get you blocked, but snide shit like this will.
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and in case anyone doubts he operates in bad faith
@BenShindel Thanks, I hadn't seen that. Seems to confirm Sam is operating in bad faith then. To my knowledge Eliezer is generally quite clear when he's making a factual claim vs. writing fiction, and also this is whataboutism anyway.
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see also
This is, apparently, fake. Many of the historical and legal details are just made-up, even the ones that purportedly relate to real politicians like Keir Starmer. I didn't realize this when I first read it; like most readers it seems, I just trusted that someone who wrote with
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Apparently the word for this particular form of lauded bullshit is "mixed fiction"
"mixed fiction" by Sam Kriss is in the news, so we thought we'd bring back one of our favorites from the archive (this one cleared by Asterisk's fact-checking process)
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