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Contrary to what you're implying, that's more of a reflection on the typical US corporation than the EU.

optimalsolveron A global workspace in language models

More legible than seems at first glance:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wCSEpT3dTGz4N86Wi/even-illeg...

optimalsolveron A global workspace in language models

So the model was updated in the 37 minutes since OP posted his comment?

optimalsolveron Newly discovered spider builds spring loaded snare to catch ants

Of course, the problem with such a high amount of specialization is that if the green ant disappears, so does this spider.

optimalsolveron The AirPods Effect

>adults with developmental disabilities, who allowably don’t know any better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb9dV_DP5NI

optimalsolveron US Air Force B-52 bomber crashes after takeoff, Edwards Air Force Base says

Video of the 1994 B-52 crash at Fairchild Air Force Base:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2OIxo00UeM

optimalsolveron Did Anthropic ask for this?

Citizenship guarantees service.

optimalsolveron Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million

I find it hard to believe the kids of the Swiss elite would be cleaning sewers if not for the low pay.

optimalsolveron Update on Anthropic Situation

Citizenship guarantees service.

optimalsolveron Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models

No, $5B is the amount they put into Anthropic earlier this year, but that's in addition to $8B already invested.

Also, $50B is not Amazon's current stake in OpenAI, it's what they've agreed to invest.

By that measure, Amazon's stake in Anthropic is in the tens of billions.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/20/amazon-invest-up-to-25-billi...

optimalsolveron Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

Would be funny if they got themselves nationalized.

I mean, better safe than sorry, right Dario?

optimalsolveron Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails

Banning white people would reduce it by a much greater amount, at least in North America.

optimalsolveron Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails

As 8note is pointing out, Eliezer Yudkowsky didn't "take over" Less Wrong, he founded it.

optimalsolveron When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

Is it too much to ask that people read the article before commenting?

optimalsolveron Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016)

I bet Schrödinger could get a cat into a box.

optimalsolveron Greg Brockman interview [video]

>So many people were trying to sign the petition at once that it actually crashed Google Docs

I still wonder how much peer pressure was behind that. Like, what if you think Sam is a scumbag and you're glad he's gone, but people are waving this petition in your face. What would you do? It would be really bad for you if the emperor returned and you were one of the few who didn't sign it.

Also, going by this video, the first order of business for an AGI should be finding a cure for hair loss.

optimalsolveron A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

Are you able to watch this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdUI_0mIkec

optimalsolveron Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text

Wait, so in non-verbal reasoning, Claude has the concepts of "I" and "Me"?

I thought that wasn't possible for a text generator?

optimalsolveron Google, Microsoft and xAI agree to share early AI models with U.S.

I'll admit that one flew over me. Ironically, an LLM would've probably picked up on the sarcasm.

optimalsolveron Google, Microsoft and xAI agree to share early AI models with U.S.

It's not even hypothetical. Once these systems reach a certain level of capability, they WILL be nationalized ("We'll take it from here, boys").

optimalsolveron Google, Microsoft and xAI agree to share early AI models with U.S.

I'm not sure they envisioned models being interrogated to determine woke levels and their opinions on the 2020 election.

optimalsolveron Greece to ban anonymity on social media

It's what they would've wanted.

optimalsolveron A Pascal's Wager for AI doomers

Do you consider viruses to be animals?

optimalsolveron The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran

My previous comment:

The most salient lesson of the post-Cold War era: Get nukes or die trying.

A nation's relationship to other states, up to and especially including superpowers, is completely different once it's in the nuclear club. Pakistan can host bin Laden for years and still enjoy US military funding. North Korea can literally fire missiles over South Korea and Japan and get a strongly-worded letter of condemnation, along with a generous increase in foreign aid. We can know, for a fact, that the 2003 Iraq War coalition didn't actually believe their own WMD propaganda. If they thought that Saddam could vaporize the invasion force in a final act of defiance, he'd still be in power today. Putin knows perfectly well that NATO isn't going to invade Russia, so he can strip every last soldier from the Baltic borders and throw them into the Ukrainian meat grinder.

Aside from deterring attack, it also discourages powerful outside actors from fomenting revolutions. The worry becomes who gets the nukes if the central government falls.

Iran's assumption seems to have been that by permanently remaining n steps away from having nukes (n varying according to the current political and diplomatic climate), you get all the benefits of being a nuclear-armed state without the blowback of going straight for them. But no, you need to have the actual weapons in your arsenal, ready to use at a moment's notice.

My advice for rulers, especially ones on the outs with major geopolitical powers: Pour one out for Gaddafi, then hire a few hundred Chinese scientists and engineers and get nuked up ASAP.

optimalsolveron I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

In all this commotion I've completely forgotten that Anthropic dropped their safety pledge three days ago.

optimalsolveron How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution

The little language model that could.

optimalsolveron Why I don't think AGI is imminent

Why is LLM-generated writing so obvious?

optimalsolveron I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

That's actually an amusing example from Claude.

optimalsolveron IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption

I’m a people person.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNuu9CpdjIo

optimalsolveron Gemini 3 Deep Think

It's worth noting that neither of those were accomplished by LLMs.