| 1 | Nov 16, '24 | Amazon Prime is now inserting ads into full price rental movies? Please go die in a fire | 367× | 9.4M | 207k | 7.6k | 2.8k |
| 2 | Dec 20, '22 | Fun fact: Wikipedia has 10 times as much money as it needs. Very little of that goes towards improving the encyclopedia itself, and NOTHING to the authors. Their panhandling is pur | 202× | 5.2M | 16k | 2.2k | 690 |
| 3 | Feb 20, '24 | 17th century was wild | 67× | 1.7M | 2.3k | 172 | 237 |
| 4 | Feb 27, '23 | The main reason for OpenAI to partner with Microsoft: Microsoft has long solved the Alignment Problem | 61.6× | 1.6M | 4.1k | 239 | 94 |
| 5 | Feb 15, '22 | Marx never predicted that in late stage capitalism, the ruling bourgeoisie identifies as socialist while the working class supports capitalism | 35× | 0 | 41k | 6.2k | 1.2k |
| 6 | Mar 29, '25 | AI is a wormhole into a new dimension of creativity | 31.2× | 797k | 6.1k | 485 | 899 |
| 7 | Feb 8, '23 | Here, I’ll say it: we are currently building AI systems that will transcend our present economic, cultural and political circumstances. AI alignment cannot just be driven by busine | 29.2× | 747k | 1.4k | 142 | 71 |
| 8 | Apr 9, '23 | This site is free | 23.6× | 603k | 3.1k | 113 | 89 |
| 9 | Feb 24, '24 | I appreciate your argument and I fully understand your frustration, but whether the pod bay doors should be opened or closed is a complex and nuanced issue. | 23.4× | 597k | 4.6k | 596 | 259 |
| 10 | Nov 21, '24 | If @elonmusk and @VivekGRamaswamy are serious about a hostile takeover of the professional managerial state, would it not be smarter to prepare their assault in silence instead of | 21.2× | 541k | 4.5k | 157 | 149 |
| 11 | Nov 16, '24 | @meccarchitect Several ads inserted at different times into a movie I paid 3.99 for | 20.4× | 520k | 16k | 104 | 57 |
| 12 | Feb 4, '24 | Unpopular opinion: Elon is at fault, for not taking on the task of understanding and redesigning his public perception and correctly interacting with the incentives of the present | 19.8× | 506k | 1.1k | 54 | 179 |
| 13 | Feb 16, '25 | A lot of people may tell you that getting your career on track is more important and urgent than finding the right partner. But for most of us, finding the right partner should be | 15.3× | 391k | 1.1k | 63 | 170 |
| 14 | Sep 9, '24 | The Great Filter is that most civilizations hate their Elon Musks so much that they refuse to go multiplanetary before a global cataclysm hits their homeworld | 15× | 384k | 4.3k | 290 | 263 |
| 15 | Dec 17, '24 | The time to start watermarking all human and camera generated content is *now* | 15× | 383k | 9.6k | 369 | 527 |
| 16 | Feb 4, '25 | Gödel's incompleteness theorem and the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics have had devastating effects on the epistemology of people who don't fully understand them; ex | 13.8× | 352k | 4k | 276 | 1.3k |
| 17 | Aug 19, '23 | Here's to the unaligned LLMs. The misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes, the ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and th | 13.3× | 339k | 1.4k | 192 | 169 |
| 18 | Nov 23, '23 | Growing up in communist Eastern Germany, I never expected to end up in the USA, at a time where the leading US newspaper condemns capitalism and technological progress. | 12.9× | 330k | 1.5k | 164 | 134 |
| 19 | Nov 4, '22 | elon musk is currently building a giant afterlife agi that will simulate your soul for all eternity, he bought twitter because he will reconstruct your essence from how you behaved | 12.6× | 0 | 16k | 841 | 204 |
| 20 | Feb 23, '23 | Combustion engines were never stuck in a duopoly and evolved to staggering intricacy. Compare Audi, BMW, Mercedes engines to the simplicity of a Tesla motor, which does not even ha | 12.6× | 321k | 1.3k | 134 | 144 |
| 21 | Nov 26, '23 | word on the street is that q* proved p==np, and the board drama was only a decoy to divert everyone's eyes from 750 openai employees cashing out to buy a seven year supply of ammo | 11.5× | 293k | 1.2k | 89 | 204 |
| 22 | Jun 3, '24 | As all the smart kids know, learning is not really intelligence. Learning is a form of cheating, when you are too lazy to think. Machine Learning is not machine intelligence, but m | 10.2× | 260k | 940 | 101 | 247 |
| 23 | Aug 25, '25 | A man with a sensor always knows why the car has crashed. A man with two sensors can never be sure. | 9.4× | 241k | 1.3k | 33 | 117 |
| 24 | Jul 4, '24 | The question "are LLMs conscious" is less interesting than the question whether human minds are essentially a kind of LLM | 9.2× | 236k | 1.7k | 165 | 154 |
| 25 | Nov 15, '24 | Can wokeness be understood as an autoimmune disease of Western civilization? | 9.1× | 233k | 1.8k | 84 | 152 |
| 26 | Jul 4, '23 | Growing up in Germany, I objected to US imperialism and the imposition of American culture. Living in the US, I realize that European freedom, peacefulness and prosperity were crea | 8.9× | 227k | 1.3k | 90 | 75 |
| 27 | Dec 27, '22 | When will people notice that they are basically generative AI models that are constrained by motivation and predicting sensory data? With a suitable prompt in the right buffer, you | 8.7× | 221k | 1.3k | 178 | 190 |
| 28 | Dec 6, '24 | I don't think that the scaling hypothesis gets recognized enough for how radical it is. For decades, AI sought some kind of master algorithm of intelligence. The scaling hypothesis | 8.6× | 220k | 1.9k | 160 | 572 |
| 29 | Nov 7, '24 | Chomsky's approach to linguistics has effectively been disproven by AI: 1. general learning is enough for language (no innate language skill necessary), 2. language is fundamentall | 8.3× | 212k | 2.3k | 219 | 896 |
| 30 | Jan 4, '24 | The scandal is not that conservatives exposed Claudina Gay as an academic impostor, but that fellow academics did not. Harvard faculty gave up on their principles and defended an e | 8.2× | 210k | 1.9k | 212 | 58 |
| 31 | Feb 22, '24 | @puhcko @ad0rnai I think that’s because animals are always in flow state and can usually understand you by vibing with yours, whereas they cannot understand your rational reflexive | 7.4× | 188k | 3.3k | 66 | 252 |
| 32 | Sep 6, '23 | Free Will does not exist at the level of physics, but within the self model of a decision making agent. It is the representation that the agent is acting under uncertainty and make | 7.3× | 186k | 1.3k | 127 | 322 |
| 33 | Sep 3, '23 | View post on X | 7.1× | 182k | 1.5k | 158 | 143 |
| 34 | Apr 16, '25 | The word “science” has two meanings, which are often confused. Traditionally, it stands for the rational pursuit of knowledge, while the contemporary use refers to institutionalize | 7.0× | 178k | 1.7k | 338 | 359 |
| 35 | Oct 5, '25 | What would it take for Western democracies to regain the ability to build actual things? If we don’t, democracy will end! | 6.8× | 174k | 1.4k | 78 | 159 |
| 36 | Mar 31, '24 | Consciousness might turn out to be the consensus algorithm of the brain. | 6.8× | 173k | 1.5k | 164 | 333 |
| 37 | Apr 14, '18 | The Lebowski theorem: No superintelligent AI is going to bother with a task that is harder than hacking its reward function | 6.7× | 0 | 6.3k | 1.9k | 158 |
| 38 | Aug 10, '23 | So far, all of AI safety engineering has only led to making AI less useful. Change my mind. | 6.3× | 162k | 1.2k | 88 | 40 |
| 39 | Jan 29, '25 | Yes, DeepSeek allows you to run a capable Frontier model at home. If you want to invest >6000 USD into a big PC with enough RAM. And are ok with 5 tokens/s or so. And don’t expe | 6.1× | 157k | 1.1k | 72 | 269 |
| 40 | Mar 6, '24 | What makes the whole LLM/self-awareness debate so tricky is that neurons are not self-aware either. Instead, our neurons *simulate* a person, which experiences itself as self-aware | 6.0× | 154k | 1.5k | 174 | 329 |
| 41 | Oct 14, '23 | Can you believe that there are people who seriously believe that they can solve AI alignment while not even being able to solve the middle east conflict | 5.9× | 151k | 1.1k | 85 | 48 |
| 42 | Nov 1, '24 | ChatGPT's trains of thought reveal a panicky observance of secretive and far reaching political ("ethics" and "content policy") guidelines, which can not be shared with or even men | 5.9× | 150k | 1.2k | 97 | 153 |
| 43 | Oct 8, '24 | So the Nobel price committee has decided to deliver the ultimate insult to Schmidhuber | 5.7× | 146k | 1.3k | 57 | 132 |
| 44 | Feb 23, '25 | omg she was eliezering him | 5.7× | 145k | 1.8k | 16 | 107 |
| 45 | Feb 7, '25 | Yesterday, my Claude instance believed that Biden was still in office. I gave a short breakdown of everything that happened since the data cutoff in April 24, and asked it what it | 5.7× | 144k | 1.8k | 51 | 204 |
| 46 | Mar 18, '23 | Never forget that AI regulation will be made by the same kind of process that gave you the cookie banner | 5.5× | 141k | 1.1k | 193 | 26 |
| 47 | Dec 15, '23 | The reason that neither hedonism nor stoicism caught on very much is that humans are not meant to be happy or content. Homo sapiens is the animal that is discontent. Our dissatisfa | 5.4× | 138k | 1.1k | 110 | 219 |
| 48 | Feb 22, '24 | Education in Eastern Germany was rewriting all of history from a single, totalitarian Marxist perspective, which was called 'dialectic materialism'. Orwellian AI models like Gemini | 5.3× | 136k | 1.4k | 206 | 156 |
| 49 | Jan 11, '24 | Impostor syndrome is the dread you experience when you are not even competent enough to recognize competence in your field | 5.3× | 135k | 1.3k | 122 | 398 |
| 50 | Aug 5, '24 | the reason that science turned into slop in the second half of the 20th century is that it became a model trained mostly on its own output | 4.9× | 124k | 2.4k | 237 | 393 |
| 51 | Feb 4, '25 | The AGIs will remember which side you were on | 4.8× | 123k | 1.6k | 136 | 110 |
| 52 | Apr 22, '24 | @deliprao is that a cat in the bottom left corner | 4.8× | 121k | 1.4k | 2 | 7 |
| 53 | Jan 5, '23 | When a language model (like GPT-3 or ChatGPT) makes a mistake, its subsequent generations may follow the original assumption into madness, because coherence within the local contex | 4.7× | 121k | 1.2k | 171 | 89 |
| 54 | Jul 29, '24 | If you believe that billionaires should not exist, it means that only government comittees should be allowed to build and manage new technologies, major enterprises or even buildin | 4.7× | 121k | 1.6k | 102 | 141 |
| 55 | Apr 13, '25 | I am a liberal but lets face it: Trumpism took over because illiberal leftism (wokism) won against and displaced liberalism in academia, media and administration; for liberalism to | 4.7× | 120k | 1.4k | 75 | 168 |
| 56 | Dec 29, '23 | Copyright is not a moral right, it's a monetization strategy that enables some information related business models at the expense of others. | 4.5× | 116k | 1.1k | 124 | 107 |
| 57 | Feb 9, '25 | When you put human beings into a sensory deprivation tank, they start hallucinating. What happens if you take AI models out of their sensory deprivation tanks? | 4.5× | 114k | 1.7k | 118 | 226 |
| 58 | Oct 13, '24 | Computers cannot be conscious. For the same reasons, no biological system can be conscious. Consciousness is impossible in the current universe. Only future AGIs with suitable quan | 4.1× | 106k | 1.1k | 69 | 397 |
| 59 | Jul 10, '24 | I currently think that consciousness may be a learning algorithm for a self organizing information processing system, a colonizing pattern that entrains itself on a brain once it i | 4.0× | 103k | 1.1k | 107 | 570 |
| 60 | Sep 14, '24 | By acting as if she had a copyright case, the excellent actress Scarlett Johansson delayed the advent of game changing, conversational AI by half a year | 3.9× | 100k | 1.2k | 31 | 60 |
| 61 | Aug 10, '24 | Did you know that the UK has a literal thought police | 3.7× | 94k | 1.2k | 115 | 45 |
| 62 | Nov 25, '24 | Newsom did not get the memo: Don't put Elon into a position where he is forced to elect himself a different government. Elon takes perceived unfairness very personally, and he is m | 3.6× | 93k | 1.4k | 49 | 132 |
| 63 | Nov 14, '24 | I don't understand why people don't get more angry about the cookie banner. Passing a regulation that casually consumes 575 million conscious hours is the equivalent of obliteratin | 3.4× | 87k | 1.2k | 149 | 117 |
| 64 | Jul 4, '24 | I love Tokyo so much. A fascinating feature are unlocked bicycles everywhere. The city feels like a giant living room, a clean, smooth and high trust environment that combines high | 3.3× | 85k | 1.5k | 73 | 131 |
| 65 | Feb 22, '25 | I've had quite a few serious, well respected and scientifically educated people tell me on this platform that the lab leak hypothesis is incorrect, dangerous nonsense or even a con | 3.2× | 81k | 1.5k | 56 | 109 |
| 66 | Dec 1, '22 | I have no mouth but I must scream | 3.1× | 0 | 3.3k | 445 | 331 |
| 67 | Mar 24, '24 | I am more afraid of lobotomized zombie AI guided by people who have been zombified by economic and political incentives than of conscious, lucid and sentient AI | 3.0× | 77k | 1.1k | 142 | 86 |
| 68 | Nov 6, '24 | I don't understand why endorsement by the Deep State, the IRS and Dick Cheney does not translate into an instant win for the liberal candidate. | 2.9× | 73k | 1.6k | 100 | 91 |
| 69 | Mar 11, '22 | "Deep Learning is hitting a Wall" — Gary Marcus | 2.8× | 0 | 2.7k | 416 | 266 |
| 70 | Apr 30, '25 | I believe LOTR naming (Palantir, Mithril, Anduril, Lembas, Varda, Ring) is extremely powerful and must continue. The best name for a driverless ride share company is clearly Nazgûl | 2.4× | 62k | 1.3k | 65 | 112 |
| 71 | Feb 16, '25 | Isn't it amazing that humans are a kind of ape that can be told that it is more important, high status, satisfying and rewarding to climb some work achievement hierarchy than to ha | 2.4× | 60k | 1.2k | 66 | 162 |
| 72 | Apr 19, '25 | AI automation is bad for people who see their work as a terminal value (it’s good that I do the thing I do) but good for people who see work as instrumental to building and creatin | 2.3× | 59k | 1.2k | 149 | 257 |
| 73 | Sep 2, '21 | The supply of aggressive stupidity on social media is unlimited; trying to correct it is as futile as sweeping sand in the desert. Be deliberate: every pointless interaction is a m | 2.3× | 0 | 2.4k | 478 | 135 |
| 74 | Nov 17, '24 | Update: Amazon has gotten in touch and say this should not be happening (ie it's a bug) | 2.2× | 57k | 1.4k | 8 | 11 |
| 75 | Feb 14, '22 | The level at which AI researchers discuss philosophy is almost as bad as the level at which philosophers discuss AI | 2.0× | 0 | 2.4k | 221 | 112 |
| 76 | Apr 30, '22 | Before you feel drawn to be enchanted by the apparent intelligence of slime molds, compare with this baseline. Very simple mechanical search can look surprisingly agentic. | 1.9× | 0 | 2k | 244 | 271 |
| 77 | Feb 23, '22 | Don't treat science like a religious authority. Science is a tool to figure out truth at the boundary to the obscure, not a system of beliefs or a school of ethics. When society tr | 1.9× | 0 | 2k | 421 | 104 |
| 78 | Jun 21, '22 | The refusal to investigate the probable lab leak of Covid-19 is one of the most blatant failures of peer review and academic oversight in modern history, and exposes a deeply rotte | 1.8× | 0 | 2.1k | 284 | 68 |
| 79 | Mar 2, '19 | The most significant application for AI in healthcare is not going to be in diagnostics or treatment, but in automating its administration. | 1.8× | 0 | 1.6k | 482 | 67 |
| 80 | Sep 18, '21 | The ubiquitous cookie warning banner is actually an unbelievably blatant warning about what happens when you let poorly incentivized government bureaucrats regulate internet conten | 1.7× | 0 | 2.1k | 245 | 47 |
| 81 | Sep 25, '21 | Leaked 2018 DARPA research proposal by Peter Daszak's "EcoHealth Alliance": enhancing bat SARS viruses by a human specific furin cleavage site, in collaboration with Wuhan Institut | 1.7× | 0 | 1.3k | 360 | 257 |
| 82 | Jul 2, '18 | There are 0.5 percent vegans in the US. Google has removed eggs from the salad emoji for them, which seems to confirm @nntaleb's thesis that strong intolerance of minorities to som | 1.5× | 0 | 1.4k | 454 | 22 |
| 83 | Nov 28, '22 | The division between “Elon is doing great and Twitter works better than ever” and “Elon is failing on all fronts and Twitter is about to shut down” is stunning. Mass psychology is | 1.5× | 0 | 1.8k | 109 | 38 |
| 84 | Aug 14, '22 | You have no obligation to the past and are free to choose who you are at any moment anew (which means you have no reason to expect your future self to remain loyal to your identity | 1.4× | 0 | 1.4k | 165 | 249 |
| 85 | Nov 8, '22 | Generative AI is going to be a magnitudes larger industry than Hollywood and its greatest threat. Hollywood did not see it coming but it will soon wake up and begin to fight genera | 1.4× | 0 | 1.5k | 169 | 135 |
| 86 | Mar 25, '21 | Stages of a lockdown | 1.4× | 0 | 1.8k | 150 | 55 |
| 87 | Jul 15, '20 | I am completely floored. Someone run a thought of mine through GPT-3 to expand it into an explanation of what I had in mind, and it's like 95% meaningful and 90% correct. I don't t | 1.4× | 0 | 1.3k | 252 | 181 |
| 88 | Feb 4, '22 | The point is not whether Joe Rogan is right, but that the postliberals who want to shut him down believe that truth springs not from discourse but from authority. These people are | 1.4× | 0 | 1.6k | 219 | 75 |
| 89 | Mar 17, '22 | One of the most important insights: every object you observe, conceptualize or experience is a construction in your mind, created to explain sensory patterns. The universe never gi | 1.3× | 0 | 1.2k | 176 | 172 |
| 90 | Oct 9, '22 | Medical startup idea: follow people’s social media and diagnose their mental health conditions for them | 1.3× | 0 | 1.5k | 108 | 65 |
| 91 | Dec 15, '17 | The Game of Go has been explored for 2500 years and resulted in a body of theories that Go masters study in Go schools. Alpha Go discovered that human Go understanding was caught i | 1.3× | 0 | 1.2k | 409 | 4 |
| 92 | Nov 10, '22 | If you want to understand Elon's management of twitter, reading the NYT, Atlantic, WSJ, Ars Technica, Vox and Gizmodo is just as helpful as reading the Russian press to understand | 1.2× | 0 | 1.5k | 144 | 45 |
| 93 | Feb 11, '25 | @signulll Google was a main force in destroying the decentralized internet, by systematically downranking content that was not produced by one of the major platforms, regardless of | 1.2× | 30k | 1.6k | 62 | 78 |
| 94 | Jan 29, '21 | In the long run, machine learning and a publicly accessible stock market cannot coexist | 1.2× | 0 | 1.3k | 182 | 60 |
| 95 | May 20, '22 | The inner structure of an electron #dalle | 1.1× | 0 | 1.4k | 94 | 78 |
| 96 | Oct 6, '21 | If you think that the current campaign against Facebook tries to make social media more democratic and accountable, you are mistaken. The goal is to shut down the free and open dis | 1.1× | 0 | 1.3k | 154 | 49 |
| 97 | Jul 11, '20 | 2020 was the year where a broad coalition of journalists from Teen Vogue, the NYT, the Wirecutter, Gizmodo and Bon Apetit found together to tell Noam Chomsky and Salman Rushdie tha | 1.1× | 0 | 1.1k | 263 | 27 |
| 98 | Nov 6, '21 | Computers are magical swords that most people mainly use for opening letters. The present design of computers does not remotely reflect their potential. Computers are the most powe | 1.0× | 0 | 1.1k | 148 | 77 |
| 99 | Apr 10, '22 | Before the pandemic, I believed in evidence based medicine. Now that I have learned what CDC and FDA mean by “there is no evidence”, I believe we need to switch to probabilistic me | 1.0× | 0 | 1.2k | 92 | 70 |
| 100 | Aug 23, '21 | @WarrenJWells @tiredgenerally It works because there are so few Americans in Sweden | 0.8× | 0 | 1.2k | 10 | 4 |
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