Just going to say that Claude Mythos is stinky hypeshit, not part of the polycrisis. Everything they discussed and scaremongered people with would be perfectly achievable with Opus 4.6 without the performance degradation and the same amount of compute.

Call it Opus 5. Opus 4.6 would be Sonnet 5 all along.

It's over.

Okay this was a scheduled message, I forgot to take it off

I had to sell all my assets to stock up on food go fuck yourself

Fucking retard never heard of Amazon's Mechanical Turk service

I'm so so so so so so so so so tired.

Fuck you pvmpgang.

You were right all along, I need to quit my job.

I just didn't want to see it.

If you were to do this IRL you would have your skull smashed with a wrench (and that's a good thing)

You might not like what I'm going to say but after thinking about it, I would press the blue button.

And I would go and say that the blue button choice encompasses the parochialist idea. On a 1-49% blue button scenario you can extrapolate that same proportion would be within your own social circle. You have to hit the blue button. I wouldn't hold it against anyone hitting the red button. Both of these can be true.

"If this is another dream, it is time for me to awaken. If this is real, it is time for me to die."

I do like some of the variations of it though, I can see why red "wins" when the type of death is being thrown into the woodchipper.

I think next time I come across this poll I'll just flip a coin

Links for 2026-04-30

AI

1. Thinking Without Words — latent reasoning ≈ verbal CoT at far lower inference cost. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22709

2. Latent Agents: post-training for internalized multi-agent debate. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24881

3. Recurrent Transformer: greater depth, efficient decoding. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21215

4. Predictive strategies emerge in real + artificial agents from shared task structure. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.23.720457v1

5. Conductor: train an AI manager to delegate to diverse AIs. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04388

6. Stanford/Arc genome LMs generated complete ΦX174-like phages; ~300 tested, 16 viable; Evo-Φ36 used a distant packaging protein where simple swaps failed. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.12.675911v1

7. Reiner Pope: math behind LLM training/serving. https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/reiner-pope

8. The paper that killed deep learning theory. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZvQfcLbcNHYqmvWyo/the-paper-that-killed-deep-learning-theory

9. The other paper that killed deep learning theory. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zcGmdQHX66NhC69v6/the-other-paper-that-killed-deep-learning-theory

10. Why SGD stops just short of the edge. https://akyrillidis.github.io/aiowls/stochastic_self_stabilization.html

11. Recursive forecasting from myopic fitness-seekers. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/q2zYtNsh62SCphitt/recursive-forecasting-eliciting-long-term-forecasts-from

12. AISI GPT-5.5 cyber eval: among strongest tested; second to solve multi-step cyber-attack sim end-to-end. https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-evaluation-of-openais-gpt-5-5-cyber-capabilities

13. Mayo Clinic AI detects pancreatic cancer up to 3 years early. https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-ai-detects-pancreatic-cancer-up-to-3-years-before-diagnosis-in-landmark-validation-study/

AI politics

1. NYT: Mythos reactions show frontier AI launches acting like weapons tests; Russian pro-Kremlin outlet: “worse than a nuclear bomb.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/technology/anthropics-mythos-ai.html [no paywall: https://archive.is/Ex7ZI]

2. WSJ: White House opposes wider Mythos access over security + limited government availability. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/white-house-opposes-anthropics-plan-to-expand-access-to-mythos-model-dc281ab5 [no paywall: https://archive.is/zonHZ]

3. China orders Meta to unwind $2B Manus AI-startup deal. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-blocks-foreign-acquisition-ai-startup-manus-2026-04-27/

4. Anthropic weighs funding at $900B+ valuation. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-29/anthropic-considering-funding-offers-at-over-900-billion-value

5. Pentagon uses GenAI.mil to create 100K agents. https://defensescoop.com/2026/04/23/pentagon-uses-genai-mil-to-create-agents/

Computer Science

1. Dijkstra invented shortest path in 20 minutes over coffee. https://cacm.acm.org/news/an-interview-with-edsger-w-dijkstra/

2. Leibniz on symbolic computation and the “combinatorial machine.” https://www.leibnizpapers.org/combinatorial-machine.htm

Science and Technology

1. Swedish 1.2M-person study: intelligence positively associated with prosociality. https://academic.oup.com/ej/article/135/668/1141/7914156

2. Longevity hype vs real promise of cell rejuvenation. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/magazine/cell-rejuventation-biotech-longevity-research-altos-labs.html [no paywall: https://archive.is/pVtms]

3. Prediction-market accuracy: informed minority, not crowd wisdom. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6617059

4. ML supports unrecognized transient astronomical phenomena in historical observatory images. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18799

5. SpaceX Musk pkg: 200M super-voting shares for $7.5T valuation + 1M-person Mars colony; second award up to 60.4M shares for space datacentres with 100 TW compute. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/spacex-ties-musk-compensation-mars-colonization-goal-2026-04-28/

I would like to see poll results in
1. Japan
2. Israel

You'll see what I mean