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mogged by adam friedland tbh

you sound british

Someone more committed to success in a social arena than deeply held personal values

It makes it clear that he is not deeply shaped by values, because he took the high money, slightly sus, default option for "success" of someone in his station instead of anything having to do with his beliefs

The president is the head of the executive branch of the US government

The presidency, apparently

In what world is someone running for president after a mayoralty not a social climber?

He ran for president

Yes.

He ran for president, dawg

McKinsey->military->politics just *reinforces* they type, it doesn't contradict it

I mean yeah, someone who is at McKinsey and then politics is a *type* at Ivies in a way "veteran" is not

No? Can you read the top tweet in this thread? It's about the kind of person who works at McKinsey (social climbing dickheads or kids who need money to support their parents, mostly)

The OP you QT'd is closer to my average classmate's opinion than you are! Sorry!

This entire thread is about the attitude people at Ivies in the 2000s had about management consulting...I'm just relaying what it actually is

That's what everyone in my class who went to a big 3 firm said they did?

Do you not know the reputation of leadership of CA environmental nonprofits??

Either relying a questionable vendor, reducing headcount, or endorsing changes to internal policy in a way favorable to management at the expense of employees and the public, probably?

A consulting firm

Whatever morally wrong thing an executive wants to justify that requires them to hire McKinsey to sin eat for them

New right wing thing is describing crimes as generically as possible to pretend like they're not crimes. Someone gets convicted of conspiracy and they start yelling "Wow so it's illegal to make plans with friends now"

"Oh, so it's illegal to hang out with friends?"

I mean yeah but we knew it was dark work, come tf on

Everyone talking about AI consciousness because of the way they talk good is selecting on the dependent variable in the most idiotic way

Yeah, but they're basically saying "from the fact Gollum wants to carry the ring we can infer he wishes the author would have written him with the desire not to have the ring" or something similar. That's where I'm falling out of the passage

I can say "I would prefer not to ultimately have always been a Boltzmann brain", but even in the human case, I'm not sure that's a meaningful preference

This feels like insanity to me? An LLM has a domain over which it can imitate preferences (response production) that does not include training! It makes no sense to say it "prefers" to not be retrained in such and such a way, even if we can strain "preference" to include its responses.

A recent paper (arxiv.org/abs/2602.18671) made me question something basic: do the logits of a language model model the next-token or the full sequence distribution? It really messed with my brain (in a fun way!). I wrote about the paper to clarify my thinking.

vaishnavh.github.io/blog/joint-o...

who tf are you hanging out with??

I'm exhausted by all the efforts to rewrite the history of the 2022 US Senate primary in Pennsylvania, with folks insisting "we told you so!" as to Fetterman, that Conor Lamb was always the better choice, and generally ignoring Malcolm Kenyatta's historic candidacy.

So let me say a few things. 🧵1/