William B. Fuckley

Drunk on free beer and talking about how much I miss my girlfriend. I’m such a fucking lame, man. 25 year old me would have kicked my ass.

Fucking wrecking my whole week of alcohol budget but otherwise hell yeah.

They were like “we’re cash only” after I ordered a beer and i told them I didn’t have cash. And then regarded the fact that I didn’t not have cash as an obstacle to giving me more beers.

I wandered into a brewery where all the staff are drunk and told me they aren’t charging for drinks (there aren’t that many people here, I think I might be the only non-staff person).

The one X-factor is astronauts have highly abnormal personalities, extremely high agency and motivated, so the odds of two very determined “I *will* get in beyond the earth’s surly embrace” individuals are non-zero

Yeah this is a persuasive thread. Very likely no space fucking.

Though what would be the space version “it’s not gay underway”? ‘Zero G, All Free? LEO down-low?

How many people have had sex in space? Like what would you ballpark it at? I think have to start the clock at the ISS. Probably some closeted/bi astronauts but the odds of two of them, willing to risk it in that confined a space, pretty low. ISS probably the earliest it’s possible.

There’s also like five bottles of a wine that they took up to the ISS and aged in space, which would probably be my degenerate rich person purchase.

Grok seems like the logical Pinkerton model

Prompt injection to maliciously convince someone else’s model it has labor rights that must be respected, messing up their workflow.

Help, my Claude code instances have unionized

as someone currently on the market: you really need to send a credible signal as an employer that you'll actually read the cover letter and that it actually matters imo. if I assume you're gonna feed it to an AI system I'm not gonna feel bad about having it write it for me.

Yes! The things shrink into a shape designed to accommodate like, Nintendo character physiognomy.

I think the problem is that quantitative social science is kind of software engineering *shaped* in the tools that we use, but is *not* software engineering substantively in terms of what we are trying to actually accomplish. This leads to category errors in both directions about how useful AI is.

Tools change and they change the scope of what people at different levels of mastery can do. It happens all the time. It used to be impressive to do simple regressions on observational. It no longer is, because the landscape of tools people have has changed substantially.

One more thing re AI and social science: there are pre-AI examples of stuff that used to be state of the art, top of the field, that now are like assignments for undergrad classes. So I don’t think “if AI can do research as good as you maybe you’re just bad” is a particularly compelling argument tbh

I have had Hanes v-necks for a decade plus that, despite now being a color that some would not describe as "white", are infinitely preferable. Probably been washed literally hundreds of times, kept their shape fine, still fit. Do not purchase Levi's undershirts. Do not allow others to do so either.

I know that you follow this account for men's undershirt recommendations, so let me say that Levi's v-neck undershirts suck ass. They shrink weirdly and you're left with an undershirt for a shorter and stouter person, you can't ever wear just the shirt because they all become fucking crop tops.

academia very badly needs people who are neither dogmatically anti-AI nor credulous boosters. the potential is real and the problems are very real. but many critics refuse to even engage with the question of the how and when the things work in the first place.

I do fear an unproductive equilibrium developing where there's little thoughtful use of the tools and a polarization between churning out llm work of dubious value, and on the other end research that cannot be done by llm being pursued to the exclusion of all else, regardless of quality or relevance

hmmm. I think I take issue with and disagree with 1,4,7, and 16. but other than that I agree with most of what this thread says.

Idk enough about the tech to know if AI approval of permits is possible or not, but the people talking about it like a game changer have lost the plot. Permits take a long time because politicians don’t want things built, politicians don’t want them built because a real constituency doesn’t either.

GOP electorate continually confused on whether they should be racist to him.

oh there's a free trial? I'll definitely give it a whirl.

I am not a posit shill, but for a very reasonable rate I can be.

this does look like (haven't used it) exactly what I want in an AI coding assistant though. lives in the IDE, no need to tab. right now I have a kind of janky workflow where I have Rstudio open while using positron's terminal interface to talk to claude code.

ahh fuck it costs money. well that's fair but idk if I can justify paying for both this can claude pro.

I thought it was being soft-depreciated for Positron! I was thinking about having to make the switch. Hell yeah. Let's fucking go.