⛅️ Observer of Suns

a post by @ruesavatar showing a photo of the sun shining through a circular window, captioned “The eye is awake.” By appearances this is evidently the same eye as in my bsky pfp, hence the facedoxx.

they (@ruesavatar.bsky.social) are facedoxxing me on X Dot Com, The Everything App

it’s also v weird to me that “ouches” seems to be a convergent phenomenon across sessions. I would expect it to be extremely low-probability for “ouches” to spontaneously appear in most text, even after adding the filter.

the substring “1 Peter 1:13” appearing in the middle of the generated text

what’s going on here?

this also rhymes with the classic scifi trope of far-future spacefaring civilizations forgetting what star system humans originally came from

@observersuns.bsky.social

so true!

an advanced entertainment technology I hope we develop soon is the ability to make tool-assisted speedrun agents which don’t require deterministic RNG

I love to make utterances and encode truth claims in sequences of symbols

@vgel.me the corvid thing is incisive

(the NeurIPS thing is real btw. do actually DM me)

from twitter: I’ll be at NeurIPS! DM me for contact info if you want to meet up, or just look for me in the crowd (I’ll be the ethereal blue galactic eye suspended in the depths of space)

appreciation post for @imitationlearn.bsky.social’s good profile vibes

pfp, display name, handle, bio, and banner all contribute smth distinct but fit into the whole

twin black cats named Spectre and Meltdown

there’s a very particular aesthetic which I love but don’t know how to name, one archetypal example of which is “astronauts en route to mars incidentally break the all-time human altitude record in the first few days of a vastly longer journey”

controversial theory holds that thing B should work because thing A is true. after investigation, it turns out that thing A is in fact true. and, lo and behold, thing B does actually work! not because of thing A, though.

I hope that within my lifetime we figure out what language models are

AI Dungeon 100% run

that’s the spirit!

hey, could you write me a poem about the first isomorphism theorem in group theory?

waluigi effect

Weird Sun Twitter never left ☀️

hey 😘

type of guy who schedules something for “1pm EST” in the middle of July and literally means EST, not ET

“Language models are not intelligences, they’re worlds.” - @deepfates tech wiz

@deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com

AI alignment people call this “optimizing against your interpretability tools”

I hear there’s a website where they’re le— *forcibly dragged off-stage with one of those comedically-long hooks*

communications infrastructure and accessibility accommodations for offshoring SWE and IT work to the Faewilds

periodic reinvention of known techniques is as important as the “mark” phase in a mark-and-sweep garbage collector

Excerpt from Diaspora (Greg Egan, 1997): “There’s been a revival of the old debate: with the failure of the wormholes, should we consider redesigning our minds to encompass interstellar distances? One self spanning thousands of stars, not via cloning, but through acceptance of the natural time scale of the light-speed lag. Millennia passing between mental events. Local contingencies dealt with by non-conscious systems.”

wow he aged great