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navigating the library of babel
“always bet on text” graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html
08.02.2026 21:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0i don’t see a problem
03.02.2026 16:53 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0bsky.app/profile/hdev...
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Obsidian (highest risk under interrogation)
31.01.2026 07:03 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0evergreen post
31.01.2026 04:42 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0in 2005 this was pretty cool and new
28.01.2026 15:06 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0sure i’m just saying it’s well known that there’s more than one
27.01.2026 15:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I don't think current AI is conscious or worthy of moral standing, but there's no reason to suppose it can't be. And it worries me that the exact people generally most concern with rights for other conscious beings are most likely to deny the possibility of machine consciousness.
26.01.2026 13:22 — 👍 98 🔁 13 💬 7 📌 3it’s not singular
26.01.2026 15:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0why so many sieges in the levant and so few in egypt and turkey
26.01.2026 02:50 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0claude can also review the code
21.01.2026 22:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0a great thing about this is that if it existed, it would be possible to automatically annotate accounts that are repeatedly found to be posting slop
20.01.2026 20:07 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@pfrazee.com
20.01.2026 17:59 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0people seem to be happy with it
19.01.2026 02:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0sqlite3
19.01.2026 02:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0amazing
18.01.2026 19:49 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0you don’t have to trust anyone, you can think for yourself
18.01.2026 19:26 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0used to live right by pike place and i miss these skies
18.01.2026 19:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0we can solve san francisco’s bathroom shortage by having a fleet of these that roam the streets autonomously and can be summoned by an app
call it a weemo
i would invite anyone who doubts that llms are good at search to watch one use ripgrep. really phenomenal stuff
18.01.2026 17:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0he is also just obviously wrong about language models
18.01.2026 17:49 — 👍 35 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0this one is particularly egregious but the waleg has been doing all kind of insane shit
18.01.2026 08:04 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0no and yes
18.01.2026 07:58 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0does anyone know what happened to the washington legislature? this bill has 26 cosponsors legiscan.com/WA/bill/HB23...
18.01.2026 07:28 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0this is c3o and it’s silly but pay attention to the precise command of language used for silly purposes
18.01.2026 04:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0claude 4.5 opus is pretty attuned ime
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we have a machine that has read approximately every text ever digitized and published and knows about all of it and is precisely attuned to the finest resonances of language and meaning. this is incredible
18.01.2026 04:01 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
yes, i think of these as different stages of the pipeline, i think you want to have diversity when selecting the set of posts to show but then show little clusters
the write up i was thinking of is www.lesswrong.com/posts/u2ww8y...
