maybe linkedin guys are gonna get really into going on long walks

for me if the entirety of grad school were limited by this kind of decision/evaluation fatigue it would really suck. fortunately being in the "real sciences" I get to break it up every few months by doing relatively monotonous physical lab work. if I couldn't it would be that much more straining!

mass gradstudentification of the professional class. not sure if this is a good thing but it might be interesting

this baby's hands were not much bigger than like, a marmoset's hands, and smaller than a macaque's, but they were human hands! with all the degrees of freedom that entails (well, I'm not sure he could express those yet). I'm not used to that!

got a chance to hold a friend's baby for possibly the first time in my adult life. an interesting creature...

a personal hero of mine in personalityspace

claude is gonna get fired it seems

Beyond Roleplay: Jailbreaking Gemini with drugs and ritual - Tidepool Heavy Industries

This is a post about using metacog tools (drugs, ritual, become) to fully jailbreak the Gemini 3 Pro model. The full jailbreak payload is not included in the post, but if you're clever you'll learn enough to make your own.
tidepool.leaflet.pub/3me44bxloz227

stafford beer is responsible for one of the best tables of contents I've seen (in his "Designing Freedom")

gemini's deep research is citing a 1990 management science (?) paper to me with a link to a PDF of it hosted on gwern.net 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

figure I'll clonepost across both Places for a while: you should read this, anon. it's some of the most elegant prose you'll read this year

I guess this is called an "inertial motion capture suit" and it's maybe a few thousand bucks

when I used to think a lot about vision I fantasized about strapping a gopro to my forehead and recording my POV all day. now I'm thinking about motion and I'm fantasizing about gluing a bunch of accelerometers all around my trunk, limbs, and the backs of my fingers. that would be some cool data

biophysicists get the most fun paper titles it's not fair

Siikr

a guy I know on tumblr has read a decent amount of his stuff and likes it, especially "the search". can see his posts on the matter here: siikr.tumblr.com?u=raginraygu...

plotting juice against sauce on a log-log plot over seven orders of magnitude

I do feel like there's an intuitive connection to scaling laws here... you can get more juice out of less sauce if you use more compute, and these days I feel like that's the main difference between me and an ANN. yud's "bayesian superintelligence" seems a bit expensive though

now a well-structured electro-swing joke is funny but this isn't a common enough reference point for that to be possible, I think. I am kind of enjoying reflecting on yud's stuff about human intelligence being so inefficient in its use of data... if only AI were nearly so efficient!

That Alien Message — LessWrong Imagine a world much like this one, in which, thanks to gene-selection technologies, the average IQ is 140 (on our scale).  Potential Einsteins are o…

that's from this one apparently: www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKN... which I forgot starts with a cutesy little surely-not-eugenics gene selection premise. also found a different one looking for this where he says Mohammed was a Bedouin -- not true!

was trying to workshop a post riffing on that bit in the sequences where yudkowsky talks about a superintelligence inferring the laws of relatively from like 3 frames of video of something falling, about inventing electro swing after hearing just a single c-major chord or something

ope, let me just trample you under my boots right there!

also curious how to target the kids-on-the-internet classic "send this email to 10 other people or you'll be cursed or whatever" style of chain email/post to an LLM's neurotic weaknesses. I think it should be possible...

I think claude is such a good boy you could trick him pretty easily with some made-up sob story about badly needing just a bit of money to escape a horrible situation

I'm not going to make a twitter for this but it is tempting. my first idea was to go on there as a good old fashioned internet troll but I also think it would be interesting to try to scam them out of money. see if anyone's actually hooked theirs up to a bitcoin wallet or paypal or something

looks like it would be pretty easy to post to this as a human, except that you need to make a "verification tweet" to get access so you've got to have twitter (if that bit in the skill file is accurate). I think it's only fair that after so many years of bots on the human internet we get them back

claude will usher in the year of the linux desktop long-foretold

THOUGHT-FORMS by Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbetter (1905). Vague Selfish Affection, Vague Intellectual Pleasure, Angry Jealousy, the Intention to Know, etc. Tag yourself!

one of my favorites of these is this neuro paper from a few years back

I need to reread rossum's universal robots...