fruchtomania

My understanding of how LLMs work is that they abstract at much higher levels than we do, not lesser. Weights are essentially multi-dimensional abstractions, pattern recognition at much greater depth and breadth than we're capable of holding in our minds.

"writing science fiction that will be used by a mathematical equation...."

Is "using science fiction" something we ordinarily think of a mathematical equation as being capable of doing? I think this formulation vastly underestimates what such a thing requires.

This critique feels off-base to me -- it's making a category error, looking at the wrong level of abstraction. It's like saying we're not doing philosophy either, we're just moving long-chain organic molecules around in a complicated way.

The way it struck me was that Herbert was interested in exploring the various freaky paths humans would take toward enhancing their own selves in the absence of high tech to rely on.

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

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this audio sketch by the troupe Kaspar Hauser is one of my favorite things.

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YouTube video by Billy the Kid Grateful Strings - Billy Plays The Dead - Merry Christmas

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YouTube video by Jessie "Sugar Bear" Keller Billy Strings - Cassidy - 2/6/2026 - Athens, GA - Bobby Weir Tribute

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YouTube video by Suwannee HD Streams Bob Weir and Trey Anastasio - Full Set (Acoustic) at Wanee Festival (Spirit of Suwannee Music Park)

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It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

this screenshot is misleading, and in fact they've changed the headline. what the real situation is is that Waymo hires people to take over when the automation runs into a situation that it can't handle, which seems good to me?

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YouTube video by Wolfgang's Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir - Throwing Stones | Live at Oakland Coliseum Arena (1988)

someone's got to turn the page.
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i hope you play them the song

i had been *wondering* what it was

BARBELITH

same! it transformed our lives when we made that switch

My partner Marty and I both read A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking this year (it had been a gift to our kid from her cousin) and loved it. Marty's gone on a Kingfisher tear since, I've got a few books on the stack to get through first (like Scalzi's Old Man's War series I'm re-reading now.)

"Moby, I'm growing maggots!"

--David Lynch

that was a p good show

It was a whole phase of his career as I understand it

As You Lick It
Smeary Wives of His Sore
Two Hentaimen of Corona (virus)
Tightass Androgynous

@lemonodor.bsky.social This seems like something you might be interested in.

You'll be visited by three spirits.

Your primary care doctor is probably not going to take the time to go over every item on your blood work with you and explain what it means in as much detail as you like. ChatGPT will.

As I've thought about it, what I've come to is that it doesn't really matter to me whether it fits this or that arbitrary definition. I'm more interested in specific cases of what it can and can't do (yet.) It can def do a lot of things which we previously would have thought required intelligence.

Intelligence is poorly and inconsistently defined just as far as humans go. You could come up with definitions that AI could never meet, that it might well meet eventually, and that it is already meeting -- and people have.

I feel like it's a bit of comparing apples and oranges situation. In fact, AI is already pushing scientific frontiers, or helping to in a big way.

i’m semesame

so that's your take?

hundred percent disagree

Even more than Black Kiss?

As a semi-professional poet and AI enthusiast (though not blind to its negatives), from my own experience I'd say that a poetic sensibility can be a strength for producing all kinds of desired and/or interesting results from LLMs, not just jailbreaking.