Ryan Moulton

I picked it up randomly off Twitter.

There is an old programming adage that says you should never write the most clever code that you can, because you have to be even more clever to debug it. I wonder if there is any llm corollary.

Singularity Music Songs about future shock, obsolescence, and the end of the world.

This singularity playlist is actually bringing me a bit of peace because it makes me feel like everything I'm feeling about this isn't unique in time or space. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The conical labor twizzler.

The best way to elicit music from your feed is to ask them to help you build a playlist on a topic.

goes kinda hard.

I love that song man, cheese can't stop me.

YouTube video by ImWithHerVEVO I’m With Her - Ancient Light (Official Music Video)

Favorite recent song in a weird time signature. This one's in 7. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xIh...

Man, if farming labor share ends up nonmonotonic that would be an interesting trajectory for humanity.

San Jose and surroundings:
1. Trillions of dollars worth of companies.
2. Land use and infrastructure that look like the derelict suburbs of detroit.

The pace of AI triggers my, "Chill out and wait 'til this all settles down," instinct, which is probably maladaptive in a world where nothing settles down anymore.

Chopping wood and carrying water.

It's very annoying to have a habit of scratching your head when you are thinking when you have a head injury*.

*minor.

Was that the main cause of this? I assumed it was the same as inflation generally.

I don't know. I guess I'm curious even about steady state 2% inflation. Who does that tax? (if anyone?)

Good luck with your superhero transformation. I hope the powers you get are ones you like.

This is an increasingly relevant economic fact that I don't actually know. If you tax the public solely through inflation, what does the tax incidence look like?

This seems like a lot, but even mideast war is apparently no match for overzealous fiscal stimulus.

If you can bop to music in that time signature, the number isn't really prime yet. For most people, 5 is the first prime. If you're into jazz, it's 7. If you're Indian or into prog rock, it's 11.

7 is the least prime number that feels prime.

Every platform has to have one.

Thinking back on the golden age sci fi that straight-lines-on-graphs predicted we'd be on mars 30 years ago, and wondering if there are any lessons from that for the present. Were they just not paying attention to known constraints in their exuberance?

My hypothesis is that AI will lead to less dramatic layoffs (e.g., the Block memo) and more a slower drip: companies will continue to fire at similar rates, but will hire at much slower rates. Those who are left will be expected to use AI tools--to figure it out--in order to pick up the slack from those who were let go. This will naturally lead to AI models being adopted effectively throughout organizations. But the labor market implications for the economy are in some ways more dire than the dramatic scenario: exactly the type of slow drip of increasing unemployment and lower labor force participation that policy has the hardest time dealing with (policy is much better when there is a clear demarcated disaster).

In a model where employees retain value only for their institutional/tacit knowledge, and not for their fungible skills, I think this hiring/firing behavior is what you expect. New employees become substitutable before existing employees.

Too principled, no principles, for a site to survive you need a medium amount of principles.

This is why I think unicode shouldn't have added codepoints for emojis directly. There should be \start emoji \end emoji codepoints with text in between that the client is free to interpret. Otherwise the cultural ascent of lesswrong will lead to a "bowels of Christ" emoji preserved for eternity.

yeah, that's why I said it's unlikely to happen.

lot's of people coming for why's head because he talked about using AI.

I don't think this will happen, but a truly poetic way for bluesky to die would be for people to get its devs fired one by one until the site implodes.

Ah, the Oliver Cromwell quote was not familiar enough to me for "I beseech you" to trigger it.

I don't get "I beseech you" picturing a digestive system?