Patrick

Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.

This seems weirdly unsustainable at first, but it's OK because we're building a Dyson sphere around the solar system to host it.

when you need the taste of coffee AND cigarette

a picture of the Mastermind board game

it's giving Mastermind

Major passing. Wilson define an enduring aesthetic and influenced so many musicians, especially in regard to storytelling and time

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it holds up, you can watch

Thief

don't

and natsec which has to be first if it turns out to be real, as well as professional economists who believe there's only really one good solution to debt and demographic issues: AI causing hockeystick growth in productivity.

It's a perfect storm. Seemingly everyone is incentivized to reinforce it.

YouTube video by Asianometry A Cult AI Computer’s Boom and Bust

I was just watching this the other day www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV7C...

"So what do you do?"
"Oh not much, mostly daydreaming about dominating god."

It's like an affirmation 🤓💪

The guys who reason from first principles that you can farm karma with shrimp tubs. Of course they think LLMs reason when they themselves have no reasoning ability.

It's the guy who's really into Kant who keeps polling the room if the universe exists without eyes to see it, but there's actually so many of them and now they've congregated into "research groups" in search of God.

The academic literature is horrendous as well. Constantly building up super contrived mental abstractions and benchmarking nothing to avoid just describing what is conceptually pretty simple. But, alas, an accurate explanation of "spicy autocomplete" wouldn't receive infinite funding.

OpenAI is especially egregious at coming up with misleading terminology. "Reasoning" is another one, implying there's an entity there, thinking and feeling, when it's "just" a very impressive autocomplete and prompt building script and a scan for nearest neighbors in a large array

if i can be y’all’s dad for a second:

one of the most important things I’ve learned is that acquiring a skill is literally uncomfortable

that awful moment where you feel confused and stupid and embarrassed? it means you’re about to learn something. and it’s *mandatory* if you want to get better

YouTube video by ScorpionsVEVO Scorpions - Wind Of Change (Official Music Video)

youtu.be/n4RjJKxsamQ

Wind Of Change Scorpions · Crazy World · Song · 1990

open.spotify.com/track/3ovjw5...

My pocket Constitution

A good thing to keep in my pocket today.

Who knows, I might have the opportunity to do some dramatic reading.

For the longest time I shied away from low level programming. I always found it intimidating. It turns out it isn’t any harder than other programming. It’s just that everything written about it assumes too much. So here’s my attempt at an intro to machine code

jimmyhmiller.com/machine-code...

rizz

*Slams dictionary shut til Tuesday*

it's good (Black's ftw) but also the only bbq I've suffocated on. Prison bread.

Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object xkcd.com/3084

what game is this?

ah, thank you!

FYI I think your account on the other site got taken over :(

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin

archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...