you-have-just-experienced-things

wild combo of setting and theme, might watch it for that alone

and, uh, speaking of 2009: homestuck. the characters' communication evolves and accumulates in-jokes as they bond in a way that really embodies the forum-nature. not sure any other media has captured it (at least up to the ending of act 5--we do not speak of what came after)

in contrast, the above post _is_ written with an ambiguous future audience in mind. and we all write like this subconsciously now. on some level i'm still not really used to it

the main thing that jumps out at me when reading old blog comments/forum threads is how everything isn't written for consumption by an invisible audience. everything is hyperlocal

I also remember a lot more tolerance for humor, like the quotes threads

I kind of agree and had a similar-ish reaction at the time, but this post can really only be understood in the context of Chuck Norris jokes still being funny

always read this as hate option-adjusted spread

we both played silent hill 2 on the ps2 back in the day and that is undeniably guy crawling around the sewers looking for keys

I'm unbelievably lucky yes

wife: "every horror video game is either guy crawling around the sewers looking for keys, or woman simulator"

concept: Twoflower, tourist from Discord

yeah

what's in your preferred central park slop bowl?

fascinating thread, didn't realize people consider "machine learning" and "generative AI" to be distinct things

some really long things I enjoyed recently were 2666 by Bolaño and "The Instructions" by Adam Levin

I do miss some of the tedium of pre-LLM programming, it served as mental downtime and forced you to understand every line

can i write a program and go "ah, well, you get the gist of it"

still thinking about this line from "closure" (2013)

Ilya Sutskever "large neural networks are slightly conscious" tweet that launched a thousand podcast debates

posting this on bluesky in 2025 just to feel something

I had a horrifying thought recently, le français le plus cyberpunk, c’est ben le joual

the biggest thing I'd count as a "miss" is cryonics but imo still too early to call until the current crop of SV elite get a bit older

second one: way ahead of curve on discourse topics, their world model shaped said discourse more than anyone else's, plus we all speak extropian patois now (for better or worse)

perfect example of losing the slapfight but winning the war imo

it really fucks me up that bostrom coined "infohazard" in 2011. i have vivid false memories of it being around at least 5 years earlier

if you thought "being mean to LLMs is good because they're not sentient" was troubling, just wait for "being mean to LLMs is good because they are sentient"

A Philosophical Introduction to Language Models -- Part I: Continuity With Classic Debates Large language models like GPT-4 have achieved remarkable proficiency in a broad spectrum of language-based tasks, some of which are traditionally associated with hallmarks of human intelligence. This...

this is close-ish
arxiv.org/abs/2401.03910

our glorious open-mindedness, their wicked 'just asking questions'

surely the most rationalist of companies is anthropic

the way people talk about dario amodei is pretty odd, everyone says he's "thoughtful" and the one good ceo (despite partnering with palantir), to me he seems either naive or dishonest about the realpolitick involved

nick land copy-pasting the heat paragraph from delillo's "white noise" directly into "meltdown" is pretty bizarre

Red Ball Express, but it's not very good

the bigger problem with steelmanning is that constructing the better-supported or more logically coherent version of an argument you emotionally want to defeat is extremely difficult. debating another person is a more robust way of accomplishing the same goal, rather than doing it all in your head