jorbs

jorbs

@jorbs.bsky.social

he/him | i bought a house from people paying to watch me play videogames how cool is that | author: before we go live | twitch/yt partner

1,802 Followers 781 Following 1,012 Posts Joined Jun 2023
10 months ago

The "antiwoke" guys are calling Marathon a "genderqueer shooter" and I don't think they understand how cool that sounds.

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16 hours ago

for me, bo burnham's greatest accomplishment is that he has hijacked "i don't want to do that" in my brain and every time i think that thought i start singing the line from inside and thinking about bo burnham.

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1 day ago
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3 days ago

i appreciate this idea so much. what if we made my actual circadian rhythm the official timekeeping apparatus of the country. this would be convenient to me and the 500 other people who sleep exactly as badly as i do and nobody else.

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6 days ago

5 hours until sts 2 *vibrating noisily*

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1 week ago
a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair

David Attenborough [whispering]:

“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”

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1 week ago

oh no! rest in peace.

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1 week ago

chapter 2 definitely my favorite. it's early enough in the game to stand out and embedded in the theme of the chapter in a beautiful way.

personal least fave was ch. 4 cause i didn't play smb3 so the reference missed for me and it just felt random. wouldn't say that that was its fault though xD.

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1 week ago

insofar as "reasoning" means "a word for how humans do the things they do", llm's aren't ever going to do that, because they aren't ever going to be humans. insofar as it means can they compute things to succeed at tasks, sure. that isn't a new thing for technology to be able to do.

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1 week ago

that is about whether or not llm's can perform some tasks as well as humans, but doesn't address whether what they do will ever have equivalence to what humans do. is an llm ever going to feel its anxiety soothe when it holds a newborn child, for example?

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1 week ago

calculators and airplanes can perform certain tasks better than humans can. llm's are a tech hoping to perform some more tasks better than humans can, but they aren't ever going to be equivalent to human reasoning. they could surpass it in many ways, but they still wouldn't be the same thing.

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1 week ago

sure, am familiar with the history of humans thinking they are different than other things due to something about how they think. the thing is that however we think is in fact the way we think, so it's sort of tautological if there's any important on being human, which most humans have.

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1 week ago

also like, another angle, we've been doing whatever it is we do for thousands of years, and it has a tremendous number of nuances etc., so assuming you can successfully replicate it and swap it out with llm output because it works sometimes is extremely extremely fragile handling of sentient life.

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for what it is worth it is not that hard to make a compelling ethical argument that humans should replace themselves with other things, like nothing, or ai. it's just not compelling to many humans, because we're humans.

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1 week ago

it doesn't apply very relevantly to humans because humans are (literally) grandfathered in. we are our species. whatever it is we do that may or may not be reasoning is the thing which we, our species, does. arguing we can replace it with ai slides into asking why we don't replace ourselves with ai.

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1 week ago

n.b. he is repulsive. i just maybe don't need my media to tell me that repeatedly, it could be more useful if my media just told me the things that were happening.

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1 week ago

in a media landscape where everything about him has to be repulsive, i have no real ability to get like... information. it's not a great media landscape.

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1 week ago

one weird thing about ■■■■■■ ■■■■■ is that everything about him is treated with approximately equal outrage on social media. like, him being old is treated with about as much scorn as him remodeling the white house, which is treated with about as much scorn as him raping children.

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1 week ago

it understands that it needs the keys, but doesn't understand how to navigate to the superelite to get emerald consistently

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1 week ago

starting killing iran's schoolchildren this early in the process is extremely extremely fast ideological colonization

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1 week ago

(it has to hold 60% winrate for 500 runs to tick its assistance down one number. started at 50 free aoe damage 47.5k runs ago).

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1 week ago

in terms of actual learning, it plateau'd for quite a while at 22 free damage per turn, which i think is where it starts stalling against donu deca if it doesn't understand it needs to play additional damage probably. breaking through that hump feels like maybe a big deal. down to 20 now.

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1 week ago
spirebird, neural network for losing at slay the spire, progressively getting worse at losing.

i am having way too much fun with this. found a way to save ~200mb ram per instance so i'm up to 32 workers, and batching gpu updates (running them synchronously every ms instead of immediately every time a worker reports in) got me ~4x throughput as well.

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1 week ago

i wonder if anyone watches donald █████ speeches for the same reason they watched alex honnold's taipei free solo

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1 week ago

I guess our elected officials were right this past year. I should have stopped all this from happening

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1 week ago

if this were vs. a sphinx i would answer "pluribus" and feel 70+% happy with my answer.

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1 week ago

is this pluribus?

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1 week ago
10 hour study with me at Columbia showing lunch Her in the library DHS illegally arrested me please help

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Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

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