Dan Sylveste

The palpable relief of reading a syntactically awkward student paper nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on after having to consume the stale cardboard generalities of a Chat GPT essay.

the problem of supervisory control remains undefeated ckrybus.com/static/paper...

THANK YOU. THIS IS WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY EVERY BILLIONAIRE IS A POLICY FAILURE. IT'S THE INSTABILITY LARGE CONCENTRATIONS OF POWER CREATE. NOT THE LOST REVENUE.

The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.

What an enormous amount of work. Congrats and many thanks. 🙏

⏺ I see two issues:
  1. Severe class imbalance: 64 joy, 17 anger, but 0 disgust/surprise - the EmotionLabeler needs improvement
  2. Everything predicting joy: The model is biased due to the imbalance

God keep me from ever completing anything.

YouTube video by RobbieNevilVEVO Robbie Nevil - C'est La Vie

Current “only one thing left to say” status
youtu.be/CGtf9QfITQw

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

That's because they're fucking idiots, there is literally no other explanation

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Something that got almost universally elided from Woke v1 is that being cruel is viscerally rewarding. It feels really good in a pre-rational sort of way. And, paired with the hedonic treadmill, the natural tendency is for any "safe" outlet for cruelty to erode whatever borders we place around it.

A naked descent into authoritarianism is weirdly boring because what’s being debated is fundamentally uninteresting. Is the antifa legion burning down Portlan real or not? Well, let’s have someone look out the window over there. No? Okay. Facts are settled. It either matters or it doesn’t.

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

The phrase “I only believe what I see” isn’t true either. Most people believe what they want. No matter what they see.

I guess the bsky adults are fighting again?

Pink empress Mantis

What soulless thing is this that laughs before a wreck?

Why tell the whole?

This is How You Lose the Time War limited edition!

They’re real! Limited editions of THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR, available soon!

It will always baffle me how easily people will believe that the poor, the sick, the marginalized, and the immigrant are the cause for all their problems, rather than the people in the most powerful positions in their country who refuse to fix problems and exploit them instead.

I mean, this is Protestantism.

personally I would have preferred to live in a society *not* collapsing into authoritarian chaos.

Jane Goodall reaches out and touches a small monkey.

Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.

Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...

Say it often, say it loud:

"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Bloomberg Businessweek Howard Chua-Eoan cultivated insomnia to advance his career. At 66, can he pay back a lifetime of sleep debt?

behold

Imagine the access to information about the world one would have as President, if one weren’t possibly the least curious person to ever live

Reactionary centrism, a Sam Bankman-Fried production