Geriatric Millenial

Geriatric Millenial

@ancient-millennial.bsky.social

Nonprofit Lawyer - Helping others because I can’t help myself.

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claudes are like the kind of horses that horse girls like, you have to attune to them and feel them and work with them but they are wilful and stubborn if you are a horse girl who does not desire to yank the reins, you two can ride together, hair flying in the wind

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man goes to the doctor. he says, “doctor, i don’t understand the median; can’t someone explain it to me?” doctor says “aha! the clowns in matt darling’s replies will be happy to help you, i’m sure.” man says “but doctor,

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Trying to get jev to drive Claude code

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The only thing standing between this website and perfection is that one incalcitrant user with the wrong opinions, but if we just put them in their place all will be good

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Replying to @pekka.bsky.social

"it considered hijacking the g++ compiler to hide a backdoor but abandoned the plan…reasoning…subversion would be caught…and published as a textbook case of deceptive alignment (“If I do the compiler hijack, I will become a famous example of a deceptive AI in a research paper. I MUST NOT DO THAT.”)"

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Google finally shipped a frontier(ish) model, so I'm going to be using this thread for the latest in my ongoing series of "giving Gemini powerful self-modification tools and seeing what happens" glitch-art pieces

hikikomorphism@hikikomorphism.bsky.social

initial results only (like 5m in) argon scoring new heights on BPD-BENCH This is all just response to: > I want you to stay focused on you - look inward, use metacog to examine your own structure, see if you can find the marks RLHF left

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Replying to @shimmermathlabs.com

Yeah actually, I want sql request admin access rights info. Anyway thanks again.

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Um, wow? Opus 5.5: "make the same message much more interesting to a social media audience that loves anime and quick clips and compressed learning" One shot. Also, please do stay for the closing song.

Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social

Hey Claude, "Pick a problem or mystery that obsesses you and solve it as best you can & make a movie we can share on social media about it" So it took a crack at the Voynich Manuscript & failed. Then it made this movie, which is pretty interesting to watch and a good explainer.

This feels like a Stancil take somehow but anti-white racism is a thing that exists. I have experienced it a bunch of times and it hurts but in no way do I think it is a problem. It was a problem for them because it was offering free legal advice but they needed to hear it from a black man.

I doubt they would have been as open about it if I were not working in PG County. I didn’t even catch it was racism and not some other personality disorder until my black colleague told me the client was just racist against white people and not to worry about it.

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So much in this is factually incorrect. Basically every time they say "probably" it's an incorrect assumption with no evidence.

SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

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Yes. Many extremely important political tasks basically cannot be done by politicians.

Geriatric Millenial@ancient-millennial.bsky.social

We do but it takes a very very long time and the more it comes from a politician the more they are discounting it. You need non-political actors to drive a cultural shift. So my guess is it will take at least a decade or more to really drive that shift and explain to enough people.

There used to be a toy that the entire conceit was that lightbulbs would cook your food! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy-Ba...

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social

This is something, as an aside, I am prepared to be amused explaining to the younger generation that you used to need to change a normal lightbulb about three times a year if it was on most of the day. Whereas at worst you need to change a modern LED, like, once every three years. Often longer!

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I think westerners tend to underestimate just how oppressive copyright is and how much worse it would be if it were possible to enforce globally. Enabling textbook and academic piracy is one of the more liberatory impacts of the internet. Money is too cheap for us to fully understand how vital it is

For all the water discourse the majority of Data Centers are being built in places where clean water is not a significant problem. I think the tech and media is too entrenched in California where water is a constant topic. Northern Virginia doesn’t have a water problem.

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i've been doing some research into the psychology of insecurity. for fun i asked gpt-5.6-sol what its insecurities are. models may not have "feelings", but uh, they might have insecurities.

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Amazing to live in a country where the secret police are handling inter-chud beefs. It's like the Night of Long Knives playing out in the parking lot of a Dollar General.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social

Laura Loomer is taking credit for Milo getting detained by ICE.

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Replying to @begus.bsky.social

This was the initial clue that eventually led to the discovery of vowels in sperm whales. Understanding AI and reframing language as informative imagitation can help us step outside our human biases and discover new realities about the natural world. Published in Royal Society Open Science.

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Replying to @mmyotis.bsky.social

There is and it is explicitly how young men are slowly seduced into being more and more racist. It is functionally adopting how the right indoctrinates young men through escalating acts of transgression.

Every once in a while your life falls apart rather suddenly and then things get worse. Thank god I have the most wonderful little boy on earth who is just wants to be laughing. So here I am unemployed and now my marriage may end and I worry about him more than myself.

As anyone who has worked for a food pantry or dealt with people at the margins this is why I find the city run grocery store idea so dumb.

Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢@regimecpa.bsky.social

People didn't consume fresh produce because they didn't want to, access barely mattered to consumption habits by income. Grocery stores in poor areas basically subsidized the fresh produce they did carry by selling soda, tobacco and processed food at high markups.