Couch Gregor

What started as a junior high school scribble in 1995, evolved into my oldest robot character named Clutch. While he's gone through different names and designs, today in an effort to revive him and find a new direction, I wanted to introduce Clutch to my followers. 🙏 #VarcoHelix #ArtRobot

Happy Halloweeeeeeeeen, haven't proceeded to post any illustrations or pictures..

PageRank was patented. Social media is beholden to the tyranny of network externalities. Phones? Laptops? Where do you even start on the roadblocks to that? But anyone with enough money can make a language model as good as GPT-3 from scratch in probably about a month, and then you go from there.

apple carvings by tomoko sato

This is how people talk about AI

found the good youtubes www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am-f...

Okay oomftober actually starts at finntober

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🛋📝 back in 20 23 of semantic search.

The de-fumening, its on us.

Yep, forgot to miss this. #couchcurations

This image from a 1985 Computerworld article on hackers that looks like a fetish pic.

Wuthering Heights (Kate Bush, 1978)

Nobody has a photographic memory cognitivewonderland.substack.com/p/nobody-has...

Further breaking my hiatus to say: ✊🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🇷🇸

I do think anyone who wants us to take Elizer Yudkowsky seriously as an authority on AI armageddon should be forced to testify on video that they have read the entirety of his 660,000 word rationalist Harry Potter fan fiction – written aged 30–34 – and still thinks the world needs his take.

They banned Linux it's so funny

if mutual aid is the metric of political power then then catholic church is the most powerful organization in existence

Honestily what is worse is that somw days I am scared of these people. Scared that because of my disabilities and the needs that acompany them, they will keep on with the path they are going on and justify discriminatory action beyond this topic despite what they claim their views to be

One of the more frustrating aspects of engaging in AI policy is that many things about the internet or technology in general have been suddenly thrust into the spotlight due to AI, and people instinctually rally against them without any regard for the collateral damage.

Agreed, and would further add: the frontier labs tooting the "DOOM" horn in compromised bad-faith pseudo-opposition *also* are acting from similarly corruptive rent-seeking incentives.

New nickname for Bluesky just dropped https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network

we would not actually know how and why either CSAM or heroin or burning plastic is bad and affects victims/drug users without actual studies involving their impact. you cannot just from-first-principles every single possible issue.

fucking amazing work

devil's burnt toast

A second weird handheld has landed!

Sometimes you have to express skepticism of other concepts foundherently and let go of the and go zining through the non-fictional essaying. Ain't gonna sex work it up. I'm not really in that kind of mood right now.

Comedy and tragedy.

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It preaches disobedience!

I answered the odd questions of plzdontkillus, welp, time to add this too #couchcurations

Put this on my reading list #couchcurations

Out of Body by Wani Souma

A lot of artists and Plopywriters, especially, may go through sensitivity training, methinks.

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