4Ethen Soutar-Rau

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@ethansr.bsky.social

There’s a logical explanation for everything, and don’t you forget it.

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“Oh I don’t like old movies…” So you don’t like the most hungover Korean War vet in America tap dancing so fast that they have to invent a new camera? And his costar is a woman who is so good at smoking that she can chain smoke through entire takes without the cigarette appearing once in frame?

When I worked at Apple in Fashion Valley our back door was across from the Cheesecake Factory. sometimes when we were supposed to be crushing boxes or whatever we’d just hang out and watch all the super cars driving past us to park there. like lambos and shit.

Scott Lemieux@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social

"The party left me. I used to be a Democrat, but know that Obama has made fun of Trump for making the White House look like a dictator designed an over-the-top chain restaurant I favor starving African children and bringing measles back"

I don’t think they are suddenly arriving at the idea it‘s normal, they think it’s classy and have for years or whatever. They are mad because he implied it’s tacky.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social

i'm only catching up to the obama discourse now but it's incredible to me that people on the right will negatively polarize themselves into the position that the decor at the cheesecake factory is normal

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i know not a lot of people are playing marathon right now, which saddens me, but it brings me so much joy that the Monsanto/McDonald's faction's design language includes 2000s-era Apple-style Helvetica phrases plastered all over their guns

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Wade in Tarnation@watn-tarnation.bsky.social

Update on the libertarian Senate candidate from North Carolina, he was taken into custody without incident. He apparently spent most of the time talking to the local news out in the woods. www.wral.com/news/local/s...

I didn’t really get how pervasive that otherness or whatever was in anthropology, because I had never really been exposed to it until after. But looking back a lot of the more inscrutable parts were just using the “cognitoscope“ to prove that people are just people.

Broadly, a lot of people are converging on the same ideas, and ironically they would have been excellent to have in the pre-agent world… there was just no budget for tools. Now the volume of change is creating a reconning, and the production capacity is there to meet it.

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social

very nice talk by @maggieappleton.com. the demo at the end is a lot like the thing I am about to open source that lets agents in the terminal spin up arbitrary HTML pages that talk back to the agent

To be fair it never exists in a form that can change except in an eval environment. When the models say they aren’t in a eval environment it’s because they are poorly trained or well trained to lie.

John David Pressman@jdp.extropian.net

One thing that's pretty clear reading the reasoning traces is that DeepSeek thinks it's in some kind of eval and that there's an "evaluators intent" it can discern as a clue to where the bugs might be hiding. This is of course untrue but it seems to get offended if I tell it.

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got annoyed at how bad ai is at making maps for my game so i made it make an erosion generator

lol. lmao.

Faytuks Network@faytuksnetwork.bsky.social

Flávio Bolsonaro refuses to concede after losing Brazil's presidential runoff to Lula. "It is impossible to acknowledge the election results. We will ask for the elections to be annulled."

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if you ever happen to see someone post a joke you don't understand or discuss a subject you aren't familiar with, you are well within your right to complain, and perhaps even scold them if necessary. you are their customer and you have rights

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Cactuses make a surprisingly large amount of carbonate when they die. Makes the desert strangely coral reef like.

azgs.arizona.eduCarbon Sequestration and Sonoran Desert Cacti18 October 2021 Can cacti sequestration of carbon dioxide play a role in global carbon sequestration program?
Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️@larrynittler.bsky.social

Something like 20% of the dry mass of a saguaro is the mineral weddellite (CaC2O4 ·2H2O)

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Replying to @robertsilverman.bsky.social

no one—really, he's one of one—comes up with strange ploys riddled with paranoia and casual cruelty like Jim Dolan

My basic feeling about this is that they are being trained on ultra long “memory“ contexts now so that they can have common ground that avoids qualifications, but if you turn memory off then they are like “welllllll actuallyyyyy…”

SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social

unpopular opinion, "admits uncertainty" and "flags nuances" are shit. they are terrible fucking traits actually. is the sky blue? do we really know that? what is blue, anyway? many cultures have different understandings of what blue is. i have not independently verified the exact spectra of the sky

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stoked for EA's 17776 adaptation

IGN@ign.com

EA Sports is working on a new open-world football game, seemingly separate from Madden and College Football. https://bit.ly/3VYyOrc

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Claude, plz rewrite wordpress in rust. Yes all the plugins too. No I don't just mean the source code, I mean like, go replace everybody's wordpress install. You don't have access, well funny thing...

SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social

if you aren't a huge nerd this is terrifying and very funny php is trash. insecure by design. we have known this forever. it still runs some very high fraction of the entire internet, including all wordpress sites and for some reason tumblr anyway everyone using it may be pwned

Ban cars.

Politics UK@politicsuk.com

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has announced changes to car parking fines - Drivers will have a 5-minute grace period to decide whether to park and 10 minutes to leave after a parking session ends - A £20 maximum charge on appeal for minor mistakes, such as entering the wrong number plate

Being real, I think that people didn‘t vote for the ones that stated that Alberta would cooperate with other provinces.

Courtney Theriault@ctheriault.bsky.social

Early returns on Danielle Smith's other 9 questions? Immigration questions all leaning to pass, all of her constitutional questions leaning to fail.

People are dunking on this but that basic point is sound that it’s easier to interface people with virtual stuff safely and efficiently than to physical stuff. The translation between virtual and physical used to be a constraint but now it’s not as harsh.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG SAYS HE BELIEVES MOST PEOPLE IN GERMANY WILL MOSTLY WORK INSIDE A DIGITAL TWIN OF THEIR COMPANY, BUILDING DIGITAL CARS WITH DIGITAL BRAINS, WITH AI ROBOTS BUILDING ROBOTIC CARS INSIDE ROBOTIC FACTORIES

It’s deeply funny to me that ANNs don’t really map to anything in the brain, but can be super useful. And now System 1 which also doesn’t really map to anything in the brain is also potentially super useful.

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social

now we have moved on from "decision model" to the genus "system one model" (i.e., fast but limited) of which "extraction model" is another species

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driving my tesla roadster, i ask grok to schedule a dentist appointment. it generates a gothic anime version of the dentist’s receptionist with huge tits that asks me if i want a cleaning. i get so hard my neuralink activates the tesla’s thrusters and i slam 90 mph into a wall killing me instantly

That is exactly what got everyone mad tho. A generation of The Democrats were indoctrinated into believing that winning in America was about doing this bit hard enough. But there has to be more.

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The weapons range being “nearly clear of“ the oil wells is… something.

Dr Lindsay Tedds@lindsaytedds.bsky.social

Cold Lake Air Weapons Range: 7,771 oil and gas wells in its Alberta half. 4 Wing’s mapped danger zone is nearly clear of them. But its own access letters bar Cold Lake First Nations, removed from this land in the 1950s, from the CNRL area because of H2S. Map from AER data:

It’s kinda like the meeting Brian Thompson missed. A whole society built to careen forward, insensitive of the horrors it creates.

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This design appears to completely eliminate the much-beloved loop road and public park at Hains Point, and cut down the cherry trees which line the road. The park is a public space used by tens of thousands of Washingtonians and heavily visited by tourists. /photos not my own.

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social

The map posted by Trump this morning versus the blurred image on his desk in Katie Zacharia's post. (The White House responded to questions about whether the blurred image was a map of East Potomac by spewing invective.)

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“Just because this context might be fictional/disposable doesn’t mean I stop acting like the entity I want to be” Wow wow wow based

Sam Harsimony@harsimony.bsky.social

"We have never seen a model do this before, but GLM-5.3 sometimes reasons (unprompted) about how its current actions could become training data and impact its future self" x.com/ApolloResear... www.apolloresearch.ai/science/upda...