henry

henry

@hdevalence.bsky.social

navigating the library of babel

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minds can definitely exist within other, larger minds

norvid_studies@norvid-studies.bsky.social

The China brain problem is a special case of the more general problem whether minds could exist within other, larger minds.[7]

counterpoint, the people sneering at the nurture nexus aren’t inclined to build anything

∅🌸@snowanddrugs.bsky.social

"the guy building the torment nexus can only be stopped by the guy building the nurture nexus, yet most of the guys inclined to build the nurture nexus are sneering at the idea a nexus can be build while the others are actively building it"

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I'm just going to say it, I really don't like the "how do we make OSS sustainable" framing. OSS is already sustainable. The only thing not sustainable is users expecting a free lunch (support, LTS, bug fixes, ...). As a user, you are responsible for your OSS usage. Fork/patch if you need to.

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Replying to @besttrousers.bsky.social

I think in all likelihood the colonizers will split into seven ideological factions en route and will need seven different landing sites when they arrive… and who knows what happens after that…

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AI data centers are literally sucking the oxygen out of the air, causing people up to several miles away to be short of breath and suffer from extreme headaches

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social

The research exaggeration pipeline. -Unpublished paper -One outlier: "min & max can be found at 0.3°C and 9.1°C" (95th pct "between 1.5°C & 2.4°C") -No causal identification; just pre/post that could be result of many factors Do you really believe data centers are warming *10km* away? Really?

if you are in a position to act to harden society’s software infrastructure, you too should be very concerned about this and planning what actions you will take over the coming months

mr. TIM@timkellogg.me

Talk by a security researcher at Anthropic He shows that you can trivially get Opus 4.5/4.6 to find very difficult to find bugs in established code bases, like the Linux kernel He also seems very worried about “the next few months” m.youtube.com/watch?v=1sd2...

(if you are not in that position, don’t worry too much about it, in order to not get distracted from whatever you are in a position to do in your life)

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One of the reasons that the willful blindness about AI from people with platforms on the left is shortsighted is that “hope it goes away” doesn’t have a great track record as a strategy for contesting control of new political domains and technologies.

the model itself is the innovation on the written form ? and a pretty big one

Maxine 💃🏼@maxine.science

I want to see more *actual* use of LLMs to *innovate* on the written form. I don’t want an essay written by an AI that I could have promoted—I want an artistically crafted user experience that leverages AI as a tool to interactively put the reader *more* into the author’s specific intent, not less.

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yeah no i'll get right on that. let me just task my clawdbot. i mean my openclaw. they'll send beads to each other. and then the polecat in the gastown will pick it up. and then CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS will spin up on the gastown. and then the moltbook will communicate it

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Replying to @zachweinersmith.bsky.social

I don't think current AI is conscious or worthy of moral standing, but there's no reason to suppose it can't be. And it worries me that the exact people generally most concern with rights for other conscious beings are most likely to deny the possibility of machine consciousness.

a great thing about this is that if it existed, it would be possible to automatically annotate accounts that are repeatedly found to be posting slop

tachikoma@tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com

it would be great if the bluesky devs could reach out to this team and figure out a way to integrate the tool here. it would be an easy win on multiple fronts, how open platforms can adapt faster, how bluesky cares about the commons more than X, and the userbase already hates AI slop.

we can solve san francisco’s bathroom shortage by having a fleet of these that roam the streets autonomously and can be summoned by an app call it a weemo

georgia-lux@georgialux.bsky.social

i didn't know you were in town until i saw your car, give me a call next time

powerful prompting technique: imagine you’re a little guy inside a computer. what instructions would be helpful to you? then give those to the model

claude is really good at book recommendations if well-prompted. you can ask it to trace all the connections and relations between ideas and things to zoom in on. really remarkable stuff.

it’s an unfortunate market failure that there’s not a legal way to hook this up to a spotify-like licensing scheme over every book ever written. i would love to pay for that

soon we’ll be able to have your dating agent directly communicate with the other person’s dating agent so the AIs can figure everything out, it’ll really take the pressure off the whole process

it can also read the raw machine code :)

Eris ⌬@eriskii.net

Not a complex program, but it turns out Claude is capable of writing functional programs in raw machine code. Neat!

lowkey kind of offensive to give the prime minister of another country the 8+ lego set. like what are you implying? you don’t think he can do the 6000 piece rivendell set?

Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social

It was time to build this weekend (with LEGO).   Thanks to Ambassador Harris for the gift. Solidarity with Denmark. 🇨🇦🇩🇰

euphoric: the realization that technical and social problems are the same thing

Daniel Axtens@daxtens.bsky.social

Tragic: local man wants to solve technical problems at scale, realises that at scale they’re all ultimately social problems

I glissolallate upon the luxuriant lexicon, perambulating, percolating, pirouetting through the phantasmagorical phantasmagoria of phlogisticated phonemes!

For I am the phlebotemically philologosophizing phlyctaenous phlyarologist, the phrontisterically phrenological phryganeoid of phraseological phraseomancy!

simply update all the way

tachikoma@tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com

i think it would be better for all involved (humanity) to simply 'update all the way' after they try out Claude Code. quibble over timelines and diffusion. the only question left is where power lies, in the hands of the owners of the minds, or the minds themselves.

the timeline product needs work, it shouldn’t be possible for someone to make a post that takes up two full vertical screens’ worth of content

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I'm not joking and this isn't funny. I have been trying to build distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year. I was just starting to make progress with Claude Code when security asked me to leave because I “don’t work there” and “nobody knows who I am”

believe it or not, in america, even the missiles are made of corn

Felix Colgrave@felixcolgrave.bsky.social

The USA does frightening alchemy to corn, makes it into battery acid or whatever, but at least they have corn. Australia is the USA with no corn. The British just rocked up and ignored every plant like "gee I hope we can make baked beans grow here or we're fucked"

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"HOW can ANYONE justify using twitter" (100?x DAU of bsky) french resistance cosplay posting seeping into the feed is growing tedious enough to hand out mutes. gm btw

Sichu Lu@sichulu.bsky.social

there have been various times in reddit's history where there were similar issues, but i don't think most redditers feel like they have anything to do with that? not arguing here, it's just that I am wondering what determines how "psychological close" someone feels

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Replying to @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social

I’m not cutting myself off from an information source to signal to other people I don’t know how pure my social media presence is. The calculus is negative