Kevin de Haan

Getting polarized against good ideas because someone was mean to you is a personal failing, but so is negatively polarizing people against your own politics for no reason

I sure am glad that the tech stacks *I* work with and maintain services on have no critical vulnerabilities 🙈🙉🙊

this is not what they mean about 2 factor authentication

still can’t believe what they done to Alan Turing

Let them out

had a blueberry bagel with pumpkin cream cheese this morning and it was delicious but also just a donut with extra steps. savory bagel remains the correct moral choice

don't tell me i used a word a little wrong it was totally on purpose.. unlike those noninterventionist linguists i'm like an accelerationist for semantic drift

I'm gonna throw up

I YEARN for a conservative or republican party whose core animus is something other than "good things are not allowed"

Alan Turing stays winning

muttering "vinegar, the prince of sauce" under my breath every time I use vinegar for over 1 month now

I-5

The simple reality is that if we want to actually address climate change a lot of people are going to have to move to cities and people that live in cities today that care about climate change need to come to terms with that.

There are some scary parts of the Canadian political system, but I’d put the Notwithstanding Clause way higher than the monarchy when it comes to tyranny potential.

when more Jev-style models are created imo the obvious category name for them is 'oracles' but I secretly hope they get Kleenex'd® and all become Jevs

walk into bluesky ai consciousness argument ask poster if their position is dualist or not they don't understand explain dualism vs physicalism they still don’t get it pull Turing's 9 common objections out of my wallet they laugh and say it’s a good argument sir read argument it’s dualist

*person who is built the same as everyone else*: not me though, im built different

Many people I love and/or respect have extremely stupid blind spots and that's ok whom among us tbh

Really need people engaging in AI discourse to first disclose whether they believe humans literally have souls

all reactionaries are enemies of humanity. the past sucked and i have no desire to go there. fuck you.

"if these employees were actually scared of what they're building, they would just stop" you have an understanding of the problem gleaned through quotes and headlines. it's Nukes 2. They are terrified

If your objection to machine consciousness fails to address Turing's 75-year-old counterarguments then I don't think you are fully engaging with the concept en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computi...

For years I've mentally written off P v NP as the equivalent of creating the philosopher's stone, and it's finally sinking in that it might be solved in my lifetime. And if so, it will probably be sooner rather than later. I wonder how many aggregate tok/sec are already being aimed at it right now.

3/3 in 10 minutes on smokers being scrupulously observant of distance when partaking but entirely ignoring the concept of 'wind'

me: i think you should eat a little slower. my cat, sitting in front of a pool of her own throw up: i think you should shut the fuck up

my body is a temple

Train delays making me claustrophobic Get me out of the vitiated rebreather box

ryan i was on board as soon as i read “i’m in a battle with the city of medina”

early Grey... mochi

earl grey mocha

I'm in the pocket of big Sometimes People Just Disagree With You, Man

Pre-registering my claim that it is extremely obvious that s----b--- was created with llm assistance, and hoping that when it is eventually public knowledge it's because the creator(s) chose to share and aren't experiencing the Worst Day On The Internet

how your posts find me

me in every signals course:

I can work with this

I'm gonna get psyopped into setting up NixOS, I can feel it

bestie u gotta stop watching true crime

heartbreaking: the expensive rice is actually worth it

my metric for whether I'm familiar with a neighborhood is if i know which crossings are beg buttons

listening to the music that shortens your telomeres

makin a pocari swocktail

Scooby Don't talk to me until I've had my coffee

More and more you will see "this is obscenely, preposterously difficult" run into "but it's theoretically physically possible" and the physics will win arxiv.org/pdf/2308.01074

it finally happened someone is proposing to rewrite something in rust

I'm gonna fucking crash out where the FUCK are people my age on election day

cycling companies will be like "this is our universal mounting system that will work with any bike" and then have it Not Work With Every Bike