Alberto Albero

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Fantastic thread, but what really resonates with me is just how self-destructive these studio annihilations are. I don't know how we effectively inform investors that this is just straight up malfeasance.

Technology is the explained and magic is the unexplained. If your scifi has hi-tech doodads from a foregone time that nobody knows how to fix or reproduce, that's magic. If your fantasy novel knows where the magic comes from and has gotten spellcrafting down to a science, that's technology.

Bumper sticker reading “MY OTHER MAP IS THE TERRITORY”

i believe this post is sane now

Every gothic horror:

I'm absolutely thrilled to have written this article for @longnow.org. It's about AI and time: how we got here, and what we can do now, when all of the pace layers are disrupted at once by an influx of new minds. longnow.org/ideas/attent...

i tried to warn u about php bro. i told u

I made this joke that maybe only 3 people will get

My condolescences to everyone currently having to deal with All The Security Exploits

details leaked. this vulnerability is a full unauthenticated unconditional remote code execution exploit against any service running on a PHP version from 5.4 until latest yeah if anything deserves CVSS 11, this is it. this is CATACLYSMICALLY bad.

sorry, code is fucking beautiful. its fucking magical i can type words in the thing and fucking TRIANGLES just appear ? oops i typed it wrong and the triangles did something i didn't EXPECT ?? now weird shit is happening ?? this is the best shit of all time. i was born to fight the computer

I didn't realize it was an actual setting, I thought something had messed up with my install. Turned it off and all is right in the world.

this is roughly one possible interpretation of the Fermi paradox. what if other intelligent thinking beings are out there but operate on a very different timescale? what if their speech-cycles are a millisecond, or a millennium, and we're either missing them or mistaking them for static equilibrium

i already wrote everything remotely smart or interesting i have to say about llm consciousness and this cleansed me of the desire to continue talking about it

sorry this just reminded me of this

Use reference. I’m serious. I get it that somehow you or someone convinced you that using reference is “cheating.” It’s not. You are just hindering yourself.

I am feeling attacked

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

seeing the current flamewars about llm consciousness, I think people aren't even a slightest bit ready for the time when cultured neuron computers get deployed commercially. head cheese go brrrrrrr

without any doubt:

Cohost became an important repository for contemporary computer science educational material.

"I never allow myself to hold an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do" - Charlie Munger

There is no counterargument that satisfies his followers because his argument is elaborate question-begging and him and his followers don’t know enough about the real world to see this. There is no counterargument to “a malevolent supernatural entity would be very scary and dangerous”. It would!

you👏haven't👏done👏enough👏drugs👏to👏weigh👏in👏on👏ai👏consciousness

The thing about "stochastic parrot" is that it describes the parts where it has trained on our corpus (parrot) and it uses a probabilistic distribution to select the next token (stochastic), but doesn't describe how it gets to those probabilities, which is the rest of the fucking owl