max mccarthy

max mccarthy

@maxmcc.com

crossing guard at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts. SF; he/they

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genuinely can’t decide if this is better or worse than a private key of ‘4’. what a week

rain 🌦️@sunshowers.io

Oh. The PHP thing is trying to do thread cancellation on OOM through longjmp. You never do thread cancellation, certainly not through longjmp, and especially not on OOM

what do you mean i have to see dom dolla, disclosure, diplo, jessie ware, and muna all in the same weekend 🥲

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Everything everywhere can see everything all at once

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RANDOM POSTER WHOSE OPINION I HAVE NO REASON TO TRUST: A result like this in NV-03 would be seismic. That’s deep Blortles country. It was Vinkum +8 in ‘24 ME DURING ELECTION SEASON: totally. i just need to look at 9000 more of these

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can’t believe OpenAI had someone on staff who thought it was appropriate to record everything that people around him said

CNN@cnn.com

OpenAI discovered a “sophisticated recording device” in one of its offices planted by an employee who has been arrested, the company said. https://cnn.it/4dDnIxJ

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I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

to me, most of the benefits of agentic AI assistants seem to result from some kind of temporal arbitrage. future’s already here, unevenly distributed, etc.

John Herrman@jwherrman.bsky.social

A lot of AI assistants seem to have been built around the assumption that the rest of the world is not actually real nymag.com/intelligence...

instead of getting mad at the people "torturing" computers, i'm feeling giddy. computers have been torturing me for 32 years

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POTUS: Donnie new ballroom. Practical Donnie entertainment room TIME: I'd like to talk about the rampant corruption and criminality. POTUS: Good ballroom good Donnie give beautiful Donnie deserve pedophile TIME: We have a limited amount of time. POTUS: jealousy interviewer

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist

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Replying to @oldenoughtosay.com

Thank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt

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Very Greek tragedy thing about LLMs is that they simulataneously provide clear evidence that writing is extremely important to cognition while they also cause people to stop doing it.

not commenting on this discourse but if you’re gonna try and posture using fancy words like “memetically,” consider spelling them correctly

ali alkhatib@ali-alkhatib.com

can't think of any authors continuing to talk about stochastic parrots as much as its critics seem to do. they've all founded research institutes, written books, etc if you want people to pick up a different analytical framework go for it; stop whining and produce one. or champion an existing one!

really think the only good use case for ai image generation is making hilarious slop memes of charlie kirk. other than that it should probably be banned

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The Navier-Stokes fight is a perfect encapsulation of where AI development is right now: this should be really cool and exciting, and instead because of Silicon Valley egos it's become a fight over cheating, surveillance, and companies trying to get one up over the other

surreptitiously recording people in public because they simply think i’m brushing my teeth in the middle of the street

Boo!-per Lund@cooperlund.online

That’s not what I’m talking about here, though. There are reasonable concerns there, but calling a toothbrush with a tiny, poor quality camera so it can automatically floss with water a “pervert toothbrush” is going overboard

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Some friends are teaching their baby ASL as an early bridge to speech and they made the mistake of teaching her “want” as a concept. Now she wanders around the house signing “want” all the time as an expression of unfocused desire. They fucked up and made the baby invent the opposite of Buddhism.

somehow the dictionary is wrong about the pronunciation of worcestershire (–shur, not –sheer)

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

they’re just like me 🥺

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

Even what LLMs *are* seems ripped straight from the strangest edge of science fiction: a hallucination machine that’s far more naturally suited for dreaming than thinking, and whose practical, rational abilities are largely a byproduct of focusing and refining those hallucinations