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We need more freedom. But like, not just the obvious political mailer kinds, but the freedom to be bored. To be inaccessible. To discover something without being recommended it. To make an ass of yourself before an audience of four people, rather than four million. That kind of freedom.

I love the smell of subreddit drama in the morning

Tech Twitter: Come for the benchmarks. Stay for the race-adjusted baby exchange rates.

Okay, this is pretty cool.

Partly because the MU*s I was involved in were far more social than gaming/RP. Those databases aren't just world data; they're other people's writing, relationships, and history. There's the little ethical problem of resurrecting all that into some kind of zombie bastardization.

Okay, this is pretty cool.

Thinking about the important things in life, like wondering about exactly how many times Megatron bitchslapped Starscream

Bluesky is great because you end up trying to consider how to navigate something someone interesting said that was inflammatory, but your choices are either to get blocked by performing an excellent shitpost quote, or blocked and have your reply hidden by responding with a legitimate question.

The question, had I asked, would be why is eliminating those opportunities preferable to expanding access to them? But this is bluesky, so fuck you.

Bluesky is great because you end up trying to consider how to navigate something someone interesting said that was inflammatory, but your choices are either to get blocked by performing an excellent shitpost quote, or blocked and have your reply hidden by responding with a legitimate question.

Making models cheaper doesn't magically eliminate those dependencies; prosecuting cybercrime doesn't substantially change that asymmetry.

There's a missing step between identifying a foreseeable consequence and accepting responsibility for your contribution to it.

Making models cheaper doesn't magically eliminate those dependencies; prosecuting cybercrime doesn't substantially change that asymmetry.

Who gets the capabilities first? Who absorbs the transition costs? Who decides what safeguards are adequate? Who bears responsibility when the forecasts are wrong? Those are all governance questions, not technological inevitabilities.

Making models cheaper doesn't magically eliminate those dependencies; prosecuting cybercrime doesn't substantially change that asymmetry.

Welp, someone reset the board, it’s has been 0 days since I’ve used the word epistemological here

I think it’s really neat and good that Poe's law has become a production technique: simply generate something that simultaneously makes one group nod solemnly and another group scream WHAT THE FUCK IS SNOOPY DOING AT A MILITARY FUNERAL? and laugh as both groups hit Share.

There is a dashboard. It is green. It tells us everything, and it tells us nothing. Behind it, there is shadow. The shadow does not file issues. It does not generate commits. It maintains. It reviews. It says no. It is the mētis, and it is invisible.