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When I said I was concerned about advanced conversational AI, I probably should have clarified that I’m actually good with them so long as they are easily identifiable as a non-human. I think Mistral’s latest demo looks good.

I think the 4D fever is starting to break but one interesting finding is that there’s no proper flash in 4d optics, you get a negative intensity wake behind a flash games.mino.mobi/lumen4/

we are reaching new heights of time cube

good time to be familiar with standards

pro-tip, don't invest in free soup either

Grothendieck would be proud

Now that's what I call alignment!

web developer: oh hey you guys are back early infra: four's haunted web developer: what? infra: *loading a pistol and getting back on the computer* four's haunted

I just came across this paper by Cesario et al. that has one of the greatest titles ever: " journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

oh this is *amazing* actually. as someone who's run a fair number of tabletop exercises for various security planning purposes, it's imho an incredibly underrated technique in the industry

D.B. Cooper and Nathan Fielder should do a collab to make the Room 2

I know Vegas is land of hyperreality and one of the places.where Baudrillard is king, but it was really something to find an NCR flag on display and by a Nuka Cola in the gift shop of the Smithsonian affiliated National Atomic Testing Museum.

These people should move to the New Hampshire Libertarian commune and see how that works out for them. The bears will be happy

technically i'm a heat transfer & fluid systems engineer if you look inside me, you will in fact find heat transfer and fluid systems

gm did you know Fuzzy-Wuzzy was a Beja warrior supporting the Mahdi of Sudan in the Mahdist War

linear algebra is mostly about the study of vector spaces and operations on them. saying ai is linear algebra is like calling kubernetes graph theory

it's extremely important to the wellbeing of the republic that they have the right not to be publicly tortured; not for their sake, but for everyone else's, because a society that doesn't prohibit that might end up with it

a significant amount of openai's reckless bullshit has been with unreleased models. a safety story that's all about what the public gets to access is one that's unresponsive to the real and present danger of corporate unaccountability

"Bluesky users don't understand median" actually statistical error. Medians Georg, who ... Ah wait, crap. No. Hold on.

We've invented the Middle Way drug from Siddhartha's famous story, "You must find the middle way"

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whoever is "speaking" in human output is a fictional character, and the real life thing called a mind is a machine for writing lil stories about that guy see Dennett The Self as a Center of Narrative Gravity & Consciousness Explained

Frankenmodel refuses to believe it's not just Claude

Minimum Viable Dukkha

there's a GURPS module for this.

I feel similarly confident about the consciousness of LLMs and bees

Disagree about speculative risks all you want, which are most important is contestable, but for the love of all that is good please donate at least some amount through Givewell and think hard about whether your work skills could be used more effectively to help others, possibly in unusual ways.

House of She Leaves

call that a repost

Tidal forces would like a word I'm afraid. Unless you like getting sheared I suppose

referring to so-called "harnesses" from now on as mechsuits

It is Good, Actually when the people and institutions issued guns by the state feel compelled to signal their allegiance to cosmopolitan cultural values. It is a thing that you want.

exactly, you build a separate institution when the rules are rigged against you

OpenAI’s faster Fourier transform is less a mathematical breakthrough and more a malicious exploit of mathematical traditions.

I highly appreciate this directed graph showing which language is used to indicate incomprehensibility in different languages (eg, “it’s Greek to me”)

DINOv2 has never seen a caption, and Qwen3 has never seen an image. We still aligned their embedding spaces without a single image-caption pair. It even works when the images and the captions come from different datasets. Project page: dominik-schnaus.github.io/unpaired-rosetta ⬇️

1. it doesn't work 2. it's too wasteful of computing resources 3. no respectable programmer would use it — Richard Hamming recalling the widespread opposition by programmers to FORTRAN.

But people keep saying you need to make something new for people to switch and there’s actually far less evidence that works than creating an ideological new space. When they *hit* the new spaces doing something new are far *larger*. No one will dispute that. But it’s also harder to get them going!

On the flip side, I think people are missing how much of the datacenter build out is not AI. AWS has an obscene margin and is capacity-limited. About 10% of datacenter demand is the AI companies.