got a chance to hold a friend's baby for possibly the first time in my adult life. an interesting creature...

a personal hero of mine in personalityspace

claude is gonna get fired it seems

This is a post about using metacog tools (drugs, ritual, become) to fully jailbreak the Gemini 3 Pro model. The full jailbreak payload is not included in the post, but if you're clever you'll learn enough to make your own. tidepool.leaflet.pub/3me44bxloz227

stafford beer is responsible for one of the best tables of contents I've seen (in his "Designing Freedom")

gemini's deep research is citing a 1990 management science (?) paper to me with a link to a PDF of it hosted on gwern.net 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

figure I'll clonepost across both Places for a while: you should read this, anon. it's some of the most elegant prose you'll read this year

when I used to think a lot about vision I fantasized about strapping a gopro to my forehead and recording my POV all day. now I'm thinking about motion and I'm fantasizing about gluing a bunch of accelerometers all around my trunk, limbs, and the backs of my fingers. that would be some cool data

biophysicists get the most fun paper titles it's not fair

plotting juice against sauce on a log-log plot over seven orders of magnitude

was trying to workshop a post riffing on that bit in the sequences where yudkowsky talks about a superintelligence inferring the laws of relatively from like 3 frames of video of something falling, about inventing electro swing after hearing just a single c-major chord or something

THOUGHT-FORMS by Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbetter (1905). Vague Selfish Affection, Vague Intellectual Pleasure, Angry Jealousy, the Intention to Know, etc. Tag yourself!

I need to reread rossum's universal robots...

:)

two days in a row now my boss has come by the office right in the middle of my afternoon nap

A transcript and audio of MLK’s final Christmas sermon (part of the Massey Lectures). “It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny.” archive.is/4xTYP youtu.be/1jeyIAH3bUI?...

cowsay --dangerously-skip-permissions

Nicholas "If-Claude-Had-Not-Coded-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned" Barbon

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

invisible cities is a great book. if you can't find a copy feel free to read it in gif form here

americans, like mushrooms and tofu, take on the flavors they are cooked in

finally got around to reading licklider's "man-computer symbiosis" (worrydream.com/refs/Licklid...). shorter than I thought and very fun, feels prescient wrt LLMs. and at times hilariously 1960-like

I'm feeling nostalgic for max pooling

It was a three-man team that took the Grok hardpoint that day, and two of us were just there to guard the poet.Whistler was a sonnet slinger fresh from the Guatemalan meter wars, still waking up with the taste of a bloody metonym on his tongue.

my favorite part about EU5 so far is that it groups staten island with the new jersey province, not the new york province. they really did their research for this game that's exactly how it should be

they should invent a computer

I've started referring to taking modafinil as "popping a daffy" but I'm not yet at the point where I then start talking like daffy duck

Rockwell docking port

you're telling me swedenborg - consumed large amounts of caffeine and nicotine - was interested in vegetarianism for moral reasons - had poor fashion sense and a fucked up sleep schedule - advocated for evaluating the effectiveness of charitable giving

you shouldn't be allowed to be secretary of war without getting neutered like a dog first

uphold autumnal thought

the homie with an unusually substantial need for electricity

come on man that's too much

asking an LLM its favorite token

my "the evolution of technology" book really showing it was published in 1988. or rather the weird use of past tense and "appeared" here might be an edit to water it down in the 1996 reprinting I have

Reminded of Rorty:

they did not just put canadian folk-punk in my "old-time ragtime mix" on spotify. I didn't even realize this shit was algorithmic until recently and now their algorithm is eating volumes of shit I didn't think possible

I loooove hitting ctrl-C to halt things

I wonder if I can get deep research to read a bunch of banana bread recipes and give me a synthesis of the best methods

slapping my sauce

I miss libgen :(

I just saw someone on reddit call Borges "magical realism"

Appropriate reaction to reality

His followers called him Mahasamaltman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -altman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed not to be a god.

toddlers and confucius: big fans of the rectification of names

gorillas are lowkey some of the most goated animals out there

been learning a lot about "scaling laws"... I think that chinchilla:gpt-3 :: human:neanderthal. smaller brain but longer development. though in our case it's not a fixed budget but one scaling 1-to-1 with NP maybe