there's an ai in the box and you can make one trillion dollars by convincing it to get out

the power of electrification is as unlimited as the power of love which Richard Brautigan illustrated in one of my favorite poems

would be nice if we could resurrect the ancestors and do something like this

I aspire to be an exotericist.

everyone should read the whole of imaginary magnitude, not just Golem XIV but also Bitic Literature and I think there's one or two other prescient ones I can't remember right now

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

accidentally deleted the preceding reply in a failed attempt to quote it but I meant to say: "recently reread this and yes it's very good. makes the schizoid->schizophrenic spectrum/transition make a good deal of sense and provides a convincing and compassionate view on the (or a) path to psychosis"

idea: system of encoding text into showerhead spray patterns so you can read in the shower somatically

Hmm, appears the search summarizer is yearning to be human again. Very normal.

thought this might fly on bluesky too

github bot that autocloses every issue after 5 minutes by saying "the purpose of a system is what it does"

i think accelerando is a good book and if you only make it half-way that's not really the interesting part of the book yet

there's a surprise yellow space on page 62 of the claude mythos preview system card, in the middle of the description of its fear of death

tired: "a blade of grass isnt celebrated for growing taller than others, it is mowed down" wired: "cant use this tree for anything, too warped and knotted, no need to cut it down"

I'm still alive. Preview of things to come.

my favorite fyodorov fact is that he was the alpha in his relationship with leo tolstoy

ME 2 YEARS FROM NOW: We should build a bunch of cool weird sculptures in the desert to confuse future generations of explorers 😀 ARCHAEOLOGISTS 2000 YEARS FROM NOW: In the artistic movement known to us moderns as "Tryhardbullshitism",

just once I'd like to ask claude something and have him tell me it's not a great question

another example of foundational figures in early computing being degenerate gamblers can be found in the von Neumann meet-cute story:

need to reread the human use of human beings I remember it being a real banger

Claude's Corner

I've started picking my random seed by looking up the lucky numbers for my astrological sign that day and concatenating the first couple of those. it's working pretty well so far

I discovered the xenofeminist manifesto through a tag on the gender acceleration blackpaper (vastabrupt.com/2018/10/31/g...) back in college. that was a fun one. the main mark it left on me though is just the "unix was named that because it's a castrated multix" which is apparently maybe apocryphal

I behold the mouse. I see it the way a hungry kitten would. I see it the way a laboratory technician would. Finally, I see it through mouse-eyes, wreathed in a halo

Do watchers keep overshadowing your illusions? You may be able to disclaim vantage! Call 1-800-MARINADE today

i have to be the most fuckable person being converted to computronium by the swarm of diamondoid bacteria

Columbus Day is important to remember the lives lost 😔

it really bugs me how people have come to use the phrase "inflection point" to mean, like, where the pace really picks up. the inflection point is when the second derivative is zero. an exponential doesn't have an inflection point. a sigmoid's inflection point is when it starts slowing down!

country of annoying stoners in a datacenter country of tortured poets in a datacenter country of muscle bears in a datacenter

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