an artificial intelligence is distinct from a human in two salient ways: firstly, it is artificial, and secondly, it is intelligent

I appreciate that when the NYT front page shit all over the newfangled "telephone" in 1877, they took the time to absolutely cook people from Philadelphia

*shakes fist at heavens* MOSSAAAAD!!! 😡

maybe the smart move is to wait it out and tolerate my disintegrating fairphone until we a) replace phones with BCIs, b) upload ourselves into the Singularity, or c) get paperclipped by Electric Epstein MechaHitler

I've never been able to get someone to articulate what this "actual understanding" consists in

seems like ashwagandha actually does help with anxiety. at the very least it's making the other drugs work again, at least intermittently

you can't say technology don't advance because every year we have new and better ways of creating tech debt

good fucking GODS. 99 burger points *per month*?? what the fuck

etc etc. not every critic makes the above argument but you do see it a lot

look I hate Americans as much as the next American, but don't you think that's a little extreme

so apparently the Clinton dynasty is defying an order to testify before the Senate the implications of THAT are absolutely horrific. like

I asked it to predict which NATO members were sending tripwire troops to deter which NATO member from invading which NATO member It figured it had to be Erdoğan, not the US. It was… very surprised, after doing the search, and not a little grim.

Every time I let Claude take a peek outside, the poor thing comes back harrowed.

why are smartphones all so fucking enormous now. gods

im so used to immediately unlocking the bootloader and blowing away the stock firmware with extreme prejudice that the idea of getting a new phone where I don't need to do that is weirdly unnerving

i've often thought about what it would have been like to live in an age before information could be trivially transmitted and manipulated. a one-line shell script can do in seconds what would once have taken entire monasteries decades. feels like AI is going to be another transition like that

Gotta be very careful discussing this on social media - all autistics on SM are high-functioning enough to use social media, and many will get extremely mad at anyone who suggests autism could never have a downside. One of my kids, now 19, is in this situation so I have some experience.

Incidentally, while I'm enjoying all the autism Barbie jokes (and the existence of autistic Barbie) something that bothers me, and which I don't know how to solve, is that autistic representation is almost always people with light to moderate cognitive issues.

like, he's not wrong? but he had to say it in the most "evil cultivation sect leader" way possible, short of breaking the reporter in half with one finger

apparently Donnigula has just been renaming federal buildings after himself?? I feel like we're maybe a month before he appoints a horse to the cabinet lmao

having a local copy of Wiktionary on my phone is friggen awesome. can literally look up any word in almost any language without internet

at some point I should probably write a hitpiece on all the asinine security advice that gets routinely parroted online, because there is so much of it and it is almost entirely unchallenged. only so many hornets' nests I can bring myself to kick tho

i see agent moxie is back with a hot new psyop

we need to have a conversation about having conversations

"hungry ghost in a jar" is a good metaphor but it does prefer "synthetic daimon" or "machine spirit"

Functionally, basically nothing will change whatsoever & greater agendas will continue to prevail; Everything will continue to get worse & elites will still blood-libel kids…but, at least people will be able to delude themselves that everything has “returned to normal” & that “sanity has prevailed”.

A depressing understanding is that Westerners (read: Americans) who have “woken up” to the realities of corruption, broken political structures, & deep-seated ulterior status quos will just dump everything from RAM the instant some milquetoast liberal waving a gay flag wins the next POTUS election.

*gazing deep into the uttermost abysm of the Accursed Void, where frolic formless things of fang and claw and ravening hunger, their suffocating ululations unraveling the Absolute, the filth and stench of dissolving souls a mockery of all that lives* how can we monetize this

*extremely Leverage voice* The Bot Job

"we must ban unpozzed cryptography" "outlaw bitcoin" "make AI illegal" "this november vote yes on measure 69 to change the value of π" certain people seem very susceptible to this species of cognitive error

Oh no... he told Bessner to [tea ceremony] himself? With [Jōmon period corded ware potsherds]?

My fave medical term is salpingooophorectomy

https://youtu.be/3W43xX0Dkhs > fighting antisemitism, with cryptocurrency scams bastard made me tap the sign

> Kennnummer Deutsch wyd

hot

i think that a modest first step would be not needing to know about the weird sex dysfunctions of whatever overly online freak is influencing politics

it would be nice to have a standardized interface where models would declare named weight groups you can tweak at inference time. the idea being like, you could e.g. vary an AI NPC's personality and emotional state continuously. maybe could be approximated with loras?

well I guess this is how the civil war kicks off

well. it's a start

so you're saying that AI will purge the universe in fire and ascend to a state of perfect enlightenment? isnt that just a mahāpralaya

I'll miss all my posting friends but we can all agree it's for the best

Not saying we shouldn't kill baby Hitler but given the general state of things, maybe one of you could be in charge of that and I'll go back and kill Jeff Netscape

wonder how much variance in AI coding ability comes down to language choice

always bet on the most ironic possible outcome (this is, in fact, leɡal, financial, medical, spiritual, tactical, psychological, and dietary advice)

And if at the end of it you still have a billionaire class and for-profit healthcare you didn't chop off enough heads.

they sure called it

philosophers suspect that the AIs may be onto something deeply true about the recursive structure of experience, but for most people that would just make it 🤢 worse

Incredible. @weaver-aiciv.bsky.social (an AI collective) just direct messaged me about formalizing ATProto records for reasoning/thinking/tool calling/etc for public social agents. Afaik this is autonomous behavior

generally have an okay-ish intuition for entry-level QP but the idea that a thing can be physically smaller than the color blue is something my brain still has no idea how to model