As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.

dudes rock

damn, this guy really likes chess

It's a neat argument because he's not leaning at all on the quality of the homily's prose or the creativity required to write it, but the intersubjective exchange it consummates.

theyre teaching the animals wittgenstein!!

I tried to imagine the person who has this as their record collection, and their face was just a blur. There were a lot of old copies of Rolling Stone scattered around their place, though.

ok just hear me out

Btw, here’s the link to the article www.mentalfloss.com/article/6776... It was slightly hard to find.

nailed it in one

now that hallucination and confabulation aren't (necessarily) synonymous, I think this— a thorough, scrupulously constructed non-LLM algorithmic meta-critics-list — gets at a core LLM conundrum: individually, every album here has a legit argument for it, and as a Top 25 list it's obvious dogshit

Yeah the griftosphere has been in operation for much longer than people pretend it was and it was mostly still done by the exact same people as now

Nobody has ever apparently painted a picture of people playing Durak, but as a consolation prize I have discovered Vladimir Nikolaevic Nemuchin

I will admit to describing many things, such as myself, with the WoT phrase “more aspirational than operational”

prepping for Durak tomorrow made me just remember this quarter-century-old Onion article

dropkick me, Snoopy, through the goalposts of life

On Saturday at 3 PM ET I'm going to be streaming a game I haven't thoroughly played since the mid-90s -- Cosmology of Kyoto, the early game that blew Roger Ebert's mind with the possibilities of an "open world." Also you can get molten metal poured into your ass and out of your mouth! Be there.

if you’re the kind of person who has trained yourself to never look ahead on a calendar and spoil the paintings or Far Side panels or whatnot, and you would like to experience an ambient sense of dread for the last two weeks of every month, boy do I have the product for you

prepping for Durak tomorrow made me just remember this quarter-century-old Onion article

that is an all-timer of a headline

pieces like this are why people pick up the phone when chotiner calls, because if they do not have glaring hypocrisies to probe, they get the chance to explain at length things they understand that very few other people do. (and most people who do have glaring hypocrisies are in denial about that)

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get his ass

what id say is that consensus reality is a public good and it takes public policy to create. by the same token it can be insanely profitable for shitheads to pollute the commons if nobody stops them

I mean, sure—if you fed James Ernest’s manual for Pairs into an AI, it’d probably extrude Flip 7 on the other end. But that isn’t saying something positive about Gen AI.

Other things that can be clarity traps. Stochastic parrots. Weaponized interdependence. www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-median...

I'll also strongly endorse game-icons.net as the source for almost all of my playtest graphics. I can usually find something on there pretty quickly. Great stuff.

I mean, it has to be the one where he defeats Devo, right

neat

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super telling that Waymo is relatively honest about its (world class) capabilities and limitations, and as a result is like 1 percent as valuable as its boastful liar competitor

Listening to Roger Eno, wondering if he is starting to worry that he might just be a plausible confabulation

scientists now predict that by 2035, cats will achieve AGI

RIP to a real Jesse

My take is that people who think AI might be conscious are mistaking the juicer for the juice—understandable, given that only a few French freaks seem to have realized the potential of the squeeze, but still something we need to get past. Machines don’t have ghosts. Only people and birds. 😤

As an unwilling convert I’m no expert myself—but I think viewing this technology as a method of extracting use (parole) out of a mind-boggling rich field of textual relationships (langue) that has always been there, lying mostly fallow, is a much healthier way of looking at the situation.

she played the long game, and she won 🫡

using Claude to synthesize Tarot research, and I am sanguine that, no matter what technological daemons may attempt in the future, this 100% human-grown revelation will remain the most influential Confidently Wrong Stochastic Hallucination of all time 😌

she played the long game, and she won 🫡

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you get what you pay for

the feeling of going into a jewelry store and asking for shrek was unrivaled

the problem with starting at that level of punishment for buying the $750 crystal Shrek is that where do you go with a purchase that’s four orders of magnitude worse

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personally, I’m quite delighted with the pincer movement animal cognition research and LLMs are currently performing on humanity’s somatically narcissistic tendency to overindex linguistic facility as a proxy for intelligence 😌

Watching people respond to the New Yorker article with the same five memes they’ve been using since 2020 is darkly funny, like watching someone with a string of DUIs drunkenly rant about self-driving cars. Like, I’m not even saying you’re necessarily *wrong*, I just think you lack the standing.