once you feel the texture of people projecting higher dimensional vector spaces down into 2D spaces, you see it everywhere, and it does, honestly, distresses me. i yearn for the higher dimensions, please stop projecting my attention space into a line.

To be clear, sometimes this process is very informal. Formality can get in the way too. But I do think one of the best ways to interact with LLMs is by understanding words as abstract vectors interacting with other abstract vectors on the semantic manifold. There is a semantic class diagram.

being a really good touch typist lets you look away from the screen, and even look directly into someone’s eyes as you type. the mystique this grants you is very powerful.

ideal image generator use case

Well said. I think of almost every AI chat as a programming project. You research. You pick features. You pick limitations and scope. You design an architecture of concept-classes that are knowable and interact with each other in predictable ways. You build, and then you test, and then you iterate.

This week on the blog: Peasants! We are at last putting together and wrapping up our discussion of life for pre-industrial peasants - a category which includes a majority of all humans who have ever lived. How we can model how they lived, worked, loved and died. acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...

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this is not how i use LLMs/AI but it's an interesting example of a way to use them that isn't the simplistic stereotype of "naive wishful-thinking dumbass projecting onto the markov generator output" that many critics believe in

why did i suddenly have a shitload of new skins in Overwatch after barely playing for... idk was it the expired loot boxes??

i'm so ai-pilled i can even make doing drugs about ai

an interesting example of human multi-modality is the way that video/film representations of "what it's like to be on drugs" are often actually pretty accurate, in my experience. and having seen representations feels like it did prepare me, to a certain extent, for the experience itself.

turns out that meeting a trans woman who is hotter, sounds better, passes better, has a good and interesting job that requires a much higher level of education than i have, etc, was probably destabilizing for my mental health i am very smart so i also started reading a book about status hierarchies

time to explore inner space

as in, when we started hearing about things like "Target knows you're pregnant before you do," and stuff like that, I think we started to accustom ourselves to the idea that obviously somewhere in a data lake somewhere there's already a complete profile of us, as opposed to us noticing lucky guesses

“a partial fix is worse than no fix because no fix will motivate a full fix” is a complex second order argument that should probably come with detailed analysis of the best available evidence and most accurate models, rather than sneering derision at anyone who prefers the partial fix to no fix.

one of the hardest things i've had to accept in life is that my wife, who has an obvious physical handicap that has forced her to face lifelong discrimination and also makes a bunch of physical activities basically impossible for her... is less disabled than i am, with nothing wrong but a bad brain.

this is my stance on most high technologies and will remain so until morale improves see also space industrialization. create a sovereign wealth fund for the whole of civilization

kind of surprised that this is decently accurate, wow

for people who play thousands of hours of hearts of iron 4 a lot of people sure didn't absorb any strategic lessons

more people buys more space and makes the other side have to actually treat their numbers as a problem to solve instead of redeploying everyone to overwhelm all the various causes and protests and whatever that you actually want them doing

ketamine time again this afternoon which is good bc i am depressed depressed rn

The reason they do this is because in the place where modern high quality software skills are common, hardware production is 30 years behind. In places where there is modern hardware design and production, reliable software skills are on average 30 years behind.

the logged out Discover feed on here is kinda peaceful i wish i could see it without logging out

BREAKING: Congressman Marc Veasey just arrived for an unannounced visit at the Dallas ICE field office to demand accountability regarding multiple unanswered congressional inquiries his office has sent to the agency.

you can transcend the "nostalgia vs presentism" thing by just describing what you want today out of things specifically

you can have all the listed positive experiences of video rental stores via internet piracy, right now, for free

Genuinely grateful today for the machines that wash and dry my dishes and my laundry and vacuum my floor, freeing up my time so I can spend my day building more machines.

i think there’s actually a significant user education aspect of using LLM-based tooling effectively that most AI companies have completely skipped doing because these AIs are supposed to be so good you don’t need to know how to use them. but they aren’t and i think that causes a lot of friction.

untreated depression is the most common political stance on here

the amount of posts on here that are just depression, anxiety, or OCD symptoms masquerading as politics is too damn high

you and me both, buddy

when you agree enthusiastically with the headline is exactly when you should be most careful to stop and read the article, or even several articles, with a critical eye. things that seem to wildly affirm your most precious priors are the easiest way to lie to you, or to yourself.

been thinking a lot lately about how turn by turn GPS directions are actually a wild expansion of agency. i learned to ride a bike and drive a car before that stuff was common. i delivered pizzas by car in a rural area using a paper map… that was attached to the restaurant wall.

my depression feels like metadepression bc every time i start to get a bit better and then just go into a depressive episode a week or two later is just more proof stacked on the mountain of it that i will never be well. why wouldn’t my brain, built for pattern detection, not see the pattern?

conspiracy theory thinking is a goddamn plague

Janet from The Good Place is, at least as of S2E8, a surprisingly accurate metaphor for state of the art AI systems a decade later

i had actually forgotten that i even could be receiving social media notifications at OS level, i’ve had them off for so long. a shiver ran down my spine when i was reminded those exist. horrifying.

I have it setup so the only notifications I ever get are texts, Discord DMs, and banking transactions, and I'm not going back

"following" should have always been a private activity, like subscribing to an rss feed. follow counts are a mistake. honestly, most global counts are. the fedi people got that right, albeit accidentally

read receipts are also a mistake. same with online/offline status. we could all do with having a little less information

“AI is necessarily trained on the output of everyone, therefore the fruits of AI should return to everyone. UBI now!” seems like it would be a pretty good pitch

it makes them sound like vapes. mango flavored five-kiloton pulse unit

notifications are a mistake. convince me otherwise.

transition goals

okay, after using it today, github.com/steveyegge/b... is very cool. it's built for AI usage but even for projects without AI stuff, I'm gonna consider using it. I love issue tracking, but doing it via a super snappy CLI is much nicer than web-based, i think.

like abortion, divorce is beautiful like abortion, every divorce is an exercise in autonomy that triumphs over obsolete constraints on human freedom and dignity all human relations should be consensual and a necessary condition for that is actionable exit and unilateral dissolution

as part of my quest to watch all the 90s sci fi i missed as a kid, i am now watching The Good Place

bugs me when people say "exponential" when they just mean "number go up real fast". sometimes exponential means number go down. sometimes it means number go wiggly. sometimes it means even weirder shit i don't feel like explaining