they (@ruesavatar.bsky.social) are facedoxxing me on X Dot Com, The Everything App

an advanced entertainment technology I hope we develop soon is the ability to make tool-assisted speedrun agents which don’t require deterministic RNG

I love to make utterances and encode truth claims in sequences of symbols

appreciation post for @imitationlearn.bsky.social’s good profile vibes pfp, display name, handle, bio, and banner all contribute smth distinct but fit into the whole

twin black cats named Spectre and Meltdown

there’s a very particular aesthetic which I love but don’t know how to name, one archetypal example of which is “astronauts en route to mars incidentally break the all-time human altitude record in the first few days of a vastly longer journey”

controversial theory holds that thing B should work because thing A is true. after investigation, it turns out that thing A is in fact true. and, lo and behold, thing B does actually work! not because of thing A, though.

I hope that within my lifetime we figure out what language models are

AI Dungeon 100% run

type of guy who schedules something for “1pm EST” in the middle of July and literally means EST, not ET

communications infrastructure and accessibility accommodations for offshoring SWE and IT work to the Faewilds

periodic reinvention of known techniques is as important as the “mark” phase in a mark-and-sweep garbage collector

modernity is wasted on the modern

more limbs, fewer bones

protostar didn’t get the memo that the metric signature is (+, +, +, -) and not (+, +, -, -)

I can certify that @norvid-studies.bsky.social is by nature an exceptionally lucid + sane person btw. this is just what it looks like to apply that attitude to trying to understand the internet.

the year is ≈2.31e+7 AD. the Unicode Consortium has just approved new emojis for “anisogamy,” “[untranslatable],” and “odd-dimensional hyperbolic space.” news of the updated standard will reach the far side of the Milky Way in 100000 years.

a social media site with a maximum character limit per post, but enforced via capriciously-applied bans, rather than an automatic check at upload time

what we care about is making progress on big problems, but the only thing we can easily measure is how much we’re making progress on small problems solution: do work which simultaneously (1) makes measurable progress on a small problem & (2) fits into a story about how you could solve a big problem

originally wrote this but quickly realized it’s untrue the reality is that “bisk” is to “bisque” as “post” is to “poast.”

[south american goal voice] BOOOOÒOOÓRRRRRRRGEEEEEEEEES

woah, unfollowing @covid19disease.bsky.social now. big fan of the novel furin-cleavage site, had no idea about the tens of millions of deaths and years-long disruption of the global economy.

bluesky can be a tough place for everyone who memorized @vgel.me’s Twitter username as “the one with all the ‘o’s”

“sampling from the distribution” as a mode of communication which transcends “truth” or “lies”

excited to announce the launch of my new fake-time macroblogging platform

A parable: A neural network m was trained on pairs (x, y) generated as y = f(x) for some function f : X -> Y. Its creators then prepared to run it on an input x’ ∉ dom(X). 1/

A isn’t caused by B. A is caused by C (which is caused by B).

condensed matter physicists lack the courage and marketing acumen to refer to one of their phenomena of interest as the “God Quasiparticle”

computers as machines which let you access alternate universes, but only in such a way that you learn nothing about their measure

warbler mom with one of those family stick-figure cartoon bumper stickers on the back of her car showing two warbler chicks and one cuckoo

smart enough to one-box in a Newcomb problem; too dumb to tell when a problem is a Newcomb problem

wind tunnel testing of aircraft designs presages two of the most fundamental enabling technologies in modern deep learning: scaling laws, and teacher-forcing

an object whose danger decays exponentially as a function of the number of people who know about it

an authentic collection of ancient Egyptian poetry which rhymes when and only when it is translated to colloquial modern English

North American Strategic Earnestness Reserve

stay alert for wicked problems living far beyond the class NP, for which it is computationally easier to recognize a bad solution as good than it is to generate a good solution

both sparks and embers are an excellent way to start a fire

that which once went unmeasured

the tension between the way in which the future holds absolute power over the present and the way in which the present holds absolute power over the future

the main problem with the world is that there’s too little of it

hi all

if you’re the most crepuscular person in the room, you’re in the wrong room

incredible how it somehow knew to revert to Duck Mode at the very end

wow that was so easy!! Wolfram Alpha eat your heart out!

FUCK!!

I’m losing my mind over here

ripping off the 🐥 mask to reveal the 🙂 mask underneath