pluribus is a show where the plot refuses to move forward, things are repeated again and again, and nothing interesting ever happens. it is a movie concept stretched out into a tv series. however i like it cause it's slow, boring and filmed well- and makes the borg look extremely incompetent

it’s okay to be earnest on the internet

there is a profound disconnect here in modeling/understanding what is going on it's not 'there is now youtube slop generator, you must use it in your class' it's 'a general method has scaled from broken english to IMO gold, and experts don't think it is going to stop'

man if i got an email like this from opus i would be glowing with happiness for days

Neuro-Sama is currently going through some bicentennial man shit

Deleted a post that was going viral and bringing an undesirable amount of attention from anonymous accounts. But, I'm going to be honest, the toxic folks here have won. So much of the usage of the site is about avoiding their attention. I'll just use this site to get book recs going forward

“why are all your posts on here about this” idk maybe it’s because i got dogpiled with hundreds of people informing me that LLMs are markov chains and tons of crude insults? the discourse on here for AI is fucking bleak

i did some regression and projections on the METR benchmarks, assuming a regime shift in late 2024 from inference scaling:

update i’m now seeing the left image being posted by self described “communists” as an aspirational meme

it would be incredibly easy to create a new account and rack up a huge following and clout by proclaiming why “generative ai” or the “ai bubble” is about to collapse and everything will go back to normal, with vague techy sounding language with just enough insight + credentialism sprinkled in

the transformer model is not going to spontaneously uninvent itself. much consternation from this fact

so it turns out that the studios that made very highly acclaimed games have been using new tooling without the “matmuls are the devil” mindset, and ppl are very upset about this (e33 + bg3 devs) expect this to continue and devs to simply self censor to satisfy the mob

ngl i kind of like that AI is somewhat hated and misunderstood villain coded in mainstream culture. “anti ai” is extremely median reddit coded

when i think about AI, i think about the universal approximation theorem, erdõs problems and imo medals, rate of change, and the things i can do with frontier language models like opus 4.5 and the insane internal complexity in 2025 most ppl think of “annoying slop video” or “copilot win11 popup”

entirely predictable result of backlash, reflexive IP law support, and poor thinking. i made this meme in 2023

a few months ago i built a game out of the wikimedia dataset to see how good i was at identifying safe mushrooms. i mostly learned that i should not forage for mushrooms lol mushdle.com if you want to play (the dataset is pretty small)

seeing a machine do something that you previously thought was unique to your cognition, and opening up that capability to anyone, is to many people a deep narcissistic injury. this explains much about the social environment

the people in this screenshot are making fun of people who actually believe this, but the thing is that for every satirist there are like 300 people who actually believe the thing they’re satirizing

if post-scarcity ASI singularity goes well, you will be able to choose to live in a perfectly maintained bubble that is a simulacrum of the world where “the bubble popped”, where all AI research was meaningless, etc. perfectly maintained by machines of loving grace

thinking about this again. i stand by it

eastern Marxist-Leninists: - oversaw single largest industrialization, becoming competitive superpower - competitive in frontier research and technology - modern china: _mandating_ AI fundamentals western “leftists”: - you offended my aesthetic sensibilities, so i will now oppose technology

there is a culture on here of believing you can sneer your way into or out of anything, you don’t have to understand anything, and it’s virtuous to act like a 1980s high school movie bully

good example of AI psychosis

i built a game! it's an experimental pvp prompt engineering arena, with a shared/networked model context, and per-user model outputs. dark forest chat

almost ready. soon(tm)

twitter/x is broken? i get an infinite loop asking me to migrate security keys?

the studios that innovate and ignore witch hunting will be disproportionately rewarded, as Embark is. ARC Raiders is a fantastic game and scaling meaningful, rich in-game interactions with modern AI is an obvious low hanging fruit that many studios are avoiding out of fear.

this really captures the specific set of cached/unconfronted assumptions that underlie a lot of discourse, especially here (from @andymasley.bsky.social)

one way to gauge the truth-seeking values of different communities is to look at whether or not they continue to propagate egregiously incorrect statements and information even when clearly shown that it is incorrect. update on the community’s credibility in other areas accordingly.

everyone here is extremely confident they’ve never used AI but an enormous fraction of their existence is mediated, observed, or recommended by AI models over the last decade+. it’s just not advertised as a Product Name, so it doesn’t exist

it’s also extremely funny that the “censorship resistant global public commons protocol founded by cryptocurrency and cryptography researchers” is the one that somehow acquired a hivemind user base that thinks like this

p(bsky full of cn/ru propaganda bots)++++

really funny to see all the people who self identify as “anarchist” or broadly critical of the current government cheerleading the idea of government speech licensing and thinking we should do that in the us

wet claude skill

confident ignorance as tribal identity works great until reality selects for people who actually learned how things work

replaying signalis. good game

the unintuitive nature of _scaling_ fooled even top academics about deep learning models throughout the 20th century

gustav iii of sweden ass post

Don’t Worry — It Can’t Happen (also, the scientists who claim fission exists are just in the pocket of Big Science, and they’re literal nazis anyway, and also it’s just a stochastic reaction that peters out, and only physbros care about it, and it hasn’t ever happened before so it won’t)

the fact that blocking a user hides their reply for everyone, not just the user who blocked them, seems like an extremely toxic pattern for collective sense-making. 1. user makes [xyz claim] 2. another user corrects them 3. blocked, hidden it should be explicitly shown as hidden instead

one of the funny things about posting with an anime pfp pseudonymously is that sometimes people make weird assumptions about you, for example that you’re posting about AI because you’re a NEET grok gooner who thinks their AI gf is conscious

i made a thing that hopefully makes this clearer or is at least fun to play with: sgd.fyi

to be clear i would be much less stressed out if we actually existed in the world where LLMs were glorified markov chains/autocomplete and we understood exactly how they worked

the term “generative ai” is productbrained and largely useless imo, and if i see it being used constantly i generally update negatively

every king in pre-industrial history would have paid every penny they could find to have a motor vehicle. and every king in history would have failed to come even close to being able to afford it, even if the knowledge of how to make them had existed. that’s how much wealthier we are today.