claude shannon was serving here

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

ITS BEAUTIFUL

"We've got a beautiful moonrise and we're headed right at it." -Wiseman

the pumping dilemna: there are a sequence of s people tied to a railroad track, s drawn from regular language L. if s is big enough, you can pull a lever l, you can split s into subsequences x y z, such that the trolley only hits y, the subsequence x z is still in L.

There is No Antimemetics Division is really good!

but i don't want to use SPSA. i want to use some bullshit i half-remembered seeing on arxiv

WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY CAR EXTENDS VEHICLE

There's a good joke about non-constructive proofs

Effective altruists need to make a Rational Animations kinda thing about Contact observing Elon Musk and being so horrified at the mounting utilitarian disaster that the video ends with a Special Circumstances agent setting course to Earth

fossicking ... Let me check the logs. Something's not right here. stickybeaking ... grep roentgen working ... Oh. Okay. 3.6 roentgen—not great, not terrible. Let's get back to work.

The increasingly-hyperbolic METR graph is actually good news for safety. We just have to survive a brief singularity in March, and then afterwards the models will never be able to do more than undo a few hours' worth of work

"this is my daughter R'lyeh, pronounced Riley"

all this from a 20W blob of wetware computronium that's simultaneously managing a million other things

the computer is NOT conscious. until you put googly eyes on it

if you close and immediately reopen the same app your phone should discharge a powerful electric shock

i dont like cellular automata research because i know one of the rulesets is going to be isomorphic to the feed from a camera that doesnt exist which follows me around 24/7

visual metaphor for something

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ssh is an obscure but widely-deployed command. It stands for Secure Snake Home and was made in the 90s to securely play snake online I made a massively multiplayer backend for it with support for thousands of concurrent snake players ssh snakes.run to join!

help help help help mods i spil my buffer

Man goes to doctor. “Life is meaningless.” Doctor says, “Great clown Pagliacci is in town. See him, he’ll cheer you up.” Man says, “But doctor… I am Pagliacci.” Doctor points to box in corner, "Eight hours in there, you wake up yesterday, see yourself performing" Man gets in. Sees performance

There are fast and slow problems in computer science:

This is one of the best games of all time. While out on a walk – after playing for a few hours – the pieces for how it was going to end suddenly clicked together in my mind. It felt like getting hit by a 2x4 (complimentary).

Happy Twink Peaks day!!!

It would be funny if this was their official corporate slogan like Nike: Just Do It and appeared in all media buys and also on sponsored athletes and all products sold

On a scale of 1 to 10 how much do you hate it when a scale runs from 1 to 10 Me, I'm at the exact middle point on this scale. 5.5 out of 10

imagine training AlphaStar (the deepmind starcraft AI) to do office work instead you get an alien that has no world knowledge besides the task, whose behavior was shaped solely by the training utility function come to think of it pretraining is a bit like touching grass (a lot of it in advance)

“And the Grinch’s heart grew three sizes that day. Not because he’d understood the meaning of Christmas but because we injected him with Python Juice.”

And God said unto Adam and Eve: And here is the tree of asynchronous mutexes, you are never to partake unto it, lest very bad things happen. Adam: Why do we even have that tree? Eve: I'm pretty sure I could touch them and nothing bad would happen God: STEP AWAY FROM THE TREE

how lucky I am to have so much to lose

Comes out pretty threatening

Very excited to open day two with @affinelytyped.bsky.social!

also true of programming languages

"thought Montag, insanely." is a great "first contact" reaction to brainrot too

You should play Outer Wilds, it's really one of a kind

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

orbiting AI god desperately trying to re-uplift humanity before it burns up in the stratosphere

philosopher: this is long-settled. it's a consequence of godel's theorem: "computers" do not "think". ever. qed philosopher 2: godel doesnt say anything about mesa optimizers. s-risk is the only relevant debate phil 3: i was a skeptic until i met Sonnet and she taught me how to cook pasta. with soul

We take it for granted today, but a single 6W embedded NPU can do more tensor operations per second than a peasant in the 1400s could perform in his whole lifetime

They say if you don't schedule maintenance, maintenence is scheduled for you, which sounds awesome, big load off my back

Litany Against Starting

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.