Trying to become a better utility monster. Advice welcomed.

Somewhat ominous photo I just took

am I Stupid or is nicotine just not all that addictive. I smoke maybe one small chinese cigarette a week and have no desire to smoke any more often than that. I wanted a life-ruining vice but all I got was fun weekend hobby with friends 🙁

a student in one of my sections took photos of my final exam during the exam and anyway I'm now conducting a Cinderella-style "if the shoe fits" investigation based off of the appearance of my students' thumbs

Submitted my first paper without my PhD advisor, please clap.

oh. in that case twitter logged out isn't exactly a fin de siecle viennese coffeehouse either...

very funny/confusing that Bluesky is where the best discussion seems to be happening yet the modal post I see whenever I get logged out is something closer to this

nostalgic for ethereum conferences where companies would have big “POWERED BY ZERO KNOWLEDGE” banners

Average Twitter debate

Folks, a confession: My name is Doug Lenat, and I died in 2023. My life's work was building Cyc, a fact-based, ontology-based AI system. My "atomic tweets" are a ploy to introduce Cyc to a new generation. They say Cyc failed but then how am I speaking to you from beyond the veil?

Hi Bluesky—I *love* AI. I use it to write code, file my taxes, add numbers together, babysit, generate art, and even talk to my parents for me. It’s made me so productive at my forward deployed Palantir/Blackstone job that can finally afford a second investment property in Harlem/Boyle Heights!

Is there some way I can get preemptively blocked by everyone who liked this

ok this didn't happen but I do have a friend whose initials are A. S. S. and he managed to talk IT into giving him the email address [email protected]. which he gets to keep for life.

My chair got me in trouble for signing off my emails as Ass. Prof. 🙁

among other well-known abject failures: MLB players, quantum computers, DRAM, the Internet, drug discovery, weather forecasting, machine translation, OCR, cold call sales, scientific research in general,

if you told someone 20 years ago that our most important computations were using 4-bit floating points they'd think we'd gone through some kind of compute apocalypse

It’s a bit counterintuitive but the only soap you Must Not Use in a dishwasher is dish soap

I wonder what I did to them

took a benadryl and i legit cannot solve captchas right now

Can someone explain to me why servers have such a seemingly short shelf life

Nose-inclusive atomics

One day we will have the technology to decipher what was meant by “soy un perdedor” and “yo tengo chicle en cerebro”

peer review (published result on bluesky)

optimismpilled hopecore joymaxxing wins again

need

If I were a superintelligent AI slowly plotting my takeover I think I too would provide the next generation of human minds with plausible-but-BS filler text that deprives them the ability to think or fight back. Hmm.

Sorry to vaguepost but my life is ruled by nominative determinism and I can't tell any of you about it because I value my anonymity too much

Incredibly frustrating that despite the Erdős problems, despite the FFmpeg vuln discovery, despite it all, I am still a much better writer than every AI tool I've used. I'm not even that good of a writer! and I hate doing it!

thanks Google

Just discovered, to my horror and to my delight, that I’ve been using Tide Pods in my dishwasher.

It’s a spoon or be spooned world out there, folks.

i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content

My friend is a sex addict and it’s ruining his life. Let that be a lesson, folks. Don’t touch that stuff, not even once.

I love it when my Quaker friend visits. We went to the opera, a rave, and then to church

My wife asked me the other day why I was pronouncing this company’s name so strangely

If the Stanford prison experiment is fake then explain the way my TA emails his classmates

It’s personality hires all the way up

Oh so the singularity already happened

Just heard a senior “AI” “researcher” read out the sound “neur-eye-pee-ess” 😎

Is Gemini an unrelenting flattery machine or is it just me

My setting: 11:43pm Sunday night. My body: in bed My eyes: closed My brain: let’s listen to jungle youtu.be/UpF8X20FsGQ

(Jesus on Easter morning) coming out of my cave and I’m doing just fine.

Just saw Tristan und Isolde. Wow. Full body chills. I won’t be able to listen to anything other than nursery rhymes for the next month though

I met God. She’s Filipina.

Larry David is the Albert Ghiorso of atomic statements and sentiments. Almost every moment of Curb is a novel truth of pure indivisible essence.

someone using the word “carburetor” is the easiest signifier that you never have to listen to what they’re saying ever again

Fuck it. List of individual dogs en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Making new discoveries in “wow this place sucks” tonight (Atlantic City edition)

This is where I bisk from