when I went to my grandmother's funeral one of my relatives told a story abt how she ran someone off the road b/c she was old as hell and since she didn't want to take the remedial test from home the relative took it for her everyone else was laughing and I was sitting there like "what the fuck"

traditional cultural folkways of altered-consciousness traveling

so what happens if you take Golden Gate Claude idea but make the golden gate "neurons" *unable* to activate, then ask it about San Francisco's most famous landmark

one of my bugbears of The Discourse is that I think it's bad that "tech" (and sometimes even "technology") has basically come to mean "only FAANGs, and computers in general".

I enjoyed 17776 a lot but the mental image of "it's just the 90s-10s forever, without suffering" always depressed me

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ultimately I think a lot of the problem with the "can machines be conscious" arguments is that at some point it becomes, effectively, impossible to refute by virtue of "consciousness" being ill-defined and there being no way to "experience" being something else

part of the problem with AI discourse is that people think that, like, having a CS degree gives you some level of "expert" qualification to talk about transformer networks, which is a bit like expecting a chemical engineer to be an expert on drug interactions

I just had the mental image of Guinevere from Knights of Guinevere turning to the camera and saying that even though she acts and feels like a full person it's important to remember that all of her actions are actually stolen from humans

i feel like somewhere, somehow, there's a Take to be had about the set of takes on software developers that: - act like software developers are universally entitled babies/spoiled/etc - are written by software developers

yeah AI Ben Garrison is incredible

Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...

a fun rhetorical trick this article pulls is talking about how AI water usage "supercharges" the problem without actually giving any numbers on how it's changed bsky.app/profile/roll...

You will never guess what this is in reference to.

was there ever any actual high quality evidence re overuse of "delve" in ChatGPT? afaict the arguments rely on the assertion (that "delve" is more common in Nigerian English (which I haven't seen statistical evidence for), but OpenAI uses/d *Kenyan* workers

Minard's visualization of Napoleon's invasion of Russia is so iconic

- this is a bizarre story to choose to tell - I do not like people saying "if you, a man, are not willing to fuck at all possible times then you are gay and a failure as a man" even when they're using it to make fun of a conservative dipshit

Some useful tips for running an organization: 1. Don't do stuff ad-hoc. Everything should be run through proper channels. This makes sure you have consistency 2. Gut members be invested in the org by having them give talks frequently, highlighting their lived experience

makima's appeal is literally that she isn't naked. that's not right. and they're not that big. she is the most clothed girl who has ever existed, and even if she didn't have any clothes on that would still be true.

arxiv.org/abs/2510.15511 I can't tell if I'm missing something or if this paper is basically completely trivial. like, their algorithm to recover context relies on observing the hidden layer state after every *individual* token in the context, not just the final context!

What happens when you turn a designer into an interpretability researcher? They spend hours staring at feature activations in SVG code to see if LLMs actually understand SVGs. It turns out – yes~ We found that semantic concepts transfer across text, ASCII, and SVG:

bsky.app/profile/ktho... the incoherent dream-logic of this is absolutely fascinating and if you could couple that to the skeleton of something keeping it vaguely on rails it might actually be an interesting experience, not as a man shooter, but as a Weird Shit Generator

the other thing about the "they should make an AI that can do my dishes instead of making art!" is that if there was a robot that could take your plates and automatically put them away it would be instantly positioned in the cultural milieu as a product for lazy techbros

llama-3.3-70b correctly guesses the sampling constraint (only allowed to use words in the bible)

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it's always a little embarrassing when people try to claim that bsky/ATproto is "decentralized" when the fediverse is right there as an example of a network that's actually decentralized in practice and not just "well, the protocol is open!"

one of the things about the eternal "gifted kid" discourse is that it feels like it very rarely actually talks about the experience of being a kid a class that you know you can easily blow past. this does, in fact, suck!

the "misleading" thing made me realize that people could pull some absolute wild shit with labels if you could edit your posts on here

i should pick an avatar since I'm Posting more here but I also want to separate this presence decently from my other social media so I need to pick one that I'm not using anywhere else