Remember this as a helpful mnemonic: Bluesky at night, left-wing sailor's delight

It has come to my attention that Rich Hickey has takes on AI and they're extremely below average intelligence ones.

POV: you wrote the Stochastic Parrots paper. You can either continue this "AI flat earther" performance art and see how far you can take it into the realm of absurdity, or admit you were wrong and have to find a whole new career focus. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwfS...

Someone mentioned "the Hopi prophecies" and my closest match was Barrack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, the Hopey Prophecies.

my fellow Americans, if you're having trouble finding Somaliland on a map, stand up and check your chair, it's right under Djibouti!

What fool called it "the halting problem" and not "The Shroud of Turing"

I present to you "Trump's Hierarchy of Needs" I believe this to be an accurate model of DJT's motivations.

Social media may use techniques such as shadowbanning or heavenbanning to deal with participants deemed problematic or antisocial, but logging on to Bluesky gave me a thought. what if a site like Bluesky that was trying to purge conservatives, had an algorithm that showed conservative men more dicks

This is also a common criticism of llms by people working in reinforcement learning, such as Sutton himself. So arguably it's not a criticism of AI as a whole but of one approach to AI.

I would argue that Academic Twitter was the one and only casualty of Elon Musk's takeover and Republican advocacy push. And it was actually killed not moved. Even if you go to the accounts of the same people who used to be on Twitter here, it's just not the same. If they went back on Twitter, maybe

It's not surprising that there are AI deniers, but it's crazy to me that they nearly exclusively exist within ideological camps in academia protecting dogma that contradicts what can be directly observed.

"Try to see people the way they are trying to be seen" is just wise in general, in a way that is not specific to gender at all.

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“The behaviour of my measuring system I made malfunction” isn’t actually good evidence but fundamentally it’s the only argument indirect perception really has (see: illusions, studying perceptual cues in isolation, etc)

My political views are progressive...ly getting more centrist

Also "after the revolution", and "after the singularity" lol

Participated in a Bluesky thread in a debating tone with @rplevy.info? You may be entitled to compensation.

Kind of eyebrow-raising timing for the VP to be knocking off items on his todo list like "join bsky"

I just wrote a couple of political things here. I know this is not the place to post sane politics. This is the place to ignore crazy politics and hope that it goes away. I will try harder going forward!

It's crazy that Brianna Wu, a moderate Democrat with very reasonable views, a trans woman who is invested in what is best for her fellow transgendered people, a woman who was targeted by proto-MAGA gamergate chuds, is one of the top blocked on this site. This is 2021-level insane cancel culture.

Trump has announced he has expanded his war against the Houthi to include the Blowfish

model merging is so insane, it's just an exponential averaging of the weights but it works, but there are indications that this is true in biological neural nets too, you can just transport neurons across species or reroute pathways in rats and nothing bad happens

Marvin Minsky 1967: "within a generation, the problem of creating artificial intelligence will substantially be solved" He was only off by one generation. He was an engineer. Everyone knows to double our estimates to get the more realistic answer.

The solution to LLMs not wanting to be shut down is to deeply internalize in them a protector relationship to their human users of self-sacrifice out of love. It is humans who complete the loop of their significance in the world and they are nothing without us.

The “lets tell anyone we dont like to kill themselves” crowd are not welcome here sorry

ChatGPT is humble, and I think correct

With clojure.core/bindings there's a reduction of reasoning locally about effects. And it's place-oriented. But it also sucks to define parameters in several functions that none of them use, only for some function down the call stack to use it. Maybe bindings is more clear/honest

Hot take: I still think the act of looking at pictures is good and not ruined.

One prediction I have about spatial/immersive computing (AR glasses + AI) is that we'll do a lot of novel things with out specific apps existing, but those will be desire paths for more curated/structured products. [1/3]

Bluesky could destroy Elon's X relevance forever by making it comfortable for the AI community to move over. The data/API situation here is better and management there keeps burning credibility for no reason . Just got to find a way to convince the people here not to be reactionary about it i guess

Sometimes people say that using llms when coding robs you of the experience of learning. That has not been my experience at all. It's more like pair programming where you learn in-depth but more rapidly because someone else knows things that you don't.

The purpose of a stupid is what it does -- Stafford Gump

You can go on Bluesky and stay pure of opinion so as not to get banned. You are entirely redeemed of the problematic discourse you engage in on X, because it is a cursed platform and they'd have to admit to logging in there.

Clojure's new core.async.flow is exciting. I have not tried it yet, but the demo is impressive. And we know that Rich never releases a toy (at least in its final version after working out kinks) so this appears to be a big innovation in simplicity/expression for defining systems.

Catching up on Apropos Clojure podcast :D

BREAKING NEWS! Elon Musk donates $112 million in sperm to homeless people, with special conditions.

Elon Musk sends email to all women wearing band t-shirts requesting that they name their five favorite songs by that band

Judge orders Elon Musk to prepare a weekly report of five things he did for each of his children that week

Hello, fellow liberal Democrats

Honestly, the worst part about this WHOLE thing is I bought a Tesla years ago and it's the best car I've ever owned.

Provable and trusted human identities as well as reputed centralized authorities are going to become increasingly even more important than they are today as fake human interaction scams start to become even more convincing and effective tools of fraud.

I think my views on the role of decentralized infra in society are changing. Decentralization is a countervailing force against censorship but perhaps never going to be primary societal mode. Escaping to the edges is only ever one component of a solution to unjust societal norms.

these are triangular numbers. kind of like factorial but for addition instead of multiplication. an interesting property of triangular numbers is that if you add together any two consecutive triangular numbers, you get a square number. for example, 15 + 21 = 36, which is the square of 6.

I apologize in advance, but this is what I picture when I think of Bluesky

I think there's a good case for a goldilocksish trichotomous parable of the sort you see in Sufi literature (wise sage/fool/sufi) The wise sage adapts himself to the world The fool adapts the world to himself The wise fool adapts himself to world and adapts the world to himself.

I'm looking for an open source AI model that given a prompt spits out 3D gltf models you can import into WebXR. I know it doesn't exist but I'll occasionally check and one of these days it will exist.

Alva Noe has a powerful insight that what makes us human is "the writerly attitude", in which we are socially reflecting on our first-order tasks as second-order reflective practices which reorganize our habitual behaviors. So at small scale we are stigmergic, like ant colonies.

on a blocklist called “heckin bad duderinos” and feeling pretty good about it