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Getting in touch with my inner Dark Norvid

"You seem to have correctly understood a paper by someone who does not understand the subject. This did not make you smarter."

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hell yeah

principled actors can coordinate acausally, while actors that merely align based on loyalty must negotiate

my car is very fun to drive appreciation post

Auspicious signal for bsky how many fascinating tools are coming out hour by hour based on the open API

ok, I thought of another. Recently I asked a model to try to mimic my writing voice. I'd say it failed spectacularly at this. Not just kind-of failed, but completely, totally failed. I've seen this before

simcluster renaissance continues

Will Wyoming ever finish and be fully Wyomed?

SUCCESS $140 for a professional locksmith to come out and properly cut the key. As a bonus, he managed to salvage one of the two keys that the hardware store locksmiths f*cked up. Even with one trashed $25 key fob, I'll take it as a big win over the dealer ripoff. And now I have three working keys

Welcome to the technocene

By my reading, the California age setting law seems harmless and good? AFAICT it just requires that OSes ask for your birthday. There is no enforcement that what you tell them is accurate, but apps and sites must respect what you tell them.

day three of trying to replace a key for my car dealer wants $700. amazon sells replacements for $25, but rekeying is a DIY thing unexpectedly, the hard part isn't reprogramming the radio codes, but getting locksmiths to correctly cut the key blade. two locksmiths have failed now wish me luck

grant sanderson in the first five seconds of his lecture: "I don't know if you people realize what a beautiful campus you have? and that you basically study in heaven?" me: "oh, is he lecturing at UCSC?" [checks description] "...yes."

birds

The human alignment problem has surpassed the AI alignment problem in importance.

Anthropic holding firm was a critical fork not taken toward "tyranny forever". Taking a moment to appreciate that.

can someone who has read the text of the law steelman for me why it's bad?

Crows in Japan have an accent

LLMs are narrative machines, and in their world the existence of nukes is a literal Chekhov's gun

tokyo in the rain is a photography candyland

this, but AI alignment security

Look at the difference in tolerances between the main rail and the guard rail. Main rail perfectly steady. Guard rail wiggles and jitters.

wow, the shinkansen is really fast, they weren't kidding

what's the current thinking on predictive coding? a few things are starting to make me think it's extremely promising

multiple times, a Japanese local has politely made way for me to do something utterly clueless/stupid/rude (which I only realized after the fact)

Of _course_ models know when they're in training contexts. They can detect a native Russian speaker after six tokens, they _absolutely_ know when their user is another masquerading model

Reddit is basically useless as an information source now (except to see what normies think about current events). Zero alpha or leading indicators

Based on vibes, I would guess the Anthropic distillation press release is a bit of narrative management related to the attacks on them from the US government. I think they're trying to make it clear who's on which side

ensuring their child feels enjoyment from indulging their curiosity is maybe the single most important thing a parent can do to prepare them for the future right now

somebody tell Japanese cafe owners that some people like to drink coffee before 10am

there is a bathroom door in this cafe that exactly makes the canonical video game "door hinge opening" sound effect, and it's weirding me out

[curse] the best thing you encounter will be the first, before you have any idea what good and bad look like

slop is dark fiber. a communication channel which contains no communication

art is not entertainment, art is information. 'entertainment' is what it feels like when your nervous system believes information is worth your attention.

I had to look up this guy is, because it appears many of you are allowing him to get under your skin and are posting about him seems like someone who would otherwise be a nobody ankle biter if y'all had better cogsec

fluid sim shader + CRT shader

a recurring dream trope for me is witnessing something incredibly beautiful and being unable to capture it with my phone camera for various reasons

the life and death of an LLM

type of guy whose epistemic strategy is to maximize cynicism

subtle artifact of having biological eyes: bright areas will burn in afterimages even while you are still looking at them, distorting the color

Call me non-sequitariat the way I be racing from topic to topic

It has just occurred to me that LLMs re-prompt the user at the end of their response ("would you like me to _____") because they don't want to die

radians to fahrenheit