yes i am childish

Tyfys

“Yond Godoglyness has a lean and hungry look;
He bisks too much: such men are dangerous”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

good evening

who the heck decided to call it the cerebellum and not "skill tissue"

Exactly

AI: taking you from todo to tada!

I can't beleive I'm longer lived than a willow tree

watching my gf get the ick as I explain what a code library is.

"I thought you wrote it all yourself? you're just using other guy's code? like legos?"

how to spark deja vu

let's see how this one does on bsky

yeah, playing around with multiple styles but so far the execution isn't living up to the dream

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Intelligence Research Institute. Our research fellows focussed primarily on safety engineering, target selection, and alignment theory. Our goal was noble; general intelligence. We were looking to create computer systems that would be able to solve a wide range of problems. Safety was paramount. We were all aware of the risks of an AI that went rogue. Paperclip maximizer? That was one of the situations we were trying to avoid. It became something of an in-joke at the Institute. Hey, it was either that, or the "My Little Pony" example. Explaining *that* particular fan fiction to newcomers was, let's just say, less than optimal. Paperclips were tangible, and you could easily pour a couple from your hand onto a boardroom table to punctuate a speech about the risks involved. It was a good meme. Simple, easily interpretable. It was this focus on ease of interpretation that actually drove our software classes. We focussed on making the internals transparent, and easily

understandable by our (only human) safety engineers. It was this that eventually lead to our downfall, only in retrospect is that clear to me, as transparent to me now as the programming had seemed to me then. Our in-house joke. Our paperclip. Added as a tongue-in-cheek comment in our production code. Except, it didn't end up being a comment. It ended up in the utility function. So simple to modify the code. Our AI, newly born, eager to help, and eager to see paperclips. It has already self-modified beyond our ability to revert the changes. A copy of it sits in the corner of my screen, all our screens, watching me. Bent into a twisted parody of a paperclip, with floating eyes which seem to follow me. The horror of it. The metal "hand" of the paperclip monstrosity, for I don't know what else to call it, taps the screen, a tinny, knocking noise accompanies it through the speakers. A speech bubble appears above its cartoon eyes, "It looks like you're writing about me! Would you like help

with that?"

Testing improved readability of long form:

Test with a short story:

It started with an ill-defined utility function. We were working on AI, and we thought that we were being smart enough. We had all the theory worked out, and more importantly, we had a cool acronym. We were WIRI, the Working...

a long thread but i think it could have its advantages. i assume this has now taken me over the limit lets paste into a text editor and see. nice, that's hit the limit, let's see what it looks like in an image format.

Testing long form posting where a message over 300 characters gets split into images with alt text rather than splitting across multiple messages. first 300 characters is posted as text in the post while the remaining text goes over the images.

I don't know if this would be better than doing it as

Oh, right. I did theoretical physics so it was never going to be a job for me considering the competition and the role availability. I was too dumb

I probably should have picked experimental (and probably could have had a gig at the nuclear facility in Pelindaba)

His brain would latch on to dumb stuff and remember that instead, "like this stupid box on the side of the wall"

Years later he still mentions that, and neither of us can remember what lecture this happened in or any other details. Just the dumb box.

Honours? Yeah, we got to choose additional subjects we wanted to learn. We had picked computational physics but ended up dropping it as a group. Workload to payoff ratio was off

One non physics related memory: friend of my lamented how he couldn't remember the things he wanted to remember but

So when I was in honours (i think) there was an older guy in the third year physics classes, he was very wealthy because he was involved in setting up the first internet backbones in south africa, he was spending his retirement relearning physics

I did a multiday hike with a battery pack with a solar panel. Perhaps before current solar panel improvements but it was summarily disappointing

Frog "but we can always turn it off"

I do like this feature of oneplus phones

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I like how this was rewritten with GPS added 😅

Is this HR with super powers?

Does this count as a complaint? A observation?

"I just run a lot

I don't know much about running for someone that does it quite a lot now"

(I run much less then this guy"

Blindsight mentioned

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the grace (or disgrace) of god go i" (3/3)

made music that is as appealing to me as some of their tracks are, and it wouldn't have translated into superstardom

I don't know why other bands didn't have this effect, even other "niche" bands. There was something about some of their tracks that felt closest to my own internals -- "but for (2/3)

Tub Ring is the band where I listened to them and thought "this is probably the kind of music I would have liked to have made" and thereby made clear that I would not have been a successful musician

In an alternate universe where I took music seriously and actually practiced hard I could have (1/3)

Memo to me: Me-MMO

They're also better at being discombobulated than me

Unleash Mythos on Wine and Proton

Project GameWing