Croesus - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croesus...

Not that there’s an enormous gulf between that and the xian Revelations one…for some reason 🤔

But I’m here for “salvation for the individual depended on the sum of…thoughts, words and deeds, and there could be no intervention, whether compassionate or capricious, by any divine being to alter this."

Inshallah the (strictly speaking, not specified in the post) civilization which dies, if any, be other than as implied.

and ideally not like … all of it. 😓

(or if we are headed for an eschaton may it be something more in the vein of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frashok... than what's being shopped for)

I think its funny that this meetup was, apparently by coincidence, down the hall from a "Blue Sky Insurance Consultants LLC" (who even use 'bsky…' in their website's domain)

[I still lived in Denver then; sorry I didn't hear about it in time to come around; now idk if/when I'll be back in CO]

lol, the USA just lost the World Baseball Classic final to Venezuela

🦋 is this findom? 🦋

whoa hey! Where did that come from? @graalvm.org I believe, and the amazing people at @jetbrains.com who have made #webassembly components out of it! (A nice extra trick for this one if you come to @wasm.io)

As someone beat me to on mastodon already, it’s part of the LSB - so any distro that doesn’t include it is out of compliance

[here via For You] ⌃seems a weak strawman.

the ”plagiarism machine“ objection is less so that weights & training are plagiarism (it’s not “plagiarized machines”)

more that (inference) outputs are plagiarized: that they’ve unfairly re-assigned “original authorship“ (to user or model) or obscured it

Kellogg–Briand Pact - Wikipedia

As people refer to the ongoing US attack on Iran as “an illegal war” with a tone of particular indignation, I remember that the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellogg... remains in effect … so like, basically all wars are illegal…

Like I agree any result there can be neither recognizably Industrial Capitalism (c. 1760 - ?), nor any conceived Communism

but if the position of the typical non-human intelligent member of society (if extant) seems to me to resemble bound-to-the-land serfdom, I worry more Feudalism-like follows

(why) is there no point where [routinely executing] models become meaningful /participants/ in the socioeconomic order?

If they can participate, can/will they not constitute (materially) ≥1 new social class? Can’t interests of such class(es) be aligned more/less to Capital? to human working class?

> a giant repository of rules telling the model "please stop doing the stupid thing"

but also yes. that seems to be a reasonable description of what AGENTS.md et al are doing

I haven't kicked any tires for all of ideological, psychological, & ~financial reasons

but I also wouldn't necessarily assume the model is as bad at JS or Rust or Python as it is at Haskell, for reasons of training corpus size, human reinforcement, etc

nor that relevant weights are v. covariant

The pace of AI triggers my, "Chill out and wait 'til this all settles down," instinct, which is probably maladaptive in a world where nothing settles down anymore.

If you’re an enby with an F or M marker, then perhaps it’s

Fuck your rules &
Miss me w/ this shit

a gray, closed, metal utility panel - bottom half to 2/3, including handle are obscured by a backpack on top of a several duffle bags on top of a suitcase. Other clutter in frame includes a multi-pack of tissues, toilet paper, a rolled up rug, Christmas ribbons, etc

Pictured: my ADHD

Lived metaphor for #ADHD, as I resume stims today after 6mo w/o ℞:

>ceiling fans @ parent’ didn’t work,
>for months or years
>Idk y
>but had clear idea where to start:
>but dad has stacked stored travel bags in front of breaker panel

>💊’d, so moved bags,
>toggled breakers off+on
>now the fans work

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

applying for jobs again

Hey, so, uhh… if one were actually successful in creating bonafide AGI…

and those AIs did not have meaningful (ontological, physical, legal, economic) ability to seek substantially alternative circumstances of employment and residence

… that’s slavery/serfdom…right?

Annnnd controversy about illegal 🥌👈 by Canadian men’s team yesterday—and to lesser extent earlier today— has apparently led to the rule being (dubiously? but due to new line judging deffo) first) enforced against the Canadian women’s team this evening

#boopgate #curling

As of 5:20pm it actually has both a thumbnail and longline in Peacock suggesting they’ll show (some of) the women’s game, … but it was still Team Casper on screen 🥌🤷

Surprise! US women's curling team beats Canada for first time at an Olympic Games The U.S. women’s curling team was surprised to learn that their defeat of Canada marked an Olympic first.

🙄 that (C)NBC has stayed the course on slotting the US men’s #curling team in for the “Best of Curling” [as labeled on Peacock] 5pm EST block

…when both USA men & women played Canada today,

…and Team Peterson won

(For women’s Olympic curling 1st 🇺🇸 victory over 🇨🇦:

apnews.com/article/mila...)

Dibs on the drag name:

Her Eminence his Excellency The Rt Hon. Rev. Prof. Sir Dr. Titular Regalia, Esq. (D-VA)

That said, on this occasion, where I was surprised and inclined to editorialize about it… I was thoroughly entirely derailed by this behavior until such time as 10 minutes later I’d fully forgotten and returned to the same email in Outlook

Microsoft also has the gall to ignore the system-wide default browser setting and open links in Edge (if it’s installed).

which like… rude, but also (presuming Edge is not one’s mobile WKWebView frame of choice) quarantining tabs generated from emails /might/ actually work out to being a feature

TIL iOS Outlook w/ auto-advance enabled advances to next message on “Mark Unread” as well as on Delete/Archive

I’m pretty sure I like this & that it’s rare amongst mail clients

The ADHD urge to buy a thing, watch all the videos about the thing, religiously track shipping until the thing arrives, excitedly open the shipping box to get to the thing, and then place the thing somewhere random and forget about it for 3-60 months.

Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.

a man in a suit is standing in front of a green curtain . Alt: “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain” from the wizard of oz

I’m also aware that if I gaze long enough upon the face of the people-fooling machine, I might just become a fooled person

And that I don’t know how much I’m getting wizard of oz’ed by this particular submachine