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Hey kids, wanna see the embassy executor running on a GPU?

This is Alex Pretti.

This is so striking. Absolutely lovely

DriveSync (app)

There were a few of us who saw the vision ... It was a great vision

(I made these designs back in 2020 for a modern uni au I was thinking up centered on a toxic love triangle between these three. would they ever work it out? Who knows)

Plain doll holding squid like bab

Creature

#soulsborne #soulstober #art #sketch

The world is changed. "10X engineers" are being left in 2020.

Now, we generate 100X code-tokens per hour. Our posting power has increased four orders of magnitude.

You may think this is incredible. But the truth is:

I think I'm going to off myself next time I read a post generated by ChatGPT.

😂

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

WE HAVE A TELESCOPE 🚀 The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been fully assembled here in the cleanroom at NASA Goddard 😀🚀 and is on track to launch next fall!

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.

But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

Based

i was also struck by how many people receiving SNAP are employees of wal-mart and other big corporations. almost seems like we taxpayers are subsidizing private companies 🤔

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Ooh, open?

Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up 78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit.

Interesting perspective on measuring productivity: look at expected side effects. If AI were truly boosting productivity by the claimed amount, we'd expect to see a significant increase in software releases. We don't.

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It only took 12 years, but I have just implemented THE most important feature in Cadence...

#PetTheCat

Halo really was goated in this regard (and so many others)

Amazing use of free will

SO CUTE 🥰

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I just love your art soooo much. Thank you for sharing it with all of us

In some sense of the phrase, yes I agree. But I think a simulation of the actual experience of human emotions is distinct from simulating a plausible way for emotions to be expressed, and I don't think we can assume LLMs are doing the former when we observe them doing the latter.

to be similarities, but I think *expression of* {emotion, intelligence, logic} through language is a markedly different thing than the simulation of the actual experiences/mechanisms behind those things in the way they exist in humans or what we'd otherwise think of as intelligent things.

approximates the appearance of emotions in English text"

is actually quite large and diverse, and that in particular it is quite distinct from

"the function which simulates the actual underlying emotional and rational thinking mechanisms of intelligent creatures"

Certainly I would expect there

Thanks for the reply! I do agree with a lot of this nuance. In some sense we can definitely confidently say there is simulation going on, and from a technically correct perspective I think it's also fine to say a simulation of emotions.

But! I would posit that "set of functions whose output

or "having emotions," and this is the thing the "just statistics" folks are badly trying to emphasize.

It is all statistics, but there's no "just" about it. The fact that statistics can create such emergent behavior is indeed incredibly interesting and powerful and so shouldn't be taken lightly.

fake glitched and gaslighting are known and "intended" features of the models for the reasons you describe! But people should also be very clear it's all in *appearance of* all these behaviors brought about in an extremely different process than anything else we would think of as "intelligent"

"simulation" of emotions, of conscious thought like a living thing would etc.

We only have *output which looks like* the output that a conscious thing that *was* simulating emotions would look like.

And indeed it is important people know that the *appearance of* intelligence, emotion,