humans aren't supposed to exist in environments without several human body masses of extended biomass wrapped around them, they aren't evolved for that, it's actually a form of animal cruelty for a human to not have their allotment of solidwood and containerglass and iron/steel

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the human as a termite that has finally gotten their nestmound build order online

i just realized i have the full 'tech stack' needed to make a language model write like me

doing 3 digit sums without a calculator and *not knowing why* is the equivalent of showing up to the squat rack having never seen a deadlift in your entire life and swinging a weight around in random directions.
trying hard will destroy your body forever with free weights; why are numbers safe?

a better DNN

before economic cognitive restructuring
after economic cognitive restructuring

the first run used evolutionary search (lol) over backpropagation (lol) because that's wholesome lowkirkuinely chungus (in a historical way)

what tech tree did minecraft have that DNNs didn't?

some geometry

what if you could have a real reticulating splines phase in world generation

creepypasta ah ah visual environment

horror game degenerate world gen minecraft screenshot

cool feature

lo, to be surrounded by three or more waymos

you know the [* flibertigibbeting] user interface indicator? there's only one of them even if multiple subagents are active, instead of more [* prognosticating] user interface coverage as more marginal agents are added.
i also can't find a 'live haiku reaction' user interface panel option anywhere—

you can even have bs_fp2**2**32 if you really want to. the difference between bs_fp2**2**32 and fp2**2**32 is actually a really finnicky problem about the philosophy of mathematics and not relevant to numerical calculation work at all

here's some catch-up representationology which might help a little bit. you can actually store fp4096 numbers with approximately 4bpw and nobody can really stop you

"quantized"
ahha ahahahahah ehehehehe hoo hoo hoo hoo hooo oh dear

the relationship between me and literature is that people throw books at me or otherwise summon the fates or in some situations simply order me to read and then i up and do it

null meta, the artist started some new manga and i was commanded to read this one to better understand the new release

incredibly good manga

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i feel like i'm seeing a lot more people who love programming right now than in previous years

(real humans reachable through a datacenter can vote. they supposedly have legitimate individual and political rights. this is one sense in which 800,000 americans reachable through a datacenter have 1000x more anthropic weight than the same in 'ai agents')

it turns out, the country of regular real life humans reachable through the datacenter are MORE THREATENING POLITICALLY to any existing state, whether the CoRLHs are their constituents, neighbors, or supposedly from some other state. states *don't like their constituents*. they really don't...

remember that the 'country of geniuses in a datacenter' argument never actually articulates what's 'safe' about having a regular country of regular humans who are also accessible through a datacenter, some geniuses, some not.

they're doing an end run and trying to make it illegal to use or distribute operating systems and networking software *at all*, for *any reason*, speedrunning past technologist interpretations of 'ai' related peril.
what if, consider, for a moment, 'ai' had no crisis effect?

there's a bit of a growing horror to gaining understanding from reading phrases like these

baudrillard's framing is far more interesting and far scarier, for what it predicts about the ability of simulator-users and wargame-historians to think through nuclear doctrines and use them when situated. nuclear peace was a kind of shared dream, a myth, a fantasy... of the 20th century.