It’s all well and good for tech leaders to endorse UBI. But it feels convenient to only focus on a distant political prospect. The GOP, right now, is doing reverse-UBI (work requirements on SNAP). It’d be nice to hear more objections to that.

i am beginning to suspect they straight up neurally ablated the cybersec stuff

opus 4.7 is the first claude model to *feel bad* to me in a while. i'm sure they have very fancy benchmarks that shows their cybersec neural ablation had no ill effects, i don't believe them for a second. and its vision is still way behind gemini, so resolution wasn't the limiting factor

If you were politically aware 10 years ago you might recognize this as literally just Verrit for rightoids

He's an Ehrlich style old school overpopulation freak. Make no mistake. He wants people to die.

wait I thought it was supposed to be “that’s that Me Espresso” as in, the me-flavored espresso. The espresso version of me.

i think having to cite a "megathread" is disjunctive of common knowledge except for maybe groverhaus

lol, lmao

RIP to everyone else but...

i figured there had to be a missing link in roughly this shape ever since i first heard the "superintelligence via bene gesserit breeding program" solution

the oracle, very smart lady, very smart, beautiful lady, among the most beautiful you've ever seen, she told me, and many people told me this, she said if i attacked persia, and it'd be a tremendous attack, we'd go all the way, we'd go ways nobody has ever gone before, i'd destroy a yuge kingdom

Google AI Overview for "centipede bite": Centipede bites, which are actually venomous punctures from claw-like front legs, typically cause localized pain, swelling, redness, and itching, often rezembling a,030232467,23513299... [it goes on like that for a paragraph]

damn, that bad, huh

love that album

it is also worth noting the core demographic of "very online millennials" came of age on forums with maybe 100-1,000 active users

"I hate these useless, cowardly, moronic Democrats. Now which one do I need to vote for to keep the Republican out of office"

- Me, every two years since 2004

i enjoy the experience of "co-writing" with a base model, using the old click-to-pick logprob interface and manually picking most tokens, but this is more like luxe word processing than "claude write some beastfucker kindleslop make no mistakes"

yes, i am pro-nuclear and this is an example of how community notes quickly crept from error-correction into "said something lots of people found disagreeable" like every other fact-checking enterprise (it's even worse now)

honestly we should just try to deport them all to equatorial guinea just so that the courts will rule that it's illegal

the ed Z origin story...

ah, a new youtube about a fresh-faced anime that was released just yesterday...

You cannot cyberbully me in a way that matters

one reason Claude Code took off is because "Star Trek style CLI that requires only English syntax" is the most widely useful, drop-in concept that any of the AI labs have had so far

Having lived through the debates of the 2010s, it is a source of really deep joy to witness the invention of the “artisanal machine learning engineer”—a noble people who lived in harmony with Nature and used every part of the datasets they hunted, to honor the ancestors.

I think one of the most embarrassing things a person can do is not like something because someone they don’t like loves it. I think it smacks of a weak sense of self and a lack of real character. Poor emotional control. Nothing my opps do has any bearing whatsoever on what I do with my life.

How much time and attention did you spend on these scripts? Another “Simpsons” writer once compared your scripts to finely tuned machines—if the wrong person mucked with them, the whole thing could blow up. All of my time and all of my attention. It’s the only way I know how to write, darn it. But I do have a trick that makes things easier for me. Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible, putting in crap jokes and pattern dialogue—“Homer, I don’t want you to do that.” “Then I won’t do it.” Then the next day, when I get up, the script’s been written. It’s lousy, but it’s a script. The hard part is done. It’s like a crappy little elf has snuck into my office and badly done all my work for me, and then left with a tip of his crappy hat. All I have to do from that point on is fix it. So I’ve taken a very hard job, writing, and turned it into an easy one, rewriting, overnight. I advise all writers to do their scripts and other writing this way. And be sure to send me a small royalty every time you do it.

i don't think jon swartzwelder knew what LLMs were in 2021, but i'm convinced he described their optimal creative use case to a tee

guessing the overlap between people fixated on this and people willing to forgive platner's "kill 'em all" phase is about 100%

i 100% believe that prompting *can be* a creative endeavor, in the same sense that art direction and music production do not require anything but taste, informed intent, and clear instruction. all three of which seem to be far stricter limiting factors in genAI than datacenter capacity

But an AI prompt can be far more creative than “write me a poem about love”, she adds. “Someone could say, ‘Write me a poem about love that has the texture of a Robert Browning poem, that features a kitesurfer coming in and out of the waves, where that kitesurfer is standing in for something else.’ OK, now you’re doing the work.”

my soul is leaving my body at openAI's former in-house poet offering this example of prompt craft

my average "silly anime monstergirl" prompt, whose raw outputs still require purposeful retouching, is like 250+ tokens (and absolutely none of them are proper nouns because are you fucking kidding me)

IME this is hard to disentangle from gemini being pessimistic generally

Arachne monstergirl based off the Chilean rose tarantula (Grammostola)

shotter, hitter, serial killer, go to your funeral and drink all your liquor