Thank you for this analysis, @shiminsky.bsky.social. I am going to need to mess around with this, on non-pelican tasks.

ASSIGNEE: EGOER -> JEMALC
STATE: ANALYZE(SCREEN) -> VERIFIED
RESOLUTION: UNRESOLVED -> BEHAVES CORRECTLY

It’s always 4:20 somewhere!

geez, way to bury the lede on the somewhat uneasy witches!

This needs to be a card in Ark Nova, somehow

With current technology, the most replaceable job here is Jack’s. Yes, the model could only do the strategizing piece, and not the SV drug parties. But you could hire someone handsomer and far less off-putting for that.

This fact is masked by TV and movies, where sociopaths are uncharacteristically competent for plot reasons.

Lmao. Lmfao.

When I was younger, I had a real inferiority complex about software engineers vs. Real Engineers. I assumed Real Engineers spent all day using tensor witchcraft to precis model steel beam failure modes, or something.

It really is wild how much of stuff you thought had to be based in some kind of rigorous, evidence-based process ends up being just vibes all the way down.

the bad guys have a dev+deploy cycle about 4-5 orders of magnitude faster than your average harried municipal IT team, so

This brightened my day so much.

At some point the guy said “goodness gracious,” that’s the last thing I remember before blacking out entirely.

Some DHS contractors told White House officials they were asked to pay Corey Lewandowski Some companies complained to the Trump administration that Lewandowski has stood to personally profit from the DHS contracting process. Lewandowski denies the allegations.

Does not escape my notice that here, the CEO of a giant private prison company is showing more personal integrity than your average law firm partner. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I would simply move to Palo Alto.

Run under piping hot water for at least 15 seconds, then twist hard.

There Is No Better Media

i needed this out of my head

I’m powering through with gin, grapefruit, and amaro aperitivo. Your kind words are appreciated at this difficult time.

current POV

How dare you mock the ancestral Goer clan fighting style?!

Gouda?

I was there with the kids three weeks ago and yes.

“Textiles were perfected 4000 years ago“ NO THEY WERE NOT

Collections: Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part III: Spin Me Right Round… This post is also available in audio form, thanks to the efforts of our volunteer narrator. This is the third part of our four part (I, II, III, IVa, IVb) look at the production of textiles, partic…

exactly right. before the spinning wheel (1000 CE), making clothing alone is half your waking hours at minimum

”Put into working terms, the basic clothing of our six person farming family requires 7.35 labor hours per day, every day of the year.”

acoup.blog/2021/03/19/c...

Lotho Sackville-Baggins cleans up nicely!

Thank you! Think I’ve squirreled away enough sanity points to hang out here a few more days again.

Might An LLM Be Conscious? In short, this depends on what you think that means, whether you think it’s possible in principle, and what you think would be evidence of it.

Had log back in to share this piece by @segyges.bsky.social about LLMs and consciousne— wait, where are you going? Come back! It’s actually pretty good! www.verysane.ai/p/might-an-l...

FWIW, since this is of my bugbears — I’ve seen this pop up all the time, over decades.

It is definitely a signifier (“I can’t remember a lick of undergrad physics“), but these guys didn’t invent it.

This tracks with slipping into a pre-literate society. The Big Man and his family don‘t need to read, we have scribes for that.

Cosma Shalizi has been idly wondering about this for a while now: bactra.org/notebooks/nn...