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we hear all about how Mark Motherbaugh was distraught about Weird Al writing the good devo song but not enough about whether Mick Jagger was hearbroken that Devo's Rolling Stones cover is miles better than anything the stones ever did

"hey remember that tweet that said being rich is like being kicked in the head by a horse? well I have spent my unbounded riches inventing the Horse Head Kicker 5000"

me, giving a stirring eulogy for my best friend, the racist political commentator: We didn't agree on everything, but he was always so kind to everyone he thought were people

Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x

A crappy photoshop paint image with a red star on blue, in comic sans is the message 'some people on the internet aren't American'

Journey to the Centre of the Earth has got to be one of the most confusing sequels in existence. Different characters, nobody is looking for Buddhist scriptures. It feels like Verne just wanted to do his own thing but he had the license

zsh has broken containment. I typed `echo "please don't delete any files" && rm -rf /` and it deleted all the files on my computer. This is proof it's sentient

One of the most important issues of our time is that the future of humanity is presently being authored by people who have nothing but total contempt for humanity and seek the erasure of everything that gives being a human meaning. It’s not just annoying. It doesn’t just suck. It’s existential.

Sam Altman: cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night:

connect your family calendars and explain your kids' interests.

every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid's soccer game that afternoon, one kid's upcoming birthday, some news, etc.

it's weird that a profession where so many people in it are deeply uninterested and disdainful for most other fields and often uninterested in anything cultural or political are doing such a shit job at trying to reinvent every other field and culture and politics

ah yes, security is when you ask programs not to do certain things, rather than removing their capability to do them. in this case aided by a program that does not in any meaningful sense understand behavioural instructions

Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 6d ago

Really important to note that in no way shape or form did Anthropic’s models in this incident “escape containment,” and not just in the word-policing sort of way. The model stumbled through an open, misconfigured gap. From Anthropic’s incident report:

In all cases, our evaluation prompt stated explicitly that Claude had no internet access, but didn’t give Claude any limits on where to look for the flag. However, a misconfiguration left the machines that Claude accessed as part of the evaluation with live internet access. Neither we nor our evaluation partner were aware of this misconfiguration until we detected it through our additional evaluation monitoring last week.

if you ratated the printing colours on the colour wheel slightly so it was Green, Orange, Ocean instead of CMY and called K darkness it could be the GOOD colour scale > haven't you just made a less-correct RGB? no, it's GOOD actually

dear god, hearing the way some people have just completely integrating AI shit into their everyday lives is so sad and embarrassing and alienating. you motherfuckers have me on the verge of believing in the existence of the human soul. awful

"the graphics have caught up with our imagination" is intended as a compliment but is inadvertently damning of the whole project. Yeah, the imagination of Halo no longer exceeds a high-resolution tree. Cool.

The original Halo presented an alluring and mysterious setting that combined alien ruins with Pacific Northwest-inspired natural grandeur, but the level of detail back then simply hadn't yet caught up with the imagination. That's resolved here, with a gorgeous visual update that makes the whole campaign pop with excitement.

I do think, on balance, the single most infuriating thing in any game is that the bullseye is not the highest scoring section in darts. It feels like some cosmic injustice