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Chris Patil

@donotgogently.bsky.social

Biologist, science communicator, AI dilettante, foodie, OG em dash enjoyer

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Chris Patil@donotgogently.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today is the first day in a long time I’ve preferred “Following” to “For You”, because today the latter is >90% takes on the dogpiling post hard to imagine an anti-monoculture throttle on For You that wouldn’t require content awareness and (expensive) inference computation, though

Andres Guadamuz@technollama.bsky.social · 3d ago

I was wondering why the whole AI-detection discourse bothered me, and then I figured it out. Some of the most enthusiastic Pangram adopters appear to be among the most vocal anti-AI voices, and yet the tool itself is quintessentially AI. They’re using AI to tell them what not to read or like.

Chris Patil@donotgogently.bsky.social · 3d ago

Fun fact: Rudy Rucker Jr. owns and operates the monkeybrains ISP in the Bay Area. I learned this when he answered a tech support ticket

Dave@dave.9000ish.uk · 4d ago

"Being a kiqqie meant you let the orphidnet do some of your thinking. Instead of just using the Net to see and remember things, you could launch autonomous beezie agents to analyze, hypothesize, simulate, and reason on your behalf" novel quality aside, this from Rudy Rucker seems pretty apt

But first, as long as he was focused on the orphidnet, Jay-jay said hello to some of the beezie AI agents hosted by the millions of orphids on his body, also greeting the far-flung higher-order beezies that could be found at the next level of abstraction and then, what the hey, he took a quick hit off the Big Pig at the apex of the virtual world, the outrageously rich and intricate Big Pig like a birthday piñata stuffed with beautiful insights woven into ideas that linked into unifying concepts that puzzle-pieced themselves into powerful systems that were in turn aspects of a cosmic metatheory—aha! Hooking into the billion-snouted billion-nippled Big Pig made Jayjay feel like more than a genius. Not that suckling on the Pig was most people’s idea of a thrill—few citizens were even bothering to intelligence-amplify themselves into the kilo-IQ zone of the kiqqies. Being a kiqqie meant you let the orphidnet do some of your thinking. Instead of just using the Net to see and remember things, you could launch autonomous beezie agents to analyze, hypothesize, simulate, and reason on your behalf. Jayjay had to fully open his mental firewall in order to access the Big Pig wisdom. Right away the Pig wrote some information into his brain, the way she always did when Jayjay hooked up, he wasn’t sure why. The info-dumps took the form of incredibly accurate movie clips of things like water or clouds or fire; this new one showed a eucalyptus branch rocking in the wind, each twig and each leaf a separate pendulum, the system dancing upon its chaotic attractor.
Chris Patil@donotgogently.bsky.social · last wk.

Another strong argument in favor of a robust ecology of open-weights models that can be run on consumer hardware, awesome open-source model-agnostic coding agents, &c

jes olson@j3s.sh · last wk.

remember: we are in the luxury phase of AI’s lifecycle in a few short years, it will be unrecognizably awful, packed with ads & sponsors & poisoned incentives. tbh that process has already started kick up your legs & enjoy it while u can! it’s like early google: it is cheap & kind & actually works

alex benzer@alexbenzer.com · last wk.

thread numbering badges now show up on posts in feeds! to see them, make sure you have beta features enabled. you can do that here: bsky.app/settings/bet... once that's enabled, you should see them on posts in feeds like in the photo below. let us know what you think!

A demo showing where the thread number badge appears on posts in feeds.