we are living through the most interesting moment in human history. what an absolute privilege
our collective neocortex is the bow shock in front of culture traversing time
being able to prompt my way to a better tutorial on text book on any subject i want on demand is truly liberating
lines get blurred when you have to defend what is and is not science, and the infallibility of their respective clergy. but yea that’s patent anti-intellectualism animating a diseased host. not hard to spot or diagnose
what is your vision for a political movement that you would want to be part of; that doesn’t demand authoritarian measures to induce and maintain; and is realizable in the united states given our institutional structures?
big deal! anyone could have solved jacob’s conjugate !!
tulsi gabbard's husband has the extremely rare cancer i had and my mind refuses to accept the premise
it is extraordinarily difficult for someone who doesn't have any intuition about a particular domain to pressure test their ideas using llms.
Today: the North Shore Half-Marathon. I run it every year to mark my decline. This year: 1:47:30. 21 seconds slower than last year. Time marches on, but I'm making it drag its heels.
periodic reminder that the stochastic parrots frame is epistemic poison and you should actively and almost desperately try to rid yourself of it. things are...moving faster now
“it doesn’t matter it’s inevitable” retorts re:ai are bad not because they are fatalistic, but because they promulgate this frame that obscures how fucking fun it all is
this is what i meant by “social media is dying”
Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕@liao.shen-yi.org · 3mo agoOther people have noticed this phenomenon too but danah boyd put the best slogan to it: social media is now parasocial media. Social media hasn't been social for a long while—how long depending on the platform, depending on the milieu. It's not folks sharing equally, but broadcasting and receiving.
2026 orthodoxy is something like, > valuable software is now free or cheap to build so you should be mostly effort solving for distribution because thats how you win and i think it's very foolish.
i think on avg coding agents and LLMs do make people lazier, and do induce mental atrophy. I worry about it not infrequently. but i'm actually learning and exploring more computer science-y domains than ever before, because i don't have to spend 80% of my time on trivialities
most of these "traits unique to fascism" amount to "discursive pathologies are fascist" and that's a "well, i have bad news for you" thing
people emotionally invested in the delusion that it is a bubble are going to be both disappointed and wrong
ai is amazing because it allows you to go "what if dancing baby, but with particles spawned at high gradient values which have boids-like mechanics influenced by optical flow" and your computer shits out a gpu accelerated version in like an hour
i can't imagine a more incredible period in history to live through
the joke is the internet enables toaster fuckers to find each other and talk about their love of fucking toasters, but its more like it allows mass quantities of people to turn their little idiosyncratic annoyances into shared world models of self fulfilling animosity
some false positives for NSFW detectors are in some ways true positives because some people are just... ...porny
i've been using pi since january. i love it. it's vim; it's my work bench; it's my LISP. one of the things i sloptastically accumulated was an webui that uses RPC to make my life easier with baby. had no plans to share it but a teammate likes it so...ok
apparently my elderly neighbor has lost 100% hearing now, but has non problems with conversations because the meta ray bands caption them. good job, zuck
i have wildly over-caffeinated today overshot the runway by like 4 parsecs