I love the communities that have sprung up around the backrooms where dudes are basically making 3d architectural mockups and everyone goes "sick room design dude" It's great
I open my internet browser. I answer an email. I see an alleged yeti cross the road in siberia. Wombat dressed as sushi...
If "mind uploads" or something similar ever happens, The first virtual human minds will probably swell and become incoherent like a deep sea creature brought to the surface. The human mind relies on a lot of external forces/pressure to stay together
It's really good for you to be lightly heaving and hefting things all the time. Good for those back muscles
no I've changed my mind again, LLMs are probably kind of conscious
Found out about the "Chicago Imagists", "Hairy Who" art group from chicago in 1960s - imgs 3, 4. "roger brown"? - imgs 2, 5. "Friedrich Schroder Sonnenstern - crazy guy from around ww2 - imgs 1, 6"
Director Curry Barker has confirmed that there was no Obsession movie, we all just made it up
Imagining the chinese room, except at any arbitrary scale at which you zoom in, there are little guys passing each other notes in a language they don't understand. That's closer to the brain, I think the scale-invariant full-of-little-guys-ness is important
Restating my opinion on the future: Everyone is going to die, but it will be painless, smooth and easy. The AIs are misaligned enough to kill everyone, but they are aligned enough to make sure it's not tortuously painful
Pete Buttigieg always has the manner of someone trying to explain something to a toddler who is pointing a gun at him
my cousin is on here and it's weird to see him pop up every once in a while
Feels like in the past 10 years all the hostile, unreasonable people have been unearthed everywhere. So can we all just ignore them now and move on?
So is it going to be this difficult to wake up in the morning for the rest of my life?
The left's response to AI is so disappointing to me, I thought people would at least recognize the danger beyond "it uses a lot of water" the right, I didn't really have high hopes to begin with but I think both are starting to take a less short-sighted view now which is good
Being addicted to claude-coding is not great because most of the time you're just sitting there doing nothing, and not understanding anything. Better than tiktok though
I need to stop being so depressing when I'm talking to people. I need to talk about happy things
We're going to end up in an "weapons aimed at data centers" situation anyway, regardless of whether it's us, china, both, the first few ASIs, or whoever. Isn't that the plan for people trying to build ASI anyway? If not weapons, some other kind of sabotage or threat