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26 | Raleigh/Durham NC queer musician, programmer, philosopher, mental health advocate, lover ∞π 🏳️‍⚧️♀️ 🎹🎸👩‍🎤 👩‍💻 🌐🔴🎥 🎲🏰&🐉 🇵🇸 linktr.ee/melodysium 🔞 occasionally unhinged / sexual (non-explicit); IRLs follow at ur own risk

Eerie how much AI has, over time, started feeling like an actual demon familiar. It’s helpful, competent, full of facts and advice, definitely shouldn’t be in charge. There’s a lurking sense it’s not wholly benevolent and I’m messing with an entity beyond my comprehension, but hey, it does chores

a bad relationship brings out a bad side of us. we're still responsible, but recognizing cause is important: - we lack resources to do "the right thing" - the only alternative is bearing more trauma sometimes "being a better person" means choosing not to be around people that bring out your worst.

capitalist forces are backing the big AI companies into a corner, and the only two ways out are: - technological revolution that reroutes massive swathes of the economy out of knowledge worker salary and into AI - bankruptcy in other words, if the bubble *is* going to pop, it's getting there.

did you know Discord desktop has some rly nice shortcuts? - jump to: ⌘/Cmd + K - mark unread: ⌥ + Click - jump to first unread message: Fn + ⇧ + ↑ - nav channels: ⌥ + ↑/↓ - nav unread channels: ⌥ + ⇧ + ↑/↓ - nav servers: (either) - ⌥ + ⌘ + ↑/↓ - ⌃ (+ ⇧) + ⭾ - see shortcuts: ⌘ + /

Americano good! particularly when my household doesn't keep milk around so a latte is inaccessible. I might try a black tea Americano soon. I already drink a black tea most mornings, but I've been wanting some extra caffeine, and I do like the taste of espresso.

much respect for Professor Tao, but there are so so so many medical therapies that work without anyone really understanding how or why they work one of the great things about science is that we can use empirical knowledge in practice far ahead of when theoretical frameworks catch up to refine it

Presentation slide titled “A thought experiment on alignment and understanding.” It describes a hypothetical AI-generated chemical cocktail that, when injected into a patient, kills all their cancer cells. The solution is confirmed by mathematical models, stage 3 clinical trials, and even “somehow” verified in Lean. The slide asks whether this solution could nevertheless be misaligned with broader goals, such as avoiding harmful long-term side effects. It then asks whether, before receiving the injection, you would want at least one human cancer expert to understand the cure’s mechanism, or a human mathematician to understand the mathematical model used to find the cocktail. “Misaligned” and both instances of “understands” are highlighted in red. The footer reads “Terence Tao” and “Math 2.0.”