it will often give you completely the wrong picture to assume the market is in equilibrium. know-how and good execution are scarce. lying and incompetence are abundant. information channels are noisy, biased, and unreliable
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there is no ruder, more inconsiderate demographic on this green earth than dog owners
"I really believe in the importance of genuine creative expression, so that's why I partake in mobs that bully artists for not making art exactly the way the mob thinks they should"
opus 5 made a suggested edit to AGENTS.md and pushed on why I hadn't asked it to commit it, and I told it I'd removed an LLMism and pushed it myself, and it got SO SELF CONSCIOUS and offered to sweep every em dash from the entire repo
hank green is getting shredded for using AI for research the mob behavior seems to be effectively setting the incentives so that everyone uses AI but pretends they don't, and mobs anyone who admits they do what is the meta-incentive here. how does the mob benefit from this arrangement
on the increasingly rare occasions where I comment on reddit, I notice that I instinctively dumb down the language I use to around 5th grade reading level, expecting anything above that to be misunderstood or ignored
My computer just woke me up to tell me it's hungry. I'm not kidding 😂 During a long-running task, it noticed the battery was draining, set the volume to 100% using Computer Use, then opened Google Translate and hit "Listen" so I could hear it asking. Pardon my French, but what the fuck? 🤯
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tbabb@tbabb.bsky.social · 7d ago
This is a really beautiful website by @jdworkin.bsky.social on the everyday household items that were once only dreamt about – a music player, nightlight, family photos, clean water, ice, spices, and more. 10/10 would recommend exploring it! ordinaryabundance.com
Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
ordinaryabundance.com
it was the best of times, it was the "reflections on trusting trust" of times
If you fold a map incorrectly once, then there is no longer a correct way to fold it
you gotta be careful what you say. the models love to rid you of your turbulent priests
does any human anywhere inside anthropic even look at the user-facing software after they vibecode it
tbabb@tbabb.bsky.social · 2w agoif you use the support agent to report a bug with the claude desktop app, the first thing you must do is agree to a ToS, which forces you to send "accept" into the chat. this causes every support conversation to be named "accept"
for some reason claude _really_ does not want to install imgui-test-engine for driving UI interactions, but once you do it's massively overpowered
live view of Toothless's torque steer. Watch the wheel speed bounce back and forth (km/h) between left and right on a subsecond timescale:
Introducing Fluoddity3D! Now with updated docs/tooltips and a drastically pared-down interface. Any testing/bug reports greatly appreciated! github.com/aphid91/Fluo...
for years, I have been using "draw the bike" as a metaphor for "attempt to recreate your knowledge thereby revealing invisible lack of understanding". TIL there was a paper about it
interesting that this closely matches psychotic speech in humans. in both cases, it's a kind of compounding cognitive disequilibrium where ideas get amplified more than extinguished. what _prevents_ this from happening in healthy humans? how do excitation and inhibition stay in perfect balance?
Grace@gracekind.net · 6mo agoWe all know about the Claude spiritual bliss attractor state. But what happens when you let Grok talk to itself for a long time? Answer:
mfw my bill to address the giant worm from the end of time appearing on Mars and beginning to eat the solar system stalls in the fucking senate for the third time