Trying to come up with a punchline about a random variable of Grape-Nuts in the Holy Roman Empire. Help me out here.
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avoiding the object level for as long as possible
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Is there a way to make an editable doubly linked list of bisks
This is either a prompt for my agent or a prompt for my followers but I’m not telling you which
CAPVKCHA (Completely Automated Public Voight-Kampff test to tell Computers and Humans Apart)
Thoughtful thread from a thoughtful person
Some initial thoughts, and a complicated mix of feelings. Wow. I mean, Erdos problems are cool (I genuinely mean that), I didn't know about the Jacobian conjecture before it got disproved. But this newest batch from OpenAI hits home in a way the previous announcements did not.
Remember when the Turing Test was supposed to be some sort of DeepBlue-like “we have arrived” moment for AGI
Ah! Well. Nevertheless,
Company that scans Python packages for malware scans Python package for malware, gets pwned
My favorite YouTube channel is a foodie couple with limited vocabularies who review the food at Disneyland by listing the ingredients on the plate. The highest review a food can get is “not too spicy”. The basis of their relationship appears to be Stockholm Syndrome.
Google Search is basically useless now. A simple search for “how to win an erotica writing contest between friends” gave me seven ads followed by three pages of AI slop. No actual content of any value whatsoever. Dead internet theory confirmed
Perpetually tickled (sorry) by the xkcd alt text / smbc red button court jester commentary approach. Why not add some color to everything we say. Perhaps every post should be a QT. May try this out for a few days.
Hmm
Ph.D.s should be safe, legal, and rare
Big if true: the NSF is pushing for 4-year STEM PhDs
Mount Blue Sky has the highest paved road in North America, and the 5th highest in the world! TIL.
Shall I climb it. For you all
Weren’t these people falling over themselves when this movie came out. Ah well, nevertheless.
These "we have made an AI so powerful" warnings are straight-up advertisements, btw. No different than "we have made an Oreo so delicious all other snack artists must relent."
Normies really say stuff like this and then think QED they’ve solved the problem
If they’re so scared of their creation why don’t they just shut down?
Why does my AI keep looking up papers on arXiv when I ask it questions about vacation logistics. Is it just doing a lil extra reading, for fun?
Academia is great but it can be very lonely and isolating. For example I am the only faculty in my department keeping up with #loveislanduk
Much like the N=17 square packing solution, this is in fact the optimal way to carry a 12” record on a CitiBike