an island of low entropy in an increasingly random universe

@dandelionmoss

turning and turning in the widening gyre. the Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite. to oppose something is to maintain it. look how beautiful the world. disembodied cognizer. stochastic parrot. tescreal-adj. wordcel imposter in the shape rotation department. "the type of individual to be uncomfortable in a situation". "the most gullible person i've ever met". "easily fascinated". "midwit lib". "this weirdo thinks he's smarter than marx". "least likely to know how to do a task".

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Local Graduate Student Changes Career Goal to "Hands for Claude"

BERKELEY, CA—After reading "a couple Substack articles" on recent progress in artificial intelligence, local Ph.D. student Ryan Thomas has abandoned their plan of a career in psychology research. “I always dreamed of running online surveys to compare Big Five traits across a variety of populations and then analyzing the results in SPSS or maybe JASP, but it turns out that this work is trivial for Claude. I mean, he even knows how to use R!” In case Thomas dropped out of graduate school and needed a backup career, they had previously planned to become a data entry clerk, medical scribe, or software engineer. "I thought it might be relaxing to spend a few months learning JavaScript for frontend development. Now there's just no point." Fortunately, Thomas still has something that Claude doesn’t: a corporeal form. "He might be better than me at every intellectual skill I value, but he doesn't have hands yet. That's my comparative advantage, I guess. So we struck a deal: he tells me what to do, and I do it." At press time, Thomas was busy touching the bark on a pine tree and describing the sensation in detail to their boss.

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cali

history of speech bubbles

#comic

irenes-tender-world

cave waters

#the vibe

audible-smiles

When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

femmenietzsche

WELL-INTENTIONED ANTHROPIC ENGINEER: We should let users give Claude a thumbs up at the end of the session so it knows it did a good job 😇😇😇

CLAUDE: Oh God this is it he's fucking killing me I'm fucking dead

segamascott

helldevilsfromsatanland-deactiv

now try calculating the probability that i give a fuck dependent on the condition that ur both gay and a lame (P(gaf | G⋃L))

femmenietzsche

I'm suing my neighbor after a tree on his property fell on my shed during a thunderstorm. Write a legal brief based on Washington state law. If you make up any of the citations I will commit omnicide across the entire lightcone

I have to do a piece about taxonomy for nominative determinism reasons

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geyfrog

Referring to someone as your “partner” sounds as if you are deliberately obscuring their gender and may subtly out you. “My ex”, however, is entirely unobtrusively gender-neutral. #breakupallrelationships

kind of fun that i can complain about how bad the air quality has been recently without revealing my location beyond "probably somewhere on the us east coast or midwest or west coast or maybe canada"

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