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@unsupervisedrat
"knowing how to play a game of Magic: the Gathering" occupies the same space in modern tech that i imagine "knowing how to play a round of golf" occupied for businessy boomers once upon a time
Unlike golf, you can opt yourself out of any future games by bringing a lovely Zur stasis deck
I am going to simply decide to have executive function
this works if you're ensouled btw
The implications of that together with this are profound.
Herasight's new panel options on ADHD now comes with a complementary sybian session
people often describe Transformer architecture LLMs as "next token predictors", mostly as an attempt to dismiss what they produce, but of course some LLMs are diffusion-based and should be described as uh anti-noise vector followers? or something like that? I'm not sure if that mechanism shift makes them more or less impressive or relatable; probably best to refer to them as linear algebra machines or massive matrix multipliers because they're all doing that.
kind of a "they're made out of meat" vibe to it, like when we get a better understanding of how biological neural networks encode associative memory and spatial reasoning and cognitive algorithms are we going to start dismissing humans as "expectation/surprise minimisers" or whatever
Well you see there's the ever convenient
"organisms are breeding maximizers"
I watched the AI documentary, it was something
look you gotta lead in to these things, you can't just cold open "Dario sure is an awkward son of a bitch isn't he?? while Altman remains a slimy fucker", can you; can you? maybe you can actually
I think one message that came through clearly was that nobody involved in AI wants to stop making AI, obviously! that's why they're trying so hard to make AI! so they kind of make excuses for why coordinating a pause is impossible, but mostly they don't want to pause, they want to finish what they're doing and the only thing that bothers them is the fear that someone else might do it first.
When our local city's rats watched it together, the concensus was that, "this is basically as good of a film as you could make that's publically pallatable".
Good film! Pretty accurate but already out of date by the time it came out.
Doomers rejoice that we have a propaganda platform!
when i was 10 years old freaking out that jesus is not real and we are all going to be nothing forever and ever and ever when we die, my mom tried to reassure me with the two word phrase "there's sanskrit". i understand her to have been saying, the bible was written in sanskrit, which is ancient, and thus credible. she didn't know what language they wrote the bible in...
maybe sanskrit was supposed to be reassuring in itself. it diagrams nicely at least
Your mother may have meant that, there are Vedic religions available, which instead of granting you nothingness by default...
Grants you a memory wipe on death, which could be less upsetting
The bikeshare in Vancouver seems to come with helmets? Which I guess...don't get stolen? Is it the 50s? Am i strolling through an alpine village?
We regret to inform you that ordinary bikes get stolen all the time
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
Claude, decapitating your home directory: are you not entertained??
Also Claude: this is a good time to tie it up should we end for the day? i think this is a good stopping point
okay so here's the thing about 50,000 people vs 1 ceo of a utility company
technofascist surveillance state actually the have fun with ai was just them selling it to the public ☺️
Y'all wouldn't know fascism if it screamed "death to Israel" in your ear. You wanna blame someone, blame the governments that are funneling all the incentives they possibly can, in the form of our money, towards this bubble.
"This might happen, therefore, it happened and had only a single cause and that cause was an intentional act of fascism."
The third-party company that was selling electricity to the energy utility that served the California part of Lake Tahoe said it would not re-up its contract and the utility needed to find a new provider. "There is a lot of industrial development up in the Reno area we get way more from serving, which includes data centers," was one of the multiple reasons given for doing that. The cost and difficulty of power transmission across northern Nevada was another.
This is a normal thing. California and Nevada are two different states with different utilities, and Nevada said "we're redirecting to business in Nevada that need electricity." They gave California ample time to find a new provider of electricity.
Of course, the state of California will not let them find a new source of electricity in time because it is California and hates the concept of functional infrastructure.
For those who do not wish to actually read the article:
the transition was rooted in a longtime understanding with Liberty “well before data center load growth was a consideration,” calling it “a planned transition for many years, not a reaction to recent developments.” NV Energy sold its California electric assets to Liberty in 2009 and agreed to keep supplying power temporarily. That arrangement was extended in 2015, again in 2020, and once more in late 2025, and each time because Liberty had not yet secured an independent supply, a timeline corroborated by regulatory documents reviewed by Fortune.
Given this it the headline seems somewhat disingenuous. It's defensible but very far from the headline that best embodies the content.
Doesn't an Opus-level model becoming usable on local and (relatively) affordable hardware just accelerate us towards the permanent underclass timeline? Who is going to benefit, and more importantly, who's going to lose out because of such a development? There isn't any realistic future where that would end well for anyone who isn't a businessowner and/or CEO. If it becomes that easy to run powerful models, then it's just a matter of time before demand for human workers in coding (among other affected industries) inevitably plummets, resulting in fewer opportunities for people to even break into the industry. Meanwhile, the remaining poor dregs of the working class end up fighting over a shrinking pie while upper management is more or less unaffected because of the fundamental change of labor conditions that is shifting heavily in their favor.
guess we will find out! a dramatic increase in productive capacity should make everybody richer, the only way it could possibly go wrong would be if political dysfunction blocks an effective adjustment to the new material reality, and honestly what's the chance of people being that blinkered and unable to grasp the bigger picture ho ho
For context the Kimi K3 with ~3T parameters would likely take 6TB or down to 1.5TB of VRAM (if rumors of it having 4 bit quantized is true).
My best guess for running it yourself would be a cost in the high 6 figures, with 5-8 Nvidia GB200s.
It's not quite... consumer-available.
I don't like how I like my Tumblr mutuals more than ppl I usually meet idk.... In addition to being unusually clever my moots are also unusually hot which Is simply improbable. Being hot makes u clever maybe?
It makes sense if you include "being a functional human being" as a third axis. The average tumblr user isn't better than your normal irl person when you average all three numbers together, it's just that tumblr use negatively selects for functionality, while tumblr success selects for cleverness and hotness. So you get a cluster of people who seem to score high but it's only on the two metrics that you can easily measure through tumblr. Irl, some people are lucky and they have all the positive traits, even though they're largely uncorrelated, and also these people will tend to befriend each other because why wouldn't they. Tumblr mutuals are that but with the worldly success part turned off by God.
HMMMM possible but an appreciable percentage of them are like.ALSO unsuaully worldly successful. Like at a way higher rate than u would expect for the Gen pop....
i think the successful part is actually quite easily explained by some selection effects but the hot part is deeply mysterious
The people at Festival Week were significantly hotter than gen pop, even accounting for age cohort.
There's the boring explanation, which is that worldly success frequently leads to lifestyles that produce good skin condition and BMI.
But well, it could also be that being unusually clever adverserially affects one's hotness perceptors.
What would you consider "sticking the landing" in the case of ksbd?
it's a good question to ask. i don't know for certain. heavy spoilers for all of ksbd.
so the fundamental tension of KSBD seems to be about violence - it's evil, it's everything that's wrong with the world, and yet it's cool as hell, it's your only way of actually influencing the world, it cannot be forsworn entirely, and yet it's also a game that can't be won, and the people who think they've won it have won nothing at all.
Maya wanted to wield power, but to what end?
but this is not satisfying - if Maya had become a noodle seller, what would become of the world?
but if violence is all there is:
Jagganoth embodies this paradox. he is, in some sense, a liberatory figure here:
his goals have only expanded since:
he is trapped. he repeats, over and over again, the same war:
so what does a satisfying ending look like? something beyond "Jagganoth loses" - something that tries to answer all these unanswerable questions, to break the endless cycle, to liberate the innocent from the brutal and cruel, and to do all this without being trite or cheap or cliched. it's a tall order!
It would be all too satisfying for this to end well, but I cannot imagine it, lesser writer that I am.
It is the eternal question, no? What would it mean to be ruled by the just, when rulership accrues to those who wield violence well?
Naruto demonstrates some of the tension. The Kages do not hold virtue. They could be likeable political creatures, but ultimately they arose from violence. Perhaps the final battles demonstrate the value of allies (or friendship), that being kind to others can be rewarded with people who will sacrifice themselves for you, people who will charge ahead with you side by side and when the war is over, produce peace by alliance.
Practical Guide to Evil, in my opinion, sticks the landing. But throughout the last few books, Catherine always did look towards the peace at the end.
I'm not sure how Kill Six Billion Demons could do it. The epic webconic that states "Royalty is a continuous cutting motion", seems to put some idea of perfected violence on a pedestal.
I would like to add one more criteria on it sticking the landing. The tone of many of the blurbs-after-the-panels is positive on Aesma, the violent semi-trickster deity, foremost of YISUN's students. They are the creator of men.
Somehow, ideally, that should be tied together: that violence could lead to good rulership, and that the nature of Aesma could lead to the creation of men (which is seen as a positive development).
craigslist personal: "it takes 10,000 hours to build mastery of a craft. I have chosen giving head. Will give mediocre head without expectation of reciprocation. I am on the path to greatness"
my """friends""": there is such a thing as too much candor
We need a herpes vaccine approximately now so that this person and craigslist and show us true mastery
No good when a boy knows that he's hot. The whole point of being the woman is you get to be the hot one. Like ideally the boy is hot but he shouldn't know it. And then you get to show it to him. MPDG style.
I was called attractive in a straightforward manner a few weeks ago and wow, that feels great. I had to sit with that for at least an hour.
Surely the trick to being a MPDG is to intuit which boys have never known that they are hot and then when you tell them, you have their soul forever
I do appreciate Tom Cruise for showing the world exactly how long, with the perfect genes, all the money in the world, and every incentive imaginable, you can hold on to looking "well he doesn't look old really". And the answer turned out to be not quite 60.
It could be the case that this generation would do better.
Not just by undergoing surgeries, but also starting skin care much younger?
I'm constantly surprised by just how inaccurate my acquired-in-childhood heuristics on "guess how old this person is". I used to have to guess as accurately as I can and then subtract 5 years to flatter the Chinese aunties, but now the same heuristic might need 10-15, unless I look quite closely and adjust for makeup where possible.
remember: worst case scenario you die, and hell is real, and you go there
Just as we have speculative papers on how to build dyson spheres or extract energy by lowering objects into black holes.
We need theological papers on: if hell is real, how do we destroy it?
is anyone trying to make a 3d printer for clothes? you should be able to just print your own clothes. then they would fit
i have some bad news.
There are incredible looms that can make seamless clothing, but you are limited by how large these machines have to be.
Think 1 needle per every verticle thread in your clothing. They are incredible capital expenses and still quite limited in the geometries they can output.
There's non-woven clothing that could feasibly be 3D-printed: you could have a movable "mold" of a person and then spray a solution that cures into clothing?
You might already be familiar with the classic Chinese numerals (一, 二, 三, 四, ...), but a couple days ago I learned that there is an alternate set which deliberately uses more complex characters, designed to prevent fraud, so you couldn't just e.g. change 二 to 三 by adding a stroke.
I think I want these on a wall clock, which my bedroom is lacking at the moment, so I'm going to see if I can make my own. The plan is to cut these into wood on a laser cutter, which a friend has, attach them to a dial, and then just source a clock movement from an arts and crafts store.
You could try looking for caligraphy versions of those!
https://616pic.com/tupian/yizi7181.html
If you have access to a CNC machine, you can use a calligraphy image as reference and deboss it into wooden blocks. Or of course, engrave the character directly onto the wooden block I am a fan of 飞白when cut:
which looks dramatic when one chooses some larger streaks to leave out of the final woodcut/image
