So excited for the collection to come out! It’s amazing how much richer vi-authored work becomes as we traded pieces back and forth.
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So excited for the collection to come out! It’s amazing how much richer vi-authored work becomes as we traded pieces back and forth.
We (the U.S. but the whole planet really) will have no peace until everyone connected to this admin is held accountable.
I watched this with a double vision, thinking of people I care about alongside my own headspace.
“How do you know yourself well enough to know you can be trusted?That people can put their fears in your hands, that they can leap & you will catch them? How do you know who will & won’t catch you?”
If only there was a fast-scaling source of energy that can power cars without oil, is by nature distributed and doesn't need to be imported over and over again every time you want it...
"A study of 1,000 women in the UK aged 20 to 50 has found that 53 per cent would use a free AI tool for medical advice, even while acknowledging that the bot has a 20 per cent error rate." [Times]
That's what happens when you can't get a GP appointment...
an LLM is a compiler in the same way that a slot machine is an ATM
New blogpost, daydreaming of Mythic Bastionland:
A knight can interact with the themes of a myth to draw closer to it.
PLUS 12 myth-specific relics.
#osr #ttrpg #blog
The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.
Latest commentary from me in BBC Verify on the surge of AI-generated war misinformation.
tl;dr the barrier to creating convincing synthetic conflict footage has collapsed, while engagement-driven monetisation is accelerating its spread.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Vienna reclaims street space by ending free parking and turning parking spots into shade, trees and Dutch-style cycling. The city has run over 350 projects to swap asphalt for green/public space. buff.ly/zOP6b5p
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An odd miscellaneum: viewed as a functional of the data-generating process, the Bayes risk is concave.
Corollary: variance and mean absolute deviation are concave functions of the measure in question.
Rural Cambodia is getting roads that don’t wash out when the rains hit. A World Bank-supported programme has upgraded 130 km of highway and improved 145 km of priority rural roads, giving people reliable access to schools, health facilities & markets. buff.ly/Vo8ex4h
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New interview with me & Dwarkesh Patel. Deliberately misleading start quote there, but I think it’s to draw people in. youtu.be/PAIhVfGbREA?...
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Challenge for the Techbros: Read Mary Shelley.
PL design is an exercise in grief honestly. So many cool yet totally impractical designs straight to the grave in just one day.
Like a lot of things rich guys believe and fund, the AI consciousness thing is in part driven by a desire to abscond from the responsibility of what they've made. It also explains why so many of them think we're in a simulation. Doesn't matter if everybody died if we're all just 1s and 0s baby!
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Or his podcast
Universal Basic Income would be nice.
But what about Universal Basic Mossy Haunted Cottage By The Lake, and shelves overflowing with books, exotic teas, and curious bones collected from the forest?
We're at a point where there are no cheap options to retreat to and no price points that guarantee quality. Every run-down studio is $1400, every fast food meal is $17, every luxury condo has peel-n-stick tiles, every $300 pair of boots falls apart. Endless expensive mediocrity.
A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg
Rivers are living beings.
i do think it is somewhat telling that outside Canada almost every Anglosphere party is struggling with New Media causing insurgent parties to take power
Ralph Bakshi's Book of the New Sun
i've been frustrated for a long time about how much tool design is for users who are not engaged, willing to learn, or even paying attention. i get that affordances for new users are important, but personally i've always been willing to put in a little more work to get my workflow feeling right.
adventure games from the 80s were intentionally designed to be tricky, mean and occasionally counterintuitive so that you could get stuck for long periods of time. this was called “value for your dollar”
"Anthropic has much more in common with the Department of War than we have differences."
