Dan Saunders

had to post on linkedin I have betrayed myself

when people say "compute optimal", what they really mean is "this is the best I could do personally"

"frontier AI" is such an embarassing phrase to use

shareholder value tho 😜

I think employing people and enabling them to supports themselves / their loved ones is a worthy thing to do, and the number of which should not be a minimization objective

the prez calling anthropic a woke company is so funny to me because they're so clearly omega centrist

always the guys that want to "create more jobs" that see some kind of moral superiority in running their companies with the minimum possible headcount. seems incongruent

I don't understand the excitement about the steam machine. it's just a prebuilt PC

Minimizing the window where I read about how our world is a joke and we're at the mercy of megalomaniacal evil perverts. Logging on to the work zoom. "Heyyyy I'm good! How are you?"

unemployment = time to wake up the sourdough starter

left my job and feeling pretty good about it

spookily similar citation trend

internet pipes are clogged today

the latter models are not known to the public because they're quiet and working in the background to improve the online experience

of course they aren't *completely* morally neutral, because nothing is, since they are tools wielded by human who make decisions that have tradeoffs

big messaging issue in the space, most people only dislike these models and not the relatively innocuous and cheap spam detection / search / content recommendation models

don't worry language / image diffusion model haters, they're not mentioned in the job description

excel? sovereigns? monitoring situations? wtaf

Anybody else on this website enjoy computers?

I ordered an AYN Thor. I'm extremely excited to get my hands on it

Did I just spend a bunch of time modding my old 3DS XL and installing games / apps onto it? Perhaps

So now I'll have two devices that are quite similar in form factor, but the Thor should be much more powerful + emulation ready

resolving to spend more time on here, but less time on social media in general

favorite games played this year:

1. Hollow Knight: Silksong
2. Neon White
3. 1000X Resist
4. Blue Prince
5. Baldurs Gate 3
6. Return of the Obra Dinn
7. Donkey Kong Bananza

Honorable mentions:
- Clone Hero
- Dave the Diver
- Hyper Light Drifter
- Balatro

there's a disjuncture too between "open source AI hacker on bluesky" and "big AI company." the former are enthusiasts that have vastly different personalities and lifestyles than the kind of institutionalized personality the latter has

it boggles the mind that no one on TV holds a wine glass properly

mice are absolutely rampant in my town this year, people are discussing on facebook in a frenzy

can't make this up, they had an 18yo leading personality and model behavior training for grok. incredibly stupid, not surprising but disappointed per usual

kinda considering pulling the plug and taking a sabbatical for a few years. working in tech is too depressing and soul sucking

no matter how many people I block on twitter I still encounter causal evil on that app on a regular basis

hurts my soul spending time there

yearly take that turkey is great and if you don't like it chances are you've been eating poorly cooked ones

I love how smugly people use this utter falsehood to dunk on people on this website when it has no grounding in any empirical reality and elides actual issues.

what do you mean "going forward"? lol