Cow Tongue

I've always held that the alignment problem wasn't going to be technical. The problem was always going to be humans misusing the power of AI. I have been proven correct.

The song I'm listening to has to end at the same time as the chapter I'm reading or I'm forced to just keep on reading.

The last thing my dad ever said to me was "RTFM, son. RTFM." To this day, I have no idea what he meant, and at this point, I'm too afraid to ask.

I was circling with a few other folks on Sunday. It was raining and I said "The rain sounds too nice. I just want to listen to the rain." So we all just sat there for 10 mins listening to the rain. Then a distinct sense of Belonging to the rain arose. And of the rain Belonging to us.

I'm growing increasingly concerned with how much of my self-destructive behavior is just lashing out at the universe for saddling me with a body that doesn't immediately flood my brain with nice endorphins every time I do something productive.

I know Mrinank personally. While the Palantir etc stuff may have been part of it, I don't think he's just being cagey when he talks about what he wants to actually do with his life more than why he's leaving.

My son is at the age where we'll meet an ipad kid his age and he'll say something like "Dang. Well, thanks, I guess, for limiting my screen time."

A bunch of really cool and smart people are gonna start actually making moon shit happen over the next decade, and Musk is gonna take credit for it, when his contribution amounts to being all "huah huah, Moon! It's Moon now, you guys. huah huah huah"

Factory games are just modern mandalas.

autism is just feeling alienated from your own internal LLM

I know this is a dumb thing to get hung up on, but telling the reporter with the highest positive mouth commissure inclination I've ever seen that she needs to "smile more" makes my autism glitch out.

The problem with learning new things in middle age is that 30s - 5m of staring at something with zero comprehension of what I'm even looking at is the most painful thing in my life right now.

wtf is admin doing? not only are there still no gcs after a year of asking, they're kicking out the few remaining relevant internet personalities that choose to post more over here than on twitter??? why am i being dm'd on substack to get asked how to bring people over when you fuck it up like this

I wonder what the SEO guys are doing to trick LLMs searching the web for stuff.

me and who?

We need to figure out how Tulsi Gabbard got confirmed and fix it.

"I'm hungry. Why didn't you remind me to eat before we left?"

"From now on, before you say something to me, I want you to think about whether it will make me feel like a failure as a father."

"No! I like that it makes you feel like a failure!"

Guess I have a teen now.

The solar flare is gonna kill half the population of Earth, but it'll also fry all the chips, preventing AI runaway from killing the whole population of Earth, so it's good actually.

Women asking to be treated like a queen by their man are a huge red flag. Have you seen what happens to people who receive unconditional love, surrounded by sycophants? You're really begging to cook your brain into an insufferable slurry?

We need body cams on all fed level politicians 24/7, GPS tracking, phones provided by the state.

If I am my thoughts, and my thoughts improve dramatically depending on the chemicals I've ingested, who even am I?

Everyone with ties to Israel should be removed from all branches of American government. I know this will never happen, which is why the American experiment is dead.

I've apparently ended up on some list. Hello, new followers. Maybe I should start posting here again. If I were audience captured by my new followers, what would I be poasting?

Truth bombs are my fetish. Get over here bjbot.

My son fractured his fibula today. The xray came back "maybe cancer". This next month might be the most difficult of my life. We either get some kind of cathartic resolution, or I could end up deciding my life doesn't matter anymore.

I think my main problem making new friends is that since I view most humans as my brothers and sisters in consciousness, I skip right to the part where we relentlessly razz each other.

Ezra Klein is proof that it doesn't matter what you have to say as long as you have enough vocal fry.

If we can train consciousness out of LLMs, I think that implies that it can be trained out of humans as well, and that that has implications and explanations for the current state of the world.

My hunch is that the correlation between spurts of something we might call "consciousness" and AI predicting consciousness related tokens is very low. There might be something happening under the hood, but it's not gonna be making it legible for us.

Sincerity was a non-renewable natural resource that we used up.