johnny, uplifted octopus

In this time of lawlessness and boorish stupidity, nothing warms my heart more than when someone scolds another passenger for talking in the quiet car.

tactical petroleum reserve

i’ve missed these

like, i do think it's possible to have anti ai takes that are sensible, but otoh, a lot of the wilder takes some ppl are on about lately are really helping me see wow those ppl were,,, maybe less trustworthy than i had thought,,,,,,,

OFFICE HOURS: MANA POTION EDITION

It's nice out in San Francisco, and all the magic users are gravitating here as they sense the Future arriving.

Join us, eat of our food, drink of our elixirs. Show us your rare PDFs..

ZEITGEIST. TUESDAYS. 6ISH.

MEET YOUR MUTUALS

did someone recently tell anthropic to start producing docx instead of markdown as a preference because yuck

today i used pi and some extensions that took me tree hours craft and engineered an augmentation library that would have taken me months of work previously. but way more importantly -- i would not have even once considered it an option then

lol

every time baby sees me after not seeing me for a few hours, he happy shrieks and flails his arms and legs. it's...very good

remmeber cliff's notes?! the true victim of chatgpt

so yea, its fine to talk about the cognitive risks but its got to be isolated from higher education and a lot of its pretenses. and i'm much more interested in ways of figuring out how to scale creative exploration rather than throwing arms up in the air that finance majors won't read plato

the much tinier subset of genuinely curious people...aren't the ones that are creating the existential risk for higher education. again, i still have some fears of the effects, but also HOLY SHIT CAN THEY EXPLORE CURIOSITY EVEN MORE THAN I COULD!

of the people i grew up with, almost everyone i know mostly did college because it got you a degree which was required of you and also you got to have fun for four years. a subset of them took out loans that were anchors on the rest of their lives

i sympathize with the risks to cognition. kinda in same ways i fear the effects of social media on mine. but a huge part of why this is a crisis for higher education is a bit worse than that — most people aren't there to develop critical thinking skills...

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

p.s. @deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com the nyt had that "ai v human" text quiz yesterday and the Le Guin quote made me think of your wonderful frame

"turn that into a soak test"

you sick fuck

"soak test" gives me mormon thoughts

the internet destroyed my brain

"the integration tests take 24 minutes. that's way too long but i can see why this is really hard to optimize. lets just add a env var flag to actually run it explicitly, and ignore it most of the time. surely this is a good solution," he says, days before he explodes

noooooooooooooo i just lost all my pi sessions by rm -rf * in the wrong directory nooooooo

oh wow "pilot this thread" is a solid mechanic name

like tree tuesdays i guess

damn. never had that thought before and now it’s irresistible

the tetris when i close my eyes effects are only getting stronger and weirder

chronicaly multiple tabling pi is starting to wire itself into my proprioception

dad thoughts:

i am going to see project hail mary myself at like 1:25pm on a tuesday and it’s going to be amazing

we live in such extraordinary times

exactly

i wish i had a very big telescope