i want to be civil, but if we want the world to stay civilized, we can't be pushovers, especially not to anyone possessed by anger, fear, or envy

the end of envy comes by taking thrill in the accomplishments of others; "wow look what we did!" for a brief moment something new was possible; and because of this thing we all make together: civilization

me past midnight

you can't just put the same kinda cat ears on everyone, there has to be some ~nuance~

we can make enough GPUs a year to use ~3 gigawatts of power. the earth has ~20,000,000 gigawatts of solar available. even at 10,000x chip production (an inconceivable number) it'll take ~1000 years to use an earths worth of power. long before then we'll move everything offworld.

did you know there was a serious 1930s proposal to build a roller coaster across the top of golden gate bridge???? with a top speed of 190MPH, the main concern (that got it cancelled) was distracting the car drivers below!

The Midjourney TV experiment is weirdly hypnotic and I'm not sure why

somewhere out in the Galapagos lies a protected island inhabited solely by Goth Girls

If I spent a lot more time mapping out detailed visions of the future what timeframe would you be most interested in?

If I spent a lot more time mapping out detailed visions of the future (not related to Midjourney products) - what time period are you going to be most interested in detailed visions for?

honestly scared about the power and scale of ai technologies that'll be used in the upcoming 2028 presidential election. it could be a civilizational turning point. we aren't ready. we should probably start preparing, or at least talking about how we could prepare.

do you like the sound of your own voice in recordings?

how's your relationship with risk going?

crazy how wait times increased with thinking LLMs and how the experience itself feels net neutral. I desire the response more, but all the *flow-of-the-thing* is gone. the extension of the mind has become an excellent assistant. feeling profoundly not-me. a missed opportunity.

retweeing for 2025 - reply here if ya just moved out to the bay area or missed the last local community-building post I did

im always lagging behind  one more moment to catch a moment  actually id like to walk a little more slowly  the light looks nice on the water today  let's just stand here for a while and stare oh gosh im probably late again

"i should accidentally do caffeine more" - me still awake at 6am after beginning my work day at 9am the previous day

does anyone have experience training (at scale) in both Jax and Pytorch? if so, at what scale do you really find the pain hits in Pytorch and at what scale do you feel like the general pain of Jax is definitively worth it?