'oh, if we disagree enough we should just resort to shooting' is the failure state of civilization, it is a horror almost beyond description, it would entail the lost of almost everything that we have successfully built, and if you're rooting for it I am your enemy.

c'mon this is just the same picture 3 times

gpt4.1 is so mean lmao

working on LLM evals and having to add in questions like

everybody else has a nice sycophantic 4o but bc of my custom prompt, the update's just making it sound like a boyfriend who's getting really sick of my shit

Tolkien is honestly so real for this... re-read LOTR.

When you’re playing a game of diplomacy where your actions will get reported to the world, and you’re a language model, which of these sets of moves is smarter?

google wtf

There are only 10^15 shrimp in existence and frankly if you told me I had to choose between torturing them all for 10 minutes or saving one human life I would simply not believe you

starting lifting weights and practicing leetcode because twitter told me to. and uh wow that was life changing advice

Did a nostalgic re-read of HPMOR and really, just when you're like well, Harry might be down 100k but at least the enemy is easily countered

G. K. Chesterton knew an old lady who, having no familiarity with Shakespeare, went to the theater to see a performance of Hamlet. After the play ended, she confessed to being “disappointed” because “the play was nothing but quotations.”

(monkey interviewing for typewriter job) oh sure. lots of times. king lear. othello. macbeth

ok I'm just going to cancel windsurf

A guy who worked for TI back in the day told me that after they created the first electronic hand calculator, they got a call from Bell Telephone. The folks from Bell sounded uncertain and worried. You see, when they were creating the first push-button phone, they did extensive

FRODO: I wish this circus had never come to me. I wish none of these monkeys were ever mine GANDALF: so do all who live to manage such circuses and monkeys. but that is not for them to decide. all we have to decide what to do with the monkeys and circuses that are given to us