had we but world enough and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime. we would sit down, and think which way to walk, and pass our long love’s day but at my back i always see a new release of gpt and yonder foom, our fate-threads snipped: make love before we're paperclipped!

Come on you know it’s not polite to ask a woman her age, her GPA or her AI timelines

How do you fix this form of procrastination where you're like "well I can't work on this *now*, I need an uninterrupted chunk of time in the early morning and for conditions to be perfect and also all the planets must be aligned"

as long as we're out here lighting money on fire, I'd really love a manhattan project for longevity. americans need to be living to 1000 at least.

good software architecture is all about maintaining the shortest path between any two pieces of code, that's why you should just use a big bag of functions in a global namespace

1960s: "COBOL will let non-programmers make the software!" 1980s: "4GLs will let non-programmers make the software!" 2000s: "UML will let non-programmers make the software!" 2020s: "AI will let non-programmers make the software!"

i know not with which tools GPT5 will be built but GPT6 will be built from sticks and stones

Remember that if AI is an existential risk, then the worlds in which you survive will be increasingly marked by crazy coincidences that slow down or prevent the creation of artificial superintelligence.

To be fair, reality itself seems to be confused, of late, about what is real or science fiction.

2020 cryptocurrency investment: "Haha, fun monkey pictures! Doggie coins!" 2024 cryptocurrency investment: "Hyperinflation. Global banking collapse. AI Armageddon. If I can't turn my last $7 into generational wealth somehow then my children will live as slaves forever."

good news, it won't be paperclips

If your AI safety plan involves "people with access to public LLMs via API don't run code they don't understand nor do they download things the LLM tells them to download without understanding", then your plan will fail

i invented a new sport it works like soccer mostly, BUT the goal is made of really light plastic and each team has 2 guys who pick up the goalposts and run around with them all the time, to stop the other team from scoring it's called AGI-ball

roon The new Turing test is 'Is your AI smarter than Alan Turing'

astralcodexten.substack.com/p/turing-test

funny that we produced exactly one generation of people who can understand computers

the era of ai politics has begun

Six months, just give me six months bro, I'll align this. I'll align the hell out of this. Just six months bro. I promise you. It'll be crazy. Just six months. Bro, I'm telling you, I have a plan. I have it all mapped out. I just need six months bro, and it'll be done. Can you i-

when i was a young engineer, I once asked an older engineer why he didn't keep any books around for the programming language we worked in. he told me that in his experience the books someone owns are more about what they wish they knew rather than what they actually know

After months of being locked out of my Twitter and giving up on it, I am back again. Now to quietly lurk and never interact just like before!