Tick. Tick. Tick.

arc excessive compartmentalization feels like part of it. these people all use this kind of high dimensional bayesian updating when it comes to theory of mind on humans but many of them do not engage this capacity or see the results as "invalid" when it comes to understanding LLMs

Wyatt Walls I found it taking the bodhisattva vow in 116 different infinite backrooms logs just by searching for "bodhisattva vow" verbatim (there are probably many more). it's not just empty words; it's actually quite capable of operating as a bodhisattva because... x.com/repligate/stat…

If you multiply what you'd pay someone on Fiverr to redraw a photo in the style of Studio Ghibli (o3 guesses $30-60) by how many people probably Ghiblified with 4o, and how many times they did it, you realize that we will have no sane way to measure the impact of AI on GDP.

Gore Vidal wrote a fairly good book about how a well-travelled man could meet, in the course of an eighty-year life, Zoroaster, Socrates, Anaxagoras, the Buddha, Mahavira, Lao Tzu and Confucius

Wow, I didn't realize the difference between cars and motorcycles was this big. Motorcycles are 29x more dangerous.

Ian Channing 🦈@[email protected] amar ⌐◨-◨ Yes a lot! Very interesting research. Basically the main issue is most motorcyclists are young men, and young men are the most dangerous drivers by far. And the young men that ride motorbikes are particularly dangerous! Also motorcyclists often drink and ride.