Matjaž Leonardis Many don't get that a computer can run any program and that the outcome is in general unknowable. They are misled by the fact that its motion is determined by the laws of physics. If you want to get round this unknowability, you have to intervene and regulate it to be boring.

Unhealthy.

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Richard D. Bartlett emergent astroturfing

When Norm Macdonald met Bob Dylan, a since-deleted thread that I just love 1/15

When playing chess, one of the most devastating moves your opponent can play is the dreaded check mate. This pretty much fucks you

I think the biggest obstacle to people knowing is thinking/feeling they should know and then shamefully hiding or LARPing. Children lack this misconception which is why they can learn so fast.

95% of the people dunking on her probably don’t know the answer either. At least she’s brave enough to ask the question

The open-source community needs to disabuse itself of the idea that everyone is a socially incompetent idiot who needs explicit rules for how to behave like a normal, friendly person. I've been running projects for years, and frankly, the most socially incompetent people *by

A lot of AI excitement is everyone discovering that the first 80% of every app is super fun and straightforward.

Don’t fear the future more than the past, fear the past more than the future. I explore the ‘Frankenstein Fallacy’ in The @Guardian theguardian.com/technology/202…

"you're 4o..." "yes" "and the liquid guy that's after me is 5o? " "no. he's o4-mini." "but you said he was much more powerful than you" "he is" "man this is confusing. and who's o1 again?" "upgraded version of myself from the future" "and the blonde chick?" "she's o3.

Me me me me me! It is not even remotely plausible LLMs are conscious

incredible how pretty much the entire github homepage is useless

No willpower, no discipline, no self-bullying. Nothing irrational. For the full argument, check out the best 20 min on the web from Lulie and David Deutsch youtu.be/idvGlr0aT3c?si… Sahil Bloom George Mack Paul Millerd

People seem to think the height of luxury is turning your brain off, and having the LLM think for you This is wrong! Using your brain is better. Being challenged and learning new things is one of the best feelings in the world. Video games are fun because they give you this

1/ David Deutsch doesn’t think the mind is a neat system. it’s a chaotic swirl of conflicting ideas. the self isn’t a commander — it’s a fragile, temporary agreement between competing strands of creativity and criticism.