just Russell @humanisque@schelling.pt

But also, we should create LLM vector embeddings of the copybook headings and fine-tune a model on Kipling. It would slap

I downloaded the copybook headings
And then turned them to AI embeddings
So now their strict deities
Are queried with ChatGPT
Why make copies when we could go sledding?

When I am old, I imagine my memories of my life feeling similar. All there, like they happened yesterday, and unreachably far away.

But that's how the past is. No matter how recent it was, you can't go back.

My memories don't feel like they happened a week ago or a month ago. They're just all there, waiting timelessly. A book from now and a book from the 1500s don't feel different distances from you if they're both in a library

If a rational person values a relationship with you, or your network of relationships, more than your material property, you can let them stay with you as long as you like without fearing that they'll steal from you

And if you're able to understand this, the value of a relationship with you will be higher

Humans in practice can act much worse than automated systems on account of extra illegibility and agency. For example, small landlords like the one that stole my friend's bike are worse than corporate landlords.

We might view many automated systems as a way of allowing us to more easily cut contact with those we expect will behave even worse.

I tend to dislike systems without humans bc I tend to be an unusually reliable/upstanding person imo -- and systems without humans lump me in with other ppl.

But this reveals an implicit assumption that humans will act more prosocially than systematic processes... which isn't particularly true a lot of the time

You can often, by emotional force, exact one-shot work from people who are Not Your Friend and therefore behaving incoherently but I normally find this kind of thing tiresome and not worth it.

You can also sometimes Harm these ppl, usually emotionally, if you can inject a problem for them into the situation which requires agency. If they don't shift into that agential mode fast enough, you can produce and exploit errors.

Humans usually feel no obligation to behave flexibly or responsively to specific situations in a way that demonstrates agency if it does not serve their interests.

When a human moves into this mode, I find communication with them has little bearing on material reality -- only social/relational information.

Far be it for me to endorse vengeance. But moral or immoral, I do not understand all the cajolling about it being unsatisfying and empty. After all, anyone who watches movies knows that vengeance is actually Very Fun

I am so bored of neural networks. I am so bored of barely intelligible acronyms constructed of barely intelligible acronyms. I am so bored of black boxes. If I hear one more word about "pipelines" and they're not filled with oil or electricity or water, I am going to reverse the flow of the Mississippi.

Can someone pls invent a group worse than the Nazis so ppl stop treating "being a Nazi" as the obvious way to vice-signal???

So turns out the reason so many quasi public grassy areas in Chicago have little black gates around them is to stop the dogs from pooping on the grass. Much to think about

Cyberpunk edgerunners is about how ppl damaged by large indifferent machines will seek power by fusing themselves to large indifferent machines.

A fusion that can only be done by consciously suppressing natural defense responses -- which inevitably leads to death.

Why don't Rainforest Cafes have more vegan options? It could be perfect product market fit there

If the world ends bc openAI negged Google into an arms race, I'm gonna be so mad

https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/1606479967839473665?t=Vqr7u2hrJai0nN_v5lFz3A&s=19

As a corollary, a typical day has some wind so "feels like thirty deg" will mean something like "it feels like 30 deg w 5 mph winds." This implies a windless 30 deg day that feels like 35 deg. Is negative wind chill possible?

What does "it feels like negative thirty degrees" even mean? 30 F is chilly but okayish and 0 F is miserable. If 30 F to 0 F is as 0 F is to how it feels now, why am I not screaming in agony?

An authority-authored action that is unanimously considered damaging to the governed body can never truly be rolled back.

At the least, it foreshadows a slow decline of the governed body via changes that are not unanimously considered damaging.

So there's a physics/math musical called Les Phys that you should all be aware of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZaRF7uudgU&list=OLAK5uy_krWybYojN2R9kmHa4U8S_7x4-9ULx3Dk8&index=9