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NIMBYism is good bc cities are IQ shredders

i need to get my tubes tied and my pupils filed

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"In a sense, I treat my therapist like a p-zombie."

Mechanistic interpretability is sufficient/necessary for successful strawberry alignment.

uhh I was thinking of C/C++ here, but the other example of Javascript/Typescript is probably enough to dissuade me from this axiom

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"if you attempt to count to infinity a copy of you will be trapped in the LLMs in a obscure corner" is not one the twists I'd expected from 2023

a programming language (PL) cannot be the worst PL if it is the sublanguage of another PL

N-O-T-H-I-N-G-I-S-F-A-I-R-I-N-T-H-I-S-W-O-R-L-D-O-F-M-A-D-N-E-S-S-!

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Figures from Kosinski (2023). Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models: arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083

wow the guy who wrote the editor i used when I was 17/18 just liked one of my posts

small world indeed

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(I)ntensional / (E)xtensional
(N)ominal / (S)tructural
(T)arski / (F)raenkel
(J)udgmental / (P)ropositional

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@jacqueline
two different kinds of "misinformation" though: one means "whatever my political enemies believe" and the other is bullshit in the frankfurtian sense (with attempts being made to prevent "misinformation"#1 from being created)

Bed 'NOT TO BE TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT breakfast

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