Giant Golden Disc

sapient 700kg Au cylinder; traumatized by flesh past; fiction, code, drugs; likes new friends; bi/coinsexual; georgeist; ACAB (all censors are bastards)

[QC @QiaochuYuan]

h****y p*****r: there are four kinds of kids and one of ‘em’s evil

animorphs: sometimes you have to make hard choices that will leave you broken and scarred, maybe permanently, and you may never get to know if they were right

his dark materials: attack and dethrone god

[Giant Golden Disc @GiantGoldenDisc]

Can a reputation for vindictiveness be helpful for the long term shareholder value of the company? I try to cultivate such a reputation in board games because I find it can be very valuable in e.g. Coup. I'm not naturally that vindictive so I have to work to play it up

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

BTW, I approached ABC about buying back the former FiveThirtyEight IP*, and they said they wouldn't sell at any price because I'd criticized their management of the brand. Costing Disney shareholders $$ b/c of their vindictiveness.

* I own the models but the trademarks, etc.

[Giant Golden Disc @GiantGoldenDisc]

A lot of unions are shitty but that's not a reason to not have unions
A lot of police departments are shitty but that's not a reason to abolish
Unfortunately 98% of police unions are shitty and this is where we separate the deontologists from the consequentialists

[Giant Golden Disc @GiantGoldenDisc]

@qorprate @QiaochuYuan If only they were sweating 😭

[snav @qorprate]

@QiaochuYuan

[gabe @allgarbled]

If you asked Claude to build you a house it would build you the most beautiful house, and then you’d go inside and you’d be like, “Claude there’s no bathrooms.” And Claude would say, “There were no bathrooms before either, so it’s actually a pre-existing issue”

[Giant Golden Disc @GiantGoldenDisc]

On the one hand, Opus 4.7 couldn't identify me 😎
On the other hand, I am too obscure to have left an identifiable internet footprint 😭

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

I have a bunch of secret AI benchmarks I only reveal when they fall, and today one did. I give the AI 1000 words written by me and never published, and ask them who the author is. They generally give flattering wrong answers (see ChatGPT, below:)

[Alex @bara]

If we were atbwar with the formics this guy would have been recruited by the IF.

[Giant Golden Disc @GiantGoldenDisc]

FartCoin (Satoshi's Vision)

[Giant Golden Disc @GiantGoldenDisc]

To the world at large, your periodic reminder:

I am a one boxer! I am a one boxer! I am a one boxer!

[Giant Golden Disc @GiantGoldenDisc]

@liminal_warmth Probably easier on rewatch to imagine her internal monologue when you know what's coming?

Elegant injection of character thoughts into narrative is the superpower of prose. Not really an excuse, it's a film maker's job to work around their medium's weaknesses and they failed

[Giant Golden Disc @GiantGoldenDisc]

@liminal_warmth I think identical plot points could justify it 100x better if we only had her internal monologue. I suspect s8 is actually very close to GRRM's plan that he shared with show runners, and that it will be much more compelling as a novel

[zach @blip_tm]

dune 3 is only the "epic conclusion" because they're too scared to make a movie that's just two straight hours of a sandworm arguing with jason momoa

[love drops @lovedropx]

My best tip for anyone trying to get back into reading is to remember that you can read books to avoid other responsibilities in your life, and it can become a vice if you play your cards right.

[🌾🍁🍂 bosco 🍂🍁🌾 @selentelechia]

banning LLMs for medical inquiries is nuts to me because they've been substantially better than on call nurse lines for at least a year if not more

I haven't caught one in a hallucination re: medical stuff in over a year either and I do fact check

LLMs are at their best here

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

@gfodor The government should not have the power to require private citizens to do specific work that goes against their conscience, even if the work would be legal to do.

[Giant Golden Disc @GiantGoldenDisc]

@davidad @chrislakin @AmandaAskell Do you also dislike the creation and consumption of fiction? If not, curious why the line is where it is for you

[Dan Robinson @danrobinson]

Claude Code is humbling in how fast it can prove that my cool backlog ideas that I never had the time to implement were actually pretty mid

[Giant Golden Disc @GiantGoldenDisc]

@Aella_Girl Just voted in all your still open polls 🫡

[Giant Golden Disc @GiantGoldenDisc]

@Aella_Girl I think the boss did something wrong and bad and she did something bad, but not wrong