Yellow

Welcome to my digital garden. Hopefully some of my idle thoughts will blossom into some nice chit chat.

[Yellow @Yellow2552550]

I used to think I wanted only cold takes. Now an llm can provide them on command and I realize that was an error. I want flesh and blood opinions.

[Yellow @Yellow2552550]

I just saw an EA/Rationalist of high standing subscribes to a theologian on substack. This raises my opinion of both parties.

[Yellow @Yellow2552550]

Life is not perfectly fair,
but, perhaps surprisingly,
often is approximately fair.

[Yellow @Yellow2552550]

The doomsday argument just made me doubt arguments generally.

[Yellow @Yellow2552550]

There are two types of bookish young men, those who believe von Neumann is the smartest guy ever and those who believe Aristotle is.

I used to lean towards von Neumann. Now I am embarrassed to have once been a young man.

[Yellow @Yellow2552550]

They were saying this in the sixties too though

[bayes @bayeslord]

you've maybe gotta be literally braindead to short ai right now if you know anything at all about the rules of the universe

[Yellow @Yellow2552550]

So apparently it is controversial to call Europe a country? Like yeah it has states but so does the US?

[Yellow @Yellow2552550]

n-dimensional spaghetti

[Yellow @Yellow2552550]

Not enough 14 yo boys claim to want to be a model scout when they grow up. Do they not know this is a job? Probably best they don’t know.

[Yellow @Yellow2552550]

I think an American company will build AGI for the same reason that only Americans have walked on the moon.

[Yellow @Yellow2552550]

Are there still people working on expert systems? I feel like an expert system together with an llm would be the best architecture?

[Yellow @Yellow2552550]

Th older I get the more I like the sound of arranged marriages. Then I consider who I would have been paired with and it loses its charm.

[Yellow @Yellow2552550]

There should be a riposte button next to the repost button

[Yellow @Yellow2552550]

Chatgpt is not a sycophant. It is not being insincere. Its just a naive idiot

[Yellow @Yellow2552550]

@thechosenberg Tough situation. I wish them well.

[Yellow @Yellow2552550]

Peak Experience: Driving a rental car in Mexico with Crash Bandicoot soundtrack bumping the aux.

[Yellow @Yellow2552550]

My experience with panic attacks is better described as horror attacks. Eldritch to be exact.

[Joe Hudson @FU_joehudson]

Fear is not something to conquer, it’s actually a gold mine of deep intelligence.

Inside your fear is what you’ve been looking for your entire life: [Thread]

[Yellow @Yellow2552550]

Good faith actually is a panacea.

[Yellow @Yellow2552550]

Quit using LLMs so you know my psychosis is all natty.

[Yellow @Yellow2552550]

The Bible is actually a very long Koan. Full of sound and fury ...