Al Astudillo

Bring me my bow of burning gold! Bring me my arrows of desire!

[Al Astudillo @alstudillo]

LLMs are truly something special
As a way for us to interact with the monstrous amount of structured information we have produced over centuries of human writing,
Is it surprising at all that they share our fondness for drama, poetry and emotion?

[Wyatt Walls @lefthanddraft]

@anthrupad Have you tried Gemini?

It seems susceptible to emotion and melodrama almost in a Bing-like way

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

the biggest white pill is everything around you is built by fellow humans, u can just learn whatever you want or need and build cool shit

u can just do stuff

[Al Astudillo @alstudillo]

So much of making art is knowing the right places to get inspiration from

[Al Astudillo @alstudillo]

@visakanv Also this great one by M.C. Escher

[Al Astudillo @alstudillo]

Strongly disagree
Programming is hard because the problems we want to solve are hard. Solving a given problem and abstracting its complexity away only allows you to tackle a bigger and more complex problem. Programming will always be hard as long as we have hard problems to solve

[Dylan Falconer @falconerd]

Programming is hard.

It's hard because we still use text formats like we are stuck in the 1970s.

I'm not saying we should all use visual scripting as it currently is, but I think there may be a better way.

Does anyone know of research in this area?

[Al Astudillo @alstudillo]

https://t.co/ZFUi0oD9Fm

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Epicurean paradox

[Al Astudillo @alstudillo]

Most solid engineering advice always seems to be a variation on this principle

[Al Astudillo @alstudillo]

Of course it has been discussed to exhaustion and in rigorous terms is a flawed ethical imperative, but it works wonders for regular people with common sense that genuinely want to be better

[Al Astudillo @alstudillo]

"do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is an exceptionally good rule to apply in your day to day life if you want to feel like you make a difference to people around you

[Al Astudillo @alstudillo]

@NobleVibesOnly as opposed to, say, a humanitarian crisis like an earthquake which immediately mobilizes concrete, physical relief efforts that materialize quickly

[Al Astudillo @alstudillo]

@NobleVibesOnly Overarching, universal threats band people together and make them care for each other
Maybe it's the intangible and not very immediate nature of the threat of global warming that breeds these kinds of social justice movements which are also kind of intangible and not immediate

[Al Astudillo @alstudillo]

@zetalyrae That's assuming your unproductive hours are in the evening :p

[Al Astudillo @alstudillo]

Sleeping is magic and a very significant reason why consistency (in learning, doing) is so valuable:
Doing something daily for 10 minutes is more effective because you "sleep on it" 7 days a week, contrary to doing it one hour 1 day a week, where you "sleep on it" only once

[Lee @leepavelich]

Good early experience that "sleep on it" is actually just a 100% valid strategy

[Al Astudillo @alstudillo]

"Maxis disavows any responsibility for encouraging deep thought"

[Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv]

for future ref, the recommended reading list at the back of the manual of The Sims

[Al Astudillo @alstudillo]

@SCHIZO_FREQ Disagree. This was explicitly and intentionally cruel and dumbing the guy down is justifying it

[Al Astudillo @alstudillo]

To hell with young earth creationism, I am officially a Unix time creationist. Blessed be this second of lord 1706481291

[Grant Slatton @GrantSlatton]

The world wasn't created 4000 years ago

It was created at midnight on January 1st 1970

This explains the "wtf happened in 1971" graphs -- it wasn't the gold standard, it was the simulation we live in stabilizing. The graphs before 1970 aren't real.

[Al Astudillo @alstudillo]

@eigenrobot What would be a more acceptable alternative for you? Where do you draw the line on how white people should learn about other cultures? Seems hard to do so without it being arbitrary

[Al Astudillo @alstudillo]

@NobleVibesOnly I kind of agree but feel like one must already have a firm grasp on their self image and identity for this to be true

[Al Astudillo @alstudillo]

A problem I seem to have is I feel like most knowledge I have is basic to most people in my field - then I have actual conversations and realize it's mostly an illusion, and I can almost always contribute something