Chrysantas

[Chrysantas @chrys1752]

Talking about language-model weak spots is inherently antimemetic, because that which can be thoroughly specified in the natural language of the present year is also that which can usefully fit into & be manipulated by language-models.

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@asingleoat @philipturnerar If it's not on a tiny silicon die, won't stray inductance from longer leads cause you trouble?

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@apralky This is what happens when a mind specialized for intrasexual competition is forced to contend with the brutish boringness of reality

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When I was a boy, I enjoyed playing Tchaikovsky's Marche Slave, because that's what piano lessons feel like.

[Chrysantas @chrys1752]

@TimesUpThanks Totally different example of what I mean: the first (decent-looking) image-generation neural-networks work(ed) by "denoising": starting with TV Static & refining it until it was NGE Rule 34.

A lot of things _are_ error-correction in a real way. Predictive processing in brain...

[Chrysantas @chrys1752]

@TimesUpThanks (1) Inspiration can be a fickle mistress, but she's your mistress for a reason.
(2) Whether error-correction is easier than "narrow mind on the Good" is quite domain-dependent...

"Start with a block of marble, and then chisel away at everything that isn't David."
--Michelangelo

[Chrysantas @chrys1752]

The immune-system of the Longhouse follows a simpler rule than you may expect; it seeks to extinguish any visible spark which has not yet been rendered excruciatingly legible unto its hivemind.

It doesn't understand. It's afraid.

[Chrysantas @chrys1752]

@zinniaa_3 "Would you like to be branded on the hindquarters, or over your sternum?"

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"I wish I was born in--" stop this. You couldn't have been born any other way. Fate tailored a duty for you; by fantasizing about another's, you shirk your own.

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@1a3orn

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The medium is the message, and the message is YOU ARE GAY

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guarding the sense-doors includes thought too

[Chrysantas @chrys1752]

Nobody has (yet) learned to want it correctly. They just want the wanting.

[Chrysantas @chrys1752]

everything is bits, unless it is pointers, which is also bits

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@johngfriedman Probably impractical, but neat:
(More-practical: ~"compile task-specific dictionary".)

https://t.co/GWT4VBeDq2

[Chrysantas @chrys1752]

"All that is complex is not useful. All that is useful is simple."
-- Mikhail Kalashnikov

[Chrysantas @chrys1752]

I like Deepseek32, but it often assumes I speak Chinese.

[Chrysantas @chrys1752]

"Here lies Sambo. He always hit his KPIs."

[Dan Baltic @baltic_dan]

At a certain point in a man’s life, his thoughts turn to questions of legacy. In 2026, I will put away childish things. I will finally buy a katana and learn the blade