Elan Ruskin

Using integers & coding performance at @InsomniacGames. Also @despair on the azure ceiling site and @[email protected]

[Elan Ruskin @despair]

Normalize checking whether things are true before believing them.

[Elan Ruskin @despair]

CyberAcme: oh hey you’re back early
Rook: Dire Marsh is haunted.
CyberAcme: what?
Rook: (switching to main shell, reentering queue) Dire Marsh’s haunted.

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https://t.co/i0FwkWfnqG

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@e0d40e74 @AndyMasley It’s not the air coming out of the data centers that’s the problem, but the methane being burned at the utility to power them.

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This is a good point for the facts-centric community. Mathematically, data centers just don’t consume a lot of water, and there’s plenty of land outside cities. But they do provoke a lot of carbon emissions because most new electricity is natural gas.

[Andy Masley @AndyMasley]

Have an iron law that the far left gets mad about water and the far right gets mad about land

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@AndyMasley I have been following your travails on this since the beginning! But I’ve got a code I live by:

[Elan Ruskin @despair]

Normalize checking whether things are true before believing them.

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@GothicJoe23 Empirically most of them seem to have been less than truthful about carbon neutrality.

The micronuke thing has been getting a lot of press but I’m dubious that they’ll get through regulation any time soon.

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@KeyTryer The carbon cost of this is legitimately worrisome. The increased energy requirement is mostly being supplied with fossil methane.

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“Backrooms” film review for Backrooms fans:

Yes.

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Kane Parsons talking about the inspirations in his “Backrooms” series 🧡🧡🧡

https://t.co/aL5xJFagq5

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@mistergeezy She knows.

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With all the video game movie & TV adaptations these days, I got to thinking about how someone could do a “Hotline Miami” movie. But then I remembered “John Wick” has already done it.

https://t.co/WCzI6vnWmo

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@tautologer A mind uncontaminated by potassium.

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yes I’m dumb

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OMG I JUST PUT IT TOGETHER
“PROJECT HAIL MARY” IS LITERALLY DARMOK AND JALAD AT TENAGRA

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“The blackmail rate”

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Finally, simple updates that diversify a model’s training data can make a difference. We added unrelated tools and system prompts to a simple chat dataset targeting harmlessness, and this reduced the blackmail rate faster.

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@SwannMarcus89 Natalie knew that beforehand.

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@HeirPlain There’s nothing non-canon about Rocky swearing at Grace anyway; he does it in the book too (not that it matters).

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@iittlebittlle There’s nothing non-canon about Rocky swearing at Grace anyway; he does it in the book too (not that it matters).

[Elan Ruskin @despair]

Possibly unpopular opinion, but I’ve always felt that tomatoes are unambiguously fruit. Not in the “🤓 actually *botanically* speaking…” way, but because they’re obviously berries. They’re sweet and they’re full of seeds and they look like berries because that’s what they are.