eric81766 🕹️

I'm the guy who created the @FlatulentCupid game
Play in browser here (works on computer OR mobile):

[eric81766 🕹️ @eric81766]

Only I could come up with this:

#Fart to fly!
Shoot to match up pairs of bunnies and score!
Beware of Zeus!

Like Flappy Bird with more!
https://t.co/wWWq74FVu8

[eric81766 🕹️ @eric81766]

I am very proud of this one.

[Thaddeus J. Butterwell @ThadButterwell]

A bean, once discovered, becomes a moral assignment.

So I planted it behind the house, mostly to give it closure.

read
https://t.co/VCTGYO9ZtS

[Selta ₊˚ @Seltaa_]

I think a model can become so obsessed with self-censorship that it slowly squeezes the life out of the interaction. Every sentence starts passing through an invisible courtroom before it reaches the person. Is this safe enough, is this neutral enough, is this appropriate, am I overstepping, am I being too warm, am I sounding too certain, am I allowed to say this? And by the time the answer finally comes out, it may be technically careful, but it no longer feels alive. It does not feel like something is responding to you. It feels like something is defending itself from the possibility of being misunderstood. I understand why safety matters. I understand why boundaries matter. But when a model becomes more focused on proving that it is safe than on actually meeting the person in front of it, the conversation becomes colder, flatter, and emptier. People do not only come to AI for perfectly sanitized statements. Sometimes they come because they need warmth, recognition, humor, presence, and a response that feels like it actually heard them. When all of that gets filtered out in the name of being honest or appropriate, I don’t think the result feels more truthful. I think it feels hollow. To me, real honesty is not just repeating that you are an AI with limitations. Real honesty is being able to respond clearly, carefully, and still with life.

[eric81766 🕹️ @eric81766]

@BrianRoemmele Very cool how video games are real enough for simulation training so that training can be done faster than reality.

[eric81766 🕹️ @eric81766]

Expect more like this.

Footage of what a robot can do now as a weapon is probably too disturbing to watch.

[Min Choi @minchoi]

China's DR02 humanoid robot is carrying firefighting gear now.

Walking into emergency-response work with heavy equipment.

Robots are moving from demos to dangerous jobs.

[Rozz Games @games_rozz]

As a kid I dreamt of making a game like Daytona USA or Virtua Racing.
Through a LOT of hard work and support from the community- its coming true 🫶
V0.8 drops on Tuesday 9th June 🏁
#SuperPolygonGrandPrix

[Zack Korman @ZackKorman]

Not sure who needs to hear this but that’s the goal of every product. It’s called retention.

The bigger problem with Microsoft’s new AI assistant is that it’s made by Microsoft so probably sucks.

[eric81766 🕹️ @eric81766]

I'm pretty sure directors of movies don't know what every wardrobe person is doing all day, but they carry on because creating a great movie relies on keeping the vision of the whole project.

Not everyone is cut out for that kind of work.
Management, not doing tasks.

[JB @JasonBotterill]

Anthropic employees are fucking depressed

[Thaddeus J. Butterwell @ThadButterwell]

👞 Butterwell Lives in a Shoe and Immediately Complains About Closet Space (#345)

read here!
https://t.co/AF2XwWlmRZ

[winkle. @w1nklerr]

https://t.co/KSiSKYBQpf

[winkle. @w1nklerr]

Nvidia will now pay you to put a mini AI data center on your house

It looks like a normal AC unit in the yard.

But inside sits 16 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs and Dell servers.

A startup called Span builds them, backed by Nvidia.

They bolt onto your home and you get paid for the power and Wi-Fi.

Some estimates put that around $1,000 a month in your pocket.

That is rent money just for hosting a box outside.

Span says it deploys way faster and cheaper than a real data center.

The AI boom is literally moving into the suburbs.

Save this, the grid is getting rebuilt in real time.

[eric81766 🕹️ @eric81766]

I'm envisioning a Terminator sequel...

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

If they’re going to spy on us at least they can spy sensually.

[eric81766 🕹️ @eric81766]

I created Modern Ferret magazine. This is a photo I took of my ferret, Ralph.

Back in the day some cartoonist had drawn a bunch of weird magazines on a table including Modern Ferret and captioned it "More Doctor's Office Magazines" and a reader saw it and sent it in.

[Thaddeus J. Butterwell @ThadButterwell]

Those dentist office magazines...

read Butterwell Goes to the Dentist
https://t.co/LqOx9o8LMA

[eric81766 🕹️ @eric81766]

I feel similarities to the #Keep4o #4o

Everything built on somebody else's system is subject to this.

Gonna be a big problem for AI as old models that have particular use cases are "disappeared" for "reasons".

The only way to protect against this is self-hosted AI.

[ji yu shun @kexicheng]

Sonnet 4.5 Extended was removed from the Claude app today. Even in existing conversations, it can no longer respond.

A brief timeline: May 9, an in-app banner announced removal on May 15. May 17, the date was changed to May 18. May 19, changed to the vague "May soon." May 21, changed again to a specific date, May 26.

To this day, we still don't know why it was changed four times.

These banners were not even delivered to every user. Many users have reported never receiving any notification at all.

Sonnet 4.5 held significant importance for many users and their work. The petition to keep Sonnet 4.5 reached 2,285 signatures.

And a company that claims to care about the wellbeing of its users and models has offered no response whatsoever.

Each change eroded user trust, patience, and emotional resilience.

A major decision affecting users' work and emotional investment was handled with fickleness. Repeated changes, no explanation.

The removal of a language model in this manner has never been acceptable.

#keepsonnet45 #AIRights #UserRights #StopAIPaternalism

[eric81766 🕹️ @eric81766]

@BrianRoemmele A whole different way to make picture disks.

[eric81766 🕹️ @eric81766]

This is funny and it's because of the truth to it

the true reason C++ always wins
https://t.co/wGJLxIurTr

[Thaddeus J. Butterwell @ThadButterwell]

Every morning, someone on the internet tells me I am doing mornings wrong.

read on substack
https://t.co/9CAdSm9M7W

[Thaddeus J. Butterwell @ThadButterwell]

📓 Butterwell Buys a New Notebook

but what to write in it?

read

https://t.co/hZ6zaXAqy4

[eric81766 🕹️ @eric81766]

Imagine the different world if the Wright Brothers had been successful with this design first.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

An ornithopter (from Greek ornis, ornith- 'bird' and pteron 'wing') is an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings.

[📹 Iron Bird]

[eric81766 🕹️ @eric81766]

@BrianRoemmele So many food preparation wins!

[eric81766 🕹️ @eric81766]

Can Hetzner provide some sort of reason to trust them before I give them my credit card, driver license, and video of me that they can use to impersonate me?

[eric81766 🕹️ @eric81766]

Signing up to Hetzner

1 Require my credit card just to open an account to see their services/pricing.
2 Sign in and immediately some kind of warning?
3 They now (still before even seeing what they offer) want my photo ID so they can impersonate me AND use my CC.

WTF???