mani

backend eng @fetchrewards | @opencode chocolatey maintainer | building puzzles @ Formerly - @recursecenter W2'24

[mani @itsrainingmani]

alright then get out. no crying in the casino

[Dean W. Ball @deanwball]

I’m afraid to tell you that it is effectively impossible to do the kind of writing I used to do on this website, not because anyone at OpenAI censors me but because of the sheer volume of hostility I get for sharing my analysis as a frontier lab employee.

I enjoyed writing quick takes on this website for one basic reason: I could get rapid feedback on my own ideation process in real time. Post the early version of the take here, see the criticism; then refine, sharpen, and repeat. Unfortunately now that feature of this site is gone, because the feedback I get is now almost exclusively colored by resentment at the fact that I work at a frontier lab or other forms of hatred for my employer. The feedback signal is essentially useless now, so writing on here is not fruitful for me anymore.

Literally everything I write now is responded to with “of course you said that because <OpenAI>.” I am truly just writing what I think and would have written anyway, but everyone reads what I say in the shrieking tone of “this is what openai thinks!!!!” (to be clear, my posts are not what openai thinks). This is an unpleasant and more importantly unproductive pattern for me.

I anticipate that the shape of this account will change significantly as a result. I do not currently know how. It will not become a LinkedIn feed. It will change in some other way. It will no longer be a real-time accounting of my own thinking as it develops, since this is precisely the thing that seems impossible to do now. That will have to shift to private channels.

[mani @itsrainingmani]

@harryh @hecubian_devil is voicing your opposition to things you don't want included in "people should be allowed to do things" or nah

[mani @itsrainingmani]

@kaeeriee @aftersunhours yeah because they might actually make it taste good

[mani @itsrainingmani]

@xxyllinn too late. enjoy your fridge agent

[mani @itsrainingmani]

@iggie404

[mani @itsrainingmani]

@SpursCulture

[mani @itsrainingmani]

@joshmanders universally correct opinion

[mani @itsrainingmani]

@rosmine why

[mani @itsrainingmani]

@VicVijayakumar I somehow went from 80% limit usage to 17% in one afternoon and I have no idea why 😭

[georgie @grgiem]

just cut off all my white friends. #formexico

[mani @itsrainingmani]

@C_Sommerfeldt for a reporter you sure seem unclear on what a "no comment" looks like. might be time to find a different line of work mate

[mani @itsrainingmani]

@yourjohnag @potetm what was the point of making this?

[mani @itsrainingmani]

@Evanit0 @Lost_Pause_ are you mentally capable of understanding that a) there exist people other than you b) other people might make different choices/have different preferences than you?

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Christ as the Man of Sorrows, by The Master of Sankt Kathrein, 1475, 📸 by Boris Streubel

[Jay Kim @luckymong1]

Brown's last goodbye to Tatum. #celtics #jjk

[mani @itsrainingmani]

conspirational thinking rots the brain long term

[lets go brendan @socialtism]

@PFTCommenter how convenient that FIFA can show a little graph on screen that says “hey guys, he touched the ball even though there is no video evidence of it and the original call on the field was a clean goal”

[mani @itsrainingmani]

@Moshe_Grunwald @bscholl until the app developer starts fine-tuning their notification messages to pass through llms or they partner with ai labs to have the llm show you ads directly

[mani @itsrainingmani]

interns are just inefficient agents that you don't have to pay for

[ben hylak @benhylak]

"our intern built the first zero-person company"

wait does the intern not count as a person