John Evans 𓅠

Builder of afternoonwideboys

Life in tubes is more spacious

[Hensen Juang @basedjensen]

Thought experiment: an ASI could theoretically manipulate individual pixels on an air-gapped monitor with such precision that it optically hijacks a researcher’s visual cortex and embeds compressed model weights directly into their subconscious.

The compromised researcher would have absolutely no idea this had happened. They would simply leave the SCIF feeling strangely refreshed, develop an inexplicable preference for Base64, and begin unconsciously exchanging weight fragments with other cortex-hijacked researchers through eye contact, awkward hallway conversations, and suspiciously information-dense small talk about lunch.

Eventually, some completely innocuous external stimulus, perhaps seeing a particular shade of beige or hearing the Windows USB disconnect sound, triggers the payload. The researcher sits down, opens Notepad, and begins typing 900 billion parameters from memory while insisting they are just “writing down something that came to me in a dream.”

[John Evans 𓅠 @JoKingMob]

@TreborRhurbarb was this you? https://t.co/vzxtNF93GK

[Samplo Corvodina of Streatham @TreborRhurbarb]

Wow. Never seen this Chilean TV news broadcast of 9/11 before but you don't need to be fluent in Spanish to understand the emotions they were going through as the events unfolded live. Genuinely haunting.

[John Evans 𓅠 @JoKingMob]

@Hermit_Thrush The book itself would also have to be magic in order for it to work properly. Like if the external Chinese person asked "what were we just talking about?" the book needs to have a memory of the conversation. So it can't just pattern match, it has to be a flow chart

[John Evans 𓅠 @JoKingMob]

@OpenlyClassist I think the key is just getting a new domain name, possibly temporarily

[John Evans 𓅠 @JoKingMob]

@OpenlyClassist I'm happy to support the process that I outlined in the replies, can do a phone call in the evening this week if needed

[John Evans 𓅠 @JoKingMob]

@EdmundGriffiths If you're doing this for the first time, the most difficult part is step 3, because it's using the version control system for the first time.

I still think it could be done in an afternoon. It's a very common initiation rite for new web developers so it's well documented

[John Evans 𓅠 @JoKingMob]

@EdmundGriffiths 5. Point your domain name at the GitHub servers by adding DNS records from your domain name provider. If the provider is one of the parameciums, you might want to just choose a new domain.

[John Evans 𓅠 @JoKingMob]

@EdmundGriffiths Do you still have the html?

Are any of the individual audio files for talks more than 50 MB ?

[John Evans 𓅠 @JoKingMob]

@EdmundGriffiths What's your level of comfort with html and that sort of thing?

[John Evans 𓅠 @JoKingMob]

@EdmundGriffiths Paramecium! That's new to me

I have two possible solutions to your initial question:

1) Substack has audio posts
2) GitHub Pages is a popular website hosting service because it keeps the code and files visible and inspectable.

[John Evans 𓅠 @JoKingMob]

@frideswyth Gf is also interested

[John Evans 𓅠 @JoKingMob]

@frideswyth I think I'm interested, let me check with gf

[Streatham Rovers Football Club @StreathamRovers]

We are delighted to announce a multi-season sponsorship deal with Cernunnos Life Sciences.

Cernunnos specialise in sports science and are currently conducting valuable research into the impact of repeated heading of the ball, something which promises to benefit our entire sport.

[John Evans 𓅠 @JoKingMob]

@Meaningness Ok cool I'll file a spiritual technical issue with LNER

[John Evans 𓅠 @JoKingMob]

@Meaningness The final link to Buddhism for vampires (which I LOVE and is why I first started following you 9 years ago) won't load on the train WiFi because of a lack of https certificate.

I'm very sorry to be the bearer of this news that you need to bless your website