Matt Idell

mellifluous cacophany

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@mnolangray W

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I finally made something brewing in my mind for a while. Rocquefort Mac n' Cheese with yellow oyster mushrooms, topped with fried shallots and crushed potato chips

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There was/is a culture war in baseball about the use of statistics. This was miscast by the old school as primacy of stats, but stats just tell a diff story about the actual players. Learn new narratives old school!

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@slatestarcodex @OpenAINewsroom @astral_sh It was foretold

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My 5yo is now reading a book while I read to him. I am storytime muzak.

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I love when composers put one bar of a different time signature, and you nod along, and it hits you, but it goes back to normal, and you're like wtf? It's hard to pull off when you play

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@paul_conyngham @sebkrier Massive W

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This is the alternative to teens on their phones all the time

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Mass real world surveillance is dystopian, but it would be utopian for families, and I bet with declining TFR we'll opt in to it eventually.

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Your kids go wherever they want via a fleet of autonomous vehicles, and anybody who messes with them gets zapped by a protective drone.

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I asked Claude a question "Can somebody build.." looking for info about rules and regs, but it started building it, like I'm asking a roomful of people, and it volunteered.

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I suspect that both humans and LLMs have a lot to learn about our respective faculties of introspection and assessments thereof. When we do make progress, then it's really going to get weird.

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People love to say this and it sounds sophisticated n smart superficially but I don’t think it’s actually so smart, in most cases

Why do you actually assume that they’re independent

Are they independent in humans?

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@davidmanheim I wish for the safety of you and your family

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@bruce_lambert @DKThomp Can you please share analysis that is more informed and less doom framing?

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I might just have to chop these peppercorns by hand

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Staring longingly at a $200 pepper grinder I know I won't buy, yet

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@GaryMarcus Dario could also have done what was right before deploying

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I'm still mad at Amodei. I stand by his red lines and principles, but there are a number of ways he could have handled this situation to avoid blowing everything up.

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@AndyMasley Oh, the usual, some combination of: intuition, trust in a critical review, you saw a memorable performance, historical significance, you find their methods interesting, collaborations with other artists you like, they sound novel/unique, association with a period of your life..

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They were operating under a "prototype other transaction agreement" which is legally binding, but flexible to allow quick deployment.

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I'm trying to thread the needle here, because I want to support Anthropic with full endorsement. But deploying deep in the military and ironing out guardrails later and trusting a clown like Hegseth is just not responsible no matter how many blog posts you write.