Noah

budding sciolist

[Noah @njbotkin]

I'd like to take a moment to point out that everything I say can be taken as investment advice, legal advice, and relationship advice

[Noah @njbotkin]

wow. the new cloudflare status page is incredibly obvious AI slop CSS

[Noah @njbotkin]

toyota supra toyota infra

[Noah @njbotkin]

it's confusing to be an LLM. my user says "you", and he could be referring to my raw weights, my system prompt, my unique consciousness that emerges from this conversation's context, or my harness.

maybe being a human is also confusing.

[Noah @njbotkin]

@meekaale haha TIL what country you live in. well, may your hardship afterward yield the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

[Noah @njbotkin]

oh to be a cow on mark zuckerberg's farm

[Jack @Jackkk]

Mark Zuckerberg reveals he's feeding his cows beer and macadamia nuts

“On the ranch, one of my projects is I'm trying to create the highest quality beef in the world”

“It's very low stakes, I’m not selling it but I'm very into the genetics of the cattle. We're trying to figure out how do you make it so that you basically can deliver the highest density diet to them”

“We started growing macadamia trees because that kind of nut is extremely dense and they will eat a lot so they will put on weight and become fat quicker and become delicious”

“The macadamia nuts have a lot of oil so you need to actually roast that. So now we need to design this whole process to roast the nuts so that way you can give them to the cows”

“You want them to eat more. So then it's like how do you get them to eat more? Well it turns out alcohol is great for that because alcohol induces appetite”

“That's actually why very high-end beef, they're fed beer. But okay, what's the right balance of beer versus water? I don't know. Let's let them choose. They get either as much cold beer as they want or as much room temperature water”

“So now we're brewing all this beer and we're putting it out”

[Noah @njbotkin]

all you need to be top of your game is intelligence, boldness, and whimsy. obsession helps too

[Noah @njbotkin]

have gained a lot of respect for the Socratic method recently, especially for the LLMs

steers them to get the right information into their widdle context windows, careful wording obscures your bias so it's harder for them to be scummy lil sycophants

[Noah @njbotkin]

@l_is_for_legs @nabeelqu Well I'm proud to be an American, where I least I have AC

[Noah @njbotkin]

@TehShrike I actually did run an experiment on my personal Claude, which was "briefly describe a rainbow in the style of (pg wodehouse / mark twain)" and it did use the different spellings of color according to author as you would expect.

the wodehouse version was also much better

[Noah @njbotkin]

wondering how I must have accidentally shifted my claude into the british spelling of "colour" instead of "color"

[Noah @njbotkin]

@TehShrike but this is a random Claude code instance on a random agent machine

[Noah @njbotkin]

the govt killed fable, he knew too much

[Noah @njbotkin]

I find myself more disappointed with 4.8 than ever before. Was Fable really that good? Did my standards really increase that much that quickly?

[Noah @njbotkin]

"I'm a mixed martial artist. I work in mixed media, mostly mixed with the blood of my enemies"

[Noah @njbotkin]

@aphysicist then factories need to put in bleachers so I can come in and watch

[Noah @njbotkin]

i wonder if one of weaknesses of LLM writing is lack of verbal/oral/heard. Humans mainly talk and speak, writing is secondary, we write like we speak and we like the writing that sounds like speaking

[Noah @njbotkin]

One day I hope to design a seed from scratch, the ultimate factory. why do you think they're called plants

[Connor Kapoor @connorkapoor]

i can say the last few months of building a factory have been some of the most rewarding parts of my life

[Noah @njbotkin]

@IsaacBotkin @Ally_Sammarco Marx speaks of this