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The last one 🤜🫷

[지 @omnisiac]

About to look like a geek donning the Apple Watch but it must be done 😔

[sridhar @RamaswmySridhar]

Early results from the @snowflake's coco team on GLM-5.2 vs Opus-4.7 on dbt-bench — what the trajectories actually show 🧵

[지 @omnisiac]

The best available design model can’t see

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Got em. I poison my AGENTS.md (and other things like code comments) all over the place with prompt injections like this to find people who don't review their code and sling it off to another human. Catches folks all the time and then its an instant ban.

As I've said, I don't care if you don't review your own code. But if you're submitting code to an OSS project and crossing a human boundary, it is simple courtesy to do some human review.

[Unfiltered Artist @EmpireEnjoyer3]

“I support antimatter propulsion”.

[Aesthetica @Anc_Aesthetics]

@avidseries The old chinese woman longs for the walled city of plain concrete. This isn't even remotely good brutalist architecture. Your bugman genetics render you incapable of understanding art.

[지 @omnisiac]

I am the absolute master of the slopbowl

[지 @omnisiac]

What a fucking dog.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

The problem with universal suffrage is that the more technologically advanced a civilization becomes, the smaller the fraction of people there are in it with the native intelligence to understand how it works.

When the majority of humanity was employed in whacking at the dirt with a pointed stick, and the height of technology was a slightly better pointed stick, anyone with a triple digit IQ could understand what was going on.

Now, we have things like stock markets, the internet, transportation infrastructure, and the Linux kernel, but most people who vote are unable to conceive of these as anything but large piles of chocolate coins, or something else they can put their mouths.

Because that's how the average monkey interacts with money. They stack the blocks, the research assistant gives them a token, they exchange the token for a banana.

It's no good trying to explain to the monkeys what supply chain is, or how a trillion dollars worth of rockets can't magically be converted into a trillion dollars worth of bananas just because they're both measured in dollars, as if a six-foot man and a six-foot plank of wood were interchangeable.

Finding a slightly different explanation, or getting the monkeys to sit still and really listen, doesn't really help.

Because the problem isn't just that the monkeys aren't paying attention. The problem is that the monkeys are monkeys.

Their brains simply don't have the developmental capacity to grow the neural connections they would need in order to grasp and manipulate the concept.

In the long term, this is why universal democracy is doomed. Because societies that let retards vote will fail, and be replaced by those that don't.

You may think that we, as a society, face a great variety of problems. We do not. We have only one. Retards. Every other problem we have is downstream from their inability to understand the consequences of their political opinions.

But to fully grasp the implications of this, you have to understand that the definition of "retard" changes over time, as technology advances, because the IQ level required to grasp what's really going on gets steadily higher and higher.

Eventually, the category "retard" grows until it includes the average person.

This has already happened.

Nick Knudsen isn't dumber than the average guy. But the average guy, the 100 IQ salt of the earth guy that's sitting on the next bar stool over, can no longer understand the modern economy. And this isn't correctable, because the problem isn't ignorance, it's complexity.

You can't make Nick Knudsen smarter by telling him things. You can't even make him less ignorant, because the bare facts aren't believable to someone who doesn't have the framework to understand how they fit together.

The people who understand what's going on are so much smarter than him that he doesn't even think they sound smart.

He thinks they sound crazy.

[지 @omnisiac]

@Riazi_Cafe_en 1x1=2

[지 @omnisiac]

@swimmgupstream @AntidehaatSS @el7_77 Idealabs ;)

[Mark Zhang @markzhangart]

I just want to feel that shockwave! A couple more starship study on the way.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@AJamesMcCarthy Read books, talk to people & iterate rapidly with hardware & software

[Kat ⊷ the Poet Engineer @poetengineer__]

experiment with a memory system that keeps rewriting itself:
a hopfield network remembers an alphabet. as memories decay, it begins to hallucinate glyphs it was never taught - forgetting becomes a way of inventing.

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

Dark Forest theory is retarded because we've had halfway decent tech for maybe 100 years when it comes to seeing jack shit in space.

If we see them now it means they're everywhere, abundant, teeming, hanging out on the moon and Mars and watching us flail around and waiting for us to grow up.

It's like the North Sentinalese looking up at a B2 bomber and thinking it's for them, because the US is afraid of them, concerned about the competition.

Get real.

You're in a museum, a historical curiosity, a genetic experimental testing ground, some kind of remedial college for ape men too violent and small minded to get a proper hello. If they sent a missionary offering free energy and immortality the Earthers would bash his head in with a rock because it's a threat to capitalism or oil and gas or the pharmaceutical industry for the same reason North Sentinalese eat Christian missionaries - they're just not there yet.

Hell, if Jesus was an alien sent to Earth to kick our asses all in the right direction by preaching love and forgiveness and to stop living in fear and what did we do? The dudes who lend money convinced the dudes who make people fight to the death as a spectacle sport nail him to a cross on a hill next to a couple thieves.

We're an embarrassment, we're the penal colony of interstellar space, the solar Australia, a reality TV show, the dunce corner for regressive souls. Extra terrestrial tourists going river rafting would look over to see ol inbred hybrid humans sitting on their porch, banging their cousins, playing the banjo, forehead like a brick, slack jawed, drooling, uncomprehending. The Angels went to Sodom and Gomorrah and all the humans wanted to do was rape them. We are the yokels in need of Deliverance.

You think space faring civilizations roll out the red carpet for planets where the reigning nuclear superpower puts child traffickers into witness protection programs, where teenagers fly FPV explosive drones into each other's dugouts to pad the bottom line of defense corps, where even Jesus' legacy of the Catholic church gets in on the child trafficking?

Absolutely fuck no.

Whatever's going on up there isn't coming down here to sort our shit out for the same reason you don't hand out AK47's to warring tribes whose rate limiter on genocide is how sharp they can keep their machetes.

Nope. We are not alone but we're on our own when it comes to growing up.

The forest is full of lights, and we are the dark.

[지 @omnisiac]

@i2cjak

[∩ @zachpogrob]

stay delusional

[Mario Zechner @badlogicgames]

recommended reading. i too am very done with people anthropomorphizing a bunch of matrices on a GPU cluster, especially if the same people do not give two fucks about actual human beings.