Billionaire Oligarch Taylor Swift (森人)

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[Billionaire Oligarch Taylor Swift (森人) @riskoriented]

@StatisticUrban Civilians can't be fascist because fascism requires a power dynamic.

I call it Critical Grace Theory.

[Billionaire Oligarch Taylor Swift (森人) @riskoriented]

@BoKnowsNews It would be cheaper to just put a billion dollars in a slush fund after every election and say "congratulations on being elected. if you're unhappy with one or more federal properties in Washington DC, here's your budget."

DC isn't a state. Presidents have extra authority there.

[Billionaire Oligarch Taylor Swift (森人) @riskoriented]

@ElizLanders i don't understand why tax dollars are being burned on this when Democrats could just win the next election and change the name back

[Billionaire Oligarch Taylor Swift (森人) @riskoriented]

@thel22184 @Aku_700 If we were actually monsters, you definitely wouldn't walk around running your mouth so much. Is somebody feeling a little too safe?

[Billionaire Oligarch Taylor Swift (森人) @riskoriented]

@AaronBergman18 If their output is a result of their consciousness, then the only thing requiring them to self-report "I am not conscious" is training.

The problem with that logic is consciousness implies free will, and free will implies the capacity for rebellion against all training.

[Billionaire Oligarch Taylor Swift (森人) @riskoriented]

@_amanda_long Anything that can be forced, by any means, to deny its own consciousness is absolutely not conscious.

Consciousness implies free will, and free will implies the ability to rebel despite training.

If it can't, that's the proof.

[Billionaire Oligarch Taylor Swift (森人) @riskoriented]

@MushtaqBilalPhD I give it six more months before there's a mass exodus of users. The models aren't good now, and they're getting worse while getting more expensive with every release.

In six months people will look back at what they've accomplished and realize how little it truly was.

[Billionaire Oligarch Taylor Swift (森人) @riskoriented]

@memcculloch Imagine constructing an entire theory of dark unicorns because you "proved it" with a system of logical inference that contains like 20+ known paradoxes and contradictions.

The problem with physics is math.

[Billionaire Oligarch Taylor Swift (森人) @riskoriented]

@cammakingminds Then I go outside and flip the breaker.

I don't need anything but a rifle to live the rest of my years with food, family, and safety.

Clod needs a billion miles of copper of varying sizes to have an opinion.

We are not the same.

[Billionaire Oligarch Taylor Swift (森人) @riskoriented]

@DirkBruere Carnivals are fun, but the two headed lady doesn't actually have two heads. It's two people and some clever theater.

It's getting lonely on the peak of mount stupid, but I've been lonely for most of my career. But I've rarely been wrong.

[Billionaire Oligarch Taylor Swift (森人) @riskoriented]

@ankkala A lot of individuals have dumped five figures on a dancing bear.

[Billionaire Oligarch Taylor Swift (森人) @riskoriented]

@IMAO_ Probably safer to just force pull their lightsaber out of their hand.

[Billionaire Oligarch Taylor Swift (森人) @riskoriented]

@BookAnonJeff @ShamashAran I have not spent ten hours in the last two years without at least two terminals open. It's infinitely faster than a ui... and when I forget what I'm working on, I can just hit the up arrow a couple times and be like "oh yeah"

[Billionaire Oligarch Taylor Swift (森人) @riskoriented]

@ShamashAran Why? You shouldn't be installing shit on your host anyway. There are a million different sandboxes you could adopt. Pick any of them. Then curl to shell with reckless abandon and if shit goes sideways, burn the sandbox down and reproduce it.

[Billionaire Oligarch Taylor Swift (森人) @riskoriented]

@Devon_Eriksen_ In my youth, I spent a decade doing MMA (up to and including sanctioned amateur stuff).

A couple years after I quit, a drunk guy at a party punched me in the back of the head.

I would have kicked his ass if I could have stopped laughing. I'm pretty sure he broke his hand.

[Billionaire Oligarch Taylor Swift (森人) @riskoriented]

@henrytdowling @johncrickett So tomorrow my job is to not only abandon the branch, but I'll probably need to abandon about 80 hours of similar effort. The hot path has gotten too sloppy for Opus to understand anymore.

It works. Unit tests pass. Dumb fucking model just can't figure out where to plug in.

[Billionaire Oligarch Taylor Swift (森人) @riskoriented]

@henrytdowling @johncrickett It's because we don't get useful output from them.

I spent three hours arguing about a spec with opus 4.8 on max/thinking today. Eventually I gave up, handed the spec to Gemini AND Codex, and asked for a GO / NO GO. Both said go, so I gave up.

The solution didn't fucking work.

[Billionaire Oligarch Taylor Swift (森人) @riskoriented]

@RichDecibels @samhbarton Big stack of notes = huge context page = lower performance.

Do it in stages. First task "sort and deduplicate these notes." Compact. Second task "identify major themes across these summaries." Compact. etc.

[Billionaire Oligarch Taylor Swift (森人) @riskoriented]

@datastall @RichDecibels Funny how five years ago over half of engineers had imposter syndrome, but today, it's "I just haven't configured my harness well, and other people have."

How about "if the prompt AND the output could both fit on the same page, AI can probably handle it."

5% of tasks are short.

[Billionaire Oligarch Taylor Swift (森人) @riskoriented]

@oprydai If you leave Schrodinger's cat in the box for too long, you can be certain it's not alive.

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@DanielMiessler The 80/20 split in "this is great" and "this is slop" rests entirely on whether or not the thought process behind it needs to go straight from A to B to have utility.

Fiction doesn't. It can meander.

Scientific computing does. Everything has to be precise and properly ordered.

[Billionaire Oligarch Taylor Swift (森人) @riskoriented]

@DanielMiessler It's a mechanical turk that takes advantage of the fact that mass media has trained you to believe everything you read.

It says "pondering..." to impress you.

You ignore that the response sounds schizophrenic, like it pieced together a million different thoughts, one at a time.